Michelangelo Antonioni: La Notte

        

Titolo originale	La notte
Paese	Italia/Francia
Anno	1961
Durata	122 min
Colore	B/N
Audio	sonoro
Genere	dramma psicologico, sentimentale
Regia	Michelangelo Antonioni
Soggetto	Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
Sceneggiatura	Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
Produttore	Emanuele Cassuto
Fotografia	Gianni Di Venanzo
Montaggio	Eraldo Da Roma
Musiche	Giorgio Gaslini
Scenografia	Piero Zuffi

La giornata di una coppia in crisi, dalla mattina all'alba del giorno dopo.

Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), scrittore di successo, e la moglie Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), visitano in clinica Tommaso (Bernhard Wicki) un caro amico gravemente malato, quindi partecipano al ricevimento di presentazione del nuovo libro. Lidia se ne va presto e vagabonda senza meta per la città.

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Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder

Richard Strauss (Composers)

George Szell (Conductor)

  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)

Audio CD (1991)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: EMI 7 47276 2

SPARS Code: ADD

Strauss completed his late, lovely masterpiece, the Four Last Songs between May and September 1948. A fifth song was started but not finished. Sadly, barely a year later, the composer died without ever hearing them in performance. Throughout his life Strauss had shown a distinct penchant for the soprano voice - one only has to recollect the three magnificent but demanding soprano roles in Der Rosenkavalier for instance. It is therefore fitting that this sublime last work with its fine vocal writing and opulent orchestrations (with glorious string parts), should be given to the soprano.

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Rossini: Stabat Mater

Giachino Rossini (Composer)
Antonio Pappano (Conductor)

 Lawrence Brownlee, Joyce DiDonato, Anna Netrebko, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo 

 (Performers)

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Orchestra)

Audio CD (2010)
Number of Discs: 1

Label: Emi Classics
SPARS Code: DDD

The Stabat mater is a work with a complex provenance and an unusual aesthetic. Distinguished conductors and even on occasion distinguished (if rarely well-matched) quartets of soloists have been lined up to deliver bold and serious-sounding renderings which have often stopped the piece dead in its tracks. Giulini’s live 1978, now on Testament and identical in most essentials to his 1981 London studio recording, is a representative example of this. Richard Hickox and Marcus Creed resisted the temptation to fit the work into a mid-19th-century operatic straitjacket. But if an antediluvian choral manner can productively be dispensed with, the quintessentially Rossinian vocal style cannot.

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Michelangelo Antonioni : L'Avventura 

Durante una sosta sull'isolotto deserto di Lisca Bianca in occasione di una gita in barca alle isole Eolie, Anna (Lea Massari), una giovane donna che aveva dato ripetuti segni di insofferenza, scompare nel nulla. Il suo compagno, l'architetto Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), e una delle sue amiche, Claudia (Monica Vitti), vanno alla sua ricerca, seguendo labili indizi e segnalazioni scarsamente attendibili.

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

Performer: Yehudi Menuhin

Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

Directed by: Henry-Georges Clouzot

Stockhausen: Mantra

Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer)

 Andreas Grau, Gotz Schumacher (Performer)

Audio CD (1995)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Wergo

SPARS Code: DDD

Mantra", composed in 1970 and premiered in Donaueschingen, was Karlheinz Stockhausen's first composition following the orchestral work "Carré" to return to a largely traditional style of notation and to a relatively closed form. "Mantra" is at the same time, the first of Stockhausen's works in a style of composition that he has been pursuing exclusively since the mid-1970s:

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Dimitri Shostakovich (Composer)

Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)

Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)

Audio CD (2010)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Naxos

SPARS Code: DDD

This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity, such expressive urgency, and (yes, believe it or not) such incredible orchestral playing. It's impossible to praise the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic enough: they put their London colleagues to shame. The cellos and basses have a dark, tactile presence in pianissimo not heard since the old Kondrashin Melodiya recording. The horns play the daylights out of their solos in the first and third movements, while Petrenko has the violins sustaining, articulating, and phrasing the climax of the first movement with a passion and grit that's beyond praise.

Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No.3

Arnold Schoenberg (Composer)

Jaromir Klepac (Piano)

Prazak Quartet

Audio CD (2010)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: PragaDigitals

SPARS Code: DDD

The fifth volume devoted to Schönberg’s chamber music. On display here is writing that, after being based on traditional models (youthful Scherzo and Presto), evolves towards a melodic density and clarity of counterpoint making the Chamber Symphony, Op.9 (1906) accomplished and radiant as much in its chamber transcriptions as in the versions for full orchestra.

J.L. Godard - Socialisme

The first movement, Des choses comme ça ("Such things") is set on a cruise ship, featuring multi-lingual conversations among a medley collection of passengers. Characters include an aging war criminal, a former United Nations official, and a Russian detective, There is a brief cameo appearance by American singer Patti Smith.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3-4

Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer)

Antonio Pappano (Conductor)

Leif Ove Andsnes (Performer)

London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)

Audio CD

Release Date: (2010)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: EMI

SPARS Code: DDD

The passion burns from within in this incendiary account of Rachmaninov's third and fourth piano concertos. The amplitude of his melodies, the rich scoring and the insistent Russian melancholy are most potent when kept under control. The poetic, muscular Andsnes, sensitively and glitteringly accompanied by Pappano and the LSO, does just that.

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio

Actors:
Florestan... René Kollo
Leonore... Gundula Janowitz
Don Fernando... Hans Helm
Don Pizarro... Hans Sotin
Rocco... Manfred Jungwirth
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Stage Director: Otto Schenk


Bernstein conducts with all his heart -- and with the occasional eccentricities as regards tempo that went with the package. By '78 Bernstein was God in Vienna and receives here an . . . effusive welcome at start and finish . . .

Jacques Offenbach: La vie parisienne

Actors:

Raoul de Gardefeu... Jean Sébastien Bou

Bobinet... Marc Callahan

Métella... Maria Riccarda Wesseling

Le Baron de Gondremark... Laurent Naouri

La Baronne... Michelle Canniccioni

Conductor: Sébastien Rouland

Stage Director: Laurent Pelly

Jacques Offenbach’s La vie parisienne, is one of his most enjoyable works, especially in this Lyon Opera production. A satirical romp poking barbs into the thick skin of Second Empire Paris, it’s updated to a farcical sendup of a contemporary Paris populated by thrill-hungry tourists and euro-seeking natives, both groups with sex on their minds. Producer Laurent Pelly’s imaginative production makes the tangled plot, with its characters assuming false identities and roles to bilk a not-so-innocent pair of Swedish tourists, perfectly clear. And he fills the stage with endless comic bits and clever routines that keep you laughing throughout. So to depict the Swedish baron’s drunken state in Act Three, the banquet table itself rocks like a see-saw and spins like a top. Chantal Thomas’ sets make it clear that Paris itself is the subject of this madcap Opera-bouffe, with semi-abstract views of the city and a map as backdrops to the action. And further delights are provided by Laura Scozzi’s choreography, turning orchestral introductions like that for Act Four, with its dawn street-sweepers and tipsy part-goers, into a laugh-out-loud ballet.

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Actors:

Otello... Jon Vickers

Desdemona... Mirella Freni

Jago... Peter Glossop

Emilia... Stefania Malagù

Cassio... Aldo Bottion

Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Artistic Supervisor: Herbert Von Karajan

This film by Hebert von Karajan is the best rendition of Verdi's "Otello" available in any video format. The conducting and singing are superb and the drama is expressed with the utmost intensity. Jon Vickers is the best Otello in recent memory, superior even to Placido Domingo in vocal and dramatic power. Mirella Freni is a bit light-voiced for Desdemona, but she sings beautifully and looks like an angel. Peter Glossop sings the role of Iago with beauty and power, and sets just the right tone of evil playfulness. Picture and sound quality are both just fine. The supporting cast is wonderful, too, and includes Jose van Dam (Lodovico) and Michel Senechal (Roderigo).