richard strauss, the vienna philharmonic orchestra, & georg solti, elektra, 1967

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Bela Bartok - Georg Solti

Richard Strauss, Vier letze Lieder («Beim Schlafengehen»). Georg Solti, director Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano

Robert Schumann, Julius Caesar Overture, op. 128, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond.

Richard Strauss - Vier Letzte Lieder (Kiri Te Kanawa)

Elvis only won 3 Grammys.

(In case you're wondering; the record for most won (31) goes to Georg Solti, who is the longtime leader of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra).

My vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own par Фе́ммe скатале. Via Flickr : My stomach, about you I flora you you fauna me I flesh you I door you and window you you bones me you ocean me you courage me you meteor me I gold key you I extraordinary you you paroxysm me you paroxysm and paradox me I harpsichord you you silently me you mirror me I wristwatch you you mirage me oasis me you bird insect cataract me I lunar you you cumulus me you high tide me I transparent you you twilight me translucent me you empty castle and maze me parallax and parabola me you horizontal and vertical me you oblique me I equinox you I poet you you dance me I particular you you perpendicular and mezzanine me you visible me silhouette me you infinite me indivisible me you irony me I fragile you and ardent you I phonetically you you hieroglyph me you space me and cascade me I cascade you in turn but you you fluid me you comet me you volcanic me we pulverize each other we scandalously each other night and day we each other this very day you tangent me I concentric you you soluble me you insoluble me you asphyxiating and liberating me you heart-beat me you dizzy me ecstasy me you passionately and absolute me I absent you you absurd me I nostril you hair you and hip you you haunt me I breast you I chest your breast then guise you I corset you you odor me you dizzy me you slide I thigh you caress you I quiver you you stride me you unbearable me I amazon you I throat you stomach you skirt you garter you stockings you I Bach you yes I Bach you for harpsichord breast and flute (ii) I trembling you you seduce me absorb me I dispute you I risk you I climb you you skim me I swim you but you, you swirl me you graze me you circle me you flesh leather skin and bite me you black lace me you red slipper me and when you do not heel my senses you crocodile them you whale them you fascinate them you cover me I discover you invent you sometimes you uncover yourself you moist lips me I deliver and delirious you you delirious and passionate me I shoulder you and vertebra you I ankle you eyelash and pupil you and if I do not scapula before my lungs even after you armpit me I breathe you night and day I breathe you I mouth you I palate you I tooth and claw you vulva and eyelid you I breath you groin you blood you neck you I calves you I certain you I cheek and vein you I hands you sweat you tongue you nape you I sail you I shadow you I body and ghost you I retina you in my breath you iris yourself I write you you think me

Fairy tales

Fairy tales have stimulated generations of composers to write some of their finest music. With a rich source of characters that includes dragons, dwarfs, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, monsters, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, witches and wizards, it’s no wonder these stories have captivated the imaginations of compsers and audiences alike. Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)Hansel…

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Mozart

Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail

La Musica e Vita

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Review of "Wagner: The Golden Ring." Scenes from Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Various singers; Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic. Decca SACD 485 3364 (remastered)

The honors, praise, accolades, awards, and popularity of Sir Georg Solti’s Decca recordings of Richard Wagner’s complete Ring of the Nibelungen from the late 1950’s and early 60’s have never diminished. So much so that the folks at Decca had already reissued them several times previously on vinyl and CD and have now released them again, this time from high-definition masters in hybrid SACD. Good things just keep getting better.

To read the full review, click here:

John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)

Monday February 6.

It's Harry's House, and we're just living in it.

*Spoilers for The 65th Annual Grammy Awards follow*

All hail the Queens, Kings, everyone in between...

It was the night Beyoncé proved herself to be unstoppable to everything, apart from traffic jams. After arriving late to the historic 65th Annual Grammy Awards, otherwise known as the #grammys, Queen Bey defied the LA gridlock to pick up four awards: best R&B song, best dance/electronic recording, best dance/electronic album, and best traditional R&B performance. The haul means has now won 32 Grammy awards, an all-time record on a magnificent night, and in doing so, overtook Hungarian-British conductor George Solti. His record of 31 Grammys had stood for more than 20 years, and is now no more. The King is dead! All hail the Queen!  

It was a historic, magical night at the #grammys across the board, and one of the rare nights when seemingly every last one of our favorite people on the planet gathers in one room to celebrate each other. If we can't exactly be there ourselves, then let this glittering array of content be the next best thing.

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behind me at the symphony today there was a guy talking to his seat partner about how his first date with his wife was seeing George Solti conduct Ein Heldenleben at this symphony hall years ago and then his wife passed away two and a half years ago from cancer and today was the first time he had been back since his wife passed

Rules: Shuffle a playlist and write down the first ten songs without skipping.

I’ve been tagged by @lady-of-imladris, who somehow encourages my obsession with | math | on a daily basis. And I’m a sucker for tag games, so thank you 😊 ❤️

Oh boy, let me shuffle my Deezer favourites to accomplish this list. It has about 1,000 songs so it’s like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Anything could happen!

1. Survivalism - by Nine Inch Nails

2. Seven - by Fever Ray

3. Tumbling Lights - by The Acid

4. Variations on the Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma” - Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance Marches - by Sir Georg Solti … 😭 that’s what I get for liking classical music - longest track names ever

5. Vater - by Soap&Skin

6. Riquiquí - by Arca

7. Vers l’avant - by J.T. Peterson

8. Cochleam - by French Coq

9. Il Barbiero di Siviglia: Aria. Largo al factotum (Figaro) - by Florian Sempey, orchestre national Bordeaux Aquitaine

10. I Follow Rivers - by Lykke Li

Yeah, that’s a bit eclectic 🤷‍♀️

Tagging, with no pressure: @niennawept @coraleethroughthelookingglass @myfavouritelunatic @helenvader

What's the longest song you've listened to?

okay so i think the longest piece of music ive ever listened to in one sitting is the opera Salome by Richard Strauss, lasting 1 hour and 39 mins. (performed by Georg Solti [cond.] w/ Weiner Philharmoniker)

salome is great music wise and the plot is quite unhinged if i do say so myself. also the final minutes of the ending is quite something.

other contenders include:

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (1h31m) (Leonard Bernstein [cond.] w/ New York Philharmonic)

J. S. Bach - The Art Of Fugue (1h22m) (Joanna MacGregor [pfte.])

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" (1h12m) (Yevgeny Mravinsky [cond.] w/ Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)

also as a side note, i have had Kaikhosru Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica ex Dies Iræ (performed by Johnathan Powell) sitting in my Spotify playlist for the longest time. i have been meaning to listen to it for a while now.

the problem is that its 8 hours and 23 minutes long.

it would take up my whole day to listen to it.