Haydn’s Humor.
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 92, 93, 97, 98 and 99. In my view, what made Haydn’s music unique was his ability to express a variety of honest emotions in his music. We can hear …
Recordings Archive
Ameling Sings Schubert.
Elly Ameling sings Schubert. Although he died at age 31, Franz Schubert left us more than 600 “Lieder” (German for songs). There are two aspects to these songs: The text of the poems …
Tamsin’s Lark.
The Lark Ascending. It has been a while since I featured music from Britain here, at my Blog. Today is the day that I correct that deficiency with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as …
Beethoven by Isserlis.
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas. On this recording, Cellist Steven Isserlis presents Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, including Beethoven’s arrangement of his Horn Sonata. The use of the accompanying fortepiano opens …
Remembering Solti.
The great conductor, Sir Georg Solti, was born on October 21st, 1912, and he died in France just before his 85th birthday. In my view, he was one of the all-time great Orchestra and …