Forlorn! The very word is like a bell, etc.
I did get the humorous inflection! :) I am not sure I would survive pรกlinka at 10am ๐คฃ
Don't get me wrong, I like palinka as much as the next person and I completely understand its symbolic function, but there are other topics I might like to consider as well. Apart from schoolteachers moving to Gellรฉrt Hill, which is also something D. goes on about quite a lot. :)
...denied it remains to be seen, but in the meantime this is an album to treasure. youtu.be/LRjaSaDdUxM?...
YouTube video by Agnes Baltsa - Topic
...usually prone to understatement, Baltsa is probably the best Eboli on record, one who remembers that she is a high-ranking Spanish aristocrat and not an amped up, scenery-chewing twin sister to Azucena. Whether the Milan version deserves such loving care when the 1867 original is all too often...
...my misgivings, this performance can hardly be faulted as the cast is more or less ideal. I have never been fond of Raimondi, but Carreras sounds attractively youthful, Freni appropriately fearless and regal, and Cappuccilli tenderly understated in the wonderful death scene. Although not...
...all wrong and I get the impression that I am listening to a highlights disc, with all the transitions curtailed or omitted altogether. This is a drama that was never meant to be fast-moving and shortening it in this manner somehow diminishes it, like a postcard of the Sistine Chapel. Despite...
...unhealthy crush on his stepmom. (Never mind that this is probably closer to the historical truth!) Apart from Act 1, most of the famous scenes and arias are still in place, with some glaring omissions (the Lacrymosa section, which Verdi had already recycled in the Requiem); but the pacing is...
Martinelli was a huge star back in the day, but I sometimes wonder why--I don't like the pinched, metallic sound and he rides the ensemble instead of melding with it. Maybe he sounded better in person and the recording technologies available at the time just didn't do him any favours.
Thank you!