#Anne-Sofie Von Otter

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JUST WRAPPED UP this entire album tonight, on this RAINY Christmas Eve here in my part of the Philippines. This is the second recording of BWV 248 I listened in full; the 1997 Philip Pickett one (in which a countertenor - Michael Chance - is used in place of a female alto, with Anne-Sofie Von Otter being John Eliot Gardiner’s case in his 1987 account) I dispersed the cantatas over the course of this year’s Ber Months was my first.

Maligayang Pasko!

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Opera Streams: Early-Mid December 2024

4th: Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček from National Theatre Brno. Featuring Nicky Spence, Doubravka Novotná, and Daniel Matoušek. Free!

6th: Mozart’s The Magic Flute from Teatro Comunale Ferrara. Featuring Younggi Do, Yulia Merkudinova, and Gianluca Failla. Free!

7th: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino (alt link) from La Scala. Featuring Anna Netrebko, Ludovic Tézier, and Brian Jagde. Subscription.

8th: Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte from Malmö Opera. Featuring Matilda Sterby, Annie Fredriksson, David Risberg, and Caspar Singh. Rental.

13th: Sungjae's 264, That One Star from Daegu Opera House. Featuring Rho Seonghoon, Je Sangchul, and Lee Chungman. World premiere production! Free!

13th: Karlsson’s Fanny and Alexander (alt link) from La Monnaie/De Munt. Featuring Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, and Sasha Cooke. World premiere production! Subscription.

14th: Reid's The Shell Trial from Dutch National Opera. Featuring Lauren Michelle, Claire Barnett-Jones, and Anthony León. Free!

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C minor, K 427. John Eliot Gardiner, director Barbara Bonney, soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzosoprano Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor Alastair Miles, bajo 

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The French Connection

Music in France around the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century is often defined by the music of Debussy and Ravel. However, there were other composers at that time who, stylistically, were heading in another direction. Phil Whelan and I take a look at some of these composers and, unsurprisingly, find some glorious music. Georges Bizet (1838-1875)Symphony in C: Movt IV…

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Happy birthday Anne Sofie von Otter

[lesser-known-composers]

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - La mort d'Ophélie, ballade, Op. 18 No. 2 [H. 92]

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano & Cord Garben, piano

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Awesome Mix Vol.1 byken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDlDKvidYbk&list=PLGhx0l22Uqx3NNWMqxIzdG2ML2Lb3dg0V

얼마 전 '아마 오늘 비가 올 것 같아(=I Think It's Gonna Rain Today)'란 곡을 올렸더니, 20대 때 주말 낮에 카페에 앉아 밀러 맥주 마시면서 음악 덕후 친구들과 함께 들었던 노래들이 자동으로 떠올라서, 마침 가을이기도 하고 찬바람 불기 전에 혼자 개폼 좀 잡아보려고 두서 없이 떠오르는 대로 열 곡을 선정해 영화 '은하수 수호자(=Guardians of the Galaxy)'에 나온 '어썸 믹스 테잎'을 흉내내 'Awesome Mix Vol.1 byken'을 만들어 봄.

이런 목록은 그냥 음악에 집중하는 게 맞는 듯해 자세한 배경 설명은 생략하겠으나 딱 하나, 마크-아몬드가 부른 '단지 친구 사이(=Just a Friend)'만큼은 가사를 알고 들어야 할 거 같아서. 주인공이 짝사랑하는 여자와 그 여자가 좋아하는 나쁜 남��� 사이의 이야기.

"울고 싶을 때 그녀는 날 찾아온다. 친구로서, 그냥 친구로서…중략… 그녀는 다시 그놈에게로 가고 내가 어떤 고통을 느끼는지 모른 채 기억만이 남는다…중략… 다시 밤이 되면 또 다시 너와 함께 있겠지. 단지 친구로서"

Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise Mark-Almond - Just a Friend Fleetwood Mac - Sentimental Lady Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat Shocking Blue - Never Marry A Railroad Man María Graña - Caserón de Tejas Anne Sofie von Otter & Elvis Costello - Broken Bicycles James Campbell - Last Night When We Were Young Jethro Tull - Elegy Stevie Wonder - A Place In The Sun

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

Oh, thank you!

Let's see:

Jacques Brel - Amsterdam

José José - El Triste

Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles

Kurt Weill - Youkali (Teresa Stratas or Barbara Hannigan)

Kurt Weill - I'm A Stranger Here Myself (Anne Sofie von Otter)

Bonus: Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne since it's stuck in my head again.

