Video: London Phil plays Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”
A great video with the London Philharmonic playing Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”.
Categories: Classical Music, Explore, Music
Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
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A great video with the London Philharmonic playing Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”.
Categories: Classical Music, Explore, Music
Awesome. I don’t have time to see all 15 videos right now, but I will go back later. How exciting to see the production staged after the incredible concert version at Hill. I know what I’ll be doing later today. Thank you, UMS!!!