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Showing posts with label Compilations. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Compilations. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 500 Greatest Works

Another epic guest playlist, from Jorge in Sweden. Jorge says: "I have this book, written by Phil G. Goulding , called Classical ...

Monday, April 5, 2010

Entartete Musik: Music Banned By The Third Reich

Entartete Musik ( Degenerate music ), was a label applied in the 1930s by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it...

Friday, March 26, 2010

Serenade: Music To Calm The Night Down

I love Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings so much that I have to do another playlist for it. So I did a playlist of sere...

Friday, March 12, 2010

111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon, arguably the most important classical label in the world, just started tweeting . And better news is that they are ad...

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Modern Ensembles on Spotify: Acoustic Aphex Twin & Many More

Last night I was triumphantly humming the opening of the 3rd movement of Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, then my wife said it made h...

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Borrowed Playlist: The Swedish Romantic Composers

Spotify is a great service started from Sweden, so I always wanted to make a playlist of Swedish composers. This morning I found a wonderf...

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Pop Songs Based On Classical Works: An Open Spotify Playlist

This playlist consists of pop songs and the classical works they borrowed from. To me some of the best examples are Paul Simon's Americ...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Classical Music In The Films: An Open Spotify Playlist

Inspired by Alex Ross' latest blog entry Lo and Behold! I made a Spotify playlist of soundtracks and film scores. It includes the s...

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Swan Songs of Great Composers

Last Sunday morning I enjoyed a rare moment of listening to music through the speakers at maximum volume, as my musically conservative wife,...

Monday, February 1, 2010

2010 Grammy Winners for Classical Music on Spotify

Let's do a quick one, here's the full list of winners for classical music. And here's the Spotify playlist: 2010 Grammy Winne...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Ad-free Playlist For Spotify's Free Users

First off, please consider buying a Spotify premium if you haven't. Listening to symphonies with ads in between movements is a crime. Bo...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

A Round-up of NMC on Spotify: The NMC Samplers & Songbook

To me NMC is the best independent classical label from the UK, only second to Hyperion , which is my most wanted label in Spotify. They hav...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

NPR Classical 50 on Spotify

Here's the Spotify playlist: NPR Classical 50 Please check out NPR's wonderful site for introduction to each recording. For t...

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Chinese Contemporary Classical Music

I just made a Spotify playlist of Chinese and Chinese-born contemporary composers' works. These are not traditional Chinese music, just ...

Monday, January 4, 2010

Alex Ross' 20th Century Limited

Alex Ross' bestseller The Rest Is Noise is a great read for music lovers of any genre who are interested in finding out what music is ab...

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