Lucia Popp Sings an Aria by Mozart
Lucia Popp was a singer at the Vienna State Opera. I heard her live as a boy of 14, when my family spent a year in Vienna. I was smitten with Lucia Popp… She’s gone …
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Alina Pogostkina Performs in Mozart Quartet
Praised for her “deeply moving” performances (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alina Pogostkina, winner of the 2005 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, performs at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert venues, and collaborates with conductors such …
Helene Grimaud Plays the Beethoven Sonata Op. 110
Helene Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris …
Vilde Frang Plays Paganini and Schubert
“I have heard an angel sing,” wrote Schubert after he heard Paganini play in Vienna in 1828. Violinist Vilde Frang, partnered with pianist Michael Lifits, juxtaposes and links works by these two violinist-composers, who lived …
About Lise Davidsen Soprano…
Lise Davidsen is a 32-year-old soprano who has quickly risen to the top of the operatic field. Davidsen studied singing at the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen, and as a student sang in the …