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Actually I was thinking of going to hear her with the Philharmonia under Salonen on 19 March, a couple of days after I see her in Fidelio.


Christopher Maltman is an excellent baritone, memorable in Lucia and Don Giovanni at Covent Garden.

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Great program, great conductor, great soloist. You’re going. Let me know how you liked it.

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OK, you persuaded me, booked. We’ve got the New York City Ballet a couple of days after that which should be good. They don’t come very often, the regular NY companies in London are Alvin Ailey and Mark Morris.

Incidentally, did you see Akhenaten at The Met before Christmas? It was an amazing English National Opera production we saw when first done in 2017, it’s about to come back in a few months.

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No, but did see Turandot, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Porgy and Bess & Le Nozze di Figaro. La Cenerentola & Simon Boccanegra, still to come, will round out the season.

Enjoy the concert.

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That’s enough opera for one week. Quite a few of those productions have been broadcast in the UK. I like to see new things and our Turandot has been the same production for 35 years, although I did see it about 3 or 4 years ago. We had a new Magic Flute last autumn, very enjoyable. We have La Traviata on now as well, but we saw it with Georgiu and Alagna way back and that was memorable. We have a Rusalka on, but next ticket after Fidelio is Jenufa in April.

I was going to see Madame Butterfly tonight, the ENO production by Minghella that I think you have at The Met, but spent the afternoon in Ancient Greece and then we went to see the Dark Waters film.

Frankly, we spend most of the time at ballet and contemporary dance. It’s also a lot cheaper. Music of course as well.

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Zuill Bailey still known from Paul‘s post? :wink:
He can anyway thank Paul for making him aware to folks like me, wasn’t aware of him so far.

This is a gorgeous sounding DSD recording on the Steinway Label with Gus Skinas and his recording equipment mentioned in the liner notes.

Good music certainly.

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Bailey is great. We heard him play with our Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra a couple of years ago.

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An amazing modern album.

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I had tickets to tonight’s scheduled performance by the SFO and MTT at Carnegie Hall.
It was obviously cancelled so this SACD will be played instead.
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Digital Concert Hall Berlin Philharmonic concert from 2009

Claudio Abbado, conductor
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano
SCHUBERT Rosamunde, Incidental Music
MAHLER, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Excerpts
DEBUSSY, La Mer

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I was meant to be listening too Mahler tonight as well 


Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Lise Davidsen soprano
Christopher Maltman baritone

Mahler: Blumine (Andante) from Symphony No.1; Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Humoresken)
Interval
Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat (Rhenish), Op.97

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Several years ago I started collecting MTT/SFO’s Mahler cycle, but somehow stopped. I need to get back to it. I’ve really enjoyed the few I already have.

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German music when it was still Italian. Very beautiful.

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This album brings back memories of schooldays, with the monks singing in the Abbey. It was curiously restful, even then.

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Thalberg
isn’t that the climate activist girl? :wink:

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Greta Thunberg not Thalburg.