Jazz, Opera, Classical

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Monteverdi ٠ L'Incoronacione di Poppea Live Radio boradcast 1989

Monteverdi ٠ L'Incoronacione di Poppea ٠ City of London Baroque Sinfonia (1989)

Claudio Monteverdi is the Western Father of the Opera as we know it today. L'Incoronazione di Poppea is one of the few survival operas he wrote, and listening it and attempt to a live performance of it is always a very impressive experience. So, here we have a Live radio Broadcasting from 1989 with an impressive cast of singers, and a more impressive performance of one of the finest English baroque orchestras.

Claudio Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea - 1642

Poppea: Arleen Auger
Nerone: Della Jones
Ottavia: Linda Hirst
Ottone: James Bowman
Seneca: Gregory Reinhart
Drusilla: Sarah Leonard
Nutrice: Catherine Denley
Arnalta: Adrian Thompson
Lucano: Mark Tucker
Valletto: Juliet Booth
Damigella: Janice Watson
Fortuna: Catherine Pierard
Virtu: Juliet Booth
Amore: Samuel Linay
Littore: Brian Bannatyne Scott
Liberto Capitano: John Graham Hall
Pallade: Catherine Pierard
Mercurio: Brian Bannatyne Scott
Soldato I: John Graham Hall
Soldato II: Lynton Atkinso

City of London Baroque Sinfonia
Richard Hickox - 1989

Radio Broadcasting, 128 kbps.
File size: 138 Mb

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q1GRBGK1

[jmrecillas]

Beethoven ٠ 9th Symphony Live 2007 ٠ Abbado

Beethoven ٠ 9th Symphony Live 2007 ٠ Abbado

Are you consider to listen some Ludwig van Beethoven masterpiece from a live performance? Well, this is your chance. This is an exquisite live performance given by non other than Claudio Abbado at Lucerna Festival @ 10th August 2007 conducting local orchestra with an impressive cast of solo voices for the choral part. So don't hesitate, this is an incredible concert you don't want to miss. As a first part pianist Cedric Tiberghien plays the famous Beethoven's Heroïque Variations.

Orchestre du Festival de Lucerne
Direction : Claudio Abbado
Choeur de la Radio bavaroise et l'Orchestre du Festival de Lucerne

Programme musical
* Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonie No 9 en ré mineur
"avec un choeur final sur l'Ode à la joie de Schiller", op. 125
( Melanie Diener, Anna Larsson, Jonas Kaufmann, Reinhard Hagen,
Choeur de la Radio bavaroise, Orchestre du Festival de Lucerne,
Conductor : Claudio Abbado)

* Ludwig van Beethoven 15 Variations et une fugue sur un thème original, en mi bémol majeur. Variations héroïques, op. 35
( Cedric Tiberghien)

As always, no password needed. Just enjoy =)

http://www.mediafire.com/?qzudmt4emmm

[jmrecillas]

[SUPER QUALITY AUDIO] Monteverdi ٠ L'Orfeo ٠ Il Giardino Armonico

Monteverdi ٠ L'Orfeo ٠ Il Giardino Armonico live at Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Belgium

This is an absolute must-have live performance from one of the finest Italian chamber orchestras that plays on historical instruments: Il Giardino Armonico. No, they haven't recorded Monteverdi's masterpiece L'Orfeo on any label, and there is no traces of they would in the near future, so this is your chance to get an astonishing live performance that's for sure it will blow your mind.

Quality sound is absolutely impressive, not to mention both instrumental and vocal performance. Few times I have heard some performance so brilliantly and powerfully played and with such an immaginative skill as in this performance. And I can't imagine that this performance on a live stage could sound better than this, so if you want to listen an absolute masterpiece played so magistrally that you will never immagined, start with this.

