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Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth on this day in 1886. So here is the Dante Sonata played by Jorge Bolet, a live recording from 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBk...

Jorge Bolet plays Liszt 'Dante' Sonata 'live' in 1979

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Ein Angriff auf dich ist ein Angriff auf uns alle.

Words fail a bit really, but my thoughts and solidarity are with Berlin after the appalling attack at Christopher Street Day yesterday. LGBTQIA+phobia will never defeat us. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I shall remember this summer as the summer of brown lawns. There is hardly any green any more. It's obscenely hot again this afternoon, so I'm afraid I'm staying in ..........

Francesco Cilea was born on this day in 1866. Ariana Lecouvreur is a most wonderful opera (in my humble opinion), so here's Elena Obraztsova as the Princesse de Bouillon singing (and how!) Acerba voluttà in Tokyo in 1980 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb4k...

Elena Obraztsova - Adriana Lecouvreur - Acerba volutta

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Synge's Collected Plays, above all Deirdre of the Sorrows and Riders to the Sea. Some of the greatest and most beautiful dramatic language there is

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Eleanor Steber as the Empress in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten (Act II Scene 4, and the closing scenes of Act III) in Vienna in 1953, with the Vienna Philharmonic and Karl Böhm. One of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, Steber was born on this day in 1914. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-7...

Eleanor Steber; Set Svanholm; Christel Goltz; "DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN"; (Excerpts); R. Strauss

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Hats off to whoever created this.

Gian-Carlo Menotti was born on this day in 1911. So here is a 1960 American television production of The Consul, with the great Patricia Neway giving one of the most remarkable performances you will ever see as Magda, the role she created in 1950. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7K...

The Consul - Menotti 4K

YouTube video by David Sukonick

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Christoph Willibald Gluck was born on this day in 1714. So here is Erich Kleiber's broadcast of Iphigénie en Tauride from the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1937, with Anny Konetzni, Martial Singher, Kolomon von Pataky and Jaro Prohaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Py...

Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kleiber; Konetzni, Singher, von Pataky) 1937

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Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle was first performed in Paris on this day in 1841. This is a performance by the Bolshoi, filmed during their visit to Covent Garden in 1956, with Galina Ulanova in the title role. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXW...

Giselle - Galina Ulanova 1956 (Full Ballet) Bolshoi Ballet

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That moment when the cold tap no longer runs cold ....... 😳

Spending some time with one of my very favourite operas for an Explorations piece for Gramophone Magazine

Anneliese Rothenberger was (possibly) born on this day in 1924. A wonderful singer, lovely in Mozart and operetta, and still arguably the greatest Lulu of them all. 👇 (Yes, it's the two act version, but you can't have everything .......) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByU...

Berg "Lulu" Rothenberger/Meyer/Blankenheim/Ludwig

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Aram Khachaturian was born on this day in 1903. A wonderful composer, you can't beat his ballets. Here is is conducting act III of his own Gayaneh at the Bolshoi in 1964 - grimy footage but some fabulous dancing www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYrk...

Aram Khachaturian - Gayane

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Born OTD in 1494, Jacopo Pontormo. I love this man's drawings. Here he reveals himself to be a briefs kind of guy.

Henrik Ibsen died 120 years ago today. So here's Elijah Moshinsky's 1987 BBC production of Ghosts, with Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon and Natasha Richardson. I've posted it before, but it's one of the truly great things, and its's time to watch it again www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-0...

Ghosts - Judi Dench - Kenneth Branagh - Michael Gambon - Ibsen - Multiple Subtitles - 1987 - 4K

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Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride was first performed in Paris on this day in 1779. This is Erich Klieber's live 1937 performance from the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The cast includes Anny Konetzni, Martial Singher, Koloman von Pataky and Jaro Prohaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Py...

Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kleiber; Konetzni, Singher, von Pataky) 1937

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Felicity Lott singing Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Maciej Pikulski at the piano. For Mahler also, who died 115 years ago today. music.youtube.com/watch?v=nSiD...

Felicity Lott et Maciej Pikulski - Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

YouTube video by Le Pavé Libre

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Felicity Lott singing Duparc's Phidylé with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Armin Jordan. We have lost a legend. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO2P...

Felicity Lott: Phidylé by Duparc

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God, it's cold down here today. Were it not for leaves on trees, and cataclysmic hay fever sneezing, you'd think we were in the middle of winter ........ 🥶

The great Austrian-born actress Elisabeth Bergner died forty years ago today. Here she is as Rosalind in the 1936 film of As You Like It, directed by her husband Paul Czinner. Laurence Olivier is her Orlando, and the score is by William Walton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Gg...

As you like it (1936) Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner | Shakespeare’s Forest of Love & Lies

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On what would have been her 90th birthday, Glenda Jackson's extraordinary 1975 Hedda Gabler, directed by Trevor Nunn. You need to make allowances for the upload, which swivels between colour and black and white, for some reason, but it is utterly compelling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZJ...

Doesn't matter if the performance itself is staged. The fact is, talented musicians coming together and giving a performance in a public space means the masses get to witness this for free and that's beautiful. TT: Raphaël Froissart IG: Michel Tirabosco ~ Pan flute

Johannes Brahms was born on this day in 1833. So here's the Alto Rhapsody sung by Brigitte Fassbaender, The Prague Philharmonic Choir and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJz...

Brigitte Fassbaender: Alto Rhapsody by Brahms

YouTube video by Operazaile operazaile

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Puccini's Turandot was first performed 100 years ago today. Frankly, I've blown hot and cold about it over the years. But Teresa Stich-Randall singing Signore, ascolta gets me every time...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzbc...

Teresa Stich-Randall - Turandot: "Signore, ascolta"

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Really saddened to hear that Michael Tilson Thomas died yesterday. A wonderful conductor. So many fine performances, but I loved his Tchaikovsky, particularly Suite No 3, a revelation, both live and on disc. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrD8...

Tchaikovsky : Suite No. 3 in G major for orchestra Op. 55 (1884)

YouTube video by Rodders

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