Dare to be different
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Years ago when I was presenting on radio, the executive producer told me
that my programme should dare to be different. Which was very wise advice.
But sa...
Near, far, wherever you are
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Parma's annual *Festival Verdi* traversed "distant worlds" of crusades,
conquests, and colonial struggles, stopping first in Peru for the
seldom-heard *Alz...
crescendo
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I just finished the wonderful memoir Crescendo - Chronicles of an
Adventurous Violinist by my friend Anthea Kreston. I started the book and
after the first...
This is not goodbye
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When I started The Rambler back in 2003, blogs were a relatively new
phenomenon. They weren’t yet commercialised, they weren’t homogenised, they
had a Wild...
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...
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...
Visit to Havana, November 2015
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I was approached by Parma Recordings about participating in a musical
project involving eight composers going to Cuba and working with Cuban
musicians in h...
Downtown Music Photos: October 12–25, 2026
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Peter Gannushkin’s DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET documents New York’s experimental and
improvised music scene. Its photo galleries from the past two weeks cover
the fo...
Late Night Thoughts
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Actually it is early morning. 12:38 to be exact. I am twenty-six days into
the maintenance phase of therapy for multiple myeloma after having my stem
cell ...
Making the rent!
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I'm sure I have written about this before a few times, but it is only
possible for a very few musicians to make a decent living. And here is an
illustrat...
Fermata Slovakia
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At a typically ungodly hour this morning i’m setting off for northern
Slovakia, where for the next couple of days i’ll be experiencing a project
called Con...
Dusky – Signals (Album Review)
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Dusky have dropped a new album Signals and my goodness, it is a majestic 13
track suite of joy. Dusky is an English electronic music [...]
The post Dusky...
Some Wonderful Music For You
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VOCES8 is singing, so it’s pretty amazing. Stephen Paulus: Pilgrims’ Hymn
TEXT by Michael Dennis Browne Even before we call on Your name To ask You,
O God,...
How Long Until Substack Turns Evil? (Not Long)
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As a subscriber to a handful of Substack pages, I occasionally get
automatically-generated emails offering a pick of recent pieces they think
I will like. ...
GBH Daily: Women’s baseball is coming to Boston!
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The Women’s Professional Baseball League has chosen New York, Boston, Los
Angeles and San Francisco as the cities that will play in the league’s
inaugural ...
Upcoming Posts
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- A written Promise of Marriage of Count Franz von Walsegg
- "Ich gieng zuerst zu den Rechberger'schen" – The Solution to a Minor
Mozart Riddle...
So long and thanks for all the fish
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It's telling I had not even realized that I had not posted a new entry
since a week. A sign that it is time to pull the plug, and this time
permanently.
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...
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 Red Book - Anton Bruckner , Eleven Symphonies
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This book is definitely a labour of love from Professor William Carragan,
and as such it is unmissable.
Find out more from the following link:
The Red Book
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...
Judy Dunaway Interviewed
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Here's a lively interview with composer Judy Dunaway. Dunaway is perhaps
best-known for her music for her own instrument of virtuosity, the balloon,
but he...
Nereffid's Best Albums of 2017
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That time of year...
So I listened to 183 classical albums this year, though for many of them I
didn't hear them as much as I'd have liked. As usual, my li...
beth levin
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My review of Beth Levin's new disc of romantic piano music is up at *Burning
Ambulance*. Please check out the rest of the site while you are 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...
Capitol 10 inch lps
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All my Capitol 10 inch lps that I collected for the covers. Mostly not
music I like. I love that the back cover of Le Sacre du Sauvage tells one
how to p...
A Knockout Shostakovich 4th from Lazarev
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Jeremy Lee writes Alexander Lazarev is undoubtedly one of the great
Shostakovich conductors of our time. In 2010 I went to a concert of Lazarev
conducting ...
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...
What Do You Hear?
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When you listen to music, do you notice the lyrics, the melody, the
harmony, the rhythm? What about the instrumentation? There is very little
research o...
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...
Rusalka in the basement of Fritzl
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Rusalka. DVD. Bavarian State Opera 2010. Production: Martin Kusej.
Conductor: Tomas Hanus. Cast: Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Klaus Florian
Vogt (Prince), G...
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...