=)

Genève. Grand Théâtre, le 25-I-05.
Claudio Monteverdi : Orfeo, fable en musique en un prologue et cinq actes.
Nouvelle production. Mise en scène, décors et lumières : Philippe Arlaud.
Costumes : Andrea Uhmann.
Chorégraphie : Anne-Marie Gros.
Orfeo : Victor Torres.
Musica / Euridice : Nuria Rial.
Speranza : Marie-Claude Chappuis.
Caronte : Carlo Lepore.
Proserpina : Marisa Martins.
Plutone : Luigi di Donato.
Messaggiera : Valentina Kutzarova.
Pastore I / Spirito I : Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro.
Pastore II : Pascal Bertin.
Pastore III / Spirito II : Leif Aruhn Solen.
Pastore III / Spirito II : Philip Casperd.
Ninfa : Fosca Aquaro.
Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.
Chœur du Grand Théâtre.
Direction musicale : Giovanni Antonini et Luca Pianca.
Direction d’orchestre : Giovanni Antonini.

As always, no need passwords to download the file. Both CDs in one single file. Enjoy!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FRXM7G99

[jmrecillas]

Donizetti ٠ La Favorita ٠ Di Stefano, Live in Mexico 1949

Donizetti ٠ La Favorita ٠ Di Stefano, Live in Mexico 1949

Another jewell from the past. This is a brilliant live performance of Donizetti's La Favorita, at Bellas Artes Theather in Mexico City performed on December 7th 1949, with Giuseppe di Stefano on the leading role.

7/12/49
Gaetano Donizetti: La favorita:

Ciudad de México, Palacio de Bellas Artes
Orquesta y Coro de la Ópera Nacional (today Opera de Bellas Artes): maestro directore, Guido Picco

Leonora di Gusman: Giulietta Simionato
Fernando: Giuseppe di Stefano
Alfonso XI: Enzo Mascherini
Balthazar: Cesare Siepi
Ines: Rosa Rodríguez
Don Gasparo: Francisco Tortolero

One single file, no password needed. Enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZQTVXTBV

[jmrecillas]

Boismortier ٠ Daphnis et Chlóe ٠ Paris, 2001

Boismortier ٠ Daphnis et Chlóe ٠ Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) was a Baroque French composer that has fall into oblivion soon after his death, but his compositions were very popular and pleased by audiences on his time. His music is genuine and purely made to give pleasure and to make enjoy her. As you can listen on this radio broadcast, even when quality sound is not exactly the best, is brilliant enogh to give a close idea about his imaginative powers and his musical gift on make good music all the time.

Daphnis et Chloé, opera ballet (1747)

Chloé - Gaëlle Méchaly
L'Amour - Gaëlle Méchaly
La Nymphe - Marie Louise Duthoit
La Matelote - Marie Louise Duthoit
Daphnis - François Nicolas Geslot
Le Zéphyr - François Nicolas Geslot
Saphir - Till Fechner
Dryas - Alain Buet
Agenor - Renaud Delaigue
Pan - Arno Guillou
Faune - Arno Guillou
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet - 2002

Broadcasted recorded, 128 kbps
File size: 94 Mb

As usual, no password needed.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4gtdjzwwmzo

[jmrecillas]

Mozart Gala et al. ٠ Natalie Dessay (SUPERB CONCERTS)

Mozart Gala ٠ Natalie Dessay

Two fabolous recitals from one of the finest lyrical voices in the world: Natalie Dessay. First, we have an astonishing performance of Mozart arias at the London Proms from 2000. In second place, we have a concert of French composers including Gounod, Massenet, and the English-French composer Thomas. Two set of arias that show us the versatility and wide vocal range of this amazing French mezzosoprano.

Enjoy! =)

1. Concert Mozart
London, Proms, 24 August 2000
Orchestra of he Age of Enlightment
Louis Langree
MOZART
01. Vorrei spiegarvi O Dio
02. Die Zauberflote: O zittre nicht
03. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose
04. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Martern aller Arten
05. Die Zauberflote: Der Holle Rache

2. French Arias Concert
Genova, 20 September 2000
Orchestra del Carlo Felice di Genova
Michel Plasson
06. Gounod - Romeo et Juliette: Je veux vivre
07. Massenet - Cherubin: Vive l'amour
08. Thomas - Mignon: Je suis Titania
09. Massenet - Manon: Je marche
10. Thomas - Hamlet: A vos jeux

http://www.4shared.com/file/104755283/87bed066/Mozart_Gala___Natalie_Dessay_fonotecadejmrecillasb logspotco

[jmrecillas]

[SUPER LIVE PERFORMANCE] Handel - Belshazzar - Jacobs - Paris 2003

Handel - Belshazzar - Jacobs - Paris 2003

This is asuperb and brilliant live performance of one of Handel's finest oratorios given by Il Fondamento and international Chorus Collegium Vocale Ghent and a brilliant cast of singers singing in state of grace to bring back to life this amazing work, Belshazzar, all of them conducted amazingly by one of the finest conductors of historical performance of ancient music, René Jacobs.

