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Thomas Hampson's Desert Island baritones: ask him about vintage singers, and Thomas Hampson will lead you into a long and fascinating discussion. Recently, George Hall sat down with America's leading baritone and got his critical take on a sampling of classic recordings. (Cover Story).(Cover Story)
I'm sitting with Thomas Hampson in the study of his apartment in a Jugendstil villa in a leafy Viennese suburb. The walls are lined with hundreds of scores, books, CDs and LPs, and a hi-fi system sits before us. Outside, a storm is raging--a full-blown Wagnerian example, with enormous hailstones, thunder and lightning, like a special effect for a particularly spectacular production of Der Fliegende Hollander.
Hampson is quietly moving around the shelves, selecting this item, rejecting that. We're about to listen to some of his favorite baritones. I'm reminded of a British radio program called Desert Island Discs, which has been running since 1942: each week a ...
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