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Award-winning writer and musician Thomas Wolf is the perfect guide for an entertaining journey through some spectacular masterpieces of classical music. In Bravo, Encore!, the musical works under discussion are linked to carefully curated performances on both YouTube and Spotify, allowing readers to move seamlessly from the narratives, delightful in themselves, to the music.

The Nightingale’s Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centering around author Thomas Wolf’s grandmother, the legendary violinist Lea Luboshutz, and her remarkable musical family.  Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, it is also the story of Cèsar Franck’s magnificent “Sonata for Violin and Piano.”

Website content, as well as supplemental materials for readers are listed below. Additional resources are also provided for those wishing to learn more about the history, the music, and the people chronicled in The Nightingale’s Sonata and Bravo, Encore!

Front cover of "Bravo, Encore!" by Thomas Wolf
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Photographs

An online collection of photos from family archives
Photographs 1880–1930
Photographs 1931–present

 

Audio Recordings

Recordings of the sonata at the center of The Nightingale’s Sonata, as well as related audio for Thomas Wolf’s books

  • The César Franck Violin Sonata

  • The Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9 (“Kreutzer”)

  • Pierre Luboshutz & Genia Nemenoff

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms, op 56b

    “Largo al factotum,” the famous aria from Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville”

    “The Bat,” A Fantasy from Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus,” by Pierre Luboshutz

  • Boris Goldovsky Opera Lectures

    “Mr. Opera: Recollections of Metropolitan Opera/Texaco Intermission Broadcasts with Boris Goldovsky”

    More Met Broadcast lectures by Boris Goldovsky

  • Wolf Tracks : Music of My Family

 
 

Further Reading

Recommended readings about the people, history, and music chronicled in Thomas Wolf’s books