March, 2016

41 Posts
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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Sinfonia degli eroi / Dai sepolcri / Ditirambo tragico
Sinfonia degli eroi (Symphony of Heroes) From MALIPIERO, G.F.: Sinfonia degli eroi / Dai sepolcri / Ditirambo tragico (2015) Released by Naxos Malipiero: Sinfonia degli eroi (Symphony of Heroes)Five vividly contrasting works, four of them in world première recordings, make
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How You Should Feel in the Key of D major
In our earlier series on C major and minor and G major and minor, we listed Ernst Pauer’s suggestions from 1876 of pieces that fit the particular affect he assigned for a key. For the rest of the major and
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Sound and Imagery: Victory at Sea
In 1951, the researcher Henry Solomon approached his classmate Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television, about the phenomenal amount of film that each side in the Second World War had in their stocks. Solomon has been working with
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Ruth Crawford-Seeger: It’s Depressing!
The “Great Depression” was the immediate result of the sudden devastating collapse of the US stock market on 29 October 1929. Known as “Black Tuesday,” it plunged the world into a severe economic downturn in the 1930’s. Construction virtually halted
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016)
Make it new by making it old
Like an enormous surgeon’s scalpel, the Second World War indiscriminately severed musical and cultural arteries. A new world order was gradually taking shape, and music became a pretty adornment to our busy little lives. Coming of age in the years
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Schubert’s Impromptus
I’ve been playing and listening to Schubert’s Opus 90 Impromptus since I was about 14, when my mother fell in love with Alfred Brendel playing the fourth of the set, in A flat, and insisted that I learn it. So,
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Minors of the Majors
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!
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“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music VII – Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet is one of the most quoted works in the English language and has had a pervasive influence on virtually every art form—literature, film, stage, screen, art and music. What better play to perform on a two–year
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