Home listening: Reynaldo Hahn, plus Shostakovich up-close and in the opera house - The Guardian

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Home listening: Reynaldo Hahn, plus Shostakovich up-close and in the opera house
The Guardian
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), who moved in the same circles as Marcel Proust, has a reputation of being a louche Frenchman specialising in salon songs. Instead he was born in Caracas, to a German-Jewish father and local Venezuelan mother. The family ...