Media
Commercial Recordings
Learn about and purchase Brinton's recordings.
Videos
From Paganini Caprices to Chopin Nocturnes and solo works of Sibelius and Rozsa, a collection of live concert performances of unusual works for cello and virtuoso trascriptions.
Audio
A collection of Brinton Averil Smith audio clips, also available on every other page of this site at the bottom left hand corner of your screen.
Formal Picture Gallery
Formal publicity photographs by Sandy Lankford.
Informal Picture Gallery
Pics that couldn't, wouldn't and shouldn't make the formal picture gallery.
Sheet Music
A collection of downloadable sheet music.
Personal
Holiday Spam
The obligatory yearly holiday spam... whether you want it or not!
Students
Listening List
During summers at Aspen and at times during the year I try to send out listening assignments for my students to expose them in the great musical traditions of the past. Here are some of these and the related commentary.
Singers
Some tenors and for variety, a soprano.
Historical Performances
THIS is what music is.
Cellists
Feuermann, Gendron, Casals, Nelsova
Heifetz
It is time to talk Heifetz I think.
Composers Performance Tempos Vs Common Practice
Performers today, more often than not, play slower than the composers would have chosen. How many composers have you heard must have had a 'broken metronome?'