tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post984972560617377672..comments2024-01-24T08:24:14.555-05:00Comments on My Favorite Intermissions: Two Nights OnlyMaury D'annatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-79369881855103988162008-09-18T15:30:00.000-05:002008-09-18T15:30:00.000-05:00Maybe you don't know Haydn's Arianna. This is a t...Maybe you don't know Haydn's Arianna. This is a terrific piece, a 15 minute operatic scena (two arias, each preceded by a very non-secco recit.) but accompanied by piano rather than orchestra. It's late Haydn, from around 1790, and shows him off as an opera composer better than his complete operas do. It's perfect for home performance: if you do it before a small audience in your living room, as I have, the effect is amazingly powerful.<BR/><BR/>It corresponds roughly to Es gibt ein Reich: Ariadne finds herself abandoned, dreams of love, and then falls into despair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-76694596943425196162008-09-17T09:50:00.000-05:002008-09-17T09:50:00.000-05:00You are thinking of Ani Kavafian's sister, Ida Kav...You are thinking of Ani Kavafian's sister, Ida Kavafian! (Fortunately, further confusion is prevented by the fact that black sheep Uma Kavafian never amounted to much as a fiddler.)Dan Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02379073869436839786noreply@blogger.com