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		<title>Wonderful and inspiring talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This talk on TED is great. Since I won&#8217;t be posting more music until September, here&#8217;s a bit of consolation!
http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

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		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3950</link>
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		<title>Radu Lupu &#8211; slower is better!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A musician friend visited my web site and listened to the second movement of Beethoven&#8217;s piano sonata number 8 (the Pathetique) played by Wilhelm Kempff, who was particularly well known for his Beethoven interpretations.  My friend then sent me a link to the same piece played by Radu Lupu. Incredible difference! The Kempff version runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3931</link>
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		<title>Beethoven long play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Long Play runs approx. 40 minutes

Beethoven  Long Play
Piano Concerto #5 Second movement
Rondo e capriccio Op. 129 (Rage over a lost penny)

Paino Sonata no. 23 &#8220;Appassionata&#8221; 2nd movement
Moonlight Sonata
Duo for Clarinet &#38; Bassoon in C Woo27 / third movement
Sextet / Adagio
Violin Sonata no. 3 Second movement
 

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		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3916</link>
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		<title>Haydn &#8211; the string quartet Master?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone reviewing a string quartet CD on Amazon wrote: The opus 20 string quarters are utterly sublime; there is a balance, a humanity, a humour, a joie de vivre and utter contentedness of being. All this and more. Haydn was a master of the string quartet and, in my view, he surpasses Mozart and Beethoven. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=2836</link>
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		<title>Another almost unknown almost forgotten composer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon Anton Arensky when I went to a concert in my local small town. While introducing this piece, the pianist in the trio mentioned that Arensky taught Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. My ears perked up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Arensky
It so happened that my wife Tricia had painted the violinist and entered the painting in a prestigious Australian  art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3901</link>
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		<title>Beethoven and Haydn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beethoven IS  &#8220;The Greatest.&#8221; (IMHO)
Did Beethoven &#8216;inherit&#8217;(or use and transform to a higher level): Compositions from Haydn?
 Did Beethoven rely on &#8211; or come back to Haydn for inspiration? &#8230; Haydn&#8217;s  humor, spontaneity and Joie de vivre? &#8230; and the ability to transform pure &#8217;sweetness&#8217; into a challenging/deeper probing? This a question for &#8220;Scholars&#8221;? Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3858</link>
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		<title>Deathbed Request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider: What music would someone want to hear when they knew they were dying? 
It&#8217;s especially fascinating to consider when that someone had devoted their entire life to music. She met and collaborated with some of the 19th Century&#8217;s greatest composers: Married and lived with one of those Great composers.
That was Clara Schumann &#8211; Robert&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3848</link>
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		<title>Why is this so familiar?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just googled for way too long .. trying to tie this piece into a movie theme, because it sounds SO familiar I assumed it must be a movie or TV theme. Couldn&#8217;t find anything. Perhaps someone took the main theme and &#8216;popularised&#8217; it?
Schumann&#8217;s Marchenbilder op. 113 no. IV

If you can help send me an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3841</link>
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		<title>Right on Amadeus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Neither a lofty  degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both  together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul  of genius.&#8221; 
Mozart 

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		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3834</link>
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		<title>Worth a Repeat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece is already on the site (see: A Little Satie and then some more!) -  under Blog Titles.
I thought it was worth putting it out again on it&#8217;s own, instead of just part of a Satie medley. I like it a lot. How &#8217;bout you? (*this version is played a bit faster and with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/?p=3807</link>
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