Who cares that Hollywood was cluey enough to use it. That doesn’t detract one iota from this Masterpiece. After how many listenings? … does it still raise goosebumbs! Thus Spake Zarathustra-…
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Piano Schubert Schubert: spirituality and inherent weirdness!
Schubert: spirituality and ‘inherent weirdness’!
Here’s what a music reviewer wrote about this late piano piece by Schubert: I find it hard to account for the intensity of the spiritual response that the slow movements of…
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Here is a comment I just received today. I recently found your website and have been listening to and enjoying some of your selections. Unlike most other genres of music it…
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This website was built and passionately maintained by Jim Migdoll. 1948 – 2018. Although he has now gone off on to divine adventures, his friends and family are very keen to…
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In my ongoing research into composers I hadn’t been exposed to Carl Stamitz (1745 – 1801) http://www.answers.com/topic/carl-stamitz As I listened to a number of pieces, the phrase “Easy Listening” came to…
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Franck Henry Purcell Luigi Boccherini More Composers Muzio Clementi Reicha Sammartini
More Composers
In an attempt to broaden the site, I’ve gone searching for those ‘well known’ composers who until now haven’t been on the site. It was a quick and superficial effort to…
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Beach Boulanger Carreno Chaminade Farrenc Female Composers Martines Mendelssohn, Fanny Women!
Female Composers
After my last posting “Clara Schumann – the only woman?!” (the next one down the page) my brother sent me an email with a link showing hundreds of female Classical composers.…
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Female Composers LONG PLAYING SELECTIONS Piano Schumann, Clara The only woman! Women!
Clara Schumann – the only woman?!
Clara Schumann wrote: “I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been…
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I was put off a bit by Brahms during my initial ‘musical education’ because of some bombastic riffs I’d encountered. Over the past weeks I’ve been obsessing on his music. Listening…
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Schubert long play (38 minutes) Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 Allegro moderato String Quartet no. 14 in D minor D810 Andante con moto Rosamunde – Entr’acte No. 3…
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Intermezzo 118 number 2 Brahms intermezzo 118 no. 2 And another Brahms Intermezzi, op117 Andante moderato…
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In the post “Trumpet Synaesthesia” I made a half joking attempt to sum up the sound of the trumpet. In this post I’ll admit to being stumped … as to how…
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It’s a beautiful instrument isn’t it? Tchaikovsky Clarinet concerto Moderato Mendelssohn Concert Piece in D minor for Clarinet, Basset-horn and piano Opus 114 Andante Mendelssohn clarinet Stravinsky 3 pieces…
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Brahms piano trio no. 1 in B major op. 8 / Adagio 03 – Piano Trio No- 1 In B Major Op-008-03 Adagio…
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Francois Devienne 1759 – 1803 My brother heard some bassoon quartets on the radio and requested that some Devienne be put on the site. I wasn’t familiar with him so I…