Blog 13. TAS Super Discs – Film Music by Miklos Rozsa
Harry Pearson, better known as HP, founded The Absolute Sound (TAS) in the early 1970’s. By the fourth issue he had already started to change…
Harry Pearson, better known as HP, founded The Absolute Sound (TAS) in the early 1970’s. By the fourth issue he had already started to change…
Papa Haydn was, by all accounts, the nicest, kindest great composer who ever lived. During his long life (1732-1809)he was a friend and mentor to…
The last two of Beethoven’s piano concerti are universally considered among the very finest piano concerti ever written, with many removing the “among” from the…
Ludwig van Beethoven spent most of his most productive compositional life battling a slow losing battle with deafness. He was an iconoclast of the first…
Brahms was a fine pianist, and his piano compositions are among the finest in the literature. His two piano concerti are among the most popular…
Johannes Brahms is the third B – with Bach and Beethoven. He also is the least known and probably the least admired. I certainly felt…
First, what is Spanish (or German, or Italian, or American, etc) classical music. Before sometime in the 19th Century, it was quite difficult to associate…
Turandot was Puccini’s last opera, left incomplete at his death. All that was missing was the last part of the last act and there were…
For his librettist for Madama Butterfly, Puccini chose the team of Illica and Giacosa, the same librettists who wrote La Boheme. It joins Boheme and…
The famed critic and music pedant Joseph Kerman coined “that shabby little shocker” phrase for Tosca in his book “Opera as Drama”, a book I…