Viardot

However, as this travelogue by rising pianist James Rhodes urges, Chopin deserves at least as much recognition for his works written for the female voice – Chopin wrote wonderfully, if perhaps a touch obsessively, for such divas as Pauline Viardot and Jenny Lind, and such characters as Delfina (an infamous émigré countess) and Konstancja, the young soprano who dominated Chopin's teenage imagination.

Tonight's TV highlights Rebecca Nicholson 2010

Viardot has noted that the African Arabs first employed cannon in A.D.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Remembering foiled intentions of blogging the Viardot concert at St Nazaire a year ago, let's just say that I'll blog the progress of the Messiaen play if I can, but as it'll involve the same laptop, same hotel and same brain, it mightn't happen.

September Jessica 2007

I first read about 'Infelice' a couple of years ago when I was researching Viardot for the St Nazaire 2006 project, and tried to track it down for the show.

Archive 2007-11-01 Jessica 2007

In the end we dropped the idea since it was rather tangential and much too long for the Viardot/Turgenev story - we already had way too much stuff.

Archive 2007-11-01 Jessica 2007

I first read about 'Infelice' a couple of years ago when I was researching Viardot for the St Nazaire 2006 project, and tried to track it down for the show.

And now for something completely different: Cecilia and Maria Jessica 2007

Remembering foiled intentions of blogging the Viardot concert at St Nazaire a year ago, let's just say that I'll blog the progress of the Messiaen play if I can, but as it'll involve the same laptop, same hotel and same brain, it mightn't happen.

Archive 2007-09-01 Jessica 2007

Isabel's are lovely but Cecilia in Viardot is just something else.

PAULINE VIARDOT: ESSENTIAL LISTENING Jessica 2007

Taking camera along to find B-B 19th-century haunts of Clara Schumann, Brahms, Viardot, Turgenev et al.

Archive 2007-09-01 Jessica 2007

In the end we dropped the idea since it was rather tangential and much too long for the Viardot/Turgenev story - we already had way too much stuff.

And now for something completely different: Cecilia and Maria Jessica 2007