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Episode 66. Christmas (Art) Songs

Posted December 20, 2020 • 01:54:51

In preparation for the upcoming holiday, this week I offer a cross-section of art songs and arrangements of folk songs, not only from Germany, which...

Episode 65: 1935 (HB2U, Mommie Dearest!)

Posted December 13, 2020 • 01:45:40

This coming Saturday, December 19, is an important day for my family: it’s my mother Jane’s 85th birthday. To pay tribute to this event, and to...

Episode 64. Jorma Hynninen in Opera (Great Baritones I)

Posted December 6, 2020 • 01:47:49

This is the first of two episodes I have planned in honor of the great Finnish baritone Jorma Hynninen, who turns 80 in 2021. The focus today is on...

Episode 63. Polyglot Wagner (Opera in Translation I)

Posted November 29, 2020 • 01:43:52

Something a little different today: Wagner sung in a variety of languages, none of them German. Throughout much of the 20th Century, it was not at all...

Episode 62. Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Music for a World in Crisis VI)

Posted November 22, 2020 • 01:40:58

This week I turn to the music of Gustav Mahler, specifically his orchestral settings of poems from the influential collection of folk poetry, Des Knaben...