The Battle wears on
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“Soprano *Kathleen Battle* returns to the Met for a special concert program
on Sunday, May 12, her first appearance at the Met since her historic
concert...
Kinds of ~Nois (CD Review)
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Kinds of ~Nois ~Nois, Kinds of Kings Bright Shiny Things The Bright Shiny
Things recording Kinds of ~Nois is the result of a six-year long
collaboration ...
Crouching composer, hidden dragon
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My post describing how classical music has many Buddhist tendencies
continues to reach a gratifyingly wide audience. So it is now time to
confront the el...
checking in
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I remember years when this blog was pretty much the center of my musical
existence. I wrote about many aspects of my experiences as they happened.
Sometime...
Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's
revelatory B...
Talking About Memory
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With the passage of years, I don't find memorization more difficult,
but....different. When I was a teenager, I had a near-perfect visual memory
and cou...
aworks listening log - week of feb 18, 2023
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emby downs, Steve Gunn - Looming change / Building fabric [2023 Longform
Editions] Mike Cooper - Extraordinary Moments @ Hotel Palenque [2023
Room40] Bardo...
Daily Download: Ferdinand Herold - Zampa Overture
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Get a free MP3 of Ferdinand Herold - Zampa Overture. Can you guess this
week's theme? Let us know for a chance to win more free music. And don't
forget to ...
ETO Autumn 2020 Season Announcement: Lyric Solitude
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English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a season of lyric
monodramas to tour nationally from October to December. The season features
music for sol...
Bourland update: July 2019
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Greetings all! As you see here, I have taken a break from blogging for a
few years but I am still alive and well and still working hard. Well, truth
be tol...
Composition:Today Announcement
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This December C:T marks its tenth birthday. From 2009–2019 the site has
brought its members interviews, contemporary music news, concert listings,
in-dep...
The Most Terrifying Aria In All Of Opera
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The most terrifying aria in all of opera, or why Mozart stands alone as a
composer of dramma per musica. (Our thanks to The Music...
The Musical Fruit
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My salad . . .
has three states of "bean-ing": sprouted (mung), raw (green), and cooked
(garbanzo).
And after it has been (!!! if you say that with a Brit...
Big Bodies of Work
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As someone who has never had the slightest capacity to create one, I am
fascinated with what I call "big bodies of work." That is, a substantial
number o...
Sunday Morning Music
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Bach: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (The Spirit helps us in our
weakness) RIAS Kammerchor; Akademie für Alte Musik; Hans-Christoph
Rademann, Conductor
Hidden Holst No.1: Seven Scottish Airs (1907)
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In the coming days and months there will no doubt be many events to
celebrate the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of Gustav Holst’s birth. *The
Planets* may...
To whom it may concern
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In the course of almost twelve years I published 100 "posts" on this blog.
The time and work I invested into these publications, which are based on
top qua...
The Compositions of Anton Bruckner
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Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best
known for his symphonies and sacred music. The symphonies are considered
emblema...
That Time When You Had A Realization
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After 18 years, 10 months, 17 days, and 4,821 posts it’s time to wrap
things up. I was listening to the original Broadway cast recording of
Hamilton and t...
Announcement: An invitation to All The Right Notes
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Dear Friends of Top Ear, It’s been around 10 years since Leonard and I
founded Top Ear, and in the four years that we have been writing for it, we
have tak...
What ARE the “rules” of double bass fingering?
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For years, I’d heard about “rules” that I was supposed to follow when
figuring out bass fingerings. Honestly, it was a bit confusing to me. They
all seemed...
Authentic Korngold to raise the Proms roof
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Last Saturday night, I left the Royal Albert Hall after the debut Prom of
the Sinfonia of London and started down the slippery slope to South
Kensington ...
Getting At What Truth Really Is (Not That Simple)
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“True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality,
the way things simply are. But it is not as simple as that. For there are
not only...
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The End.
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You're right, I haven't posted in a very long time. That's because of the
usual sorts of reasons why people stop blogging. I actually started *this*
post b...
