It is the final song in Les nuits d’été, the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and ...

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...

The works that have appeared most prominently on recordings in the past are his piano concertos. The Piano Concerto No 1 is included here and one does not need to be told that MacDowell admired Grieg, ...