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Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:00 pm

(Can somebody embed this?)

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Le_Cour ... elle_Haim/
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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:26 am

They recreate the times when the female parts (and others) were played by castrates, (or normal males singing in a similar manner).
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Re: Classic hour

Post by Hermit » Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:42 pm

More like classic 3-hour. ;)

I don't know how you could embed this Youtube style, but the url link works well enough.

The performance seemed a bit wooden to me. Dressing up in contemporary garb doesn't make up for it. Actually looks gimmicky in the absence of what I regard as emotional commitment by the singers. I stopped listening after about half an hour.
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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:58 pm

Hermit wrote:More like classic 3-hour. ;)

I don't know how you could embed this Youtube style, but the url link works well enough.

The performance seemed a bit wooden to me. Dressing up in contemporary garb doesn't make up for it. Actually looks gimmicky in the absence of what I regard as emotional commitment by the singers. I stopped listening after about half an hour.
It's pretty usual to go contemporary style nowadays, everything I've seen in the recent years has been like that, I don't mind actually.

Go back and listen to the last 10 minutes, the most amazing beautiful duet of Nero and Popea!

Side note: this is one of the first operas ever written, (considering that its author is the author of the first opera ever written, "Orpheus", in 1607), they did only use castrates at that time to sing the female parts.
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Re: Classic hour

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Re: Classic hour

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:08 pm

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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:07 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVrbz_o ... re=related[/youtube]
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Re: Classic hour

Post by hadespussercats » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:21 pm

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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:48 pm

hadespussercats wrote:
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I've made jewelry for her. :dance:
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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:50 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfmnxILg ... sponse_rev[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... HNGdfms9SM
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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:50 pm

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Cecilia ... Pentecote/
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Re: Classic hour

Post by Tero » Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:16 pm

Yes, they will do all kinds of stuff to ancient stories.
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Re: Classic hour

Post by Tero » Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:23 pm

Not a huge fan of piano solo, but I listen to random bits, like Bartok
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Re: Classic hour

Post by DRSB » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:08 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzk13Oqf ... re=related[/youtube]
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Re: Classic hour

Post by hadespussercats » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:16 am

Is that a viol?

I enjoyed this. My husband plays lute music on his guitar every now and then-- I'm fond of it.
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