Norman was one of the kindest, most decent men and one of the greatest singers I ever knew. I was lucky enough to have him as my voice teacher and after my own 32 year international career, due in a large part to Norman’s guidance, I strive now to pass on his wisdom to my own students. Dearest Norman….never to be forgotten. ❤

I heard Peter Pears as the evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion, twice, in Liverpool in the early sixties.

Powerful !! A wonderful work ! What a fantastic sound!!! This is a Big, Big Deal !!! Great Performers, amazing recording ! A Masterpiece Definitely !!!!

Wonderful original interpretations and fine musicianship from singer and pianist. A great pleasure. Thank you for making this available.

Thank you!

Exquisite! Thank you for posting! Eileen Farrell has the most beautiful voice i have ever heard. 😊

Bravo!

Anton is great music teacher n composer born in australia canadian pianist wish you happy birthday on month 21 July best' wishes u n ur beautiful family we are waiting ur new project thanks 🙏 jai hind

Gorgeous. Heś flawless!

Lovely to hear this, thank you. Helga’s beautiful artistry shines through despite the recording quality. After retiring from her career as recitalist she became a sought-after singing teacher in the 1970s -80s, working eight hour days, always employing pianists (Roger Vignoles, Antony Saunders and Mark Elder were regulars). I was lucky enough to learn from her - unforgettable.

Her voice developed and aged well…❤

Very beautiful. Where can I find the songs by John Danyel, sung by Rene Soames?

What a great informative program. Listen to how show people and interviewers used to speak to each other politely and intelligently.

The. only singer, apart from Callas, to catch the right accents in the last four bars.

Sublime

Lovely.

Delightful and Helmut Deutsch was superb accompanying Hermann Prey.

Un verdadero y valioso documento el Maestro Holliger joven . Maravilloso muchas gracias

Just beautiful

So great to have this. Many thanks.

Drinking gourds were placed hanging from trees and sometimes really high in the tree. If you find one on the ground it was a warning to stray from the trail because of some type of danger. If a drinking gourd had a bird feather that told them there were chickens nearby so be quiet when Passing through.

He sounds like a female…

I am a fan of Ruth Welting. I'm surprised that she did not interpolate more stratospheric high notes where they are customarily added by high sopranos

Magic 📣📣📣📣

It's too quiet

Fine delivery with a careful attention to proper volume and tempi

A performance done well for a baritone who is challenged by issues of f and p

Ladies and gentlemen, the great Rosemary Clooney! :)

Beautifully performed and treated carefully for technical delivery

He makes most other tenore leggeri sound like amateurs! A young soprano and I had a coaching with Mme. Alarie on the duet La ci darem from Don Giovanni. To demonstrate the acting Mme Alarie sang most of it with me. They both appeared in that opera here in Vancouver In 1959, with Joan Sutherland making her N/ American debut as Donna Anna.

Un artista fenomenal ! Lo admiro porque siempre me conmueve .hay que interpretar , vivir las palabras ; no solamente producir un sonido bello, que además lo posee. Gracias por tu arte maravilloso

Последняя --Песня Левко из оперы "Майская ночь", это был и коронный номер старшего современника Н.Гедды, С.Лемешева, русского лирического Тенора !❤❤❤

БРАВО!❤❤❤❤❤

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ТАК теперь никто никогда и не споет! Уникальный был Тенор, с природным знанием русского языка и европейской культурой пения! ...Именинник 10июля! Happy BDay!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Rachmaninoff's graduation composition!

The darling of Muses. The soul of music is in her singing.

Majestic and deeply touching. And this beautiful "uncomplicated" perfection.

Goddess.

As good as it gets 💎💎💎

Whoa, Yi-Kwei Sze quite the friar here!

Webster really puts his heart and soul into his work👏👏👏

Oh, my goodness! The great Kruysen once again excelling in repertoire not so closely associated with him. Thank you so much!

I agree: this is a disservice to all involved, with the possible exception of Boulez, who has almost NO feeling for the idiom and character of the music. In fact, he seem totally disinterested, even embarrassed by the final Oath. The Cleveland Orchestra sounds dry and scratchy, and the chorus (which I joined a few months later to sing the Shostakovich 13th), sounds ragged, without any real depth or richness of sound (it was an all-volunteer group). Oddly enough, this was the second and final season of the esteemed Margaret Hillis as choral director, who was jetting between Cleveland and Chicago at the time. She would be succeeded by Robert Page in September '71, who began to seriously re-build the chorus on a long-term basis. But, in my opinion Boulez + Berlioz = pointless, at least during this point in his career. (I heard his Mahler 5th with Cleveland in March of '70...also pointless). On the other hand, his Cleveland/Debussy Images (Sony, 1968) is the finest you will EVER hear.

super!

Ahhh, so wonderful to hear ‘Mr. D’! I was his studio pianist for a few years at UofT; SUCH a privilege!

I often think she was.nt appreciated hin her home country.Such a beautiful rich round voice.Sadly missed

Though there are others, three great sopranos-- Eileen Farrell, Beverly Sills and Cristina Deutekom-- put family before career. As a result, they didn't leave as voluminous a performance or recording legacy as they otherwise might have had. Farrell's husband (a NYC cop) and children had to share her with the world. Strangely, her voice barely aged over decades, and her Indian summer of terrific jazz recordings which she made in her late '60s and early '70s and beyond are marvels to listen to. The interpretive depth of her last decade of recordings is a thing of beauty.

Bravo Webster; That was excellent👏👏👏

I have only just discovered these lovely recordings by Webster Booth on KZbin. Thank you for posting them all these years ago.