Regarding Somervell's 'A Shropshire Lad', I unforgiveably forgot Sir Bryn Terfel's splendid version on his 'Silent Noon' CD - so let's say he and James Newby have equal first recommendation status...
Monteverdi 'Vespers' and Bach 'St John Passion'. The weekend of 7 th and 8 th of March was spent supporting our sons’ musical endeavours. First up on the Saturday was Sam singing the Monteverdi ‘Ve
A brief pause in my survey of Michael Raucheisen’s ‘Lied der Welt’ project to consider Elgar’s ‘The Dream of Gerontius’. This temporary change of direction has been prompted by the thought that my loy
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was, by all accounts, a rather prickly character. Photographs of him resemble one of the smaller birds of prey in a particularly angry mood, and his unc
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