Puccini/ Mosuc/ Novak - RondineWhen Giacomo Puccini received an offer from Vienna "to write an opera yes: similar to Der Rosenkavalier, only more entertaining and more organic," he replied, "An operetta, that for me is out of the question." What the composition became is La rondine a comic opera in 3 acts, which Puccini finished in 1916, two years after the original commission. At the premiere in Monte Carlo in 1917 the initial reception by the public and press was warm. However,

Her gender politics and sexuality were cause for attacks by critics

ranging from solo piano to trio

a homage to a vanishing European cultural world

Wagner/ Bruckner/ Gazarian/ Wurttembergisches - Siegfried-Idyll / String Quintett in F Major

Willie Nelson and more

His own music has remained undeservedly in the shadows

evoke birds set in colourful soundscapes

in-your-face aesthetic

" The lost Franco-Prussian War of 1870 was the impetus for a new orientation

Mat Bergstrom - Substr Bridge

Ohio native's performing attire was as wild as anyone's this side of Cab Calloway

-With this 25cm LP