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Romina Basso radio alert

look at the cast!! and conductor!

Live radio streaming on Sveriges Radio P2
Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Sandrine Piau, sopran
Inga Kalna, sopran
Romina Basso, kontraalt
Michael Spyres, tenor
Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Emmanuelle Haïm, dirigent
Live concert: 12 Januari 2018 Berwaldhallen

When: Friday 12/Jan/2018, at 7.00pm Central Eastern time, 1.00pm Eastern time, 10.00am Pacific time.
Link: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/1009207?programid=4427

(also annoyingly i’ll have a telecon right in the middle of this, *(&$#%#, but i’ll keep the capturing running again. i guess the time to avoid telecon is afternoon..)

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103 responses to “Romina Basso radio alert”

  1. Anik LC Avatar
    Anik LC

    new machine and no capture set up yet – wait, how did it work with ffmpeg again…?
    (Basso and Haïm!!!)

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      email sent! 🙂

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      1. Anik LC Avatar
        Anik LC

        thank you!! 🙂

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  2. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    I hope I’m on the right channel, I’ve been listening to polka for half an hour 😀

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      hihi, i think i’m on the right one, it seems both links go to the same braodcast, as well as the front link i provide on this post. i just heard an excerpt of .. and now something about “il triomphe”

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        for some reason there is Radio P2 and Radio 2 Musik but they broadcast the same stuff.

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          jeah, at times they broadcast different things, just confuse us foreigners 😉

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    2. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      are you at least hearing the intro of the opera now? i’m definitely on the right channel, now clapping

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        yes, it’s all good. I was surprised how they start more like 5 past than on the hour. I’m using Screamer Radio to record, will report back how it went. I’ve got stuff this way before. Last time I just couldn’t get the radio station to work on it.

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    3. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      this overture is like a little fishing rod , fish, fish, fish, and you’re hooked!

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        plus the tune from Argante’s aria in Rinaldo 😀

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    4. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      and here comes Sandrine Piau! I definitely would like to hear her live singing this! wow it flows..

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        she’s coming back to London 😉 singing later stuff, though.

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          French?

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            not just.

    5. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      oh, here comes Disinganno
      (hihi, i have like 4 broadcast of SM.. and funny how now i hear someone with a bit less heft. i thought her voice is a bit more hefty?)

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        also darker? She’s very light here, I agree.

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          jeah, darker for sure. now you got me thinking chocolate again…

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            she’s milk choco 😉

          2. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            RB? 70% milk 😉

          3. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            haha, yes! but with nuts (the unrolled rrrs)

  3. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    hey, maybe this time Spyres makes an impression!

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      but it’s still under E.Haïm, so perhaps she’s still having him phrasing the same way? i was surprised how more heftier he sounds in Aix

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    2. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      but i liked both his take at Aix, and here

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        I went off to put some noodles on 😉 the tenor report will have to wait!

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  4. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    aha, Un pensiero nemico di pace! Very good tempo etc.

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      this is Kalna right?

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    2. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      i love the switch in mood in this aria, just here

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  5. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    interesting take on Disinganno’s aria’a intro.

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      aria’s intro? where are you? am now at rocking water music, now harpsichord joins the fun

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        harpsichord? it’s organ here 😉 isn’t this that bit VK sang in Helsinki?

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          yeah. same from VK. but you didnt hear the very brief, like 20sec, of bam bam bam from harpsichord 🙂 . otherwise full of organ. and very nice Piau. and now Disinganno with spreading wings 😉

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            it’s really gorgeous, Basso does this velvety kind of thing very descutively.

          2. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            are you mispelling the word at the end there or is it a new word and i should check dictionary? 🙂

          3. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            hahaha, I don’t even know what I wanted to say! Descutively! it’s a good thing 😉

  6. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    oh this stretch of music!!! which will lead right into the sequence of tenor and Basso singing same nice tune in sequence

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  7. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    oops, quite clearly I was ahead of myself 😉 now it’s on.

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    1. dehggial Avatar
      dehggial

      sorry, I’m half listening (Mum’s talking to me).

