Couperin – Bruit De Guerre Very powerful isn’t it? From what’s mentioned on Amazon it appears that the pianist and/or those who collaborated in making the album added the drum.…
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HUMMEL WAS: Taught by – and housed for 2 years at 8 years old – by Mozart! Received further instruction from Muzio Clementi. Haydn composed a sonata for him! He was…
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Apparently over the last several hundred years there have been very few changes made to ‘The Piano’ (after it’s transformation from the harpsichord) A recent and radical departure from the traditional…
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After the recent ‘strange’ postings. Here’s something ordinary and nice to listen to! 3 sonata movements for wind and piano by Saint-Saens 1) Clarinet sonata in E flat maj. Op 167…
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Wikipedia defines bagatelle as a short piece of music, typically for the piano, and usually of a light, mellow character. The name bagatelle literally means a “trifle”, as a reference to…
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Today whilst researching aspects of Beethoven’s music I came upon a reference to the Eroica Variations. The author said something along the lines that they were rarely played because they were…
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In the past few weeks I’ve had two people tell me that Schubert was their favorite composer. I can take a hint! Here’s some Schubert that isn’t already on the site.…
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Bassoon Beethoven Clarinet LONG PLAYING SELECTIONS Mozart Reicha Wind Instruments LONG PLAY
Wind for my Brother
Over the years developing this site my brother has been both my strongest critic, and at the same time my most supportive advocate! We’ve spent a lot of time talking about…
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Haydn is indeed one of, if not the greatest composers of Piano trios and quartets. I’ve started a quest to collect all of the Trios (45) This second movement of the…
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All these years building this web site; and the guitar has been left out. It must be my fault! The other day at the Visitors’ Information Centre where I volunteer, a…
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This piece by Domenico Zipoli is contained within the Long Play Baroque posting, but a listener has requested it on it’s own for a download. So here it is: Elevazione (For…
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Someone who has given me very valuable feedback on my site once mentioned how David Oistrakh, in his opinion, was the greatest violinist. Here are a few works by him. Brahms…
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This is a re-posting of a post that was on the site for quite a while, which I deleted entirely. It’s very important to me since I was raised on Chopin;…
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I don’t think I’d actually heard a glass harmonica played until today whilst downloading some Mozart. Or I have heard it in the background and never investigated what the sound was.…
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Perfect background music for either: 1) An opium den in San Francisco in the early 19 hundreds or … 2) The library/study of a philosophy professor dressed in tweeds, smoking a…