Jos van de Braak

A short aria for lyric soprano. Delicate orchestration contributes to an extremely moving rendition of this splendid melody.

A short aria for lyric soprano. Delicate orchestration contributes to an extremely moving rendition of this splendid melody.

In this cavatina - a short one-section aria - Mozart composed beside the soprano, who complains of a lack of love, interesting music for the bassoon and clarinet (arranged bugles and saxophones) that...

In this cavatina - a short one-section aria - Mozart composed beside the soprano, who complains of a lack of love, interesting music for the bassoon and clarinet (arranged bugles and saxophones) that...

Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is...

Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2, is the second in a set of four songs composed by Richard Strauss in 1894. The words are from a love poem 'Cäcilie' written by Heinrich Hart, a German dramatic critic and journal...

Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2, is the second in a set of four songs composed by Richard Strauss in 1894. The words are from a love poem 'Cäcilie' written by Heinrich Hart, a German dramatic critic and journal...

Traum durch die Dämmerung is the first in a set of three songs based on love poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum and composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. The works were scored for medium...

Traum durch die Dämmerung is the first in a set of three songs based on love poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum and composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. The works were scored for medium...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The duet 'Trinke Liebchen, trinke schnell' is sung by Alfredo and Ros...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The duet 'Trinke Liebchen, trinke schnell' is sung by Alfredo and Ros...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

'Der Zigeunerbaron' is Strauss's second most popular operetta after 'Die Fledermaus'. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to...

'Der Zigeunerbaron' is Strauss's second most popular operetta after 'Die Fledermaus'. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif his tale...