I 'm glad to be back on the BLO Blog after a bit of time away -
traveling, reading, listening, looking . I hope that with due diligence I'll be
able to post every Wednesday with items operatic and musical....funny
....serious... unusual....stimulating. A couple of weeks ago I attended a quite
fascinating program at the MFA presented by BLO's Signature Series entitled
""The Magic Flute Variations" where among many other rarely
performed works all related to FLUTE (including excerpts from
Schikaneder's sequel DAS LABYRINTH and a few bits from
Goethe's version of the story ) we heard the relatively more
familiar Beethoven Variations on Papageno's aria "Ein Madchen". So
here are some other takes by various composers on the irresistible music
from Mozart's opera (The BLO production of FLUTE has only a few more
performances this week. Catch it if you can)
traveling, reading, listening, looking . I hope that with due diligence I'll be
able to post every Wednesday with items operatic and musical....funny
....serious... unusual....stimulating. A couple of weeks ago I attended a quite
fascinating program at the MFA presented by BLO's Signature Series entitled
""The Magic Flute Variations" where among many other rarely
performed works all related to FLUTE (including excerpts from
Schikaneder's sequel DAS LABYRINTH and a few bits from
Goethe's version of the story ) we heard the relatively more
familiar Beethoven Variations on Papageno's aria "Ein Madchen". So
here are some other takes by various composers on the irresistible music
from Mozart's opera (The BLO production of FLUTE has only a few more
performances this week. Catch it if you can)
Here is the Beethoven with the superb cellist Lynn Harrell
Two more sets of FLUTE explorations by two Spanish virtuosos and
composers: guitarist Fernando Sor (1778 -1839) and the world
famous - in his time more or less known the Liszt of the
violin- Pablo de Saraste (1844- 1908)
SARASTE CONCERT FANTASY ON MOZARTS MAGIC FLUITE - ANTAL ZALAI
For a much more modern take check
out this striking Berio piece where the theme has been totally taken
apart and reassembled so as to be almost unrecognizable.
