No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian...
Mayr / Members Of The Bavarian State Opera Chorus Simon Mayr: Telemaco CD1. Sinfonia 2. Dal Seno Dell'onda 3. Scene 1: Compagni... Amici... Udite - Scene 2: Non V'? Calma Per Me 4. Disprezzata,...
Engelbert Humperdinck won a worldwide reputation through his application of Wagnerian techniques to folk music in H?nsel und Gretel. But he wrote far more widely for the stage than is acknowledged,...