Putting together a CV is hilarious
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So I’ve decided to move forward with applying to graduate school– as a
result, I have to assemble a CV as part of that process. For someone like
me, who ha...
The Complete WZ
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Composer Walter Zimmermann has greatly expanded his website, under his own
Beginner Press label, with loads of scores and recordings, here. High
recommend...
Media In The Age Of Trump
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Harvey Silverglate
Nathan McGuire
The press has become too politicized to do its job properly, which may be
why its public approval rating is so low.
elliott carter
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My review of the new disc of late works by Elliott Carter is up at *Burning
Ambulance*. As always, be sure to peruse the rest of the site while you're
there.
April 14th Specialities New Releases
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The April 14th 2017 edition of our Specialities sales brochure is now
available online Please Click Here to download in PDF Format (Adobe Reader
needed – C...
two more Mercury 10 inch lps
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Two more Mercury 10 inch lps. Basin Street signed by Maas, Billy Daniels
not signed, but probably laid out by Maas also. I have one truly great
Billy Dan...
Moving Day
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This site is now officially a ghost town—though, rest assured, the ghosts
will remain, lively and fractious. Please visit sohothedog.com for more
current c...
continuing as the flying surgeon
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As some of you may have noticed this blog has been inactive the last couple
of years. When I started this blog I worked in Denmark, but in 2011, after
I be...
Jürg Frey – String Quartet No.3 / Unhörbare Zeit
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CD Wandelweiser I should mention that should anyone ever ask which five
albums I would choose to be stranded with upon a desert island, Jürg Frey’s
first v...
Finding the right question
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I just realized I was asking the wrong question in my current research
agenda. While finding out if average listeners are aware of the timbres
involved can...
A tidal wave of streaming services
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It's no secret that physical media is on the endangered species list for
the serious collector. I don't mean that there aren't plenty of releases to
tempt ...
Carmen Aldrich
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Carmen at Chorégie d’Orange was TV live broadcast less than two weeks ago.
Contrary to the Puccini operas or the dreaded Verismo repertoire, Carmen is
alwa...
Brahms, with David Deveau and the Shanghai Quartet
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Pianist David Deveau and the Shanghai String Quartet play Brahms at the
2015 Rockport Chamber Music Festival. Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet in G
minor, Op...
Seen and Heard
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Just to let English readers know that I will review the Geneva Grand
Théâtre season in their language in Seen and Heard. Here is a review of the
opening pr...
Transcriptions album available at Bandcamp
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This month I released my first album on bandcamp, an EP of six
transcriptions of classical works that I've made over the last decade or
so. Five of the pi...
Schlagersänger Henry Valentino ist tot
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In seinem größten Hit besang Henry Valentino eine Autofahrt, die er hinter
einem jungen Mädchen verbrachte. Nun ist der Schlagersänger und Komponist
im Alt...
platte11.de
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platte11.de ging 2007 online. Ich habe dort alte und selten auch neue Texte
über Musik veröffentlicht und ein Weblog über Themen betrieben, die mich
sonst ...
10. JUNI 2022 – Freitag
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Probleme! Wir arbeiten an deren Lösung Der Online-Merker ist viel zu
schwer, er stellt für jeden Server ein Problem dar. Wir sind kein Archiv,
das sei dene...
Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (Erato)
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Für Jakub Józef Orliński ist Vivaldis Stabat Mater nicht irgendein Werk:
„Seit ich in der Anfangszeit meines Studiums in Warschau einzelne Sätze zu
Klavie...
Question: Kennt einer von euch dieses Lied?
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Könnt ihr mir bitte sagen wie das Lied heisst das ab 10:55 im Hintergrund
des folgenden Videos spielt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqAKdQH40BU&t=10m55s
Wagner-Adventskalender
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Willkommen im Advent!
Bis Heiligabend gibt es auf diesem Blog einen Wagner-Adventskalender
mit jeweils einer lustigen Anekdote oder einem Fakt über den Ko...
Dieser Blog wird privat und geht zu FLICKR
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Ab dem 24.5. 18 werde ich diesen Blog auf "privat" umstellen, da ich Angst
habe, mit den neuen Datenschutzbestimmungen nicht zurecht zu kommen. Ab
dann kön...
