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Post by Trog on Mar 13, 2016 12:19:27 GMT
I'm somewhat ambivalent about Wagner. He wrote some marvelous music, but I often find him somewhat pretentious and superficial - probably what Nietzsche also thought objectionable. Anyway, I don't listen to Wagner, much.
Here is one of my favourites. He wrote the Wesendonck song cycle whilst staying for free in a cottage on the estate of his benefactor Otto Wesendonck and screwing Mrs. Wesendonck. The passion comes through, I think? (Notice the throbbing undertones.)
Träume:
Jonas Kaufmann is probably the leading tenor in the world today and my all-time favourite tenor. He is really redefining the way a tenor can sound like. I think it is a general trend these days towards a preference for darker voices, e.g. Kaufmann, Netrebko, etc. I believe that many of the singers of a century ago would probably be thought of as rather shrill, today.
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Post by Trog on Aug 26, 2016 19:30:38 GMT
Richard Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner: Nice teeth!! Anyway, being Wagner's great-granddaughter, she must also be the great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt(*). Stumbling across some less flattering images, I'm personally convinced that this is visually verifiable: Katharina Wagner: Frans Liszt: (*) Cosima Wagner, admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche, who transformed Gustav Mahler from a Jew to a Roman-Catholic, was in fact Liszt's daughter - Cosima Liszt:
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Post by cjm on Jan 5, 2021 18:48:07 GMT
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