Category: Music

Mondnacht (from Liederkreis op 39).  Here sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Written early in the sixteenth century.  While it is both intellectually pleasing, and emotionally moving, its effect is far more than such terms enc…

The opening of the Offices of the Dead probably composed for the funeral rites of Charles V of Spain.  Unsurpassed in its combination of beauty, sole…

A cure for the blues: Charlie and Inez Foxx singing Mockingbird from 1963.

Schubert’s isolated string quartet movement

Probably the greatest of all Bach’s chorales

Well, two for one here. Settings of the same song of courtly love.