[thequietabsolute]

Top Artists — Medium Term (6 months)

Felbm

Radiohead

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Kate Bush

Nick Drake

Midlake

Paul Simon

Simon & Garfunkel

Slowdive

Boards of Canada

Canary Room

The Beatles

Fionn Regan

Beach House

Leonard Cohen

hemlock

Vashti Bunyan

Clara Mann

Bob Dylan

The Smiths

ABBA

Grouper

David Bowie

The Clientele

Jessica Pratt

Olovson

Bill Callahan

Laura Marling

Rachel Grimes

Chet Baker

Belle and Sebastian

Sibylle Baier

Aldous Harding

Cocteau Twins

Acetone

Connan Mockasin

Fleetwood Mac

Cornelia Murr

John Martyn

Julie London

Sea Oleena

Sufjan Stevens

Meg Baird

Shannon Lay

Van Morrison

Pink Floyd

Caroline Says

Sun Kil Moon

Maxine Funke

Fairport Convention

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Top Tracks — Long Term (years)

Calla — Canary Room

4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: IV. Morgen! — Richard Strauss, Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch

6 Melodies, Op. 4 - 6 melodies, Op. 5: Allegretto — Fanny Mendelssohn, Beatrice Rauchs

Long Before Us — Rachel Grimes

Sandalwood I — Jonny Greenwood

Stabat Mater: 1. Stabat Mater — Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Thaïs / Act 2: Méditation — Jules Massenet, Joshua Bell, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton

Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4 — Antonín Dvořák, Alisa Weilerstein, Anna Polonsky

Elegy No. 1 in D Major — Giovanni Bottesini, Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington

The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano) — Camille Saint-Saëns, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott

Julie With - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

wallingford bossa — hemlock

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73: No. 1, Zart und mit Ausdruck — Robert Schumann, Sol Gabetta, Hélène Grimaud

By This River - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

Just When You Need Yourself Most — Oberhofer

Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro — Giacomo Puccini, Renée Fleming, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Bleecker Street — Simon & Garfunkel

House of Woodcock — Jonny Greenwood

Shaker — Acetone

All The Time — Acetone

Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz II — Dmitri Shostakovich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Kalendar Prince (Excerpt) — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra

Christine — Canary Room

Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens — Tiny Ruins

Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Josef Sakonov, London Festival Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso — Ludwig van Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner

Deux Arabesques, L. 66, CD 74: I. Première Arabesque — Claude Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Green Bus — The Innocence Mission

Lucida — Thomas Bartlett

Introduction et Allegro, M. 46 — Maurice Ravel, Oxalys

Two Thousand and Seventeen — Four Tet

When It Rains — Felbm

Lake Effect — Canary Room

Candy Says — The Velvet Underground

Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko

Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, Heft II: No. 14, Zart und singend — Robert Schumann, Jonathan Biss

Magnolia — J.J. Cale

day one — hemlock

Return From The Ice — Acetone

Requiem in D minor, K.626: 6. Benedictus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Willard White, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

River — Terry Reid

Where Should I Meet You? — Canary Room

This Night Has Opened My Eyes - 2011 Remaster — The Smiths

Brother — Vashti Bunyan

Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude — Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma

Sweeten Your Eyes — The Clientele

Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song (Arr. by Paul Bateman) — Kurt Weill, Daniel Hope, Jacques Ammon, Zürcher Kammerorchester

Funicular — Felbm

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jenő Jandó

Sensuela — Column

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BERLINER BAROCK SOLISTEN

MOZART: VIOLA CONCERTO/SINFONIA CONCERTANTE

El famoso concierto para clarinete con viola solista y la popular Sinfonía Concertante en una nueva grabación a cargo del excelente conjunto barroco y los solistas de la Filarmónica de Berlín.

La Berliner Barock Solisten, fundada en 1995 por Rainer Kussmaul, Raimar Orlovsky y otros destacados miembros de la Filarmónica de Berlín, destaca en el ámbito de los conjuntos de música antigua. Utilizan instrumentos antiguos pero modernizados y arcos específicos de la época, creando un enfoque único de las obras de los siglos XVII y XVIII. Su excepcional homogeneidad y sus solistas de primera fila han asegurado su reputación internacional. Conocidos por su capacidad para presentar composiciones históricas desde una perspectiva contemporánea, destacan en la interpretación de los maestros italianos, Telemann y Bach. A lo largo de 26 años, su característico estilo interpretativo ha sido aclamado por el público y la crítica de todo el mundo. Las colaboraciones con artistas de renombre como Thomas Quasthoff, Anne Sofie von Otter y Emmanuel Pahud aumentan aún más su prestigio. Bajo la dirección artística del maestro Reinhard Goebel, los Berliner Barock Solisten siguen causando un impacto significativo en el mundo de la música antigua. Su grabación del Concierto de Brandemburgo de Bach para Sony Classical se convirtió en un éxito de ventas y recibió un OPUS KLASSIK como grabación de concierto del año.

