Lieder anyone?

My first exposure to lieder was listening to my grandmothers recordings after her graduation from CCM, about 1924. Schumann, Schubert and Brahms. I believe that Schumann is my favorite. Arias are much easier to come by than lieder, given there shear volume.

Since we’re mentioning singers, I’d say that Gerard Souzay is one of my favorites. I like Fischer-Deskau but prefer Souzay’s tone. 

I get so tired of the war horses and the mutable times they end up getting rereleased. When I go to the record stores and I see the classical bins flooded with Bernstein on Columbia, I think, do people really believe Bernstein to be better than the hundreds of other conductors during his generation or do they just not know any different? I will go out of my way to find music that is anomalous.

rvpiano, there are about ten record stores within the Cincinnati ring. Maybe half of those carry used classical. One of them, Plaid Room, carries new remastered reissues along with used. The new vinyl is generally from Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Analogphonic and other large labels. A great store to visit if you’re in the area!

Jim, people are disappointed but still glad the Bengals made it as far as they did. The Bengals just need to find a way to win a Super Bowl to refute this notion that they’re cursed. The ref made a questionable call but that’s in the past. I plan on going to some Reds games this summer. Baseball is more deeply rooted here than anything else. CCM and Music Hall are special too but all in all, I miss Paris and Köln till it hurts.