Word: mezzos
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...more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig...
...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...
...polyglot lines ("Good morning, caro Signor Jack O'Brien!"), but when it came to singing "Worst of all, Benares is said to have been perished by an earthquake," the chorus sensibly defected. "Guarda qua Benares, è state messa giù da un terremoto," sang the mutineers, leaving American Mezzo Gloria Lane to go it alone in English...
...sing a song worth sixpence in the opera world of the 1930s, an American girl like Risë Stevens had to go to Europe for training, and she has always regarded that as a crying shame. Now the mezzo-soprano, 50, will have a chance to do something about it. She and Metropolitan Opera Executive Stage Manager Michael Manuel have been named general managers of the Met's new National Company, which will start touring the country full time in the fall of 1965. "We have a tremendous wealth of talent in this country, and for the first time...
...changes of texture written into the score supplied more variation from mezzo-forte than did any conscious effort on the part of the conductor or orchestra. Broad contrasts between the tutti and the first violins' soli in the fourth movement remained unexploited. Phrases, instead of concluding, were simply cut off. Ultimately, after opting to repeat every section possible, Biss managed to rouse the orchestra to life--probably because the symphony was nearly over...