CDs!
I just got a few fantastic CDs in the mail! I'm very excited. It's very infrequently that I am not disappointed with classical music CDs, but there's a fantastic classical radio station here--classicfm, that actually plays good classical music, and so every so often when I've listened to it, I've found myself saying, "Wow, that's a really good" and I made a couple of notes and investigated.
Firstly, violins! My father was such an incredible violinist--there's this thing he used to try to teach other people when they asked fov violin playing advice...it's about making the notes ring. There is something about the acoustics of the violin, that, with the strings, when you really get the tone right, it rings. The only professional I'd ever heard that really got that was Itzhak Perlman, and his playing just about makes me cry.
Until now!
Don't ask me how I somehow managed to never hear Kyung Wha Chung before, but she is amazing.
Also, I love opera. Sort of. When I was at school, my instructors always tried to get me to sing in that traditional and, I think incredibly ugly mushy-mouthed overblown mezzo soprano style. Which my voice can't even do. After a while, I just gave up and decided to sing for fun and pleasure and stay away from opera.
So I love to hear Kathleen Battle or, my new fave, Sumi Jo, because they have that same light tone, and really good diction. And I feel vindicated, because they have exactly the voice my instructors were trying to get me to lose.
At any rate, here are the fabulous CDs:
Mendelssohn - Bruch: Violin Concertos (Kyung Wha Chung)
Virtuoso Violin (Perlman)
Classics of the Millennium (this is great, because it's a collection of recordings of famous pieces, but the recordings are all fantastic, as opposed to some incredibly crappy orchestra putting together a bunch to get people to buy the CD)
The Ultimate Divas Album (Has Battle singing Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln, and Sumi Jo singing the Queen of the Night's Revenge Aria--wow!)
Ah, happiness!
You should really hear Chung, if you haven't.
I just got a few fantastic CDs in the mail! I'm very excited. It's very infrequently that I am not disappointed with classical music CDs, but there's a fantastic classical radio station here--classicfm, that actually plays good classical music, and so every so often when I've listened to it, I've found myself saying, "Wow, that's a really good
Firstly, violins! My father was such an incredible violinist--there's this thing he used to try to teach other people when they asked fov violin playing advice...it's about making the notes ring. There is something about the acoustics of the violin, that, with the strings, when you really get the tone right, it rings. The only professional I'd ever heard that really got that was Itzhak Perlman, and his playing just about makes me cry.
Until now!
Don't ask me how I somehow managed to never hear Kyung Wha Chung before, but she is amazing.
Also, I love opera. Sort of. When I was at school, my instructors always tried to get me to sing in that traditional and, I think incredibly ugly mushy-mouthed overblown mezzo soprano style. Which my voice can't even do. After a while, I just gave up and decided to sing for fun and pleasure and stay away from opera.
So I love to hear Kathleen Battle or, my new fave, Sumi Jo, because they have that same light tone, and really good diction. And I feel vindicated, because they have exactly the voice my instructors were trying to get me to lose.
At any rate, here are the fabulous CDs:
Mendelssohn - Bruch: Violin Concertos (Kyung Wha Chung)
Virtuoso Violin (Perlman)
Classics of the Millennium (this is great, because it's a collection of recordings of famous pieces, but the recordings are all fantastic, as opposed to some incredibly crappy orchestra putting together a bunch to get people to buy the CD)
The Ultimate Divas Album (Has Battle singing Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln, and Sumi Jo singing the Queen of the Night's Revenge Aria--wow!)
Ah, happiness!
You should really hear Chung, if you haven't.
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