Archive for February 12th, 2017
03/18/17 – Guillaume Tell – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera Guillaume Tell Composed by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis sung in French ESTIMATED RUN TIME 4 HRS 34 MINS front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Rossini’s epic telling of the William Tell fable returns to the Met stage after an absence of more than 80 years, in a […]
Music From Movies 2-12-17
7:00 PM Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 Telarc 80316 SOLO Michael Murray, organ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:09 PM Johann Sebastian Bach St. Matthew Passion: Wir setzen uns mitLondon 466075 COND Sir Georg Solti ORCH Chicago Symphony Orchestra SOLO and Chorus ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:17 PM Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat […]
03/11/17 – La Traviata – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera La Traviata Composed by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave sung in Italian ESTIMATED RUN TIME 2 HRS 33 MINS front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite […]
03/04/17 – Werther – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera Werther Composed by Jules Massenet Libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann sung in French ESTIMATED RUN TIME 2 HRS 54 MINS front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Tenor sensation Vittorio Grigolo is Werther, the young poet who seeks the unattainable love of the beautiful Charlotte, sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. Edward […]
Playlist: Feb/12/17
8:18 PM Antonin Dvorak — Symphony No. 9 Key: eOpus: 95Conductor: Sir Andre PrevinEnsemble: Los Angeles PhilharmonicTelarc, 80238 8:12 PM Paul Tortelier — Valse, “Alla Maud” Conductor: Paul TortelierEnsemble: English Chamber OrchestraPaul Tortelier, celloMaud Tortelier, celloVirgin, 90707 7:33 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Goldberg Variations (complete) Glenn Gould, pianoCBS/Sony, 52685 7:22 PM Johann Sebastian Bach […]
