Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stay," a Blue Note re-issue featuring Freddie Hubbard, goes far to proving that the old Hubbard, the just-breaking-in-brash-young Hubbard, could do things that the more esteemed Hubbard could not even understand now. This album gives you the best of Hubbard and some terrific tenor sax by Jimmy Heath and Wayne Shorter. Cedar Walton shows why he is still one of the most under-rated pianists in his smooth accompaniement. The album is fortunate to have "Hub Cap", a long unavailable cut featuring Hubbard, Heath, and Philly Joe Jones, among others. And, for those...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger: Baritone Norman Bailey, Tenor Rene Kollo, Soprano Hannelore Bode; Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti conducting (5 LPs, London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound...
Handel, Messiah: Soprano Elly Ameling, Contralto Anna Reynolds, Tenor Philip Langridge, Bass Gwynne Howell; Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conducting (3 LPs, Argo). This is a masterly lesson in the art of making a familiar classic sound fresh and spontaneous. Marriner's authentically baroque phrasings, rhythms and instrumentations have much to do with that. So does his seemingly effortless ability simply to make music sing...
...never fully recovered from open-heart surgery early in 1973 for implantation of an artificial heart valve. He came out of the anesthesia with partial paralysis of his right arm. The pity was that it ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only of his own works but also of Bach, Purcell and Mozart. His graceful, impassioned version of Mozart's Symphony...
...Fuller. Having played just about every male lead in recent G&S history, from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo, Fuller last year went backstage to direct a first-class Iolanthe. Now he's back as Frederic, the pirate apprentice, and he's even better than ever. His mellow tenor ably navigates the vagaries of Sullivan's music, and the expressions of dolefulness and misgiving his face so readily assumes are perfect for the benighted slave of duty...