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„Szép, mint a varrógép és az esernyő véletlen találkozása a boncasztalon. - Lautréamont: Maldoror énekei

'Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella'.
Sogns of Maldoror

"Beau comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie!"
Les Chants de Maldoror

„Schön wie die unvermutete Begegnung einer Nähmaschine und eines Regenschirms auf einem Seziertisch."
Die Gesänge des Maldoror

"Bir dikiş makinesi ile bir şemsiyenin, ameliyat masasında rastlaşması kadar güzel.
Maldoror'un Şarkıları

"Lepo je kao slučajan susret šivace mašine i kišobrana na operacionom stolu."
Maldororova pevanja
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I opened this channel before 2 years to share
some Annie Fischer's and Rosa Ponselle's works.
And to this day that's happend...:-) It makes me happy to share my experiences
with others. Thanks for visiting my channel!
Maldoror

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about ANNIE FISCHER (1914-1995)

A pianist of world wide reputation, shone prominently on the Hungarian firmament for seventy years.

She was the last representative of a great Central European performing tradition which was centered on Wienna. Her very own pitch was a century or more of music, from Haydn to Brams. The public, at home and abroad, respected her as the poet of the piano. Her aim throughout a long career was perfection of form and expressions. Her toutch was something caressingly soft, at other times hard steel, and always unbelievably characteristic.. There were contemporaries who told us something different about a Mozart concerto, a Beethoven sonata or a Chopin nocturne, but none said more. She set the standard, her cup owerflowed with feeling...

Annie Fischer did not care to record. In her opinion the magic of the moment was perhaps the most important element of a given interpretation, and this moment was near impossible to fix or 'can', and even if it could be done, this was not desirable. That helps explain why she recorded so seldom and why she refused to authorise the issue of many a recording she made...

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about ROSA PONSELLE (1897-1981)

She was born Rose Melba Ponzillo on January 22, 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut, the youngest of three children. Her parents were Italian Neapolitan immigrants.

Rosa had an exceptionally mature voice at an early age and, at least in her early years, sang on natural endowment with little, if any, vocal training. She sang in movie houses and cafes in Meriden and at church, and she soon became well-known locally for her exceptionally beautiful voice.

Rosa Ponselle made her Metropolitan Opera debut on November 15, 1918, as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite Caruso. It was her first performance on any opera stage. In spite of an almost paralyzing case of nerves (which she suffered from throughout her operatic career), she scored a tremendous success, both with the public and with the critics.
In addition to her operatic activities, which were centered at the Met, Ponselle also had an active concert career.

The following recordings best demonstrate the various aspects of Ponselle's voice discussed above:
Range, timbre, pianissimo: "Suicidio!"
Trill and coloratura: "Ernani, involami" and "Mercè, diletti amiche" ("Bolero")
Legato: "Tu che invoco" and "O nume tutelar"
Dynamic control and messa di voce: "Pace, pace, mio Dio"

Ponselle died at the Villa Pace near Baltimore, Maryland on May 25, 1981.