My dearest, I am on holiday these days, so I am sending you a musical postcard, linked not to a place but to a voice, that of tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Yesterday marked fifty-eight years since his death at thirty-five, and next week will mark ninety-four of his birth. As every year, we dedicate a post on Liederabend to recall him and thank him for the music.

In the 1880s, Antonín Dvořák was an accomplished composer who was well-known not only in Germany but also in other parts of Europe and the United States; the premiere of  his Stabat Mater in London in 1883, made him an acclaimed and claimed author in the Anglo-Saxon world.

As I mentioned last week, these are days of musical hangover. The Schubertíada ended on Sunday; the head is still full of music and emotions and, until the holidays arrive, there is work to be done. I have not had the peace of mind or time to open the season properly. Will you still allow me a short article?

I'm not sure how, but we're already into the last week of August and, therefore, of the Schubertíada. The three previous articles were written before it started, but I had no time to prepare the last one. Here I am, trying to write something...

Gioachino Rossini wrote his Péchés de vieillesse between 1857 and 1858, which was the year of his death. The collection is divided into fourteen albums, four of which contain works for voice and piano and seven, for solo piano. One album is dedicated to chamber music and solo piano and two others to vocal music and solo piano. Together with the Stabat Mater and the Petite messe solennelle [...]