I have been on a chamber music kick. I only have a few more to post, and then I will get back to voice. In this post, I will present...
Read MoreI am taking a little break from vocal music. Instead, I will be posting about chamber music. The first one of these postings is about Dvořák's Quintent No.2 in A...
Read MoreI wanted to post Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, but I had a hard time finding a singer whom I thought could do it justice. So many recording are out of tune. I...
Read MoreRichard Tucker was unquestionably one of America’s greatest tenors. He was known as the American Caruso. As with many of his contemporaries, the Second World War gave him the opportunity...
Read MoreI have been posting some pianists, and while I am happy to do so, I begin to miss vocal music. So, as I wrote in the title, we are going...
Read MoreI'm afraid that I'm on a piano roll (no pun intended). I realize that I posted performances by Hofmann two years ago, and these, although different from what I posted...
Read MoreI am going to do something a little unusual for this posting. I am going to concentrate on one particular piece by Chopin and then two interpretations of it. I...
Read MoreWhen pianists think of Gaspard de la nuit ("gaspard" comes from an old Persian word meaning "treasurer"), their hearts stop. Ravel’s masterpiece, as famous for its depiction of Aloysius Bertrand’s...
Read MoreMafalda Favero enrolled at the Bologna Conservatory when she was seventeen, where she studied singing with Alessandro Vezzani and also attracted the attention of the composer Franco Alfano. At Cremona...
Read MoreHelen Francesca Traubel (June 16, 1899 – July 28, 1972) was was born in St. Louis and developed into one of the most famous American born Wagnerian sopranos in the...
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