Recordings discussed on RR

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A thread for recordings mentioned on Record Review (not BaL)

[Ein Heldenleben]

Don’t know whether any one is listening to the excellent Roger Parker CD review on now but that Micheal Spyres Opera aria album featured an aria with a top Eflat in it.

Daniel François Esprit Auber

Le Lac des fées: Fée immortelle

Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Halle. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.

• OPERA RARA

I think he sang it full voice not falsetto. Extraordinary.

[Master Jacques]

Don’t know whether any one is listening to the excellent Roger Parker CD review on now but that Micheal Spyres Opera aria album featured an aria with a top Eflat in it.

Daniel François Esprit Auber

Le Lac des fées: Fée immortelle

Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Halle. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.

• OPERA RARA

I think he sang it full voice not falsetto. Extraordinary.

He did sing it full voice. It's a wonderful aria from a superb opera (Auber is a 'cause' of mine), and Spyres does it to perfection.

I was amused by Roger Parker's dryly humorous description of the plot ("A Prince falls in love with a fairy disguised as a swan") as "completely ridiculous". I suppose the world is divided up into people who find such an idea absurd, and those - like myself - who find it completely natural! I wonder if he'd have said the same about Swan Lake?

[Ein Heldenleben]

I fear you're right, but that's why I thought a more general thread under the Record Review heading might be of use in future.
And I did appreciate us being brought back on track!

Forgive the digression but this two piano* (not duet as in the back announcement) version of the Slow movement of the Rachmaninov’s Eminor symphony is magnificent. What incredible playing by Sergei Babayon and Daniel Trifonov in the latter’s arrangement.
* and the two pianos are in tune with each other for once.