I am going to do something a little different in this post. I have put various performers side by side singing lieder in the past, but I have never done...
Read MoreFriederich Schorr Schorr was born in Nagyvarád in Hungary and intended to become a lawyer. His father was a renowned Jewish cantor who had a first-class baritone voice himself. His...
Read MoreAfter studying law and serving as an officer in WWI, Janssen studied with Oskar Daniel and made his late debut at the Berlin State Opera in 1922 as Herod in...
Read MoreElena Gerhardt was one of the greatest lieder singers of the 20th century. She was unique in that she appeared in both opera and lieder recitals. This is not usually...
Read MoreGina Cigna was a dramatic soprano whose career flourished in the 1930's and 40's, and who was the first to record the title role of Puccini's ''Turandot". Ms. Cigna, whose...
Read MoreI am posting this American tenor not because I think that he is a great singer, but rather because what he does and should not do is instructive. This was...
Read MoreAnna Moffo was an American lyric soprano (born June 27, 1932, Wayne, Pa.—died March 10, 2006, New York, N.Y.), whose glamor, radiant beauty onstage, and warm voice made her a...
Read MoreElenor Steber was a great lyric soprano. She commissioned a piece from Samuel Barber, one of the most famous American composers of the 20th century. And Barber wrote Knoxville Summer...
Read MoreIt can be said, and I will say it, that Richard Strauss was the last great German Romantic composer. These works, the Four Last Songs, were his last to be...
Read More"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen", one of Mahler's so-called Rückert lieder, is Mahler's finest song. I have been told that the word "Weltschmerz" or "world pain" is used much...
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