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Ramey's silken voice, which ranges high into traditional baritone territory, is worlds apart from the toneless barking and roaring that too often pass for singing among basses. A flexible, liquid instrument, it can scale the trickiest Rossini coloratura passages or rattle the rafters in triumph...
After Mr. B. died in 1983, one might have expected Farrell to round out her career performing this legacy, but fresh material keeps coming. Two years ago, Peter Martins drew on her restraint and musicianship in a delicate work, Rossini Quartets. Last week at the New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins weighed in with a really fat part. In Memory of . . . , set to Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto, is a highly dramatic work, more openly emotional than Robbins usually allows himself to be. In the role of a dying girl, Farrell adds another heroine to her gallery of lost...
...quirks of 20th century music is that Italian opera should have gone into such decline. Italy, after all, gave birth to bel canto, and is the homeland of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. Yet the effervescent melodic line that began with Monteverdi during the Renaissance exhausted itself with the death of Giacomo Puccini in 1924, and has been only fitfully revived by such contemporary figures as the late Luigi Dallapiccola. There is, it seems, a lost generation of Italian opera composers. But what happened to them...
From the first peremptory drum roll of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish...
...also gastronomical: "The port of call determined the musical work, and the musical work determined the menu. These delicate musical relationships, hesitant at first, had bit by bit been transformed into invariable ritual, even if it occasionally happened that the sudden decay of a tournedos necessitated the replacement of Rossini by Mahler, and the tournedos by a Bavarian pot roast...