A box of breath-catching astonishments
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
And there shall come to pass at the end of days when every recording that was ever made is gathered together and ascended to heaven for all to hear. And even as the chariot rises so a voice will cry ‘I’ve just found some more in a radio archive…’
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
In The Critic here.
Reminds me of an old routine by Robert Klein in his comedy LP “Mind Over Matter,” making fun of those fast-talking radio ads: “Now you can have every record ever recorded. That’s right — every record. We bring a truck to your house!”
Stefania Woytowicz was the soprano soloist at the first public performance of Gorecki’s Symphony # 3. I will be curious to hear her in another mournful work, the Britten requiem.
Yes! Stefan is Woytowicz is the Soprano who stunned me, on my first CD of Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. After her, as much as I cherish Dawn Upshaw’s singing in so many other works, and respect the musicianship of David Zinman’s conducting, that platinum traversal of the symphony does not have the same weight if “Sorrowful” as that older Polish performance.
I am looking forward to hearing how Woytowicz plumbs the depths of the War Requiem.
Isn’t this just a reissue compilation of cds that have bee around for years? I have several of them….
Yes, ICA is just releasing CDs that were available individually on BBC Legends. Nothing new here & the old releases are still available reasonably on the used market.