This duet has been sung by many different people. I have selected this recording because I have never heard it sung better. Usually, the tenor and the baritone sound as...
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First Recording: Vaughn Williams – Serenade for Music I am just placing a link to the music and a link to the Wikipedia page describing the first recording of this…
Why, for my first orchestral selection, am I choosing Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat? Possibly because it is tremendous music, possibly because people don't listen to Bruckner very often,...
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Please note that the German poems are below the link. Sena Jurinac was one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. She was born in what is now Bosnia,...
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Georges Thill was perhaps France's greatest dramatic tenor, or heldentenor, of the 20th century. He had an exquisite placement of air and tone such that he had a sound that...
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One of my favorite sopranos of all time is Lisa Della Casa, who died in 2012 at 93. She was a full lyric soprano, and just about everything that she...
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