Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard ( see Pleasants, cited below ).

Writing in the Gramophone magazine in 1928, the often acerbic British critic and future record producer, Walter Legge, lauded Ruffo's singing, recalling a recital that he had heard the baritone give six years earlier in London.

Consequently, some conservative commentators compared Ruffo unfavorably with his elegant Italian predecessor Mattia Battistini, who was a master of bel canto and the possessor of a leaner, more silvery timbre than Ruffo's.

Other discs of arias singled out for praise by Pleasants, Steane and / or Scott include Ruffo's acoustic Victor / HMV versions of the following arias: " Pari siamo ", " Urna fatale ", " Credo in un Dio crudel ", " Tremin gl ' insani ", " Buona Zazà, del mio buon tempo ", " Nemico della partria " and the " Prologo " from Pagliacci.

On February 8, 1799, British and Neapolitan ships landed 5, 000 troops and volunteers under Ruffo's command in Calabria.

Pezza had already organized a small band of irregulars in the northern part of the Terra di Lavoro, and soon became one of Ruffo's principal subordinate commanders.

During his time on the council, A. P. Hamann, another of Ruffo's teammates at Santa Clara, was hired as city manager and the rapid growth of San Jose began.

Ruffo's conduct in office was diversely judged.

Ruffo's biographer, Sachinelli, says that he incurred hostility by restricting the feudal powers of some of the landowners in the Papal States.

But more: Ruffo's infinite subtlety, variety of tone-colour, interpretive insight and sincerity, his magnificent control, stupendous breathing powers, and impeccable phrasing stamped him as a genius.

As was the case with Caruso, Ruffo's voice recorded exceptionally well.

Perhaps the seeds for Ruffo's early decline were sown in the fact that he was largely self-taught.

In 1799 the city rebelled against the Bourbon government: the revolt, however, was suppressed two days later and the city sacked by Fabrizio Ruffo's troops.

With the addition of a pedal clavichord, which included a pedal keyboard for the lower notes, a clavichord could be used to practice organist repertoire.

His repertoire included old concert hall numbers and the catalogues of singers such as Buddy Holly, and another McLean influence, Frank Sinatra.

Although the company's repertoire included works from the French, Italian and English operatic literatures, they always performed in English.

Her repertoire included working with such artists as Barry Humphries.

The repertoire included many bebop mainstays, standards from the Great American Songbook and the pre-bop era, and some traditional tunes.

" Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes (" Town with No Cheer ") and marimba (" Shore Leave ") to Waits ' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion ( sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch ), horn sections ( often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music ), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments ( many of Waits ' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin ).

She added harpsichord, harmonium, and clavichord to her keyboard repertoire, and also included such anomalies as a gospel choir, bagpipes, church bells, and drum programming.

Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

While the polka is Bohemian in origin, most dance music composers in Vienna ( the capital of the vast Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was the cultural centre for music from all over the empire ) composed polkas and included the dance in their repertoire at some point of their career.

In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk.

British actor Charles Mathews toured the U. S. in 1822 – 1823, and as a result added a " black " characterization to his repertoire of British regional types for his next show, A Trip to America, which included Mathews singing " Possum up a Gum Tree ", a popular slave freedom song.

Defenders note that Whiteman's fondness for jazz was genuine ( he worked with black musicians as much as was feasible during an era of racial segregation ), that his bands included many of the era's most esteemed white jazz musicians, and argue that Whiteman's groups handled jazz admirably as part of a larger repertoire.

Her repertoire included songs from her films as well as popular songs of the day.

Individual songs have been included in the recorded repertoire of many singers.

Nordic repertoire became a staple of the orchestra, whilst other achievements included recordings of Shostakovich symphonies ( the 5th, 6th, 7th ' Leningrad ', 10th and 11th ' The Year 1905 ') and Piano Concertos ( with Cristina Ortiz ) and the William Walton Violin Concerto ( with Ida Haendel ) and Cello Concerto ( with Paul Tortelier ).

