Friday, April 27, 2012

Gaetano Donizetti: Complete Operas & Other Works

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Gaetano Donizetti was among the most important composers of bel canto opera in both Italian and French in the first half of the nineteenth ...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Spotify Orchestra: Four Playlists for Percussion

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Spotify Orchestra is an ongoing series that focuses on the instruments, featuring playlists curated by professional players. Previous posts...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Spotify As Stage: Shakespeare Plays and Poems on Recordings

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This playlist features recorded performances and dramatized readings of Shakespeare's plays; recordings of the sonnets and other poems; ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Classical Music That Imitate Or Use Birdsong

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"Birds are the opposite of time. They represent our longing for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant song." Oliver Me...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Bridge George Crumb Edition & A Few More

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George Crumb was one of the most distinctive compositional voices to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. A charter member o...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Alexander Scriabin: Complete Chronological Catalogue on Spotify

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The pianist Athur Rubinstein recalled a visit to a café with Alexander Scriabin : "Who is your favourite composer?" he asked wi...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Guillaume de Machaut: Complete Recordings on Spotify

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Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Rheims) Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377) was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the...
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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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