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Back to SearchEpisode 431. Hermann Prey singt Schubert Orchesterlieder
I’m sure many of you balked when you saw the title of this episode: “But Daniel: Schubert wrote no orchestral songs!” And of course you would be corr…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 430. Soukupová in Song
Here’s a rare sampling of Countermelody favorite, the refulgent Czech contralto Věra Soukupová, in song repertoire, accompanied by both piano and ful…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 429. A Smattering of Sopranos
Today’s episode reveals and celebrates the opera queen in me: it’s a program entitled “A Smattering of Sopranos” that features twenty-five different …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 428. Alfreda Hodgson Sings Brahms
The English contralto Alfreda Hodgson (07 June 1940 – 16 April 1992) has been featured numerous times on Countermelody and when I recently acquired a…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 427. Representative Andrew Gray [AK] (Countermelody Conversations)
In the past I have featured interviews with wonderful guests (including Ira Siff, Janet Williams, Nicholas Tamagna, August Ventura, David Savran, and…
6 months ago
Episode 426. Teresa Stratas [Season Seven Premiere]
I wanted to start off the year (and the new season of the podcast) with something momentous, and who better to take us there than one of the great op…
6 months ago
Episode 425. Mady Mesplé chante l’Opérette viennoise
For the final episode of 2025, and of Season Six of the podcast, I present pure frothy escapism from the delectable Mady Mesplé, the finest French co…
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 424. The Happy Prince
A holiday gift for my beloved listeners. In the past year I have done Countermelody episodes featuring both soprano April Cantelo and mezzo-soprano M…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 423. Christmas 2019 Redux: Hard/Try
Another episode of Christmas music! The first part is a continuation of the previous All-Tenor Holiday Extravaganza. We hear from Luther Saxon, Rolan…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 422. Christmas with the Tenors [2019 Throwback]
This week I present two episodes featuring Christmas music which I originally produced six years ago, in the earliest days of Countermelody. Both epi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago