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The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: BerlinExpat on Thursday 11 June 2020, 11:10

Title: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: BerlinExpat on Thursday 11 June 2020, 11:10
The full concert performance of Ludomir Różycki's Casanova with solists, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, and conducted by Łukasz Borowicz is now available on youTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8vB3_sC39o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8vB3_sC39o)

I have an mp3 copy if anyone is interested.
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 11 June 2020, 12:24
If you could post it, Colin, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:35
I'm looking forward to this. Thanks!

I'd be grateful if the upload could mark the breaks between acts rather than just be one unbroken file.
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: BerlinExpat on Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:54
A bit difficult to know where the acts are, Alan, because the two parts of the concert performance have been spliced together. The interval was after Act II, making the first part about 95 minutes, so I have made a split after what I assume is Act II Scene II though it's not absolutely clear from the English text of the programme that this is so. This one way of getting the opera onto two CDs.

The Warsaw audience is pretty well behaved as far as applause goes and so I assume that generally where there is applause it is either an act or scene end. In the video there are various changes of soloists which also suggests a scene change, but there is no textual information to the effect.

Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:49
Well done. That's very good of you.
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: tpaloj on Thursday 11 June 2020, 16:09
It ought to be little easier to find where the act breaks are by following the score ;)

https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=16109 (https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=16109)
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: BerlinExpat on Friday 12 June 2020, 10:39
Many thanks, tpaloj, for this invaluable tip. I hadn't looked any further than IMSLP.

As Alan had requested, five mp3 files and a text file are in the downloads section as follows:

1   Prologue   8:59
2   Act I           26:58
3   Act II    42:11
4   Act III   34:45
5   Epilogue   6:12
Total playing time:   119:05

Files 1,2 & 3 just fit on a CD
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: Mark Thomas on Friday 12 June 2020, 11:41
Thanks Colin, very much appreciated
Title: Re: Różycki - Casanova
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 12 June 2020, 12:52
Yes, indeed. Many thanks!