After spending a few weeks thinking about and intending to do a Shostakovich entry: The thrust of which was to be; a comparison of what I felt was “Bombastic and Frantic”…
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Or should it be Linnie Binnie? Anyway dear sister-in-law – since you didn’t specify which movement of a Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor; I’m going to assume it’s this one! Correct…
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Here ya go Tim – yer fave! Even though we’ve all heard it a million times – still – IF you give yourself up to it … and just listen it will…
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Annoyed with Scriabin Piano Scriabin Scriabin. Another 'crazy genius'?
Scriabin. Another ‘crazy genius’?
So many of the great composers have been somewhat ‘on the edge.’ Here are three excerpts from the Wikipedia article on Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. (I love the bit about how he was…
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Even though this is almost always included in the “Top 20, 50 or 100” of Classical Pieces – I still won’t include it in the Exclusive, ‘Perfect Music’ section. (*wanting to…
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An Opera challenge! Opera/Vocal Puccini
Opera. I still don’t like it – but here’s my wifes’ challenge!
My wife says; HOW could you not love this? (O Mio Babbino Caro by Puccini) And I say … well – I guess I do – a little bit! (*uTube link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0diDwHtATw…
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Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev was an important figure in the Russian music scene of the 1800’s. He was Tchaikovskys pupil and the teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. I read somewhere that in…
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Barber Funeral anthem? Sad? I disagree and ...
Funeral anthem? Sad? – I disagree and hear that it spells hope, rebirth and glory!
The “Adagio for Strings” was written by American composer Samuel Barber when he was in his 20s. With a tense melodic line and taut harmonies, the composition is considered by many…
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It’s Yours – Dear listener! Then why do I get stuck on my favourites? Or those whom I consider “THE Greatest”? It’s not fair! I’ve addressed my prujudice regarding Debussy and…
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A request to include Debussy and Ravel on this site led me to some soul searching. Why had I dismissed them both as composers whose music – for the most part…
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Almost? "Perfect Music"?! Bach Elgar Mascagni Schubert Shostakovich Very Special
Almost? “Perfect Music”?!
Great compositions sure to move the heart. But I’m a little reluctant to include them in the “Perfect Music” section! (*See Perfect Music on the right hand alphabetical panel*) Cavalleria Rusticana…
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But that’s not what it was written for. To be “liked”! This came from the heart of Existential Despair. A man who had Joseph Stalin watching him, breathing down his neck.…
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My brother claims I never asked him what our mother’s favourite was! (*see comments on the piece above) But I think I did ask him and my subconscious played a trick on…
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So … you’re marooned on a desert island (but happen to have a solar powered CD player) and you have to pick one Classical composer’s work. A no-brainer right?! Gotta’ be…
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You have to smile, titter, giggle or laugh out loud; as you try to follow wherever the hell Liszt is leading us to with this piece! An auditory tickling. Absolutely extraordinary. (see…