Not only the performance and performers are absolutely magnificent, but also quality audio, that makes you forget it is a live performance and not a studio album. This is a greater than life performance you will never forget.

G.F. Handel - Belshazzar HWV 61
Collegium Vocale - Il Fondamento
dir. René Jacobs

Belshazzar - Kobie van Rensburg
Nitocris - Annette Dasch
Daniel - Monica Groop
Cyrus - Marijana Mijanovic
Gobrias - Henry Waddington

3 MP3 128 Kbps | Recorded from a Radio Broadcasting
Performed in public in Beaune, Cour des Hospices, 04-VII-2003

Act 1 - 68Mb
Act 2 - 42Mb
Act 3 - 30Mb

http://www.4shared.com/file/115185041/829506ae/Handel___Belshazzar___Jacobs___Pars_2003part1.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/115157305/b14bb5d0/Handel___Belshazzar___Jacobs___Pars_2003part2.html

[jmrecillas]

[ULTRA-SUPERB HQ SOUND] Haendel - Giulio Cesare - Amsterdam 2008

HAENDEL - GIULIO CESARE - AMSTERDAM - 16 FEBRUARY 2008

If you think you have enough Handel with previous post, this new one is gonna drive you crazy. This is an Ultra-Super live performance with an impossible to get a best audio quality from a radio broadcast. This is simply the best opera broadcast I ever heard, beautifully well acted, perfectly well singed, in an absolute state of grace, with a cast of singer unsurpassed and an orchestra played as if they played for God himself... or Handel. Superbly well conducted by René Jacobs, this is a must-have for any opera lover.

Location : Amsterdam, Stadsschouwburg
Performance : Saturday 16 Februayr 2008
Broadcast : NPS Radio 4, live
Internet recording (@ 384 Kbps) registred at 320 kbps

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) : Giulio Cesare (1724)

Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) : Giulio Cesare
Rosemary Joshua (soprano) : Cleopatra
Christianne Stotijn (contralto) : Cornelia
Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo) : Sesto
Tania Kross (mezzo) : Tolomeo
Luca Pisaroni (bass barytone) : Achilla
Dominique Visse (counter tenor) : Nireno
Lionel Lhote (bass) : Curio

Freiburger Barockorchester
conductor : Rene Jacobs

http://www.mediafire.com/?wmtynke3iwk
http://www.mediafire.com/?rlny1jzmcyy
http://www.mediafire.com/?y5ngwmahizt
http://www.mediafire.com/?zvoiiqzzhnm
http://www.mediafire.com/?nz0uzlj2djj

[Micko]

Re: Jazz, Opera, Classical

this thread has been eluding me for far too long

[jmrecillas]

Re: Jazz, Opera, Classical

I hope you like it, and can download some of this files, which are not very usual to find. I gathered from here and there and try to do my best to share with people. But first I'm sure that the files are upload correctly, and that's the reason why I do no just copy links from other, but mines first.

Thanks for passing by =)

[jmrecillas]

[SUPERB; A MUST-HAVE] Fyodr Chaliapin ٠ Retrato de un genio 1926-1931

Feodor Chaliapin ٠ Portrait of a Genious 1926-1931

I have this file since ever, and was only recently that I found it again, and decided to share. This is the most amazing Russian singer ever, who was not only a fabulous baryton-bass singer, but also a consumated actor, who premiered many operas and plays from many musicians and play writers. He was a living legend, only comparable with Enrico Caruso. The beautiful tone of his voice, its only equal to his amazing skills for deepened into characters and bringing back to life as probably very few other singer in XXth Century. Unfortunately, today it is almost impossible to get albums with him on a leading role, and even in Russia is very hard to find. The few albms that once existed on the market are compilations many years out of market, so you can imagine what it means this strange compilation, which includes arias and popular songs recorded betweet 1926 and 1931.

