DVD93678 Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival concerts 2004+2005
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DVD93678 Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival concerts 2004+2005
The celebrated Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel established a summer festival concert series at an open-air site in North Wales, near the Menai Bridgle to Anglesey. These concerts were televised in highlight form on Welsh TV channel S4C. His guests were top-rank colleagues from the opera stage, mainly.
The series came to an end, partly perhaps from a loss of subsidy, partly also perhaps due to the fact that the weather nearly always seemed to be wet and windy. You will see this in the concerts I have recorded. One doesn't know whether to be sorry more for the singers than the audience or vice-versa. I know on the occasion I visited I was very wet and cold .
In this message I am offering the concerts from 2004 and 2005.! Since the introductions are in Welsh this will be a splendid opportunity to polish up your linguistic skills.
Best wishes Roger D Bell Lancashire England
The performance details are:
2004:
Singers: Bryn Terfel: " Le Veau d'Or" ( Faust): Toreador's Song ( Carmen) Joseph Calleja: " La donna e moblile" (Rigoletto) Simon Keenlyside: Avant de quitter ces lieux (Faust): Largo al factotum ( Barber of Seville) Malena Ernman: "Non piu mesta " (La Cenerentola): Voi che sapete ( Nozze di Figaro) Desiree Rancatore: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" ( Les Contes d'Hoffmann) " Rancatore/Ernman/Calleja/Terfel together: "Quartet" (Rigoletto) Ernman/Rancatore "duet" (Lakme) Terfel/Rancatore: "Quanto amore" (L'Elisir d'amore) Calleja/Keenlyside: "Au fond du temple saint" (Pearl Fishers} Chloe Hanslip ( violin) with Terfel : En Aranjuez con tu amor" Terfel/Ernman/Rancatore: "Soave sua il vento" (Cosi fan tutte) All together : Brindisi (La Traviata)
Chorus & Orchestra c. Gareth Jones
2005: Singers Bryn Terfel: Catalogue Aria (Don Giovanni)"Credo" (Otello): "Still,still,still". Erin Wall: "Ach ich fühl" "Bei Mannern" ( with Terfel-Zauberflote) "Sempre Libera" (La Traviata):"Deine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss ( Giuditta) Andrea Bocelli:Viva il vino" (Cavalleria Rusticana) "O Soave Fanciulla" (La Bohemewith Wall): "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca)
[This recording has developed faults and will not run to the end, but I can do nothing to remedy it. I include it for the parts which will work satisfactorily. If anyone has an improved recording, please feel free to share it.}
Chorus & Orchestra c. Gareth Jones
VHS recordings, copied to DVD and uploaded in .avi format. Good picture and sound until the problems in the 2005 concert. You need to rejoin the files using HJsplit or similar. If you need to convert to DVD format, I used Freemake Video Converter to produce the .avi files, and it will do the reverse.
Picture: 768 x 576 Audio: 256 kbps Video: 2159 kbps
The celebrated Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel established a summer festival concert series at an open-air site in North Wales, near the Menai Bridgle to Anglesey. These concerts were televised in highlight form on Welsh TV channel S4C. His guests were top-rank colleagues from the opera stage, mainly.
The series came to an end, partly perhaps from a loss of subsidy, partly also perhaps due to the fact that the weather nearly always seemed to be wet and windy. You will see this in the concerts I have recorded. One doesn't know whether to be sorry more for the singers than the audience or vice-versa. I know on the occasion I visited I was very wet and cold .
In this message I am offering the concerts from 2004 and 2005.! Since the introductions are in Welsh this will be a splendid opportunity to polish up your linguistic skills.
Best wishes Roger D Bell Lancashire England
The performance details are:
2004:
Singers: Bryn Terfel: " Le Veau d'Or" ( Faust): Toreador's Song ( Carmen) Joseph Calleja: " La donna e moblile" (Rigoletto) Simon Keenlyside: Avant de quitter ces lieux (Faust): Largo al factotum ( Barber of Seville) Malena Ernman: "Non piu mesta " (La Cenerentola): Voi che sapete ( Nozze di Figaro) Desiree Rancatore: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" ( Les Contes d'Hoffmann) " Rancatore/Ernman/Calleja/Terfel together: "Quartet" (Rigoletto) Ernman/Rancatore "duet" (Lakme) Terfel/Rancatore: "Quanto amore" (L'Elisir d'amore) Calleja/Keenlyside: "Au fond du temple saint" (Pearl Fishers} Chloe Hanslip ( violin) with Terfel : En Aranjuez con tu amor" Terfel/Ernman/Rancatore: "Soave sua il vento" (Cosi fan tutte) All together : Brindisi (La Traviata)
Chorus & Orchestra c. Gareth Jones
2005: Singers Bryn Terfel: Catalogue Aria (Don Giovanni)"Credo" (Otello): "Still,still,still". Erin Wall: "Ach ich fühl" "Bei Mannern" ( with Terfel-Zauberflote) "Sempre Libera" (La Traviata):"Deine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss ( Giuditta) Andrea Bocelli:Viva il vino" (Cavalleria Rusticana) "O Soave Fanciulla" (La Bohemewith Wall): "E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca)
[This recording has developed faults and will not run to the end, but I can do nothing to remedy it. I include it for the parts which will work satisfactorily. If anyone has an improved recording, please feel free to share it.}
Chorus & Orchestra c. Gareth Jones
VHS recordings, copied to DVD and uploaded in .avi format. Good picture and sound until the problems in the 2005 concert. You need to rejoin the files using HJsplit or similar. If you need to convert to DVD format, I used Freemake Video Converter to produce the .avi files, and it will do the reverse.
Picture: 768 x 576 Audio: 256 kbps Video: 2159 kbps
