by Barry Lenson | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Classical Archives Is the Place to Listen to Recordings of Jessye Norman The formidable American soprano Jessye Norman passed away last week. A major artist has just left the world stage of classical music, and everyone who loves great singing feels a palpable loss....
by Barry Lenson | Jun 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Every week seems to bring us fine new recordings of the great song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, not to mention Mahler and Wolf. But as the number of recordings grows, we would like to ask a simple question . . . What are the greatest song cycle recordings of...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 3, 2019 | Russian Music, Uncategorized
What could be new or different about a recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain, or his atmospheric short piece Dawn on the Moscow River? These works have already been recorded by virtually all of the world’s great orchestras, from...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
If someone asked you to select the finest roster of historically great singers to perform the Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms, chances are you would consider soprano Edith Mathis, alto Brigitte Fassbaender, tenor Peter Schreier, and bass Walter Berry. And if someone...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you consult a copy of the Schwann Record and Tape Guide from about 1975, you will discover that at that time, only a handful of recordings of Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise were available at the time. There were recordings by the great German baritones...
by Barry Lenson | Feb 22, 2019 | Claude Achille Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Uncategorized
Marie-Eve Munger, a young Québec-born coloratura soprano, made a standout Chicago Lyric Opera debut in December as the Fairy Godmother in Massenet’s Cendrillon. She will soon be singing Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra du Lausanne. Those are only two...
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