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...Domingo was late in starting rehearsals; Vladimir Chernov, the Boccanegra, was silenced by flu; and Cheryl Studer, who was to sing Boccanegra's daughter, canceled. In a remarkable piece of last-minute luck, the Met was able to sign Te Kanawa. On opening night the ensemble came through under conductor James Levine's eloquent direction. Only the massive council-chamber scene looked tentative. Viva grand opera that is grand...
...Domingo was late in starting rehearsals; Vladimir Chernov, the Boccanegra, was silenced by flu; and Cheryl Studer, who was to sing Boccanegra's daughter, canceled. In a remarkable piece of last-minute luck, the Met was able to sign Te Kanawa. On opening night the ensemble came through under conductor James Levine's eloquent direction. Only the massive council-chamber scene looked tentative. Viva grand opera that is grand...
...wonderful when everything comes together," said conductor John G. Dunn '64-'66 after the concert. Dunn has been affiliated with St. Paul's since his undergraduate days and is now the principal and music director at the school...
...their splendid new recording of Beethoven's nine symphonies on the Archiv label, English conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire & et Romantique aim to recreate the music of Beethoven as his audience experienced it. The brilliant and incisive Gardiner stands in the forefront of the original-instruments movement, whose adherents employ period instruments (originals and replicas) and the latest textual scholarship in order to play music as closely as possible to the way it was first heard. Having begun with the Baroque era, the movement has progressed to the 19th century. Gardiner already has a revelatory version...
...Beethoven symphonies are his most ambitious project yet. The nine -- which cover a technical and emotional range unmatched by the work of any other composer -- are the bedrock of the conductor's art, and rare is the maestro who has not committed the cycle to disk at least once. Gardiner, however, has set out to do something different with these familiar pieces...