“Après un rêve,” Op. 7, No. 1 is a romantic song published in 1878 and is about a dream of romantic flight with a lover, away from the earth and “Towards the light” and wants desperately to return to ...

Cheryl Studer, soprano; Thomas Hampson, baritone; John Browning, piano; Emerson Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon, 2-CD set). Despite the “complete” designation on the CD box, these 47 songs do not ...

Continuing our series on love songs, KCUR announcer Danie Alexander shares a bit about the audio intensity of a piece by composer Samuel Barber. "It's so lush. It starts out so beautifully," Alexander ...

– Three Songs Op 2; Four Songs Op 13; Three Songs Op 10; Dover Beach; String Quartet No 1; Hermit Songs; Three Songs Op 45 And its continued popularity – it was voted the saddest music in the world by ...

Pity the composer whose birth date falls 25, 50 or 100 years after that of a more famous predecessor: in what might otherwise be a celebratory year, neglect results. This year Chopin and Schumann, ...

The classical-music cage match of the last century, which pitted the champions of melody against those of atonality, cast the former as hidebound traditionalists whose sentimental tendencies blinded ...