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I don´t know the soprano, but Patricia Bardon is well known in Baroque music and Rossini, she recorded Handel´s Orlando with Les Arts Florissants, but then, maybe, Mahler is not her thing.
Glad to know you enjoyed the rest of the performance Seán.

It is, a great voice lost in dreadful sound, unbelievable.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71L7Epd1Y6L._SY355_.jpg But on the other hand this is a joy. Exquisite Caldara arias with various instrument obligatos. Sabadus sings superbly, with flawless taste, the arias are very well chosen for a recital, and Nuovo Aspetto plays splendidly. Super enjoyable.

This is depressing. One of the greatest singers of the day caught in such poor sound that you might think that she was not at all at Wigmore Hall but in a flat 2 blocks away.

Very probably, Sibelius died in 1957, Heifetz was hot then.

Anima Eterna and Jos van Imerseel are playing here in 2 weeks. An all Schubert concert on the fortepiano and next day Beethoven´s 5th and 6th. They are also doing all Beethoven symphonies in Guanajuato. I have yet to warm to what I have heard of van Immerseel's Beethoven cycle, perhaps I should get...

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/100/MI0001100655.jpg?partner=allrovi.com How are you finding that set Seán. The Mozart Violin Concertos have never warmed my heart. This HAS to warm your heart dear Fergus: http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/083/MI0003083765.jpg?partner=a...

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/602/MI0003602268.jpg?partner=allrovi.com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 29 Anima Eterna Brugge Jos van Immerseel conducting Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 & 3 Anima Eterna Brugge Midori Seiler - Violin Jos van Immerseel conduc...

<You Lucky man Pepe; I would love to hear them live. I have liked Rousset for a long time now.>

Me too Fergus, probably after William Christie, the finest French Baroque conductor [Yes, Christie is American by birth, but took French nationality a long time ago]. Wish you all could be there.

http://muzoic.com/uploads/release/2015/09/25/ann-hallenberg-stile-galante-stefano-aresi-arias-for-luigi-marchesi.jpg And talking about Ann Hallenberg, this fascinating recital is just out. Luigi Marchesi was probably the last of the truly great castratos, the castrato of the Napoleonic era as the c...