Meilensteine des Pop für Klavier - 29.06.2016
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Gerlitz: Beatles Classics - Ausgabe mit CD - Der erfahrene Arrangeur
Carsten Gerlitz präsentiert in diesem ersten Personality-Band derSchott
Piano Lounge n...
Adolphe Sax -200. Geburtstag
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Heute möchte ich an dieser Stelle zur Abwechslung mal keinen Komponisten
würdigen, sondern an einen berühmten Instrumentenbauer erinnern, dessen
Name zwar ...
Music and Muses: Interview with Carolina Eyck
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For the second of our interviews in the ‘Music and Muses’ series, German
thereminist Carolina Eyck talks about her passion for improvising and what
making ...
Umzug
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Ich ziehe um! Es wurde einfach zu unübersichtlich. Ich möchte den Versuch
wagen meine drei Blogs, mit ihren ganz unterschiedlichen Themen, zu
vereinen:
Sa...
RIGOLETTO in St. Gallen, 15.IX.2012
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*Rigoletto im Zirkus der Verdammten *
*Anno verdiano in St. Gallen: eine sehr gelungene Neuproduktion von
Rigoletto mit Paolo Gavanelli in der Titelrolle e...
Bach: Conciertos de Brandenburgo
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Los *Concerts avec plusiers instruments* fueron dedicados (y bellamente
caligrafiados en un florido francés) por J.S. Bach en 1721 al Margrave de
Branden...
Madama Butterfly en Houston
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Foto: Michael Bishop
*Ramón Jacques*
Aunque *Madama Butterfly* la ópera en tres actos de Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924) con libreto de Luigi Illica y Giuse...
Trompeta barroca italiana
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[image: trompeta barroca vivaldi]
Cerrando la temporada navideña les comparto hoy un registro de obras para
trompeta barroca escritas por grandes composi...
Maestro: Bradley Cooper vs.Leonard Bernstein
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Einar Goyo Ponte
Las tormentosas relaciones entre el cine y la música clásica no han llegado
a su fin: a inicios de los 40 del siglo pasado despuntaro...
Tres sonatas para piano OP. 31.
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Las *Tres sonatas para piano OP. 31*, numeradas 16, 17 y 18, fueron
compuestas en 1802 y publicadas las dos primeras al año siguiente.
Aunque publica...
Virgo Dei Genitrix - Luis Hidalgo Martín
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Virgo Dei Genitrix
Luis Hidalgo Martín
(arreglo e interpretación)
Grabación original:
Concierto conmemorativo del IV Centenario de la Virgen de la Apar...
Il·lustres ignorats (un elogi antisistema)
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[*Disclaimer: *És evident que, després de prop d'un any de resurrecció
experimental, aquest blog ha entrat en una anèmia imparable, quasi
terminal. Per a...
AIDA, METropolitan OPERA, Dezembro / December 2022
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(Review in English below)
É a última vez que a monumental encenação clássica da *Aida*, de *Sonja
Frisell*, estará em cena na *Metropolitan Opera*. É uma...
Michael Hofstetter, nuevo director del coro.
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A partir de septiembre, Michael Hofstetter pasará a sustituir a Christian
Fliegner en la dirección del coro de niños de Tölz; Fliegner seguirá
impartiendo...
Deixem de ser un blog, ara som un podcast!
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Ara feia molt de temps, massa temps, que no escrivia res en aquest estimat
blog, que tantes alegries m’ha donat al llarg de tots aquests anys. Després
de p...
James Rhodes
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James Edward Rhodes nació en Londres el 6 de marzo de 1.975, en el seno de
una familia judía de clase media. James sufrió abusos mientras estudiaba
en un...
Top 5: Las Mejores BSO de Videojuegos
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Todo amante de la música clásica es capaz de apreciar una buena banda
sonora. Y es que componer música para una película no dista mucho de
componer una ...
