Anybody Like Classical Music?
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Yuja Wang has won me over.
I was hesitant, she was out of her depth playing the Brahms 1st Piano Concerto. I love her take on Brahms 1st Piano Trio, at this stage in her career she should be playing chamber music. She has an affinity for it, she knows when to take the lead and when to let the strings sing. Amazing performance...and she looks super hot with short hair.
I was hesitant, she was out of her depth playing the Brahms 1st Piano Concerto. I love her take on Brahms 1st Piano Trio, at this stage in her career she should be playing chamber music. She has an affinity for it, she knows when to take the lead and when to let the strings sing. Amazing performance...and she looks super hot with short hair.
Toronto burnishes it's credentials as a world class city, we now have the Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition. Held at Koerner Hall, part of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Since it was released in 1955, Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations has never gone out of print. It was one of the first LP's and brought Bach back from obscurity. It was first recorded for Columbia Records, Gould became an international star. Columbia was bought by Sony who have made several reissues.
"By the 1910s, Scriabin’s projects had become more and more grandiose, including his Prometheus: Poem of Fire — scored for a massive orchestra, piano, organ, wordless chorus and a primitive “color organ” designed to project various light designs onto a screen. During the 1911 premiere in Moscow, led by Serge Koussevitsky with Scriabin as pianist, the color organ failed, and the composer never witnessed a performance that included it. One might easily wager that Scriabin would have been duly impressed by the light shows of our contemporary rock bands."
Alexander Scriabin was the original rock star, the opposite of his rival the buttoned up Sergei Rachmaninov. Unfortunately luck wasn't on his side, he developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which affected how he played and wrote for the piano. I've never heard anything he wrote for orchestra, sometimes I wonder what was in the hashish he smoked to dull the pain. Rachmaninov superseded him due to the fullness of time, he outlived Scriabin by 27 years. Sciabin passed at 43. I'll have to make time to listen to Prometheus
One of Scriabin's hashish fulled works, Black Mass Piano Sonata.
One of Scriabin's hashish fulled works, Black Mass Piano Sonata.
In the 60's he became classical music's Beatles. He and Paul McCartney are the same age.
Tchaikovsky Swan lake and the nutcracker are my favorites. Blue Danube, tales of Hoffman, polotsvian dances, and Vivaldi 4 seasons. There are so many peices I like but can't identify, side effect of having classical 96 as background music.
Sergai Prokofiev's terrifying wartime symphony No.5. It was written to rally the Russian people against the Nazis during WWII. I'm including just the finale, make sure you can hear the bass drum clearly. With Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons.
Greatest ever music wriiten for a movie. The words are from Dante poem Divine Comedy
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Alexandra Kuznetsova moved from Russia to Spain. She looks much more relaxed...big loss for Putinesca.
