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Bonynge; Richard
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Video Review: The Three Bs–The Bonynge Ballet Box (Naturally!)
The Bottom Line: This tribute to the intelligence, musicianship and […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…
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Victorian Demonic Opera–Balfe’s Satanella
Please let me make clear that the words “light opera” usually make me cringe, but from the finely orchestrated three-minute overture, which starts demonically, goes…
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Bellini: Norma/Sutherland, Horne
I believe this is the only note-complete performance of this opera, and furthermore, the only one that is sung in all of the original keys…
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Joan Sutherland–JOY TO THE WORLD
The bright recording and arrangements (lots of bells, shiny brass) go delightfully with Sutherland’s high-placed voice, at its most fabulous in 1965 when this was…
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Gliére/Glazunov–Sutherland/Bonynge
Of the rarities presented in this unusual Russian music collection, the most tantalizing is Gliére’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra. Judging by the slight…
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Hérold: La fille mal gardée
Dance fanciers will be pleased to see these two gems freed from Decca’s big box of ballet recordings. John Lanchbery’s arrangement of La Fille mal…
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Adam: Giselle/Bonynge
Richard Bonynge took a lot of criticism for his lack of experience as a conductor, but he had one sterling quality: he only conducted unusual…
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Meyerbeer: Semiramide/Bonynge
This is living proof that all re-discovered masterpieces in fact are not necessarily masterpieces. Some, like this one, aren’t even close. Meyerbeer wrote his Semiramide…
