Concert: To start at a specific movement just click on its title. Samuel Barber: Four Songs, Op. 13: III.Sure on this Shining NightText by James Agee Sure on this Shining Night Sure on this shining nightOf star made shadows round,Kindness must watch for meThis side the ground.The late year lies down the north.All is healed, […]
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No-one can resist the ravages of time and, as you can tell, the difference between ages 22 and 65 was, in the case of Alexander Glazunov, of some significance. (The pose is interesting: is it an habitual stance or is the older man consciously imitating the famous Ilya Repin portrait of him that you see […]
There are people who, through some flaw or other in their personality, acquire a bad reputation, a reputation which then proceeds to dog them throughout history to the detriment of several other sterling qualities: one such is poor Anatoly Lyadov. He wasn’t poor, not in the pecuniary sense, anyway. A scion of a well-to-do St.Petersburg […]
