I have sworn to myself never to discuss a living singer on this blog, but I am making an exception this time. Renée Fleming, who is a world-renowned singer, sings...
Read MoreCapriccio: Mondscheinmusik und Letze Szene Capriccio had its premiere at the Munich, National Theater, 1942. It was Richard Strauss’s final opera, and it is a sophisticated “conversation piece for music”...
Read MoreI have a recording of Mendelssohn's Quintet in A Major, opus 18. The artists were : Jaime Laredo, violin; Ani Kavafian, violin; Heiichiro Ohyama, viola; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Sharon Robinson,...
Read MoreToday, I decided to move back to orchestral music. We are going to hear Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, which many consider to be his masterpiece. And we are going to hear…
This posting is an indulgence to me, and since I'm the one posting, I'm going to indulge myself. You've heard of a murder of crows; well, this is a plethora...
Read MoreIn this posting, I am returning to the idea of a comparison of singers against one piece. I have decided to take a single Lied by Robert Schumann and present...
Read MoreThis introduction is essentially a copy from the Winterreise Part I posting. These are the last 12 songs that Schubert wrote. Schubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and...
Read MoreThis clip is 15 minutes long. It is the Immolation scene from Götterdämerung. I won't put anything else in this post because this performance is enough. It is the culmination...
Read MoreTito Schipa Tito Schipa was an extremely famous and talented light lyric tenor, or "tenore di grazia" in Italian. His voice was not large, but it was produced so well...
Read MoreSchubert's Winterreise is a song cycle for piano and male voice of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music by Franz Schubert. These are some of the last pieces...
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