The Evening's Playlist

Act I: The Monk Set
Atlas, Act III
Dawn and Fields/Clouds from Book of Days
Astronaut Anthem from Do You Be

O, how I hope I get to sing Astronaut Anthem. Fingers crossed...

Act II: The Fritz Set
O Freunde, so leeret in vollen Zügen (aka Libiamo from Traviata)
Wohin seid ihr entschwunden (aka Lensky's aria from Onegin)
Und in des Tempels Grund (aka Au fond du Temple Saint from Pearl Fishers)
Granada (auf Deutsch, natürlich)
O sole mio
Funiculi Funicula

Fritz Wunderlich, 1930-1966. Crying is not an unreasonable response. Granted, it's the most martial Temple Saint you'll ever hear, but that sound! Full throated yet with that German brightness and clarity. I never cease to be amazed.

Act III: The Ombra Set
Fritz
LHL
Renéeeeeeee
Marilyn Horne

Lorraine, may thunder, lightning and tempests never disturb your peace, nor may you be profaned by stormy winds. Never was the shade of a tree more delightful and cherished. Could the difference between animating poetry and flaunting The Beautiful Voice be any more marked?

Act IV: The Cortot Set
A whole lotta Chopin

Courtesy of OMC.* The weirdest, most deliberately idiosyncratic 4th Ballade I've ever heard.

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* Confidential to Heather: Op. 31, no. 3. Consider this an official invitation from OMC to a listening party one evening—piano recordings only.

Comments

[dulcian]

Fritz's "Dies Bildnis" is, I think, the sexiest thing I have ever heard a tenor sing. Of course, I formed this impression during intense preparation to sing Pamina, so I could be a touch biased, but damn do I love that voice.