Stevie Wonder in Köln: Die Tonart des Lebens
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Sieht Stevie Wonder mehr als wir? Wir streamen Gefühle. Aber können wir sie
noch empfinden? Der heutigen Popmusik ist die Seele abhandengekommen. Zum
Glück...
„Unser Prinz singt zum Niederknien schön“
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Dornröschen reist durch 100 Jahre, erlebt Mondlandung und Mauerfall und
will ihren Prinzen erst einmal nicht heiraten. Regisseurin Anna Bergmann
über eine ...
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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...
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...
RSS Solutions for Restaurants
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*FeedForAll *helps Restaurant's communicate with customers. Let your
customers know the latest specials or events.
RSS feed uses include:
*Daily Specials...
GOULD | ‘A Consort Of Musicke’ | BYRD & GIBBONS
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[image: carátula disco Gould]
Glenn Gould tuvo intereses de lo más variopintos. Uno de ellos fueron las
obras para teclado de los compositores del Renaci...
Serenade para flauta y piano en Re Mayor, OP 41.
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Esta obra es un arreglo de la Serenata OP. 25, escrita en 1801. Fue
escrita por una editorial, corregida por el propio Beethoven y publicada
en 1803. L...
Muere Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden.
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El fundador y director del coro de niños de Tölz, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, ha
muerto hoy a la edad de 88 años. Desde este blog expresamos nuestro más
senti...
Esperando el Oscar: Wicked, el mal reescrito
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Einar Goyo Ponte
Los teóricos de la posmodernidad solían argüir que habíamos llegado al fin
de la historia y con ello al agotamiento de los grandes r...
Schumann: Dichterliebe (remastered)
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Libremente inspirado en *Lyrisches Intermezzo* de Heinrich Heine (Schumann
adaptó los poemas a las necesidades de la música, reordenando y alterando
algu...
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...
Furia española
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La primera part de la història és més coneguda, i fins i tot ha arribat a
la Viquipèdia: després d'anys dedicant-se a estudiar i glossar Beethoven,
el mus...
Fallece MarÇal Cervera.
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Falleció el pasado 20 de Septiembre.
Tuve el plecer de asistir a sus cursos en Sevilla y recibir algunas de sus
clases . Siempre lo recordaré con afecto p...
Bernstein, vida i obra
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Aprofitant la celebració del centenari del naixement de Leonard Bernstein
aquest 2018, l’editorial Turner ha publicat en castellà Vida y obra de
Leonard Be...
Despedida y mudanza
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¡HASTA LOS MISMÍSIMOS!
Ante los problemas que este blog, abierto en septiembre de 2008, me está
dando últimamente con la subida de MIS FOTOS, y el tiempo q...
Pel·lícules i llibre sobre música
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Avui us comparteixo un blog que m'ha agradat molt! És PELÍCULAS Y LIBROS
SOBRE MÚSICA. Ells mateixos es defineixen: *Películas sobre música clásica.
Pelícu...
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...
Stevie Wonder
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Stevland Hardaway Judkins nació en, Saginaw, Míchigan, el 13 de mayo de
1950,ciego de nacimiento y tercero de una familia de 6 hijos. Hijo de un
pastor ...
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...
Der Rosenkavalier al Liceu
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Fotos: Martina Serafin, Sophie Koch, Ofèlia Sala i Peter Rose (a l'imatge
en el paper de Boris).
Abans de res voldria comentar-vos que no us poso les habit...
Alors, cheveux longs ou courts ?
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Cliquer pour agrandir. Source : ChatGPT Le texte ci-dessous est extrait du
Dictionnaire universel françois et latin…, publié en 1752 (source). On y a
actua...
Adieu, fière cité
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bienvenue Non pas adieu mais… bienvenue ! Comme annoncé dans la précédente
notule, Carnets sur sol a, pour la première fois en plus de vingt ans,
changé de...
L'herbier d'Alain Louvier
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Cet après-midi au Conservatoire de Paris, nous avons pu assister à une
passionnante après-midi consacrée au compositeur Alain Louvier. Ce jeune
artiste d...
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...
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 *
*...
Ludwig van, de Mauricio Kagel
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Mil neuf cent soixante dix. Le deux centième anniversaire de Beethoven.
Cela a dû être si intense, en Allemagne du moins, que Mauricio Kagel, qui
résidait...
