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Back to SearchEpisode 225. Joya Sherrill
This week’s episode is the first in what I hope will be a series featuring vocalists who performed with Duke Ellington, Today’s artist is the playful…
2 years, 10 months ago
Handel's Deutsche Arien
Season 4 Episode 224
This year for Thanksgiving I bring you Handel’s glorious Neun deutsche Arien composed in the year 1725 to meditative texts by Barthold Heinrich Brock…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 223. Chouxbert vs. Shubertsky (Schubert in French and Russian)
A few weeks ago I finally found a copy of a rare recording by one of my favorite singers, the baryton martin Camille Maurane (1911 – 2010) in which h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 222. Shirley Verrett, Falcon Sfogatissima
It is hard to believe that it’s already been 13 years since the death of Shirley Verrett on November 5, 2010. It has also already been four years sin…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 221. Robert Massard
This is an episode I have been planning for years now! This past August 15, the great French baritone Robert Massard turned 98 years old. As many of …
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 220. La Fiamma (The Haunted Opera House II)
A year ago, I posted an episode entitled “The Haunted Opera House” that featured a wide range of spooky, witchy, Halloween-appropriate 20th century o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 219. Chants d’Auvergne
Another episode featuring orchestral songs, these arrangements by the French composer Joseph Canteloube AKA Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 …
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 218. Edith Piaf, storyteller
Today is the 60th anniversary of the death of Edith Piaf, the greatest singer in the history of French popular music. She died on the eve of my third…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 217. Patricia Neway Revisited
Today I revisit the artistry of the great Patricia Neway (1919-2012), a singer of extraordinary versatility, dramatic power, and musical sensibility.…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Lieder of Joseph Marx
Season 4 Episode 216
This week (inspired by an 10-inch LP in my collection of his songs performed by Anton Dermota and Wilma Lipp, both stalwarts of the Wiener Staatsoper…
3 years ago