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The John Butler Trio and Keith Urban performed "Funky Tonight" from the John Butler Trio's album "Grand National". The performance is from the 2007 Aria Music Awards held in Sydney, Australia, Sunday 28th of October. A remixed version will be availale on iTunes from Saturday November 3 with all proceeds being donated to the Close The Gap campaign. www.closethegap.com.au
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HYMNS AND ARIAS
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Jan 08

John Adams Doctor Atomic (2005) De Nederlandse Opera Muziektheater, Amsterdam, June 2007 Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Koor van De Nederlandse Opera Lawrence Renes, conductor Peter Sellars, director At the close of Act I, Oppenheimer looks upon his creation, and struggles with his conscience and the reality of what he has done, singing poignant text from John Donne. Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer gives a riveting performance of what I think is one of the most stunning arias John Adams has ever written...the text, the contrast of the vocal with orchestra...wow. His singing of the last verse gives me chills!! Text from Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne, "Batter My Heart": -------------------------------------------------------------- "Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp'd town to'another due, Labor to'admit you, but oh, to no end; Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly'I love you, and would be lov'd fain, But am betroth'd unto your enemy; Divorce me,'untie or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you'enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."
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The Prologue - I Pagliacci (1978) Largo al Factotum - Barber of Seville (1974) In these arias I am a fan of Nicolae Herlea's thrilling voice and Tito Gobbi's characterisations. But Sherrill Milnes runs them close on both counts (especially his brilliant 1978 live performance of "Si Puo" uploaded by orestis23). My video here is for two main reasons: The studio sound quality is good and I have been able to put sub-titles (my Italian is very weak).
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ARNO COST AND ARIAS
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