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Prayer for healing. My thanks to dear Glenmed for all his patience, helping me figure out how to upload a video, and more important, how to add text.
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Andrea Chenier - Umberto Giordano
Recorded 20 September 1954
At Watford Town Hall, near London
Philharmonia Orchestra under Tullio Serafin
Producer Walter Legge of EMI (husband of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf).
What is fascinating about this is that ES quite possibly attended this recording session. There is a famous picture of them sitting together at about this time.
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Two recordings of this famous duet from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro:
1. 1959 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo in Kingsway Hall, London with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Giulini;
2. 1968 Gundula Janowitz and Edith Mathis in Berlin with the Deutsche Opera Orchestra under Böhm.
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Recorded 1965 with Georg Szell and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOT the LSO as the video gives).
Interesting that a couple of years ago Renee Fleming picked this recording as one of her 8 "Desert Island Discs".
The video response is Elisabeth's rendition of the first two of these songs "Fruehling" and "September"
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Emma Johnson: Weber Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E flat, Op.74: #3 Movement: Alla Polacca. The accompanying orchestra is the English Chamber under the baton of Gerard Schwarz.
The video response is Mozart.
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Customarily the Third of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs. 1965 recording with Georg Szell and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - Schwarzkopf was 50.
The 2 video responses are:
1. Lucia Popp "Beim Schlafengehen" with the Philharmonia under Klaus Tennstedt.
2. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf "Fruehling" and "September" with the Berlin and Szell.
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Watched the wonderful Karita Mattila doing this. Was keen to understand better what this music was saying. Schwarzkopf's recording is offered here with German and English subtitles. The English translation is not word-for-word. Instead, I tried to catch the scansion and some of the poetic imagery in Wagner's phrases. If any German speaker can suggest a correction or two, I will be most grateful.
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Antonietta Stella and Franco Corelli 1963
Andrea Chenier by Umberto Giordano
The video of Stella and MDM doing this finale in the mid 1950s shows that she was a very fine stage presence. That and this audio show that she was also well capable of holding her own vocally with both of these magnificent tenors.
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The Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni. 1994 recording.
A tribute to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and to Maestro Robert Shaw.
The magnificent intervention of Christine Brewer (soprano) soaring above the company only adds to this experience.
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Audio Only. Fritz Wunderlich tragically died 1966, aged 36, from head injuries sustained from a fall on steps at a hunting lodge. He left us some of the finest tenor singing ever recorded (almost all in German). Too sad that we were denied more.
![Maria Callas is Maddalena \"La Mamma Morta\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/N7kPHMpuLxc/2.jpg "Maria Callas is Maddalena \\"La Mamma Morta\\"")
![Canzonetta sull\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/yFU74UeBgpo/2.jpg "Canzonetta sull\")
![Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: \"Im Abendrot\" (with translation)](http://img.youtube.com/vi/hw2eYc3RThM/2.jpg "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: \\"Im Abendrot\\" (with translation)")
![Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Lohengrin, Elsa\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/IBXUVjul7C0/2.jpg "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Lohengrin, Elsa\")
![Franco Corelli: Andrea Chenier \"Improviso\" **LIVE 1958**](http://img.youtube.com/vi/3j6zgJqJK4M/2.jpg "Franco Corelli: Andrea Chenier \\"Improviso\\" **LIVE 1958**")
![Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi: \"Dunque Io Son\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/lT4lkK1olno/2.jpg "Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi: \\"Dunque Io Son\\"")
![Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto \"Emperor\" 2nd Mvmt.](http://img.youtube.com/vi/45rmSAMo_Ig/2.jpg "Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto \\"Emperor\\" 2nd Mvmt.")
![Fritz Wunderlich \"Leb\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/dQlfS2wwP9g/2.jpg "Fritz Wunderlich \\"Leb\")
