This post has nothing to do with classical music. I'm posting Brazilian pop music. It's not exactly pop; I guess that I would call this the Brazilian equivalent of Joni...
Read MoreChopin Piano Concerto in F-minor, opus 21 (remastered), Arthur Rubenstein, soloist, André Previn (c)
Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Though he published it second, Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F minor was actually the first concerto he composed. After a surprisingly successful impromptu solo debut...
Read MoreAs I mentioned in an earlier post, I am not going to focus on singers today, but rather on instrumentalists. More specifically on Mieczysław Horszowski. If I had to choose...
Read MoreAs I have mentioned before, this is t he last scene of the last opera in the Ring cycle. It has a "schwierige" job to do. It has to tie...
Read MoreOh, this was such a pain in the neck. This particular aria has been attributed to J.S. Bach, but it was really written by Heinrich Stötzel, and it is from...
Read MoreMy local orchestra has a tradition of playing Beethovern's 9th Symphony on New Year's Eve. This gave me the idea of posting Beethoven's Ninth from 1935 with Felix Weingartner conducting...
Read MoreLina Bruna Rasa was certainly Mascagni's favorite Santuzza and was also a favorite of Toscanini. In 1930. illness began to show itself especially because of her mother's death in 1985....
Read MoreHere we have Jo (Johanna) Vincent, the most famous Dutch singer of the first half of the 20th century. She was not an opera singer. She was rather a recitalist...
Read MoreGiovanni Martinelli (October 22, 1885 – February 2, 1969) stared in the premier of La Fanciulla del West in Rome. He was selected by Puccini and Toscanini . By 1911,...
Read MoreMaria Callas is considered the greatest musician of the 20th century.
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