Summer Sonic - 15 January 2015

Johann Mattheson – the man who nearly killed Handel in a duel. Engraving by Johann Jacob Haid, painting by J. S. Wahl.

Otto Klemperer peering deep into your soul. Photograph from the George Grantham Bain collection / Library of Congress

Eugene Ysaye. By Aime Dupont Studio, NY

Inia Te Wiata singing, circa 1951. Photographer unidentified, National Library of New Zealand, ref. no.: PAColl-6208-05

Japanese conductor Takashi Asahina in 1949. Photographer unknown.

LP of little-known early German opera, including Mattheson’s Boris Godunow. Photo by D. Morriss

Nigel Rogers singing French music from the court of Louis XIII. Scanned image of CD cover.

Inia Te Wiata sings Purcell. Scanned image of CD cover.

Japanese set of Bruckner’s symphonies conducted by Takashi Asahina. Scanned image of CD cover.

French basses of the early 1900s. Scanned image of CD cover.