{"id":17471,"date":"2025-05-24T03:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:39:38","slug":"episode-361-russell-oberlin-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/episode-361-russell-oberlin-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 361. Russell Oberlin Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 361. Russell Oberlin Revisited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1553-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Harpsichord-head-back.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Harpsichord-head-back.png 961w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Harpsichord-head-back-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Harpsichord-head-back-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been so lucky this week to cross paths with several beloved friends and colleagues, in some cases for the first time in ages. One of those friends of many years\u2019 standing is the legendary countertenor Drew Minter, with whom I made my very first appearances on the New York concert stage\u2026 well, a few years back now! Seeing Drew made me think not only to his influence on me in my early years of singing, but also of the influence of the earliest (and still to my mind the greatest) of all American countertenors, Russell Oberlin. A few years ago, I dedicated a pair of episodes to him, and today I present to you the second of those episodes, originally fashioned exclusively for my Patreon subscribers, yet another \u201crefurbished\u201d <em>Countermelody <\/em>episode that now sees the light of day. I explore Oberlin\u2019s performances of medieval and renaissance music, both with the New York Pro Musica (<em>The Play of Daniel<\/em>, Dufay, and Dowland) and with the <em>Experiences Anonymes<\/em> record label (Byrd and 13th Century French Polyphony). I also offer examples of Oberlin\u2019s expertise in performance of baroque music, offering two Bach arias (one performed with Leonard Bernstein, the other with Glenn Gould), and several Handel selections, including a complete cantata from one of his rarer LP releases. In addition, we hear a live excerpt of his Oberon in <em>Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em> opposite the late British soprano Joan Carlyle, as well as a surprising outing as one of the commedia dell\u2019arte players in Strauss\u2019s <em>Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em>, opposite the Zerbinetta of the great African American coloratura soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs. There are additional surprises along the way. The episode opens with a heartfelt tribute to Drew, my reunion with whom prompted this episode in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dan-and-Drew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dan-and-Drew.jpg 720w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dan-and-Drew-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Drew-Minter-KID.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Drew-Minter-KID.png 661w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Drew-Minter-KID-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Henry Purcell, John Dryden: Music for a While (<em>Oedipus<\/em>, Z.583\/2). Drew Minter, Paul O&#8217;Dette [1990]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Play-of-Daniel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17707\" style=\"width:590px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Play-of-Daniel.jpg 499w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Play-of-Daniel-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anonymous medieval French: Ad honorem tui, Christe (<em>The Play of Daniel<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, New York Pro Musica [1958]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Russell-Oberlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Russell-Oberlin.jpg 709w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Russell-Oberlin-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Henry Purcell: Oh, I\u2019m sore distressed (<em>In guilty night<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Stoddard Lincoln [live 07.I.53]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Purcell-751x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Purcell-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Purcell-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Purcell-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Purcell.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Henry Purcell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/oberlin_chair-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17739\" style=\"width:542px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Henry Purcell: Sweeter than roses (<em>Pausanias<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Paul Maynard, Seymour Barab [1953]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab-699x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Barab.jpg 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seymour Barab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ariadne-cast.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ariadne-cast.png 865w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ariadne-cast-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ariadne-cast-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The <em>Ariadne<\/em> cast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Leavitt [English translation]: We\u2019re all united in merry measure [Es gilt, ob Tanze, ob Singen tauge] (<em>Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em>). Mattiwilda Dobbs, Russell Oberlin, Loren Driscoll, Robert Goss, Jan Rubes, Thomas Sherman, Little Orchestra Society [03.I.58]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dobbs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17725\" style=\"width:583px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dobbs.png 467w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dobbs-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mattiwilda Dobbs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oberlin-as-Oberon-Covent-Garden-1024x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oberlin-as-Oberon-Covent-Garden-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oberlin-as-Oberon-Covent-Garden-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oberlin-as-Oberon-Covent-Garden-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oberlin-as-Oberon-Covent-Garden.jpg 1455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Benjamin Britten, William Shakespeare (edited by Peter Pears): Ill met by moonlight (<em>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Joan Carlyle, Georg Solti, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [live London 11.II.61]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Carlyle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Carlyle.png 514w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Carlyle-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joan Carlyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder-1600x1600.