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Brahms: String Quintet No.2 in G Major, Op. 111
May 6, 2022As early as the 1850s, Robert Schumann wrote prophetically of Johannes Brahms as a messiah who would not so much emerge... Read More
Giovanni Martinelli, dramatic tenor
April 26, 2022Giovanni Martinelli ranks among the greatest tenors of the 20th century, and perhaps came to be the true Caruso-successor after Caruso’s... Read More
Dame Janet Baker, Mezzo Soprano
April 14, 2022Born in Yorkshire in 1933, the famed English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker never had a formal musical education. Coming from a far... Read More
Ulysses Lappas, lirico spinto tenor
April 6, 2022Unfortunately, there is very little information on Lappas on the internet. He has become obscure. However, Lappas was regarded as one... Read More
Mendelssohn- Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) Op. 19, 30, 38, 53, 62, 67, 83, 102
April 3, 2022Songs Without Words, German Lieder ohne Worte, collection of 48 songs written for solo piano rather than voice by German composer... Read More
Mozart, Don Giovanni, the terzetto (trio) of the three masks
March 20, 2022Mozart's Don Giovanni is a very famous opera. Some say that it is the greatest opera ever written. It is about... Read More
Louis Cazette, French lyric tenor
March 20, 2022Louis Cazette, was born in 1887, and died April 29, 1922 in Paris. He made his debut 1920 at the Paris... Read More
Gertrude Grob-Prandl, high dramatic soprano sings Meyerbeer
March 17, 2022This is an aria that is usually sung by lyric sopranos. However, Grob-Prandl, a high dramatic soprano (the loudest female type),... Read More
Marcel Journet, French bass
March 16, 2022Marcel Journet was categorized as a bass, but, by the timbre of his voice and by the repertory that he sang,... Read More
Charles Friant, lyric tenor; Ninon Vallin, lyric soprano; Emma Luart, lyric soprano
March 11, 2022Today, few singers are associated with a particular company and few companies have particularly distinguishing features. This was not the case... Read More
