Julien Pierre Bernard Cousinou, called Robert Cousinou, was a French baritone. He was born on October 2, 1888, and he died on April 23, 1944. Unfortunately, there is very little...
Read MoreBourdin is singing two songs by an obscure French composer named André-Joseph d'Exaudet. I don't know who the poets were. When I hear French singers, most of the time they...
Read MoreIt's getting to a point where I have to develop a system to remember whom I have posted. As I was almost done with this post about Miguel VillaBella, I...
Read MoreI seem to find myself in a Brahmsian universe. As such, I am posting this performance of the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto in B-flat major, op.83. This is a long...
Read MoreI am going to do with a Brahms piano piece what I have done with singers. I am going to have the same piece played by several pianists so that...
Read MoreAfter my recent excursion into instrumental music, I decided to return to vocal music with one of my favorite sopranos, Lotte Lehmann. She, like many singers of her time, is...
Read MoreWell, I'm not back to vocal music yet, but I will get there soon. Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist of Russian-German origin, who is generally regarded...
Read MoreI will just point out here the title of the third movement of the is quartet. It is "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A...
Read MoreSextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18 For most of the nineteenth century, a shadow hung over German music, a shadow from which up-and-coming composers struggled to emerge. The...
Read MoreIn this posting, I am doing something different.Rather than choose string players who were famous in the past and long dead, I have decided to highlight a phenomenal living string...
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