You have to hand it to Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Swiss-Moldavian soloist. She’s just made Ligeti and the western world even more macabre.
And you won’t be seeing this virtuoso performance at the Kennedy Center any time soon.
Enjoy.
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An extraordinary take on the Purcell ode by Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, recorded in Leningrad in 1959. Beautiful in quite unexpected ways. The post Dido laments in Russian appeared first on Slippedisc.
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