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Folder.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>William Walton, Edith Sitwell: Long steel grass (<em>Fa\u00e7ade<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Thomas Dunn, John Solum, Charles Russo, Theodore Weis, Charles McCracken, Harold Farberman [1961]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rodelinda-hey-you.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rodelinda-hey-you.png 957w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rodelinda-hey-you-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rodelinda-hey-you-768x612.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel, Nicola Francesco Haym: Dove sei, amato bene (<em>Rodelinda<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Chamber orchestra conducted by Thomas Dunn, Albert Fuller [1959]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martha-Blackman-896x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martha-Blackman-896x1024.jpg 896w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martha-Blackman-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martha-Blackman-768x878.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martha-Blackman.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Martha Blackman <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anonymous French 13th Century Polyphony: Ne m&#8217;a pas oubli\u00e9 [No. 207 in <em>Manuscript H196<\/em> of the <em>Facult\u00e9 de M\u00e9decine de Montpellier<\/em>, transcribed William Waite]. Russell Oberlin, Martha Blackman [1960]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Greenberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17715\" style=\"width:582px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Greenberg.jpg 454w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Greenberg-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Greenberg-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Noah Greenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Guillaume Dufay, Francesco Petrarch: Vergine bella. Russell Oberlin, Noah Greenberg, New York Pro Musica [Bernard Krainis, Paul Ehrlich] [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Wm-Byrd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Wm-Byrd.png 463w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Wm-Byrd-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Byrd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>William Byrd, Ludovico Ariosto: La verginella. Russell Oberlin, Denis Stevens, the In Nomine Players [1960]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1490\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens.jpg 1490w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denis-Stevens-1406x1536.jpg 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1490px) 100vw, 1490px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Denis Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dowland-as-Hipsterr.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dowland-as-Hipsterr.png 563w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dowland-as-Hipsterr-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Downland, hipster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John Dowland: Flow, my teares. Russell Oberlin, Noah Greenberg, New York Pro Musica [1959]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lenny-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lenny-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lenny-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lenny-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lenny.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Johann Sebastian Bach: Esurientes implevit bonis (<em>Magnificat<\/em>, BWV 243). Russell Oberlin, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic [1962]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gould-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17712\" style=\"width:550px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gould-portrait.jpg 444w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gould-portrait-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria: Widerstehe doch der S\u00fcnde (Cantata BWV 53). 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Russell Oberlin, Douglas Williams [1961]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel: Aria: Siete rose rugiadose; Recitativo: Dolce bocca soave; Aria: Per involarmi al duolo (Cantata HWV 162). Russell Oberlin, George Ricci, Douglas Williams [1961]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"979\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Godric-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17730\" style=\"width:606px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Godric-1.png 979w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Godric-1-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Godric-1-768x590.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Seymour Barab, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Land of Nod (<em>A Child\u2019s Garden of Verses<\/em>). Russell Oberlin, Bertha Melnick, recording supervised by Seymour Barab [1953]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall.png 640w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AlbumArtSmall-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Elderly-Oberlin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Elderly-Oberlin.png 560w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Elderly-Oberlin-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>George Frideric Handel, text assembled by Charles Jennens: Thou shalt bring them in (<em>Israel in Egypt<\/em>). 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Russell Oberlin Revisited SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I\u2019ve been so lucky this week to cross paths with 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href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">John Dowland<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">John Dryden<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Leonard Bernstein<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Loren Driscoll<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ludovico Ariosto<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ludus Danielis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Martha Blackman<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mattiwilda Dobbs<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Max Leavitt<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">New York Pro Musica<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Noah Greenberg<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Paul Maynard<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/twentieth-century-opera\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Paul O\u2019Dette<\/a>","<a 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