by Barry Lenson | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you listen to classical music radio, chances are good that you have heard the beautiful song “à Chloris” (“to Chloris”) by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947). In fact, you have probably heard the song a number of times. It has become so popular that it has been...
by Barry Lenson | Jul 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Anna Harutyunyan The contemporary classical music is full of surprises. At the beginning of the 20th century, composers of classical music started experimenting a lot. In this respect, the postwar era was remarkable not only for literature but also for music. This...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 29, 2018 | Opera, Philip Glass, Uncategorized
Didn’t Philip Glass compose the operas Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach? Yes, he did. But now that he is 80, he is not resting on his considerable accomplishments. He is enjoying a year of nearly frenetic activity that would knock the tar our of most people half his...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 3, 2017 | Piano Music, Robert Schumann, Uncategorized
Let’s start by watching Sviatoslav Richter play the living daylights of this piece. Many works of classical music have easy-to-pronounce names. There are Papillons (Schumann), Aida (Verdi) and other pieces that have mellifluous names that roll right off the...
by Barry Lenson | May 1, 2017 | Baroque Music, C.P.E. Bach, Uncategorized
I have to say it right up front. Infusion Baroque, a Montreal-based chamber ensemble, has just released 1747: C.P.E. Bach, a new CD of works by C.P.E. Bach that comes about as close to pure happiness as any other recording you’re going to listen to anytime soon....
by Barry Lenson | Mar 16, 2017 | Great Singers, Nicolai Gedda, Russian Music, Uncategorized
Let’s start today’s post by watching Nicolai Gedda in two extraordinary performances. First, as Faust . . . And second, in a concert performance of Lenski’s aria from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin . . . The world of music lost a treasured...
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