Spend Your Day with Sweet and Lovely Music by Gerald Finzi
Some days you want to stretch your ears and brain by listening to Berg’s Lulu or Schoenberg’s Book of the Hanging Gardens. But there are other days when you want to listen to some classical music that is beautiful, reassuring, and just plain lovely. Gerald Finzi If...
Classical Archives Is the Place to Listen to Recordings of Jessye Norman
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....
What Are the Greatest Song Cycle Recordings of All Time?
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 Playing Old-Style, The Russian National Orchestra Reveals Something New in Mussorgsky Works
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...
Featured New Release on Classical Archives: All-Star Great Singers Perform Schumann and Brahms
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...
Exploring the Many Recordings of Schubert’s Winterreise on Classical Archives
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...
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