Coughers at the opéra

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Boulot et cochon ?!

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http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBpHdzZyQAc

[mariab]

I might have a Ferras and Barbizet recording for a violin sonata by César Franck somewhere. By the by, my record player went kaput during Xmas, and I'm not buying a new one for the time being.

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http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_P_7Qwo8hI&feature=related

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Yes I've got Franck sonata too

[mariab]

Boulot et cochon?!

Des rendez-vous boulot et cochon. ;-)

Thanks for the Fauré YouTube. He maybe looks a little depressive even there. I had never seen him before, only heard him.

Is he playing the Hora staccato on a Stradivarius?

Have you seen Un coeur en hiver (the film)?

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Is he playing the Hora staccato on a Stradivarius?

I guess so. That is sure for the studio recording, dated 1968.

Ferras acquired his first stradivarius in 1954 ("le Président", 1721) and his second in 1966 ("Milanollo", 1966).

Have you seen Un coeur en hiver (the film)?

I don't think.

[mariab]

Un coeur en hiver is a Claude Sautet film about violinists, with Auteuil, Dussolier, and Béart.

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Coughing Terror

I have a plan to cough during a Stravinsky concert for what he said on Vivaldi.

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Coughing Terror shivers a bit

Have also a plan to blow my nose during a Debussy concert for what he said about Beethoven and Mahler but on second thought he wasn't that wrong.

[Robert]

David, a few coughs would have improved this musical experience :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjURO9L5fdc

[mariab]

I have a plan to cough during a Stravinsky concert for what he said on Vivaldi.

Have also a plan to blow my nose during a Debussy concert for what he said about Beethoven and Mahler but on second thought he wasn't that wrong.

Then I'd have to throw a bomb during a Schumann concert for the stupid things he wrote about Meyerbeer in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung.

Bonne soirée à tous. We're eating spaghetti and I'm saying goodbye to some people. Sniff. ;-)

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Maria, Schumann n'était pas seulement un créateur de génie mais également un critique génial, à la manière de Baudelaire.

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Then I'd have to throw a bomb during a Schumann concert

I'll burn your house and kill all your friends.

[mariab]

Peut-être pour la musique symphonique, mais en opéra il était super nul. Il a accusé Meyerbeer d'avoir utilisé une chorale de Bach sur scène (en leitmotiv très significatif et en motif desortiqué chanté par un choeur de femmes mourrantes pendant le massacre de la Saint Barthélémi, montré par diorama et plus tard en direct sur scène) dans son opéra Les Huguenots. Schumann n'a rien compris de cette dramaturgie complexe.

Then I guess that Schumann is your favorite composer...Which I guess one can choose much worse. ;-)