As for the Topic of the Day...
Well, I had actually meant to listen to a few more things this week, but I seemed to be in not much of a listening mood. -Although, I think seeing two shows this week has to count as some sort of "media". In any case, I did pull a CD off the shelf that I don't think I ever listened to after I bought it. It's the complete songs of Henri Duparc sang by the venerable bass-baritone, José van Dam. It's from the early years of the CD, so the sound, at least to my ears, is a bit too reverberant and "spatial" in some places, but van Dam's artistry comes through loud and clear. His young accompanist, Maciej Pikulski, handles Duparc's more technically difficult and Wagnerian accompaniments with great ease and musicality too.