Iphigénie en Tauride no S. Carlos
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*Iphigénie en Tauride no S. Carlos*
*Henrique Silveira – Crítico*
*Crítica rápida e curta saiu originalmente no "O Diabo", seguir-se-á, após
o final das ré...
Dos pérdidas recientes: Vickers y Curtis
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En los últimos días se nos han ido dos figuras musicales de importancia,
dos artistas cuyo legado no guarda relación entre sí, pero en los cuales sí
se ob...
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
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Carmina Burana es una cantata escénica del siglo XX compuesta por Carl Orff
entre 1935 y 1936, utilizando como texto algunos de los poemas medievales
de Ca...
Descans del blog
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Tancat per vacances indefinides.
Desitjo que continueu gaudint de la música.
Gràcies a tots els que m'heu visitat durant aquests anys.
Crítica
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Un menú bien contrastado
11.04.2014
Por *Federico Monjeau*
*Dirigido por Arturo Diemecke, el cuarto concierto del abono de la
Filarmónica presentó un me...
Dígraf, de Joan Guinjoan
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Llevábamos mucho tiempo sin traer algo de música contemporánea por aquí, y
eso no está nada bien. Precisamente eso es lo que pensaba el viernes pasado
v...
Janáček par Jan Lœwenbach
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*Bel hommage *
*de Jan Löwenbach à Janáček*
Dès 1917, Louis Eisenmann, Ernest Denis, Louis Léger lancent une revue *Le
Monde slave* pour apporter une...
Papageno et Tindarella: histoire d'un opéra
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Certains ont écrit un livre pendant la pandémie de Covid-19: j'ai écrit mon
premier opéra, *Papageno et Tindarella*. (Pour l'anecdote, j'ai aussi écrit un...
Les splendeurs musicales sous la cour des Gonzague
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L'ensemble italien Biscantores, sous la direction de Luca Colombo nous
propose, sous le label Arcana (Outhere Music) un enregistrement regroupant
une sélec...
Une rose vaut mille baisers
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Je connais les Baci Perugina depuis mon enfance : quand il arrivait à mon
père de faire un voyage professionnel en Italie, il en rapportait une
boîte. Je d...
Accordo by Luciano Berio
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Well, seven years of fridge time for these Frozen Words.
For this thaw, a rarity: *Accordo* by Luciano Berio.
The first work in Berio's catalogue?
...
La liste de Silvia Careddu
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C. Debussy Prelude a l’après-midi d’un faune C. Abbado - Berliner
Philharmoniker 2. J. Brahms 4ème Symphonie C. Kleiber - Wiener
Philharmoniker 3....
Ernste Gesänge : les désillusions de Berlin-Est
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Label : Harmonia Mundi
Date de parution : septembre 2013
Durée totale : 54'05
*Hanns Eisler*
*Ernste Gesänge . Lieder mit Klavier . Klaviersonate op. 1 *
*M...
Bruno Walter & Anton Bruckner
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Bruno Walter (1876-1962)Riflessioni intorno a un disco di Bruno Walter.Su
Bruno Walter si sono dette e scritte tante cose, sicché i fatti inediti
sono orma...
Rarità video Čaikovskij con Rozhdestvensky
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Rarità video
ČAIKOVSKIJ
Finale dal Primo Concerto Op.23
(Piccolo frammento)
Sviatoslav Richter con Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Grazie a Yuri Bochonoff
Nuovo ...
SORPRESA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorpresa!Ci siamo trasferiti nel nostro nuovo sito.Da oggi ci trovate
all'indirizzo http://www.ilcorrieredellagrisi.eu/...Ci vediamo lì!GG &
friends
Reposted: Heifetz and Menuhin
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*HEIFETZ reDISCOVERDViolin Sonatas*
Edvard Grieg: Sonata No. 3 in C Minor Op. 45
Johannes Brahms: Sonate No. 1 in G Op. 78
Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: Lensky's ...
The composers of the Kammermusikkammer are ordered by date of birth. With J. S. Bach starts the Klassik (1685), with Beethoven the Romantik (1770), with Schönberg the Neue Musik (1874).
