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È un capolavoro di bellezza assoluta. La sua struttura armonica e la timbrica portano l'ascoltatore in territori onirici inesplorati

Ev’n like two little bank-divided brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having rang’d and search’d a thousand nooks, Meet both at length at silver-breasted Thames, Where in a greater current they conjoin: So I my best-beloved’s am; so he is mine. Ev’n so we met; and after long pursuit, Ev’n so we joyn’d; we both became entire; No need for either to renew a suit, For I was flax and he was flames of fire: Our firm-united souls did more than twine; So I my best-beloved’s am; so he is mine. If all those glitt’ring Monarchs that command The servile quarters of this earthly ball, Should tender, in exchange, their shares of land, I would not change my fortunes for them all: Their wealth is but a counter to my coin: The world’s but theirs; but my beloved’s mine. Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow My least desires unto the least remove; He’s firmly mine by oath; I his by vow; He’s mine by faith; and I am his by love; He’s mine by water; I am his by wine, Thus I my best-beloved’s am; thus he is mine. He is my Altar; I, his Holy Place; I am his guest; and he, my living food; I’m his by penitence; he mine by grace; I’m his by purchase; he is mine, by blood; He’s my supporting elm; and I his vine; Thus I my best beloved’s am; thus he is mine. He gives me wealth; I give him all my vows: I give him songs; he gives me length of days; With wreaths of grace he crowns my longing brows, And I his temples with a crown of Praise, Which he accepts: an everlasting sign, That I my best-beloved’s am; that he is mine.

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A música não tem legenda e por isso nunca imaginei que dois homens iriam se beijar. Nossa que nojo e acho que não precisa de fazer isso. Homem que relaciona com homem ele não gosta nem de si mesmo e odeia a ordem natural do relacionamento que o certo é homem com mulher. Deixo aí o meu deslike.

OMG. I think Shakespeare was waiting for Adès to write this otherworldly music for The Tempest. Now I cannot imagine more fitting music. Leonard and Shrader can definitely sing it (more singable than Exterminating Angel, fortunately). Whew, and with Lepage's staging. Thanks to whoever posted this so that we can see Alek Shrader in dramatic form and not hamming it up for a change.

Please just sing without all that pretentious nonsense !!! The composition doesn't need it

merveilleux Debussy

Many years ago I played the cow horn in a performance with the Chesham Bois Choral Society.

Gorgeous! My husband and I hired a soloist from the Minnesota Opera to sing this at our Wedding. If you don't get it, you don't want to.

Brexit personified by Basil

Sung this with Simon Rattle last week at the Barbican with the lso. AMAZiNG!!!!!!!!!!!!

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well, to judge by the breakfast it wasn't a particularly energetic night! It's a beautiful music and doesn't need the addition of teapots and toast racks to work

Not bad at all, but very much inferior to the recording from the Stockholm Opera of the Ingmar Bergman performance that Stravivinsky appreciated so much. Ragnar Ulfvung sang a radiant Tom with an excellent Swedish translation, Erik Saeden was a frightening Nick Shadow, Kjerstin Dellert a magnificient Mama Goose.. The performance was the best that Ingmar Bergman had ever made. I saw it several times, the best performance I have ever seen. It is nowhere to be found on CZcams.

Wie wunderbar die Beiden!

I want this

Great fun to sing as a choir member. Love love love this piece. Thank you. My favorite one minute of choral singing is the movement 'Sound the flute.' - Brilliant!

wonderful

I love this, what a joyful racket. And this is the exact same version my Dad had on vinyl. It makes me cry.

Stunning.

Probably my favourite recording. Simon is an excellent Billy, Philip Langridge was my all-time-favourite Vere and Tomlinson is at his best when he plays tormented villains.

Marvellous!

How sensual is this ? Beyond words. Did Maeterlinck have a real woman (with real hair) in mind when he wrote the part of Melisande ?

Thank you for posting this rare and precious historic film. Sung with great beauty and poignant drama! Bravo!!!

Good music, but a little too post-romantic for my taste. On the other hand, I also wouldn't mind tying the tenor to a tree ;-)

Wonderful!

Thomas Allen and Simon Keenlyside are both brilliant in their own right.

Wow, Adès knows how to write and conduct music, Lepage knows how to stage it, and Keenlyside, Leonard and Alek know how to sing it!

amazing amazing sound

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Brilliant work of Stravinsky, brilliant recording!

It's so romantic when her hair falls down and he starts kissing it saying "You're my prisoner tonight"... How poetic...

wow

Thank you!

Magnífico!!! Muy plástico, un clima mágico...perfecto.

This was riveting at the Met.

There is no nobler artist before the public today. If I say that SK is the Thomas Allen de nos jours, I mean that as the highest imaginable compliment. No other baritone today is so completely in the service of the music that he performs, whether it is an art song, an operatic part, or an oratorio.

Fantastic!!

That's him, indeed.

holy shit. Is that Alek from the Met Auditions? HE LOOKS SO HANDSOME.

FAN-TAS-TIC RECORDING! Thank you!! :D

Even better than the wonderful Thomas Allen version!!