Thursday, July 29, 2010

Classical Music For Absolute Beginners: DG's entrée Series

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Below is extracted from the introduction on DG's official entrée site, I like the Chinese restaurant parable, and I hope Spotify starts...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

An Awakening From Unconsciousness And Darkness To Light And Clarity

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"To a normal man, time is what comes after the beginning. To Bruckner, time is what comes after the end. All his apocalyptical finals, ...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Michael Tilson Thomas' Mahler Cycle Is Now On Spotify

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Here's the Spotify playlist: Mahler: MTT & SFS (69 tracks, 15 hours) It includes the nine symphonies and Das Lied von Der Erde. I...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv Blue Series

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Another great early music collection: Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv Blue series. Quote the intro from the official site : "This is...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Naxos Early Music Collection

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"This collection focuses on music from the early Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Enjoy our albums and listen to early music from Ita...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Music To Rearrange Furniture To

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"Believe it or not, I have no real interest in music from Haydn to Wagner." - Steve Reich "All musicians in the past, star...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Anne Sofie von Otter Sings The Greatest Swedish Songwriting Duo

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Renowned Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter released an album of ABBA songs in 2006. Surprisingly only six out of the 13 songs were...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

W.A.Mozart: Complete Chronological Catalogue on Spotify

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I made this playlist, which features every known musical work by Mozart, after the sixth edition of Köchel catalogue . The compositions in...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Chopin 2010

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Deutsche Grammophon released over a dozen Chopin recordings this year, here's a Spotfiy playlist: Chopin 2010 (197 tracks, 13 hours) t...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Carlos Kleiber: Complete DG Recordings on Spotify

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( Spotify Link ,12 CDs) I have updated my Beethoven playlist to add in the Symphony No.7 by Kleiber. And an interesting read: Carlos Klei...
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