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  8. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    ok, this aria made more an impression than all I’ve heard so far from him.

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      it’s got so much movements (in pitch), esp. in the 2nd A, i need a bit to settle and sort out what he was singing

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        whatever it was, he was on top of it 😉

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  9. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    the soprano’s line leading into this quartet (and the orchestra lines) so gorgeous

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      and the 2nd vocal line without vibrato 😉

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      1. thả diều Avatar
        thả diều

        and nice of Spyres taking it light there to balance with Basso as they enter

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  10. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    Now, E.Haïm is now giving a nice interview on her take on “doing it altogether” and “there are things you can explain better when you play than when you conduct” as to the difference between her conducting from the harpsichord versus from the podium.

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      now she discusses the weight of the bows to get the expressions in the music, different muscles on the arm lift.. ah, i get it, she is asking the orchestra players to switch to bows to baroque to play on their modern instruments!

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      1. thả diều Avatar
        thả diều

        and that it takes the orchestra a long time to rehearse just that, new muscle memories and phrasing. that’s nice to have an orchestra willing to do that (and not protesting!)

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          and now she discusses how much harpsichord should be used, for example in Monteverdi it should be sprinkled delicately during flowing and passionate passages (hello Penelope) , while in more powerful flow of voice then go for 2 harpsichords + organ + the whole shebang.

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            very cool. I’m glad someone put this into words for us non-musicians.

      2. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        very cool, I missed that. I always wondered in which way it makes a difference.

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          the weight distribution on the bow allows you to do certain things with baroque that is *not* possible with the modern bow. remember that bow lesson i got during my stay in Paris with the professional violin player (when i was chasing SM & Stutzmann for Messiah back in 2014) 🙂 , it was so nice

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          1. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            also, E.Haïm explained, it’s also the material, the gut bow (i think she was not talking about gut strings as they were using modern, but about the bows) can also sound different. but it was more the weight and how you can express a phrase (that violin player i stayed with gave me 2 hums in her voice, 1 if you use baroque bow and one if you use modern, very nice! the latter is, just like 19th century music i think, is more power and uniform delivery of the line, whereas the former is full expression and light and “curvy” with dynamics in volume)

          2. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            aha, so kinda like with singing. Makes sense!

          3. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            jeah, i compared it to how i heard SM at the time, the baroque viola 🙂

          4. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            I always watch for bows now and 95% of all the bows in Baroque bands are Baroque.

          5. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            same how you will now listen to harpsichord 🙂

          6. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            ha, yes! I was pleased how it was used with Prina.

    2. dehggial Avatar
      dehggial

      also very cool, and it makes sense why some do it this way whilst others use podium.

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  11. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    Are, now, Sandrine Piau is discussing. William Christie said to her at the conservatory “if you sing, then you’ll sing with me”!

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    1. dehggial Avatar
      dehggial

      He could tell right away. I was just saying to Mum how Baroque singing is so much about precision, details and a sense rhythm and a lot less about power and volume.

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  12. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    Spyres: “i was baby Jesus on stage when i was 3 months old”, haha. now discussing his path to singing

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      i grew up wanting to be a barytone , hahaha, he’s GREAT GREAT at imitating voice!! he wants to do voice-over in cartoons 😀 . and his teacher was a natural tenor (he imitates very cute)

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  13. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    hey, why everyone is interviewing except Romina Basso?!!!

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  14. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    Ah, this might be Kalna talking now? oh no, it’s Piau again: “the first time i did baroque music i was lost” , “it’s a freedom music” …

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  15. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    Michael Spyres has kind of an odd accent.

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      that might explain there to you why he doesn’t want to be the canary tenor 🙂

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        good thinking, if you can’t make it in the usual rep just try something else where there’s less competition 😉 if you can cut it, of course.

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    2. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      accent? he sounds like an American 🙂

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        not as American as others! Just they way he said certain things, otherwise it seems very “international”.

