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Author: Gary Hoffman
Der Rosenkavalier, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
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BRITTEN: Death in Venice
Two productions of Death in Venice within a month : one high budget and glamorous at the ENO and the other at Aldeburgh with a much more humble pedigree.
LASSUS: Psalmi Davidis pœnitentiales
Among Lasso’s vast output there are few works more imposing than his collected settings of the seven penitential psalms.
WAXMAN: Joshua
Franz Waxman was working with librettist James Forsyth on an opera, Dr. Jekyll, when the composer’s wife died.
MAHLER: Urlicht
Mahler: Urlicht is a recording of selected songs for voice and piano from various collections of
the composer’s Lieder, including his early settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the later Wunderhorn Lieder that Mahler set in the 1890s in versions with both orchestral and keyboard accompaniment, and also his Rűckert-Lieder, performed by the young mezzo soprano Christianne Stotijn accompanied by Julius Drake.
VIVALDI: Arie per basso
In 2001 the recording company Naïve and the Istituto per beni musicali in Piemonte began a large-scale undertaking of recording the vast holdings of Vivaldi’s musical library.
Jan·?ek , From the House of the Dead
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New Frocks for Old – Cardiff Singer of the World, 2007
Back in the early 1980’s two good ideas came to fruition: the much-needed new concert hall for Cardiff, capital city of Wales, and plans to hold within it the first “Singer of the World” competition.