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...pure gold in three trumpet display pieces accompanied by the very able Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra, with which he has been touring the U.S. He imbued Albinoni's Trumpet Concerto in B-flat with a bright, pointy dance of notes that was as mellifluously intricate as any Rossini coloratura aria...
...suggestive of the lilting, tragic songs of Kurt Weil, which also have roots in German-Austrian folk melody. The orchestra--particularly its excellent wind section--gave her exceptionally sensitive support with clean, sharp attacks and supple phrasing. Forrester's spirited but somewhat less exciting performance of Mozart's concert aria "Non Piu di Fiore" was complemented by a beautifully fluid clarinet solo by one of the aces of HRO's wind section, David Cass...
...lined up one of the world's great voices for their opening concert--contralto Maureen Forrester will sing Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer and a Mozart aria. Also on the program in this year of Ives, is Three Places in New England. And you won't want to pass up an opportunity to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor...
...OPERA Company runs into occasional problems. John Davies doesn't really have the voice for Bartolo's lowest notes. Diana Hoagland more than rises to the occasion of the Countess's big third-act aria, but some of her earlier attempts at acting seem a good bit closer to Lucia's madness than Rosina's anger. Sunday night's orchestra didn't seem to approve of them, either--the strings swung briefly out of tune for the introduction to her first aria, something that didn't happen again until the whole orchestra--previously more than competent--began to fall apart...
...varied among individual records. The collection, covering the years from 1906 to 1920, consists mainly of Italian and French opera and salon music, with half a dozen parlor songs sung approximately in English. "Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items. A pair of "Celeste Aidas" (1906 and 1908) raises the question of whether every performance even by the recording industry's first superstar deserves resurrection...