Wolfgang Holzmair‘s performance was amazing in its personal and intimate approach.

William Parker‘s career launch coincided with the closet door fully opening for American male classical vocalists; the cruel irony is that Will was also an early AIDS casualty, gone in 1993 at 49.

This song has always been one of my favorites.

The song recitals I remember most vividly were, unsurprisingly, the most vivid ones.

The staggeringly great Ukraine-born Jewish bass Mark Reizen sings “The Ebullient Kura Swirls” a/k/a “The Persian Love Song” by Moldova-born Jewish composer Anton Rubinstein.

Frida Leider is a major Wagnerian soprano who does not sound like a Wagnerian soprano.