papermoon.lady
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on ‎06-09-2022 03:03 AM

Donde lieta uscì from La Bohème by Puccini

Sung by Mirella Freni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwU_Hqn3Dg

papermoon.lady
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on ‎06-09-2022 03:08 AM

Like the 1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Träumerei from Schumann's Kinderszenen is only apparently easy. To play it well requires considerable skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z82w0l6kwE

countessalmirena
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on ‎06-09-2022 03:37 AM

Freni is the Mimi of dreams. No one sings this rôle better than she... and she's also perfect in Bizet's Carmen as Michaela. Beautiful, beautiful voice.

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papermoon.lady
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on ‎06-09-2022 03:47 AM

I totally agree. 

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papermoon.lady
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on ‎06-09-2022 03:59 AM

Final scene of Puccini's Madama Butterfly (Madama Butterfly's death - one of the saddest scenes in the world of opera, in particular because of the farewell to her child)

Sung by Mirella Freni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYSOXGZWl4

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countessalmirena
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on ‎06-09-2022 10:14 AM

@papermoon.lady wrote:

Like the 1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Träumerei from Schumann's Kinderszenen is only apparently easy. To play it well requires considerable skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z82w0l6kwE

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Horowitz's playing is without flourishing, just the pure simplicity of the music and the tenderness of the approach...

 

Marc-André Hamelin is another pianist who does that; he completely removes his ego and lets the music speak. I can't give a link to his performance, because it's not on YouTube...

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countessalmirena
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‎07-09-2022 07:49 AM - edited ‎07-09-2022 07:50 AM

There are other performances by Hamelin on YouTube, so let me link to one of those.

 

Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17. Played by Marc-André Hamelin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAQMPKDLGY&t=2788s

 

The link starts at the Fantasy. The whole of the video shows the entire recital which includes:

 

  • Szymanowska - Nocturne in B flat major 0:30
  • Feinberg - Sonata no 2 in A minor, op. 2 6:08
  • Feinberg - Sonata nr 1 in A major, op. 1 14:22
  • Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 “Appassionata” >21:17
  • Schumann - Fantasy in C, Op. 17 46:28

- 1st movement: 46:28

- 2nd movement: 59:38

- 3rd movement: 1:07:48

  • Moszkowski - Waltz in E major 1:23:06
  • Schubert - Impromptu D.935 no. 2 in A flat major 1:31:44
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countessalmirena
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on ‎07-09-2022 08:44 AM

Pauline Viardot: No. 3 Plainte d'amour, VWV 4024 (from 6 Mazurkas de Chopin). Sung by Ina Kancheva.

https://youtu.be/onRYmtqVaQ0

 

And... papermoon.lady, especially for you (as I know you love the star-studded night sky):

 

Pauline Viardot: No. 12 Я долго стоял неподвижно/The Stars/Les étoiles, VWV 1059 (from 12 Poems

based on Poems by Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev). Sung by Ina Kancheva.

https://youtu.be/Fs9joujEA9U

 

 

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countessalmirena
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on ‎22-09-2022 12:38 AM

This has been a wonderful month for concerts.

 

Last Friday we went to a concert called WOMEN OF THE PIETÀ. It was all Vivaldi music, performed by female singers of Pinchgut Opera, soprano Miriam Allan, and female players from the Orchestra of the Antipodes.

 

I'll post links to the pieces that were performed.

 

 

And... if you're not familiar with Miriam Allan, you might want to listen to this: https://youtu.be/v3g7KTUN7oM (Fairest Isle, by Purcell, sung by Miriam Allan).

She was also one of the singers at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral last year. One link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHr6FIz7h8

 

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countessalmirena
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on ‎22-09-2022 02:44 AM

And tonight - well, it's after midnight now, so I should say "last night" - we went to another wonderful concert. This also featured Miriam Allan as part of the Great Performers series; she was accompanied by Erin Helyard. The programme was Haydn and Schubert songs, as well as fortepiano pieces by the same composers and also by Mozart. The encore was a Mozart Lied. This recital was very, very beautiful.

 

 

I hope these give pleasure.