Master class
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Via le site de la bienen school of music, Une série de master classes à
voir : Menhamem Pressler en musique de chambre, Yefin Bonfman en piano, Stephen
...
Cathy Berberian: Il corpo, la musica, la voce
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Cathy Berberian è nata in America da genitori armeni. I suoi primi studi e
le sue prime esperienze si rivolgono al teatro ed alle danze etniche;
contempora...
Centro Studi sul Teatro Musicale
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Nell'ambito del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Università di Torino,
nasce il Centro Studi sul Teatro Musicale
1 Agosto 2016, ricordando Maestro
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*19 anni dopo*
*1 A g o s t o 2 0 1 6 *
*ricordando Maestro*
*"Verso la sera". Gessetto su cartoncino di C.Grandis. 2016*
*Tutto passa. Le sofferenze,...
Vignette, caricature, tragedie
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Un po’ di clamore ha fatto nei giorni scorsi nel Regno Unito una caricatura
d’epoca di un grande violinista della fine dell’Ottocento, Leopold Auer,
pubbli...
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
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).
Chopin Evocations [Daniil Trifonov]
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Chopin Evocations CD 1
* Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)*
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21¹
Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" by Mozart, Op. 2
*...
Robert Simpson - Horn Trio and Horn Quartet
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Robert SIMPSON (1921-1997)Trio for horn, violin and piano (1984)Quartet for
horn, violin, cello and piano (1975)Richard Watkins (horn)Pauline Lowbury
(viol...
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito - Christophe Rousset
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*Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART*
*(1756 - 1791)*
*La clemenza di Tito*
*dramma per musica in 2 acts (Prague, 1791) (KV 621)*
*libretto: Pietro Metastasio,...
La Pellegrina - Huelgas Ensemble
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*La Pellegrina. Music for the Wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and
Christine de Lorraine, Princess of France (Flore...
Классика мирового кино в высоком качестве
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*Хочу известить заинтересованных об исключительном феномене на трекере. Это
**PulShome**.*
*За почти 4 последних года он выложил **224 лучших фильма** ми...
Schumann: Dichterliebe (remastered)
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Libremente inspirado en *Lyrisches Intermezzo* de Heinrich Heine (Schumann
adaptó los poemas a las necesidades de la música, reordenando y alterando
algu...
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...
Telemann - Kapitansmusik 1744
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Oratorio - Vereint euch, ihr Burger, und singet mit Freuden TWV 15:15a
Serenata - Freiheit! Gottin, die Segen und Frie...
Bellini: I Puritani (New York 2017)
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*Vincenzo Bellini I Puritani *
Aufzeichnung der Metropolitan Opera vom 18.2.2017
Lord Arturo Talbot | Javier Camarena
Elvira Walton | Diana Damrau
Si...
Buster's Haunted Playlist
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I am not a fan of Halloween. I haven't been in a costume since I was 10 and
there are no animatronic skeletons on my front lawn. I don't try to scare
the n...
The annual one
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I won’t pretend 2025 has been a great year. Not for the world, not for me.
Still, I can’t let it end without a single measly post.
My main problem has be...
VIII Centenaire de Notre Dame de Paris
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André Campra: Psaume "In convertendo Dominus"*
Pierre Desvignes: Te Deum*
Louis Vierne: Marcha triomphale per le Centeneaire de Napoléon I*
Pierre Cocherea...
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...
A Musical Couple
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The cellist William Pleeth is probably best remembered for his association
with Edmund Rubbra and as a teacher to Jacqueline du Pré. Alas his wife,
the pi...
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito - Christophe Rousset
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*Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART*
*(1756 - 1791)*
*La clemenza di Tito*
*dramma per musica in 2 acts (Prague, 1791) (KV 621)*
*libretto: Pietro Metastasio,...
Schnittke: Sinfonía Nr. 3.
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Alfred Schnittke
SINFONIA Nr. 3.
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Dir: Eri Klas.
(BIS)
*
La Sinfonía Nr. 3 de Alfred Schnittke data de 1981 y e...
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:*
*.*
* R$...
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
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*Poesía y belleza del mejor Genesis*
Un nombre no basta para identificar a un grupo y he aquí una prueba: la
discografía de *Genesis *comienza en 1969 ...
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...