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  Harnoncourt's Vintage 'Poppea'

  Posted: 18-July-2012, 4:07pm EDT by Charles T. Downey

  C. Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, H. Donath, E. Söderström, C. Berberian, G. Luccardi, P. Langridge, Concentus Musicus Wien, N. Harnoncourt (1974, re-released 2009) Teldec 022924254765 | 3h35 There were some performances of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, undertaken without a scholarly consideration of the source problems and on modern instruments, before Nikolaus Harnoncourt

  
  

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  Kapell Competition, Nearing the End

  Posted: 18-July-2012, 8:14pm EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Competitions are strange things, and members of juries tend to hear things differently than other listeners. In any case, it is unwise to second-guess the jury at this year's 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition, but some very interesting performances in the preliminary round went unrewarded, apparently overshadowed by players with greater technical flash. French pianist Guillaume