Soprano Kathrin Graf, now 70 years old and quite possibly retired—the last activity I could find for her online was from 2004—has made very few recordings,...
Although this album draws upon operatic singles and sets recorded from 1949 to 1960, mezzo Giulietta Simionato (1910-2010) began her professional career as early as 1932,...
It might be that “Zeit,” the German word for “time,” and “Geist,” the German word for “spirit,” translate easily, but when they are conjoined into “Zeitgeist,”...
For reasons more complicated than are needed here (but are explored in very interesting and provocative notes by Andrew Noble accompanying this disc), Robert Burns’s poetry...
