Saturday, March 31, 2012

20th Century Concerto Grosso Revival on Spotify

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The concerto grosso (Italian for big concerto) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of s...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Georges Bizet: Complete Thematic Catalogue

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"Known for one of the world's most popular operas, Carmen , Georges Bizet deserves attention as well for other works of remarkable...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Felix Mendelssohn: Complete Works on Spotify

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" Mendelssohn never outgrew his precocious youthful style. [...] He remained stylistically conservative [...] feeling no need to attr...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Pierre Boulez as Composer & Mahler Conductor

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Two playlists to celebrate the 87th birthday of Pierre Boulez , French composer , conductor and winner of 26 Grammys . First one collects h...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Easy Listening Classical For Study, Work, Relaxing, Chillout, Anything But Serious Listening, On Spotify

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If you never went to the opera house but don't mind a bit of refreshing Vivaldi after a hard day's work, this is the classical musi...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Bach Works Catalogue (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) on Spotify

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"Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection." - Jer...
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Christian Carey's Sixty Postwar Pieces to Study on Spotify

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Christian Carey , composer and Sequenza 21 editor, made an interesting list of important postwar classical works yesterday. The selected mu...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Guest Post: Bach's 133 Arias For Tenor

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Jon Ploug Jørgensen is a young Danish classicist, or teacher of classics, with a strong proclivity for all things classical. -------------...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

St. Patrick's Day Playlist: W.B. Yeats In Music

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For St. Patrick's Day I compiled a playlist of songs and classical works based on the writings of the great Irish poet, William Butler Y...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Krautrocksampler: Julian Cope's 50 Kosmische Classics on Spotify

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Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards , written by musicologist and former The Teardrop Explode...
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