Faschingsschwank aus Wien: A Musical Tongue-Twister You Can Enjoy Today
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 tongue. Then we come to Faschingsschwank aus Wien (roughly translated, “Carnival Pieces from...
Featured New Release: Der Schwanengesang by Heinrich Schütz
The German composer Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) spent all his long life composing magnificent religious works - oratorios for Christmas and Easter, the transcendent Musikalische Exequien funeral requiem, and much more. At the end of his long life, Schütz composed a...
The Murderous Music of Carlo Gesualdo
Lots of famous musicians have not had “warm and fuzzy” personalities. Brahms was reportedly a grump who insulted people at parties. Toscanini, adored for his politics and humanism, screamed at orchestral musicians. And Wagner . . . well, let’s not talk about Wagner....
Who Was Zinka Milanov?
Long before the Russian diva Anna Netrebko became one of the most admired leading sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera, another Slavic soprano, Zinka Milanov, occupied a similar role there. Milanov (1906-1989) was Croatian, not Russian. She was not as drop-dead...
Savor the 12-CD Dinu Lipatti 100th Anniversary Collection Today on Classical Archives
For years, lovers of great pianism have been listening to recordings by Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950), the poetic Romanian pianist who succumbed to Hodgkin’s Disease at the age of only 33. If you have already fallen in love with his recordings and have been wanting more,...
Faschingsschwank aus Wien: A Musical Tongue-Twister You Can Enjoy Today
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 tongue....
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