Music to my ears
Dec 23, 2020
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Linda Richardson Soprano
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Over lockdown, while tidying things up in my loft, I came across my old vinyl collection. One recording I really like is Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, played by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. I remember listening to it in my teens and it has everything in it – the passion, the calm and the storm – and Schoenberg so beautifully depicts the poem by Dehmel that inspired it.
I’ve been learning the role of Leonora in Verdi’s for a production with Welsh National Opera, so have been listening to several recordings of
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