Wolfgang Brunner, pianist and director of the Salzburger Hofmusik, put together this Friends of Schubert collection of music by a circle of composers from the Carthinia province of Austria who actively promoted the greatness of Schubert's music after his death. He chose a variety of historic instruments and a variety of recording venues (maybe ...
"When the ci-hitty gets into a bu-hoys sy-hist-em, he loses his a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry." So intones W.C. Fields in his Yukon-based Victorian absurdist two-reeler The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933). However, if the city you lived in was Salzburg, Austria, the idea of "a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry" was a popular one, and Salzburg's court ...
Great chorus, weak soloists: thank heaven Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, like his oratorio Messiah, is more a work for chorus with orchestra and vocal soloists than, like most of his other oratorios, a work for vocal soloists with orchestra and chorus. From a choral point of view, this 2006 recording by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is ...
For many, perhaps most listeners, the only version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is the one for tenor, alto, and orchestra, and the news that a different version exists will be huge news indeed. Listeners deeper into Mahler may recall that the so-called original version for tenor, alto, and piano is in fact a study version for the two singers, ...
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