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papermoon.lady · ‎19-06-2022

I love classical music, and I know the Countess likes it too. Maybe there are also lurkers who like it. 🙂

Anyway, maybe some will like to post classical music here (or listen to it).

You can post opera arias, piano recitals, orchestra concerts... - anything you like. Classical music is used in its broader meaning in this thread.

Please post links rather than embedding videos because sometimes the videos won't load.

Let's start...

Luciano Pavarotti - Una furtiva lacrima/lagrima (from L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7JM0tGgRY

papermoon.lady · ‎19-08-2022

She is sublime.

countessalmirena · ‎20-08-2022

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler.

https://youtu.be/ebH-gAzpB94

This makes my spine tingle.

countessalmirena · ‎20-08-2022

“Ach, ich liebte, war so glücklich” (from Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail). Sung by Sandrine Piau.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1wtBn3l8A&t=3111s

countessalmirena · ‎20-08-2022

“Se viver non degg'io” (from Mozart: Mitrade, Re di Ponto). Sung by Ann Murray and Yvonne Kenny.

https://youtu.be/8CVGkYeRCxo

Ravishing and extraordinary.

countessalmirena · ‎20-08-2022

“Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke” (from Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail). Sung by Richard Croft.

https://youtu.be/kD1dpxaMPK4

Heart-meltingly beautiful tenor voice which navigates the rapid passages with such exquisite agility... I've not heard this aria sung better.

countessalmirena · ‎20-08-2022

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5. Sung by Isabel Bayrakdarian.

I: Aria,

II: Dança.

https://youtu.be/4UovriT5Xk0

https://youtu.be/dmaOEW2hUQ8

This comes very close to being perfect. The Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 is rather too frequently and notoriously given to sopranos with too heavy a tone, whereas Villa-Lobos had in mind a much lighter, more luminescent and purer timbre. Bidú Sayão, Mady Mesplé, Natania Davrath, they were the singers who early on were performing this work, but once richer lyric sopranos such as Moffo and Te Kanawa sang this, it seemed to set a different expectation. I think Bayrakdarian has the right sound, and she sings it with passion and intelligence and very great beauty.

I adore this work.

And... oh, darn it, I'm going to post the links to two recordings of this beautiful work conducted by the composer himself, one with Bidú Sayão (1945), and one with Victoria de los Angeles (1958).

https://youtu.be/2NvNxmqFxdU

https://youtu.be/zBZg_t4VWOo