Today, I decided to move back to orchestral music. We are going to hear Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, which many consider to be his masterpiece. And we are going to hear…
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This posting is an indulgence to me, and since I'm the one posting, I'm going to indulge myself. You've heard of a murder of crows; well, this is a plethora...
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In this posting, I am returning to the idea of a comparison of singers against one piece. I have decided to take a single Lied by Robert Schumann and present...
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This introduction is essentially a copy from the Winterreise Part I posting. These are the last 12 songs that Schubert wrote. Schubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and...
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This clip is 15 minutes long. It is the Immolation scene from Götterdämerung. I won't put anything else in this post because this performance is enough. It is the culmination...
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Tito Schipa Tito Schipa was an extremely famous and talented light lyric tenor, or "tenore di grazia" in Italian. His voice was not large, but it was produced so well...
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Schubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and male voice of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music by Franz Schubert. These are some of the last pieces...
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