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iselimaI've been singularly lucky, I feel!
A few days ago I searched Alice Coote on internet. It appeared she was going to perform Schubert's Winterreise in London, on 26th and 28th. I was not very hopeful, concert not far away and ticket-prices should be high for a star like her. But oh! There were a few tickets left and I could get one next to the stage for only £18! Am I lucky, or not?
I became a fan of Alice Coote because of watching three of her opera appearances, where she seemed to be wallowing in singing men-roles and she was simply marvellous at that.
Winterreise is entirely something else of course, very sad and just her and a pinanist (or so I believe). I've been to Winterreise when I was in my twenties and was deeply touched. From what I could see so far, Alice Coote is great in bringing emotions across...so I'm so hopeful this is going to be an experience never to forget.
Thursday at 5.30 I'll step into the bus in front of our house, have myself transported to Central London, and all the way shiver in anticipation. :)
A few days ago I searched Alice Coote on internet. It appeared she was going to perform Schubert's Winterreise in London, on 26th and 28th. I was not very hopeful, concert not far away and ticket-prices should be high for a star like her. But oh! There were a few tickets left and I could get one next to the stage for only £18! Am I lucky, or not?
I became a fan of Alice Coote because of watching three of her opera appearances, where she seemed to be wallowing in singing men-roles and she was simply marvellous at that.
Winterreise is entirely something else of course, very sad and just her and a pinanist (or so I believe). I've been to Winterreise when I was in my twenties and was deeply touched. From what I could see so far, Alice Coote is great in bringing emotions across...so I'm so hopeful this is going to be an experience never to forget.
Thursday at 5.30 I'll step into the bus in front of our house, have myself transported to Central London, and all the way shiver in anticipation. :)
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Date: 2012-01-24 01:47 am (UTC)Dietrich Fischer Dieskau...went to his recital in The Concertgebouw, in the early eighties, with my parents. My mother was a big fan of him. In my feeling he may not have had his day though: technically it was perfect, but I missed the emotion in his singing.
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:35 am (UTC)Yeah, looking back today, I wouldn't like Dieskau as much as I did back then, also missing emotion in comparison; but back then I wasn't yet so well-honed in these subtleties of singing, despite having been a choir singer myself since age 5. But living in a small town, I didn't have many concert experiences yet (I was still at school then), mostly only knew the records of my parents, and it really was my first experience of a lieder cycle, and with Schubert, too. For that, it really was impressing; the way he sung was very new to me. When I listen to the same songs today, though, I can only agree with you.
For me, it's the same with Karajan's recordings. I had an intensive Beethoven phase around age 14 or 15, and tried to get as many symphonies on record as I could; and since Karajan was the "hero" of the day, at first I wanted them as well. But oh how that changed when I listened to my first Furtwängler recording! :o)