Larry presents the first of two programs commemorating Wagner’s 200th birthday. Playlist Wagner: Die Walkure  “Prelude and Brunnhilde’s Battle Cry”  Astrid Varnay and Hans Hotter with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra conducted by Joseph Keilberth  Recorded at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival  TESTAMENT SBT 4 1391 Wagner:  Tannhauser  “Song to the Evening Star” or “Lied an […]

A program of tangos.   Playlist Gardel:  “El dia que me quieras”  Juan Diego Florez with the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya  Recorded in Ft. Worth in 2004  DECCA B0006295-02 Gade:  Jealousy  Boston “Pops” Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler  Boston, 1958  RCA VICTOR 09026-63304-2 Gibilaro:  “Tango Notturno”  Beniamino Gigli  Recorded in 1954  EMI RLS 732 […]

Larry presents a program celebrating Caballe at 80.

A program featuring Franco Corelli.   Playlist Giordano:  Andrea Chenier “Un di all’azzuro spazio”  Franco Corelli the Orchestra of the Rome Opera conducted by Gabriele Santini  Recorded in Rome inn 1964  EMI 5 85084 2 Donizetti:  Poliuto  “D’un alma troppo fervida”  Franco Corelli with the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan conducted by Antonino Votto  Recorded […]

Playlist Meyerbeer:  Les Huguenots  “O Beau Pays”  Montserrat Caballe with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Reynald Giovaninetti  Recorded in London in 1971   DGG 00289 477 6191 Meyerbeer:   L’Africaine   “Sur mes  genoux, fils du soliel”   Shirley Verrett with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Jean Perrison  Recorded in performance on 11/3/73 […]

Arias & Songs has been cancelled.  In its place, please enjoy this program featuring cats and dogs.   Playlist Rossini:  “Duetto Buffo di due Gatti”  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Victoria de los Angeles with Gerald Moore, piano  Recorded in London in 1967  EMI 5 67954 2 Gershwin:  Shall We Dance?  “Walking the Dog”  Hollywood Bowl Orchestra […]

Previn:  A Streetcar Named Desire “I Want Magic!”  Renee Fleming with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by James Levine  New York, 1998     LONDON 289 460 5672 Webber:  Sunset Boulevard  “As If We Never Said Goodbye”  Glenn Close  New York, 1994  POLYDOR 31452 7241 2 Verdi:  Macbeth  “Una Macchia e qui Tuttora”  Maria Callas with the […]

Playlist Coward:  “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”  Noel Coward  Recorded in Las Vegas at the Desert Inn in 1955  SONY MDK 47253 Coward:  Conversation Piece  “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart” Joan Sutherland and Noel Coward with orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge  Recorded in London in 1966  DECCA 289 467 914-2 Coward:  “If You Could Only Come […]

Playlist Strauss:  Arabella  “Aber der Richitige”  Lisa Della Casa and Hilde Gueden with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Moralt  Recorded in Vienna in 1953  DECCA 289 467 118-2 Strauss:  “Four Last Songs”  Lisa della Casa with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karl Bohm  Recorded in Vienna in 1953  DECCA 289 467 118-2

Playlist Verdi:  Rigoletto  “Liebe ist Seligkeit”  Fritz Wunderlich and Erika Koth with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Kurt Eichorn  Recorded Munich 1971  DGG 435 145-2 Verdi:   Rigoletto  “Cortigiani, vil razza danata”  Maria Calla & Sung Kil Kim with Eugene Kohn, piano  Recorded at the  Julliard School of Music in 1972  EMI 5 65802 […]