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Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Violin: Camilla Wicks
Stockholm Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sixten Ehrling
Recorded: 1952
history
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Giuseppe Verdi - "Aida"
Leontyne Price .......... Aida
Plácido Domingo .......... Radamès
Grace Bumbry .......... Amneris
Sherill Milnes .......... Amonasro
Ruggero Raimondi .......... Ramfis
Hans Sotin .......... Il Re d'Egitto
Joyce Mathis .......... Sacerdotessa
Bruce Brewer .......... Un Messaggero
John Alldis Choir (John Alldis: Chorus Master)
London Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
(1970)
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Modest Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina"
Aage Haugland - Prince Ivan Khovansky
Vladimir Atlantov - Prince Andrei Khovansky
Vladimir Popov - Prince Vasili Golitsyn
Anatolij Kotscherga - Shaklovity
Paata Burchuladze - Dosifei
Marjana Lipovšek - Marfa
Brigitte Poschner-Klebel - Susanna
Heinz Zednik - Scribe
Joanna Borowska - Emma
Wilfried Gahmlich - Kuzka
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Claudio Abbado
(1989)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Die Zauberflöte"
Franz Crass - Sarastro
Roberta Peters - Königin der Nacht
Evelyn Lear - Pamina
Fritz Wunderlich - Tamino
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Papageno
Lisa Otto - Papagena
Hans Hotter - Sprecher
Sieglinde Wagner - Dritte Dame der Königin
James King - Erster geharnischter Mann
Martti Talvela - Zweiter geharnischter Mann
...
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm
(1964)
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Carl Maria von Weber - "Der Freischütz"
Bernd Weikl - Ottokar
Siegfried Vogel - Kuno
Gundula Janowitz - Agathe
Edith Mathis - Ännchen
Theo Adam - Kaspar
Peter Schreier - Max
Franz Crass - Ein Eremit
Günther Leib - Kilian
Renate Hoff - Erste Brautjungfer
Brigitte Pfretzschner - Zweite Brautjungfer
Renate Krahmer - Dritte Brautjungfer
...
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber
(1973)
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Ludwig van Beethoven - "Fidelio"
Christa Ludwig .......... Leonore
Jon Vickers .......... Florestan
Walter Berry .......... Don Pizarro
Gottlob Frick .......... Rocco
Ingeborg Hallstein .......... Marzelline
Gerhard Unger .......... Jaquino
Franz Crass .......... Don Fernando
Kurt Wehofschitz .......... 1st Prisoner
Raymond Wolansky .......... 2nd Prisoner
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer
(1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZnBBTskqk
music #classic #opera #history
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Giacomo Puccini - "Turandot"
Joan Sutherland - La Principessa Turandot
Luciano Pavarotti - Calaf, Il Pricipe Ignoto
Montserrat Caballé - Liù
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Timur
Peter Pears - L'Imperatore Altoum
...
John Aldis Choir (John Aldis: Chorus Master)
Wandsworth Scholl Boys' Choir (Russell Burgess: Chorus Master)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta
(1972)
This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.
Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.
History is repeating itself once again.
#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist
✨Diana✨
The goddess of the hunt prepares her bow and arrow in this scene from the Villa Arianna in Stabiae and now held by the MAN Napoli. The gorgeous blue of the background sets the golden yellow hues of Diana’s gown off in delicious contrast drawing attention to just how vibrant the colours could be in ancient Roman art.
On this day, 56 years ago:
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969
"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html
#internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #MailingList #NetArt #nettime
"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end."
On this day in 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh began regular broadcasting. It is considered by many to be the start of commercial radio broadcasting in the U.S,
Here's a cartoon I did for CQ Magazine in November 2020:
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Wagner - GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen
Gunther: Thomas Stewart
Hagen: Josef Greindl
Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Gutrune: Ludmila Dovraková
Waltraute: Kerstin Meyer
1. Norn: Lili Chookasian
2. Norn: Ursula Boese
3. Norn: Anja Silja
Woglinde: Dorothea Siebert
Wellgunde: Helga Dernesch
Floßhilde: Kerstin Meyer
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Karl Böhm
30. Juli 1965
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Vicente Martín y Soler
"Una cosa rara"
Maria Angeles Peters - Isabella (Queen of Spain)
Ernesto Palacio - Don Giovanni (Prince, Isabella's son)
Francesc Garrigosa - Corrado (Grand Squire)
Montserrat Figueras - Lilla (A peasant girl)
Gloria Fabuel - Ghita (A peasant girl)
Iñaki Fresán - Lubino (Lilla's betrothed)
...