If you think that the quality sound is awful, you better think again. After a very few bars you will forget that these are very old monoaural recordings and very soon you will be transported to an incredible and awesome musical world that only very few singers can make. Chaliapin sings with a very colourful voice, a very deep characterization, and a superb quality to give life to the most sublime song or opera aria, and to give the same treatment to a very beautiful popular song. Its impossible not to feel moved by this superb Russian singer and not to whish that soon emerge some older recordings with him, but sincerely I don't think we are so lucky. So enjoy this very musical jewel, ripped form an old tape which was recorded from a radioshow broadcasted at leats 20 years ago or more.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WZYBT33K

[jmrecillas]

Haydn ٠ Il mondo della luna ٠ Jacobs

Haydn ٠ Il mondo della luna ٠ Jacobs

This is Haydn International Year of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), one of the most prolific composers ever, and one of the most generous and gentles composers ever existed. It is also Astronomy International Year and Internatonal Year of the invention of telescope, by Galileo Galilei. To celebrate this 3 international aniversary I share this amazing live performance of one of the finest and hilarious Haydn's Werke, his 1777 Opera Il mondo de la Luna.

Once again, we have a superb live performance by one of the finest conductors of today, and someone already known by visitors of this thread: former countertenos Mr. René Jacobs, conducting another superb German orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin.




Pictures acompanying this post belong to a recent scenification of this superb and very funny opera, and was designed by miss Monika Lagenstein for the Opera Jennersdorf Festivalsommer and they can give you some idea about what we are talking about.

Il mondo della luna - Franz Joseph Haydn - 1777

Ecclitico: Kobie van Rensburg, tenor
Ernesto: Patricia Risley, mezzosoprano
Buonafede: Enzo Capuano, Bass
Clarice: Elisabeth Scholl, soprano
Flaminia: Iride Martinez, soprano
Lisetta: Silvia Tro Santafé, mezzosoprano
Cecco: Scott Weir, tenor

Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin
René Jacobs - 2001

One single file of 243 MB configurated for iTunes. No password needed. Just enjoy! =)

http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahg1fa0/n/Haydn_Il_mondo_della_luna_Jacobs_by_fonotecadejmre cillas_blogspot_c

[floridaorange]

Re: Jazz, Opera, Classical

this is an epic addition to the MS promo & recommendations page, thanks very much jmrecillas!

now where to start

[jmrecillas]

Beethoven ٠ Symphony # 6, Violin Concerto ٠ Herreweghe

Beethoven ٠ Symphony # 6, Violin Concerto ٠ Herreweghe @ 320 kbps

Philippe Herreweghe is a Flemish conductor who started his carrer more than 25 years ago as Choir master from Collegium Vocale Ghent, one of the finest European vocal ensembles, with many records as accompanying choir in records by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sigiswald Kuijken and many others. He went to conducting the Orchestre des Champs-Élysees, and under his leading baton became one of the finest Belgium instrumental ensembles. He stablished a name by his own through a repertoir based on sacred music from XVIth to XVIIIth centuries, with names such as Monteverdi, Bach, Charpantier, and many others. As Harnoncourt and Kuijken did before him, Herreweghe passed from Early Baroque to Classiccism and finally came to Romanticism and more recently to Modernism and XXth Century music.

His first recording of Romanticism music where Schumann's Symphony N° 4 and Cello concerto, and Beethoven 9th Symphony, both for Harmonia Mundi label. But he decided to record the whole Beethovenian symphonic cicle, but he take this new path outside Harmonia Mundi and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysees. He recorded eight symphonies, letting only in Harmonia Mundi his amazing version of Beethoven's Choral symphony.

This concert is part of this adventure, but he conducts his Orchestre des Champs-Élysees, different from the entire Beethovenian recorded cycle. This is a radio broadcasting recording, and has some broadcast hiss, so if you're a purist maybe you will find this a little annoying. But the performance is really amazing, absolutely ravishing and show us how deep can get Herreweghe in this very complex music, specially in Beethoven's 6th Symphony, known as Pastoral, a master piece of delicacy and subtles passages which requires a very masterly conducting. The Violin concerto is played here with astonishing accuracy and feeling, and gives a bold and decided version, with no hesitation one of a hell version af this work (pay special attention to the cadenza in the first movement, is really astonishing this improvisated cadenza by Patricia Kopatchinskaia).