Beethoven - Variations & Bagatelles (Pletnev)
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Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)Variations & BagatellesAndante Favori in F,
WoO 57Bagatelle in C major, WoO56Bagatelle in C minor, WoO52Bagatelles
(11), Op...
Bach: Conciertos de Brandenburgo
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Los *Concerts avec plusiers instruments* fueron dedicados (y bellamente
caligrafiados en un florido francés) por J.S. Bach en 1721 al Margrave de
Branden...
La memoria de Oriente - Zejel
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*La memoria de Oriente. Músicas desde el centro de la imaginación*
*Zejel.*
*Peire Raimon de Toulousse*, siglo XII / *Trad. Andalusí*
01. Atressi Cum L...
Про цитаты и Базлана
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*Цитаты - вещь весьма полезная. Они позволяют выразить свою мысль коротко,
но так, что собеседник (одноуровневый, по крайней) сразу понимает, о чём
р...
Turandot: "Tanto amore segreto"
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*Cari amici,*
No trecho musical de hoje, percebemos que não se pode
subestimar o papel de Liù em Turandot e cantá-lo não é uma tarefa f...
Back to normal / De regreso a lo habitual
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Finally Blogger / Google resumes sending notification whenever a comment is
posted.
So, whenever you post a comment on a post of my blog I'm warned.
Therefo...
Telemann Danish Cantatas
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
DANISH CANTATAS
1-20 De Danske, Norske og Tÿdske Undersaatters Glaede
21-25 Lad, o Herre, Ordets Saed riigelid til os ...
Giordano: Andrea Chénier (München 2017)
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*Umberto Giordano Andrea Chénier *
Aufzeichnung der Premiere Bayrische Staatsoper vom 12.3.2017
Andrea Chénier | Jonas Kaufmann
Carlo Gérard | Luca Sals...
Music for Democracy from Eastman
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For the first entry in its "American Music Festival Series," the Mercury
label turned to patriotic works by two of the leading composers of the time
- How...
Allegresse Postillons
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*Georg Philipp Telemann Musique de Table, Troisième Production
Ouverture-Suite in Bb TWV 55:B1 (excerpts); Conclusion in Bb TWV 50:10
Wiesbaden Co...
Benny Goodman interpreta Debussy
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Debussy: Primera Rapsodia para clarinete y orquesta
Benny Goodman, clarinete
Orquesta Sinfo-Filarmónica de Nueva York
Sir John Barbirolli.
Descarga Me...
Kreutzer in khaki
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Albert Sammons (1886-1957) and William Murdoch (1888-1942) performed
regularly together in chamber concerts during 1916 to 1917, both had joined
the army a...
Over 2,000 78s For Sale
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As I mentioned in the comments section to my last post, the house in which
I have been renting a basement room for the past 12 years is going up for
sale, ...
A short note / ein kurzer Hinweis
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As there are some hopeful future readers who mailed me more than once, here
is a short note: everyone who has mailed me will stay in the list, but I am
not...
El Stabat Mater de Poulenc por Ozawa.
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Francis Poulenc
STABAT MATER
Kathleen Battle, Soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Dir: Seiji Ozawa.
(DG)
*
Continu...
Lacrimosa - Elodia
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*Límites oscurecidos*
El vicio rotulista del periodismo a veces se enfrenta a desafíos difíciles
de sortear. Uno de ellos puede ser *Lacrimosa*. ¿En q...
Maria Perrotta Plays Chopin (2015)
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Frédéric Chopin (1 de marzo de 1810, Żelazowa Wola, Polonia - 17 de
octubre de 1849, París, Francia)
Maria Perrotta, Piano
Audio CD
Label: Decca
ASIN:...
Folhas de Graviola - A Cura do Câncer
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*OFERTA MUITO ESPECIAL*01 pacote com 120 folhas de graviola, quantidade
suficiente para até 40 dias de tratamento, sem cobrança de frete, a*penas:*
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RE:Cuartetos Mexicanos Desconocidos Vol. 2
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El presente volumen de cuartetos para instrumentos de arco -en realidad más
olvidados que desconocidos- fueron a la sazón escritos por una terna de
músic...