These sonatas by Mozart are the most important single contribution to the classical violin-piano sonata. They were composed in the years between Mozart's early maturity and full ripeness as an...
Read MoreI have posted Friederich Schorr before. However, I think that this recording deserves a posting of its own. This is Act III, scene III of Wagner's Die Valküre, which is...
Read MoreThe real point that I'd like to make was that Musy had a great voice. Eventually became a director. His voice is very well placed and resonant. It was difficult...
Read MoreThis posting is of several works by Francis Poulenc, the French composer. The first is a famous poem by Louis Aragon. The poem is called "C" because every line of...
Read MoreTittu Ruffo, born Ruffo Cariera Tatta, was one of the top baritones of the early twentieth century. He had a powerful, dark singing voice, yet his upper register had a...
Read MoreWhen I was just out of graduate school, I used to spend hours listening to classical music with my friend Martin. Martin had a certain taste in everything, and he...
Read MoreI am only going to say a few things about this performance. It is the best Don Giovanni that I have ever heard. Furtwängler died 3 months after conducting it....
Read MoreSome may ask, and it is a fair question, why do I post the same pieces all the time? Not necessarily the same, but similar quite often. I do this...
Read MoreJoseph Rogatchewsky (November 20, 1891 – March 31, 1985) was a French operatic tenor. Born in Mirgorod (Ukraine), Rogatchewsky came to Paris shortly before the First World War and volunteered...
Read MoreI am going to post some more recordings by Rosa Ponselle, primarily because she was such an influence on later opera singers, she worked with Tullio Serafin, a famous Italian...
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