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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Originally posted by Alison View PostNo mention whatever this year of the annual critics choice.
Something of a non event now perhaps demonstrating the programmes penchant for youngish female contributors.
Perhaps It needed a Rodney Milnes or an Edward Seckerson to take off...
I do like Natasha Loges though.
I haven't commented yet as I've only listened to the first segment; going to catch up with BAL and the rest of the choices during the week.
On the basis of the first 35 minutes, I thought the contributions of all 3 'guests' were good - Hannah French and Kate Molleson both had interesting things to say (once they'd sorted poor Hannah's microphone out).
I was very struck by the playing of the Danish String Quartet (the Adès was ravishing), the Berlin AAM in Handel, and the BBCSO under Josep Pons in Sinfonia and the Berio/Mahler songs. Wouldn't throw any of those recordings off my shelf, and I hadn't encountered any of them before.
So a good programme so far, I thought!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Oh. I was considerably less impressed with the presentation and stopped listening after very long (it was either that or take another Ramipril) - yes, the Berio Sinfonia sounded astonishingly fresh, but the inaccurate comments about it, and the repeated references to what Berio was "trying" to do: "trying"?! He's Berio, not some thirteen-year-old doing a homework assignment!
Switched off the radio after the BaL (itself spoilt by further McGregor witterings), put on some Mozart - all was well with the world again.
Bah! Humbug!!Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 19-12-16, 06:36.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOh. I was considerably less impressed with the presentation and stopped listening after very long (it was either that or take another Ramipril) - yes, the Berio Sinfonai sounded astonishingly fresh, but the inaccurate comments about it, and the repeated references to what Berio was "trying" to do: "trying"?! He's Berio, not some thirteen-year-old doing a homework assignment!
Switched off the radio after the BaL (itself spoilt by further McGregor witterings), put on some Mozart - all was well with the world again.
Bah! Humbug!!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Alison View PostNo mention whatever this year of the annual critics choice.
Something of a non event now perhaps demonstrating the programmes penchant for youngish female contributors.
Perhaps It needed a Rodney Milnes or an Edward Seckerson to take off...
I do like Natasha Loges though.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post(but could you get your foot off my pudding, please!)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Alison View PostI do like Natasha Loges though.
Amazing to hear new transfers of Fritz Wunderlich in music that wouldn't normally appeal to me - fantastic! Thanks Natasha!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Amazing to hear new transfers of Fritz Wunderlich in music that wouldn't normally appeal to me - fantastic! Thanks Natasha!
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Very attracted by the new recording of Mozart Concert Arias by Regula Muhlemann reviewed this morning. I remember being very impressed with her singing when she was involved in the most recent Cardiff competition, and thought, "She'll win this easily!" - kiss of death, of course: she was eliminated in the ?third? round - but I still wanted to hear her voice more than any of the "better" voices that went on to other rounds.
The new CD showed a remarkable accuracy of intonation, judicious use of vibrato, some fragility sustaining the higher register (mic placing, perhaps exaggerating this?) which should correct itself with time (and far, far better for me this than the stentorian monochrome of certain other singers - but, above all, distinct attention to the different "characters" presenting the different Arias.
I'm not usually attracted to recordings consisting of a series of items by the same voice - and I wouldn't've thought that I would be so interested in another Mozart CD so soon after getting the Big 225 Box - but I shall certainly be getting this in due course. I might even end up adding the previously added only to Janowitz ![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostVery attracted by the new recording of Mozart Concert Arias by Regula Muhlemann reviewed this morning. I remember being very impressed with her singing when she was involved in the most recent Cardiff competition, and thought, "She'll win this easily!" - kiss of death, of course: she was eliminated in the ?third? round - but I still wanted to hear her voice more than any of the "better" voices that went on to other rounds.
The new CD showed a remarkable accuracy of intonation, judicious use of vibrato, some fragility sustaining the higher register (mic placing, perhaps exaggerating this?) which should correct itself with time (and far, far better for me this than the stentorian monochrome of certain other singers - but, above all, distinct attention to the different "characters" presenting the different Arias."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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