<B>VERDI: <I>La Traviata</I></B>
Anna Netrebko, Violetta; Rolando Villazón, Alfredo; Thomas Hampson, Germont; others; Vienna Philharmonic, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Carlo Rizzi<BR>
Deutsche Grammophon B0005529-02 (2 CDs). 2005. Rainard Maillard, prod.; Jurgen Bulgrin, eng. DDD. TT: 2:04:13<BR>
Performance <B>****</B><BR>
Sonics <B>****</B>
The Minnesota Orchestra has become one of the first symphony orchestras in the US to archive selected broadcasts for online streamed listening on demand. Through an arrangement with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), which has broadcast virtually every Minnesota Orchestra concert since 1974, the performances are now available for up to a year's time at <A HREF="http://www.mpr.org/minnesotaorchestra">www.mpr.org/minnesotaorchestra</…;.
I know that I can hear differences between... I mean: I know that music sounds different when...
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George Chapline suggests "not as such."
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Huckleberry and Bagheera both land uppercuts . . . Huck gets in a left to the body . . . what an animal!
Nor, it turns out, has it been extinct for 11 million years.
Alan is very laid-back. I almost typed "laid-baked," which would be an equally appropriate description. It seems to me that this laid-backness, not to mention laid-bakedness, is a fine quality in a bass player.