WAYLTL- February 2024 // final Google Groups Edition

[Oscar]

Verdi - Requiem // De Sabata 1952 (yes, 1952, not 1954)

Legendary Archives (now defunct, only on Bandcamp)

The great man's funeral was on this date in the year of our Lord, 1901.

[Dan Koren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpXLYG00T3c

Cheers

[Dan Koren]

On Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 12:21:34 AM UTC-8, Oscar wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk5BAYpAKBI

[Notsure01]

Listening to Liszt: Annees Italie, performed by Bolet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsO2cT3Idg&list=PLLxfHmnpxpOXB6Xl0BxjTNe5ICBU3u7Dg

I’d previously only been familiar with the Petrarca 104 - and really enjoy
Bolet’s performance. The rest of this Annee seems less memorable - maybe other
performances are superior? Suggestions??

Also going through my opera collection - I’ve always liked the Callas Gioconda
and while I’m not that big a Callas fan, she was in good voice and makes the
most of this score. I’ve now been listening to the Cerquetti version with Del
Monaco which is also very dramatic.

And very appropriate to these times (in the USA) Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnkYfkrtrHw&list=OLAK5uy_msplW0pHn9hwnjTeIUoZeDhth06KO5kec

This is the story of a less-than-ideal candidate for US President - who gets
sued - impeached - and…

Wintergreen for President!
He’s the man the people choose
Loves the Irish and the Jews

If a girl is sexy,
she may be Mrs. Prexy!

Love is sweeping the country,
there never was so much love
Florida and Cal-
ifornia get together
in a festival
of oranges and weather

We’re the one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine Supreme Court judges
We have powers that are positively regal;
Only we can take a law and make it legal!

He is stubborn, we must teach him,
He has forced us to impeach him
You decline to resign,
So we’ll teach you,
We’lll impeach you!

The country thinks it’s got depression.
Just wait until we get in session!

(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1932)

[PPeso]

On 2/11/2024 5:19 PM, Notsure01 wrote:
> Listening to Liszt: Annees Italie, performed by Bolet
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsO2cT3Idg&list=PLLxfHmnpxpOXB6Xl0BxjTNe5ICBU3u7Dg
>
> I’d previously only been familiar with the Petrarca 104 - and really enjoy
> Bolet’s performance. The rest of this Annee seems less memorable - maybe other
> performances are superior? Suggestions??

My reference for the full set of the Anneés de Pèlerinage is Berman
1977, possibly the only set that attempts to fully integrate the
forward-looking and late III year with the more traditional mid-century
I and II years (plus Appendix).

About the whole Italian II year, I like a lot the recent (2020) reading
by Yunchan Lim in his pre-Cliburn days, not shy about exploring
innovative ways to use the sustain pedal way more extensively than most
of his peers. For a selection of single pieces, try Sofronitzky
1949-1952 (Sposalizio, Penseroso, Canzonetta, Sonetto 123), Barere 1934
or Lipatti 1947 or Horowitz 1986 (Sonetto 104), Cziffra 1963 (Sonetto
123) and more recently Grosvenor 2020 (Sonetti 47, 104 and 123). To
close with a bang, Volodos 2009 in the Dante finale.

[Dan Koren]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nSzUv4XhTIUBBTn0g1GO0vVcSs-RGwikw