Desde el notable éxito del violista Diyang Mei en el Concurso Internacional de Música ARD 2018, no ha dejado de avanzar en su carrera internacional. Como solista, ha actuado con orquestas prestigiosas como la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Baviera y la Konzerthausorchester de Berlín, y en festivales notables como el Festival de Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental. Mei ha colaborado con estimados músicos como András Schiff y Sabine Meyer. Desde octubre de 2022, ocupa el puesto de violista solista de la Filarmónica de Berlín, tras su cargo de primer viola principal de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Múnich. Mei también actúa como músico solista y ha recibido numerosos elogios a lo largo de su carrera.

Noah Bendix-Balgley es el concertino y primer violín de la Filarmónica de Berlín, cargo que ocupa desde que en 2014 abandonó la Orquesta Sinfónica de Pittsburgh, donde desempeñaba la misma función. Como solista, ha actuado con orquestas de renombre como la Filarmónica de Dresde, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Radio Francia, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Auckland y la Orquesta Filarmónica de Nagoya, así como con las orquestas sinfónicas de Shanghai, Utah, Pittsburgh y Baltimore. Apasionado de la música de cámara, Bendix-Balgley es miembro de varios conjuntos, entre ellos el Cuarteto de cuerda Rosamunde y el septeto Philharmonix, que fusiona varios géneros.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

       W. A. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622 (Arr. for Viola & Orchestra by Diyang Mei)       

1     I. Allegro      

2     II. Adagio      

3     III. Rondo. Allegro  

       W.A. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, K.364

4     I. Allegro maestoso      

5     II. Andante      

6     III. Presto      

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Birthdays 5.9

Beer Birthdays

None Known

Five Favorite Birthdays

Richard Adams; writer (1920)

Dante Alighieri; Italian poet (1265)

James M. Barrie; writer (1860)

Glenda Jackson; actor (1936)

Billy Joel; pop singer, pianist (1949)

Famous Birthdays

Lisa Ann; porn actor (1972)

Pedro Armendariz; actor (1912)

George Barker; painter (1882)

János Batsányi; Hungarian-Austrian poet (1763)

Alan Bennett; English writer (1934)

James L. Brooks; writer (1940)

John Brown; abolitionist (1800)

Candice Bergen; actor (1946)

Howard Carter; Egyptologist (1873)

James Collinson; Victorian painter (1825)

John Corbett; actor (1962)

Sonny Curtis; singer-songwriter (1937)

Rosario Dawson; actor (1979)

Manfred Eigen; German physicist (1927)

Prince Fielder; Milwaukee Brewers 1B (1984)

Albert Finney; actor (1936)

Richie Furay; rock musician (1944)

Dave Gahan; English singer-songwriter (1962)

Ralph Goings; painter (1928)

Pancho Gonzales; tennis player (1928)

Tony Gwynn; baseball player (1960)

Roger Hargreaves; English author and illustrator (1935)

Paul Heaton; English singer-songwriter (1962)

Henry J. Kaiser; industrialist (1882)

Steve Katz; rock musician (1945)

Ghostface Killah; rapper (1970)

Gaspard Monge; French mathematician (1746)

Adam Opel; German engineer (1837)

José Ortega y Gasset; Spanish philosopher (1883)

Tom Petersson; rock bassist (1950)

Danny Rapp; rock & roll singer (1941)

Tommy Roe; singer-songwriter (1942)

Lisa Simpson; fictional character (1981)

Hank Snow; country singer (1914)

Mona Van Duyn; poet (1921)

Anne Sofie von Otter; Swedish soprano and actress (1955)

Mike Wallace; television journalist (1918)

Edward Weston; English-American chemist (1850)

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Wenn dein Mütterlein (1904) (Gustav Mahler, after Friedrich Rückert) [Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Vienna Philharmonic; Pierre Boulez, conductor] [buy]