Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...
Casual as a man singing in the shower, he dipped and soared to either end of his register with effortless ease, deftly switched from sustained pianissimos to quaking explosions of wall-to-wall thun der. But for all his raw power, the brightly burnished timbre of his voice carries a built-in caress. Ghiaurov, at 36, is unquestionably the best basso singing today...
Strauss got an assist from a fellow Gaullist, that wily old (89) wheeler-dealer ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer proclaimed that President Heinrich Lübke, his great admirer, had every constitutional right to veto Erhard's Cabinet appointments. Schröder fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
...fact, he knew, they didn't have that much nerve, and when the time was right, he put them to the test. At a series of caucuses ending last week in the ornate Palais Schaumburg, Erhard's official residence, the Chancellor informed his adversaries that Schröder would stay-though the government was more than willing to improve relations with France, if De Gaulle would only cooperate. Erhard also pointed out that unless Mende got his beloved All-German Affairs Ministry back, the Free Democrat coalition partners wouldn't support the government...
Isabel's plan was to stir a popular up roar on Perón's "Loyalty Day" by playing an emotional tape-recorded message from el líder. Once in Buenos Aires she could see for herself the signs of Peronista change. There were almost no Loyalty Day posters. Three full days elapsed before the top Peronista politicians and labor leaders got around to calling on her. What had not changed were the hatreds engendered by the mere mention of Perón's name. For three nights, riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas erupted outside...