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This is going to be an historial posting. If the history of singing does not interest you, I would advise you to skip this posting. I am going to post...

I seem to be on a chamber music kick. Yesterday, Brahms, today, Mendelssohn. This is the Mendelssohn Octet, opus 20. Mendelssohn wrote it when he was a teenager. The performers...

A leading lyric tenor of his generation, Alfredo Kraus managed his vocal and artistic gifts into one of the longest and most admired careers in the 20th century. Always careful...

Felicie Hüni-Mihacsek was a Hungarian soprano. She was born in Pecs, the fifth largest city in Hungary, in 1891, and she died in Munich in 1976. She studied in Vienna...

Elvira de Hidalgo was a popular singer in her time, but her fame as a singer has been eclipsed by her fame as Callas' teacher in the Athens Conservatory. Just...

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...

As 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...

My 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...