Monday, January 31, 2011

Mozart: Symphony No. 39; Concertone; Horn Concerto

http://www.daedalusbooks.com/Products/Detail.asp?ProductID=73148&Media=Music&ESCC=11080&ReturnUrl=%2FDefault.asp


The recipient of the Frankfurt music prize in 1999, Germany's Michael Gielen was also director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a time.


"I consider Michael Gielen, alone of his generation, to be in many ways the true successor in temperament and musical perfectionism to Arturo Toscanini…. Gone is the almost peppy 'lift' to the notes one hears from such traditional conductors as Beecham and Doráti…. Those conductors viewed the Adagio as simply a prelude to the Allegro that follows

Gielen views it as a tragic dénouement, an almost agonized struggle for happiness counterbalanced by a dragging-down of the dissonances…. This is a highly individualistic reading, one that I admire tremendously. You will go through a dozen Mozart 39ths before you find another like it. Even Toscanini's 1948 performance, grandly majestic in the opening Adagio and dramatic in the dissonant passages, has nothing of Gielen's tragedy."—Fanfare
 

The Force of Destiny Overture Verdi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHk1RmPzA5E&feature=related




Rodrigo, Gnattali, Piazzolla / Sergio & Odair Assad Suite retratos: Corta jaca

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Playlist?source=KUSC&composer=Radames%20Gnattali&work=Corta%20Jaca&label=ASV&catalog=2094


Suite retratos: Corta jaca

Academy Of Arts And Letters New York








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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Torre del Lago puccini composed Turandot here Truman show like

















Tower on the Lake
Along the Tuscany coast: maritime pine tree forests, sandy beaches and warm waters.

Puccini Opera Turandot Calaf Nessun dorma


http://www.essortment.com/all/italianoperaca_rjkg.htm


Composed at Torre  del lago