Music to my ears
Jun 11, 2020
3 minutes
Antonio Pappano Conductor and pianist
A friend of mine told me that I had to listen to the recording of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor conducted by Thomas Schippers with Beverly Sills in the title role. Schippers is so dramatic and exciting while Sills’s expressivity is beautiful – you can just see the character in front of you. Her musicality is incredible, too, and she puts in some very unusual cadenzas. She had a remarkable stage personality in general and her vocal capacity was amazing.
Thoreau’s Walden is a beautiful metaphor for solitude in the most positive sense
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