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Conductor Leonard Slatkin soared in St. Louis but struggled in DC Can he work his magic in Nashville? by John Pitcher The sound of the Nashville Symphony ...
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Conductor Leonard Slatkin soared in St. Louis but struggled in DC Can he work his magic in Nashville? by John Pitcher The sound of the Nashville Symphony ...
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Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He is considered by many critics, fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have been the greatest conductor of his era. He was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory which gave him extraordinary command over a vast repertoire of orchestral and operatic works, and allowed him to correct errors in orchestral parts unnoticed by his colleagues for decades.
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Luciano Pavarotti reacting well to treatment for pancreatic cancer ...
The wife of Luciano Pavarotti says the tenor is "fighting like a lion" against cancer. She told an Italian newspaper he is responding well to treatment...The 71-year-old Opera star underwent surgery last year, after doctors discovered a malignant pancreatic mass. Pavarotti's manager says he is teaching and working on a recording of sacred music. He is also considering resuming the "Pavarotti and Friends" benefit concert.
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The hefty German-born contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936), a legendary glutton, sang with gusto and virtuosity into her 70’s, as CD’s on Nimbus prove. [the CDs] Other female singers with lower voices followed in the Schumann-Heink tradition, like the stout Italian mezzo-soprano Ebe Stignani in recordings [the CDs] of Bellini’s Norma, with soprano Gina Cigna, [the CDs] and Verdi’s Requiem, alongside tenor Beniamino Gigli. Both recordings are available from Pearl. The most exuberantly overweight singer today is the Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé (b. 1933), [the CDs] whose soft singing and breath control were superhuman in her prime, as a new EMI set of vocal highlights shows.
Estonian-born Järvi is Cincinnati Symphony music director Paavo Jarvi's younger brother and very much his own man. Writer Mary Ellyn Hutton of the Cincinnatti Post caught up with him at a café in Tallinn in May, where he conducted a show-stopping "Aladdin" Suite by Carl Nielsen on a concert honoring their father Neeme Jarvi's 70th birthday. With him were his two sons, Finn Byron, born in February to Kristjan and his wife Hayley Melitta, and Lukas, 7, from his first marriage to violinist Leila Josefowicz.
There are three Järvi conductors (so far), Paavo, 44, Kristjan, 35, and Neeme (former music director of the Detroit Symphony, now music director of the New Jersey Symphony and the Hague Residentie Orchestra in The Netherlands). Like Paavo and their sister, flutist Maarika Järvi, 43, Kristjan was inoculated with music at an early age. Neeme likes to tell the story of toddler Kristjan complaining "Mozart hit me" after tumbling from a loudspeaker he had been climbing to see where the sound came from. He was 7 when the family left Estonia and came to the U.S. in 1980. A decade younger than his siblings, he adjusted quickly to life in America, speaks without an accent and grew up a hip New Yorker.
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Mr. Nakamatsu’s relaxed virtuosity in the concerto and the rhapsody is in contrast to the usual "wired" approach to these pieces. He lingers and ruminates where others press on. Bernard Holland
Dallas Morning News [Grade: A-] Right away, you'll notice the rhythmic snap and crackle.... This [performance] is competitive with the best. Scott Cantrell
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F; Rhapsody in Blue; Cuban Overture [Hybrid SACD]
For the past two and a half years, she has been concertmaster of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, among the most distinguished cultural institutions...
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Régine Crespin (23 February 1927, Marseille – 5 July 2007, Paris)
She was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire. Crespin, was the most important French soprano to conquer the demanding roles of Wagner, Verdi, and French opera during the second half of the twentieth century...
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