If you wish me to raise the tone - I currently have Maria Callas 100 Arias in my car. Sublime!Originally Posted by Marco
I haven't previously mentioned this, but I was actually born in Derbyshire like a lot of my family.
I promise not to take office by your comments if I'm given carte blanche to slag off your dubious musical tastes
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 09-01-2021 at 08:31 PM.
Gasp!Better than some of your recommendations!
Yes but its to stop the spread of a potentially deadly disease. The morons arn't taking any notice of the lockdown.It is worrying isn't it. I've been astonished over the past year at how day-to-day, taken for granted liberties, that we all enjoy, can be so readily taken away at a stroke of the legislative pen and enforced 'gestapo' like by petty officials or anyone in uniform. We live in 'interesting times' (just added that to keep it on thread
That's certainly what it's intended to do - and it may succeed in doing so, we shall see.
I'm not arguing against it. But my point is a much wider one about how change can happen, quickly, and the possible unintended consequences of the mechanisms by which that change occurs and problems are supposedly addressed. We simply need to be mindful and vigilant. The aphorism 'the road to hell is paved by good intentions' or the 'law of unintended consequences' come to mind.
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Have you watched the BBC4 documentary; my current fodder on the turbo trainer? She is the measure by which all collatura be since been compared.If you wish me to raise the tone - I currently have Maria Callas 100 Arias in my car. Sublime!
Living in Derby, during Lockdown 1, Foremark and Calke were regular cycles or runs to meet the family. We need to see the open lands, having a vista of the hospital helipad from our house. I was also able to come up with some pretty good 80k+ rides within 12k of home.
I’m currently appreciating Strauss and Mahler orchestral songs. Sublime.If you wish me to raise the tone - I currently have Maria Callas 100 Arias in my car. Sublime!
I don't really listen to many songs but Jessye Norman's Strauss Four Last Songs can still make me tear-up after nearly 40 years. I have CDs by Tebaldi, Nilson, Sutherland (I saw her final Covent Garden performance), Dame Eva Turner...but one always goes back to Callas.
Like that one, but I always go to this one: Lucia Popp and the LPO https://open.spotify.com/album/2HaGV...Q7SGvNhjzIJGbw
sublime, if only for the horn solo at the end of ‘September’.
Often it flits through my head during a long run our ride.
Very nice. I had already listened to the Jessye Norman and later I put the Lucia Popp on and started wandering around the apartment and when the horn solo started it stopped me in my tracks. Maybe just unfamiliarity or perhaps the mysterious magic of music.
Oddly the Jessye Norman is the only CD I have of hers and yet it is the music I would like to listen to on my death bed.
[Although if I was still raging against the dying of the light I might choose Duane Eddy's Peter Gunn (with Steve Douglas on saxophone recorded live without overdubbing) recorded in March 1959 at Ramsay Studios, Phoenix, Arizona!]
One of my favourite arias is Ebben?..Ne andro lontana from Catalani's La Wally which plays a notable part in Jean-Jacques Beineix' 1980 film Diva where it is sung by Wilhelmenia Fernandez.
She sang at Opera North some years later but clearly had a cold, her voice cracked once or twice and some of the audience booed. I have seen interviews with sopranos (including Callas) where they talk about the pressure they face at every performance and I can always relate to that dreadful, shameful and ungrateful display by the Leeds audience.
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