The band's debut album, Mott the Hoople ( 1969 ), which was recorded in a week, was a cult success, and their repertoire included cover versions of " Laugh at Me " ( Sonny Bono ) and " At the Crossroads " ( Doug Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet ), and an instrumental cover of " You Really Got Me " ( The Kinks ).

He sang at the school's boys ' choir, where the repertoire included works by Palestrina, and Mozart's Requiem, which Xenakis memorized in its entirety.

In addition to some original songs, their repertoire included upbeat covers of " Gloria " and " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ".

Their repertoire included elements of hip hop, soul and Caribbean music, particularly reggae.

Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer often included it in his repertoire and recorded it in 1972.

* Herman's Hermits, led by Peter Noone, also incorporated music hall into their repertoire, scoring a major hit with their cover of the Harry Champion music hall standard I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am in 1965 ( but Noone's version included only the chorus, not the many verses of the original ).

This influenced the choice of material played by early jazz groups: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings and others included a large number of Tin Pan Alley popular songs in their repertoire, and record companies often used their power to dictate which songs were to be recorded by their artists.

After his grandmother ’ s death, Glinka was moved to his maternal uncle ’ s estate some 10 km away, and was able to hear his uncle ’ s orchestra, whose repertoire included pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Tureck did not play only Bach, but had a wide-ranging repertoire which included works by composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Frédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such as David Diamond, Luigi Dallapiccola, and William Schuman.

His repertoire of pitches included a mid-90s mph fastball, a curveball, a slurve, and a changeup.

The most fateful of the new generation was Ludwig van Beethoven, who launched his numbered works in 1794 with a set of three piano trios, which remain in the repertoire.

Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet in G major, Op. 77 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade in G major, K. 525 (" Eine kleine Nachtmusik ") are the most popular pieces in this repertoire, along with works by Darius Milhaud, Luigi Boccherini ( 3 quintets ), Harold Shapero, and Paul Hindemith.

The overture is one of the most famous and frequently recorded works in the classical repertoire.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Its most celebrated song is a Parsons-Harris duet cover of " Love Hurts ", a song that long remained in Harris ' solo repertoire.

The first movement ( Prelude ) of that suite, later retitled after the composer's death as Asturias ( Leyenda ), is probably most famous today as part of the classical guitar repertoire, even though it was originally composed for piano and only later transcribed.

* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

The most frequently performed repertoire for a symphony orchestra is Western classical music or opera.

Much of the most widely admired piano repertoire in classical music, for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, was composed for a type of instrument ( the fortepiano ) that is rather different from modern instruments this music is normally performed on today.

The Symphonic Dances have entered the repertoire of many major world orchestras, most recently by the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel.

While albeit necessary to most some degree in any museum repertoire, the use of authentic artifacts can not only be misleading but as equally problematic as the aforementioned metonymic technique.

Since its premiere, The Magic Flute has always been one of the most beloved works in the operatic repertoire, and is presently the fourth most frequently performed opera world wide.

In this, the opera's most famous aria ( and one of the most popular works in the soprano repertoire ), Butterfly says that, " one beautiful day ", they will see a puff of smoke on the far horizon.

While few well-known composers focused primarily on choral music, most significant composers of the early century produced some fine examples that have entered the repertoire.

In St Florian, most of the repertoire consisted of the music of Michael Haydn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Franz Joseph Aumann.

Today's ' core ' repertoire which is performed the most of any cello concertos are by Elgar, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Schumann, but there are many more concertos which are performed nearly as often ( see below: cello concertos in the 20th century ).

His 2nd and 3rd, being the most popular of the 4, went on to become among the most famous in piano repertoire and shining examples of Russian musicianship.

The lyrebird's syrinx is the most complexly-muscled of the Passerines ( songbirds ), giving the lyrebird extraordinary ability, unmatched in vocal repertoire and mimicry.

He became one of the most important figures in the development of the 20th century repertoire for the concert saxophone.

This change in attitude occurred during the 1960s and 70s, so early origami books often use cuts, but for the most part they have disappeared from the modern origami repertoire ; most modern books don't even mention cutting.