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# **Adolph Busch, Hermann Busch and Rudolf Serkin **- **[Busch Trio, Bonn 1927 ](https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noartistknown/busch-trio-bonn-1927-l-to-r-adolf-busch-rudolf-serkin-herman-busch/photograph/asset/3917276)**

wiht Leonard Bernstein

with Eugeen Istomin

Rudolf Serkin with Peter Serkin (his son)

Rudolf Serkin with John Pritchard

Rudolf Serkin with Pau Casals

# **Rudolf Serkin, Anecdotes, habits, and revealing curiosities — an extended portrait ** What follows is a **deep, expansive collection of anecdotes and lesser-known details** that illuminate Rudolf Serkin not as a monument of…

# **Benjamin Britten A Bio-Bibliography – Stewart R. Craggs ** [https://classicalarchive.org/benjamin-britten-a-bio-bibliography-stewart-r-craggs/](https://classicalarchive.org/benjamin-britten-a-bio-bibliography-stewart-r-craggs/) **Nature and purpose of the book** **Benjamin Britten: A Bio-Bibliography** is not a narrative biography in the conventional sense, but a **scholarly reference…

# **Richard Wagner and His World - Thomas S. Grey ** [https://classicalarchive.org/richard-wagner-and-his-world-thomas-s-grey/](https://classicalarchive.org/richard-wagner-and-his-world-thomas-s-grey/)** ** **History, conception, and intellectual scope of the book** **Richard Wagner and His World** belongs to the distinguished **“Composer and His World”**…

# **Vaughan Williams on Music, Edited by David Manning ** [https://classicalarchive.org/vaughan-williams-on-music-edited-by-david-manning/](https://classicalarchive.org/vaughan-williams-on-music-edited-by-david-manning/) **Publication data** **Vaughan Williams on Music** Edited by **David Manning** * **First publication:** **2008** * **Publisher:** **Oxford University Press** (Oxford & New York)…

# **The Secret Life of Glenn Gould – Michael Clarkson ** [https://classicalarchive.org/the-secret-life-of-glenn-gould-michael-clarkson/](https://classicalarchive.org/the-secret-life-of-glenn-gould-michael-clarkson/)** ** **The Secret Life of Glenn Gould** occupies a very specific and revealing place within the vast Gould literature. Rather than offering…

# **Portrait of Mendelssohn by Clive Brown ** [https://classicalarchive.org/portrait-of-mendelssohn-by-clive-brown/](https://classicalarchive.org/portrait-of-mendelssohn-by-clive-brown/) **Portrait of Mendelssohn** **Clive Brown** * **First publication:** **2003** * **Publisher:** **Yale University Press** (New Haven & London) * **Initial format:** Hardcover * **Subsequent editions:**…

# **Rudolf Serkin, A Life** **Chapter 1 – Eger: Birth into a Vanished World (1903)** Rudolf Serkin was born on **28 March 1903** in Eger, a provincial town of the Austro-Hungarian Empire whose multicultural…

# **Rudolf Serkin, A Life – Stephen Lehmann, Marion Faber ** [https://classicalarchive.org/rudolf-serkin-a-life-stephen-lehmann-marion-faber/](https://classicalarchive.org/rudolf-serkin-a-life-stephen-lehmann-marion-faber/)** ** **Publication data** **Rudolf Serkin, A Life** **Stephen Lehmann & Marion Faber** * **First publication:** **2012** * **Publisher:** **Yale University Press** (New…

# **Luciano Pavarotti — A Life (II)** ## **Global Stardom and the Reign of the Tenor (1966–1985)** **Luciano Pavarotti** The period between **1966 and 1985** marks the true ascent of Luciano Pavarotti from an…

# **Luciano Pavarotti — A Life (III)** ## **The Icon, the Human Being, and the Long Farewell (1986–2007)** **Luciano Pavarotti** The final phase of Luciano Pavarotti’s life, stretching from **1986 to 2007**, is the…

# **Luciano Pavarotti — Anecdotes and Curiosities, Told as a Life in Scenes** 1) The “ordinary” beginnings that never felt ordinary He loved to present himself not as a prodigy carved out of marble,…

# **Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor - Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicola Ghiaurov - Richard Bonynge ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-lucia-149645112?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-lucia-149645112?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore - Joan Sutherland - Luciano Pavarotti - Spiro Malas - Maria Casula - English Chamber Orchestra - Richard Bonynge - 1970 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-damore-149644712?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-damore-149644712?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Donizetti - La Fille du Regiment - Joan Sutherland - Luciano Pavarotti - Malas Sinclair - Royal Opera House Covent Garden - Richard Bonynge - 1967 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-la-du-149644538?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/donizetti-la-du-149644538?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Boito - Mefistofele - Pavarotti - Nicola Ghiaurov - Luciano pavarotti - Mireila Freni - Montserrat Caballe - National Philharmonic Orchestra - Oliviero de Fabritis ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/boito-pavarotti-149643187?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/boito-pavarotti-149643187?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/boito-pavarotti-149643187?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **History, Genesis, and a Detailed Narrative…

# **Archipel Digital Remastered 7 ** **ARPCD0819** George Szell & Pierre Fournier – Live in Cologne 1962 – **Mozart**, **Debussy** & **Dvořák** **ARPCD0820** **Tchaikovsky** – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 – **Willem Mengelberg** **ARPCD0821**…

# **Verdi - Il Trovatore - Fausto Cleva - Franco Corelli - Leontyne Price - The Metropolitan Opera - Live Performance in 1961 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/verdi-il-fausto-149642820?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/verdi-il-fausto-149642820?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **ARIA AND SONG (II) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**) ** ## Mozart on *Il curioso indiscreto*: Success, Intrigue, and a Printed “Notice” (Letter of **2 July**) On **2…