Author: bbloper

It took me 50 years to be able to listen to complete Wagner opera.

Guillaume de Machaut – La Messe de Nostre Dame

https://youtu.be/11A4wqv8_wo …Messe de Notre Dame (abbaye de Thoronet, Ens. G. Binchois, dir. D. Vellard).avi… https://youtu.be/1gEV42RKf6E …Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame. Complete With Score Ensemble Organum – Dir. Marcel Pérès… https://youtu.be/PUVFq_Y3ZOw?si=QxMYmlsJLBoC-Vnm Polyphonic Chansons.Studio der Frühen Musik – Thomas Binkley, conductor Andrea von Ramm: Mezzosoprano, Harp, Organetto Richard Levitt: Alto Sterling Jones: Vielle, Lyra…… Continue reading Guillaume de Machaut – La Messe de Nostre Dame

Jessye Norman: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell

https://youtu.be/jOIAi2XwuWo About… Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74 Daniel J. Wakin, Michael Cooper A multiple Grammy Award winner, she was a towering figure on operatic, concert and recital stages. Jessye Norman performing in 1991 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.Credit…Frans Schellekens/Redferns, via Getty Images Published Sept. 30, 2019Updated Oct. 2, 2019 Jessye Norman,…… Continue reading Jessye Norman: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell

Terry Gilliam – Brazil

Brazil ( 1985 ) Full Movie in English.Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins and Ian Holm. https://youtu.be/y6u11DbZHrY How Brazil Got Its Sci-Fi…… Continue reading Terry Gilliam – Brazil

Heifetz and the Tchaikovsky Concerto

https://youtu.be/HMRYcj0ruQw …Heifetz and the Tchaikovsky Concerto were a match made in heaven. The great violinist’s blend of urgency and suavity, and his ability to make every filigreed note speak without relying on musical compromises, made him an ideal interpreter… For more refer to the superb material: https://stringsmagazine.com/essential-historical-recordings-jascha-heifetz/

Allegri’s Miserere

https://youtu.be/06NsfHIXBYc?si=8QBa_VyUUGxVs4Hi Peter Phillips & Tallis Scholars… https://youtu.be/mh6s71MicgY The Sixteen classic and the newer versions of Allegri’s Miserere. Music is written by Allegri, in setting of Psalm 51 and used only at special Mass in Sistine Chapel. {Hardly believable story goes that…) It was forbidden to public for reproduction untill Mozart at age of 14, transcribed…… Continue reading Allegri’s Miserere

Death in Venice • directed by Luchino Visconti

https://youtu.be/GPkmRY3pDAE https://youtu.be/f-JK5W99LVs Audiobook… Death in VeniceIn Our Time: Culture Death in Venice is Thomas Mann’s most famous – and infamous – novella. Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his supposedly objective appreciation of a young boy’s beauty becomes sexual obsession. It explores the link between creativity…… Continue reading Death in Venice • directed by Luchino Visconti