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall
(1991)
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Leoš Janáček
"Jenůfa"
Elisabeth Söderström .......... Jenůfa
Wiesłav Ochman .......... Laca
Petr Dvorský .......... Steva
Eva Randová .......... Kostelnička
Lucia Popp .......... Karolka
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Weiner Philharmoniker
Sir Charles Mackerras
(1982)
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Giuseppe Verdi "Attila"
Teatro de la Zarzuella
13th May 1976, Madrid
Attilla: Bonaldo Giaiotti
Odabella: Angeles Gulin
Foresto: Francisco Ortiz
Ezio: Robert Kems
Ul dino: Rafael Enderiz
Leone: Alfonso Echevarria
Chorus and Orchestra of the Nacionales de Espaсa, Madrid
Conductor...........Armando Gatto
The most objective #review of the "controversial" film «Quezon».
A review by Manuel L. Quezon III of «The Explainer».
#Film #Movie #Philippines #History #Bayaniverse @pilipinas @[email protected] @[email protected] @philippines
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Historische Aufnahmen
Wagnerstimme mit großer Durchschlagskraft
Der Bassbariton Theo Adam (1926-2019)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/historische-aufnahmen-100.html
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Don Giovanni"
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Don Giovanni
Claire Watson - Donna Anna
Walter Berry - Leprello
Franz Crass - Commendatore
Christa Ludwig - Donna Elvira
Nicolai Gedda - Don Ottavio
Paolo Montarsolo - Masetto
Mirella Freni - Zerlina
Henry Smith (harpsichord)
New Philharmonia Chorus (Wilhelm Pitz: Chorus Master)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer
(1966)
Hmm, one of my students found a message in a bottle from 1964 out wedged in rocks on Channel Islands National Park. Now with the appropriate authorities (considered a historical artifact). If anyone knows Becki Walters, formerly of Canoga Park, daughter of Roy A. Walters (Becki is now probably 77 and living in Tucson, Arizona as Becky Higgenbottom), give me a DM. #mystery #history
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If there's anyone left who can write, future historians are going to write that the 21st Century people* were the dumbest motherfuckers who ever fucked their mothers for want of a hole in the ground. We made Idiocracy look optimistic in just 20 years!
I literally can't think of anyone who fucked up this hard. Aztecs are the closest, worshipping Cortez as a god and letting him destroy their civilization. But some people survived that!
* (yes, your group, too.)
#history
We're pleased to announce this year's monthly archive themes for 2026!
As a reminder, we share stories about archives on regular themes. We'd love to see more engagement on Mastodon, so please share your stories, consider writing for our blogs etc.
Find out more about us here: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/
January is #EYADustbusters.
February is #EYAConnections / Naisc.
March is #EYAWildlife / Fiadhúlra.
April is #EYACrime / Coir.
May is #EEYAHandwriting / Lámhscríbhneoireacht
June is #EYAColourful / lldaiteJ
July is #EYAArchitecture / Ailtireacht
August is #EYASurprise / lontas.
September is #EYAErased / Scriosta.
October is #EYAFolklore / Béaloideas.
November is #EYAMemories / Cuimhní.
December is #EYAFestiveTraditions / Traidisiúin Fhéile.
#archives @archivistodon @histodons #galleries #museums #libraries #history
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An abandoned former military base in East Germany
After 1945, Soviet forces converted the old German base into a closed military town. By the 1970s, around 75,000 soldiers and families lived here. It was abandoned in the mid-1990s.
Many relics of the Soviet occupation remain. A statue of Lenin stands near the entrance. There is also a large theatre, a decaying swimming pool and a ballroom. Murals decorate walls and corridors.
#Germany #Soviet #Photography #History #LostPlace #Abandoned #Urbex