Orchestre des Champs-Élysees
Philippe Herreweghe - conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaia - violin
Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes (FR) (Academies Musicales)
15th july 2007.
A France Musique recording @ 320 kbps

Part I
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Concerto for violin & orchestra in D opus 61
{flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, horn, bassoon, trumpet, timbals, 2 violins, viola, violoncello & double bass} (1806)
01 - I Allegro ma non troppo 22'02"
02 - II Larghetto (G) + III Rondo 18'22"
Patricia Kopatchinskaia encore:
Jorge Sanchez-Chiong (1969): Crin [for solo violin] (1996-7)
03 - Crin 00'55"
total Part I: 41'23"

Part II
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No 6 in F for orchestra opus 68 'Pastorale'
{2 flutes, piccolo flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinees, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timbals, 2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello & double bass} (180
04 - I Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Aukunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo 10'55"
05 - II Scene am Bach. Andante molto moto (Bb) 12'30"
06 - III Lestiges Zusammensein der Landleute.
Allegro + IV Gewitter.
Sturm.
Allegro (F min) + V Hirtengesang.
Frohe und dankbare Gefuhle nach dem Sturm.
Allegretto 18'28"
Total Part II: 41'57"
FM Radio Broadcast Musiq3

As usual, one single file, without password. Enjoy! =)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YZYD2J3G

[jmrecillas]

Mahler ٠ 5th Symphony ٠ Dudamel, Bamberger Symphoniker

Mahler ٠ 5th Symphony ٠ Dudamel, Bamberger Symphoniker

Its time to put some real Latinoamerican feeling on this thread, and there is no better way save to put the finest name on the fine art of conducting emerging from Latinoamerican soil. So, this is young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, with an astonishing concert conducting Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra with a full concert on Mahler's 5th Symphony. He already has recorded this work with Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the most impressive phenomena in musical history not only in recent years, but probably from the last one hundred years. As far as I remember, I don't remember a fastest ascention to fame and recognition as we see on this young conductor. His concerts worlwide are an important event, as we never saw with names such as Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini, or any other conductor. Indeed, he is an incredible phenomena, but is not only him.

Its important to know that he is the living proof that not everything came from Venezuela's actual rulers is a fruit of evil and a conspiracy to spread the evil fruit of comunism. This mentioned Venezuelan orchestra is one of the most amazing cultural programs ever attempted on any country, as well a social revolution (I know that in US and other countries this particular word has a very sensitive meanings, nevertheless...) since this orchestra is formed with very young children with no parents, almost all of them living on the streets (what we call in Mexico and other countries, "situación de calle y abandono") and with apparently no possibilities to insert their lives into productive and public life, condemned this way to live on the margins of society and to live into poor all the rest of their lives. But Hugo Chavez' government thought that this it hasn't to be that way, and develope a special social program which takes this abandoned kids and inserted into a cultural program that allows them to insert them into a program that allows to interact between and to learn about responsability and social life. Gustavo Dudamel himself is a living proof that this program works.

Gustavo Dudamel has been raised and supported by international conductors as Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle, who saw in him an astonishing young talented men that could change so many things. And indeed he does. You just have to listen him to conduct this amazing works by one of the most complex and complicated composers ever to believe what he can do.

Quality audio is simply marvelous, and you will live an experience so near to extasis that you will not believe.


GUSTAV MAHLER
Sinfonie Nr. 5 cis-moll
(Preisträgerkonzert des Gustav Mahler-Dirigier- Wettbewerbs 2004 in Bamberg)
Teil 1
01. Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt.Streng wie ein Kondukt -------------------------------------------------------- 12:37
02. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz ---------- 14:23
Teil 2
03. Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell -------------------- 17:25
Teil 3
04. Adagietto. Sehr langsam - attaca --------------------- 10:18
05. Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Allegro giocoso. Frisch -- 14:08

Bamberger Symphoniker
Dir.: Gustavo Dudamel (1. Preis)
Bamberg, Sinfonie an der Regnitz, 2. Mai 2004

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DY4VZLAO

One little adition to the post. This performance was those that launch Dudamel into public eye when he won the International Gustav Mahler first prize precisely with this astonishing performance.