The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (288): For a while
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Not relating to this post, I just wanted Norman to be informed:
From SF Gate: “Oakland Symphony honors Kamala Harris with commemorative inauguration ball”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Symphony-Honors-Kamala-Harris-With-Commemorative-15876474.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-Editors-Picks
None of them do justice to this song.
Included in a selection of Purcell songs sung by
Russell Oberlin accompanied by Seymour Barab (bass viola da gamba) and Paul Maynard (harpsichord) on Counterpoint/Esoteric LP 5535
Alfred Deller is my choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_tBb4P5NYE
Lovely version, and with a relatively young (35 years old) William Christie on the harpsichord.
“Music or a while shall all your cares guile.” It’s true. Russell Oberlin’s voice is so beautiful as to be almost disturbing. I can’t tell if a man or woman sings, epicoene in the best, Ben Jonson sense, as in his play Epicoene, or The Silent Woman”, which became Strauss’s “Die schweigsame Frau”. There was a good 78 record of “Music for a While”,perhaps by Schwarkopf. dThere’s a Frau Schweigestill in Mann’s “Doktor Faustus”.
Gremlins at work again. … shall all your cares beguile …”
What a contrast in style between the young Jaroussky, who by today’s baroque standards is rather cloying, and Orlinski with the imaginative ground bass, who is just right. The song is from Dryden’s Oedipus and the context is the summoning of ghosts from Hell. The whole short scene deserves to be heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv35AQQBIIo
And, by way of contrast and off topic, here is an older Jaroussky with Pascal Bertin and Emmanuelle Haïm, in Sound the Trumpet as never before seen (listen all the way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-TzHV4Eq4
What a fascinating difference in style. By today’s standards the young Jaroussky seems cloying, and Orlinski (with the inventive ground bass) has it just right. The song is from Dryden’s Oedipus, and the context is the summoning of ghosts from Hell. Here is the whole ten-minute scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv35AQQBIIo
And here, off topic and by contrast, are an older Jaroussky, with Pascal Bertin, and Emmanuelle Haïm in Sound the Trumpet as it has never been heard before (watch to the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv35AQQBIIo
Posted twice in error, sorry.
Good performances but Celine Scheen takes the cake on this one IMHO:
https://youtu.be/jCZBbOEDgWI