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          the way he explains how good he is with imitating voice and way of speaking, i’m sure he adapts all the things he’d like into his bag 🙂

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            yes, that was funny, I liked it. “Natural tenor”, haha.

          2. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            It was odd to think Piau started with something else than Baroque… then again, so did SM.

          3. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            but with SM i think she did start out wanting to singing Baroque (Bach) even at the start of her singing training (15 or so) but was pushed to do Rossini & Bellini because there was no chance to do Baroque in Italy, whereas for Piau i think she got introduced into Baroque much later after meeting W.Christie

    3. dehggial Avatar
      dehggial

      I really like that they translate what the singers said AFTER not whilst they are saying it!

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      1. thả diều Avatar
        thả diều

        jeah, criminal dubbing, no like! this is so nice. i still want to hear Basso’s interview!

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  16. dehggial Avatar
    dehggial

    had to take a dinner break. Did we have Piacere’s big aria?

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    1. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      just now

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        :-O

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          🙂 .

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      2. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        NOW! YES 😀

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          ah, i thought you meant that other cheesy aria that i didn’t care much about 🙂 , lascia something.. but this one, need to coke to inhale 😉

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            oh, yea, not lascia, I caught that one.

        2. dehggial Avatar
          dehggial

          not quite on Hallenberg/Boni levels but she’s coping nicely.

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            the orchestra has worked very nice, too. They have some good ones in Sweden, go them.

          2. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            she seems to be the go-to Piacer these days. i’m a bit indifferent about her voice/expression for some reason.. (but i will take it over CT…)

          3. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            her voice is a bit anonymous, I agree, but she’s taking on all sorts of challenges.

          4. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            while casually mention i’d like the staging of that bar with a line up of:
            Piau
            Hallenberg/Boni
            Mingardo (Basso alternating? but i’m really missing SM’s dark color there, but i might just be too biased..)
            Spyres
            Haïm
            please 🙂 .

          5. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            Go to Haim’s FB page and suggest 😉

          6. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            btw, my Screamer radio recodring worked. It’s really easy to use for anyone who wants it as an alternative and has a very large, built in selection of radio channels.

          7. thả diều Avatar
            thả diều

            thanks! I will send Anik your way, and may be even Agathe, and i might take a hack myself later after my meeting. Do you know if it works with bbc radio3 ?

          8. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            it probably does, though I’ve only tried it live…

          9. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            ok, I found a way to record non-live BBC3 and am sending an email about it.

    2. thả diều Avatar
      thả diều

      i’m hoping Disinganno’s last aria is not skipped.. it tends to get omitted, very annoying

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      1. dehggial Avatar
        dehggial

        did it get skipped last time with Haim?

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        1. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          jeah, she skipped it at Aix! i love it. you can hear it here, the 2nd half (and enjoy the 1st half while you’re at it, after this broadcast of course, it’s like my zen music, i put it in loop while i debug)

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        2. thả diều Avatar
          thả diều

          oh no, now we’re coming to the end, so it did get omitted…

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          1. dehggial Avatar
            dehggial

            they do sound nice together, almost erotic (lol, time and enlightenment getting fuzzy with each other).

  17. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    still filing complaint about missing of Disinganno’s last aria, which i’ll post RIGHT HERE afterward to bring attention to how cool it is 🙂

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  18. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    Bravi! really nice take from the orchestra (and obviously thanks to E.Haïm)

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  19. thả diều Avatar
    thả diều

    with that i bid you goodbye, need to prep for my meeting. I leave you with Disinganno’s last aria 🙂

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    1. dehggial Avatar
      dehggial

      very cool and not too long, they could’ve kept it.

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      1. thả diều Avatar
        thả diều

        and quite a change in mood for Disinganno, fizzling 🙂
        (ok ok, not quite fizzling like that aria of Piacer’s, but quite edgy for this supposedly cool character)

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        1. dehggial Avatar
          dehggial

          good point, he/it gets precious little “muscle” time. I’d be curious to hear on what basis they make the cuts. I also need to listen to the whole thing with both ears as opposed to with half of one like I did yesterday.

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