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    In general Bach was impossibly beautiful

    But i do have to say i'm very partial to the toccatas I just can't help myself lol



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    The great classical music treasure on the internet for me is the Bach Netherland's Societies project to record every note that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote, and to do so with excellent musical performers, on instruments Bach would have used and in that style. It covers the whole gamut of Bach: Harpsicord, Organ, Vocal a capella, his Protestant cantatas and his "Catholic" mass settings, sonatas for flute, cello, violin and much more. It would be hard to reduce this huge library of works to just a few "best" but here are some of my favorites:
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    Thank you Malisa for those two sweet pieces, both new to me.

    I think it’s cool that people are born, like these two, who take up the magic and give it to us.

    L-Bee must have been a headstrong old man, by the end. I can’t imagine having to work out daily stuff with him, like shopping lists or guest lists.

    Cheers.

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    Thanks Ivanhoe, seeing your post of one of my favourite piano concertos has reminded me to post this serendipitous find.

    Vasily Kalinnikov was a Russian composer who had a sadly short life, his death was shortly before his 25th birthday. He was highly regarded in his day and still is in Russia but he is not well known in the West. It's said that had he lived longer to produce more work, he would have likely been on a par with Tchaikovsky.

    Here are his beautiful symphonies nos. 1 and 2.




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    Music in a state beyond Sufi meditation : the prayer rug (Feldman’s beloved kelims) is suspended in sweet air and we are on it and in that state :


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    This is a lovely piece that I chanced upon a while ago, it was the background music to a video I was watching; Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire Rhapsody. This video is accompanied by photographic views of that pretty English south-west county.

    Gurney had a troubled life; he showed musical and poetic talent at an early age but was plagued by manic depression and saw the horrors of the trenches of World War I. He was wounded and also exposed to a gas attack; post-war his artistic output flourished, but his mental health worsened. He died in 1937 of tuberculosis at the age of 47.


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    ARAM KHACHATURIAN - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Fabulous rendition of one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music ever composed.

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    Percy Grainger gets one's fingers dancing. Especially this piece.


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    No matter what kind of day you've had, French harp music will make it better.


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    I have grown to become an admirer of Yuja Wang. She commands the breadth of classical repertoire, and is still continuously widening her scope and matching the depth of her understanding to her flawless virtuosity.

    Beethoven, then. She seems to me the first pianist who has overcome the unimaginable technical difficulties of the double fugue in the last movement of Beethoven’s "Hammerklavier” Sonata op.106 to such extent that she can play it as the cornucopia of passionate and profound statements it is – in the wake of the heart wrenching lyrical slow movement preceding it.

    This is her 2016 rendering of the Mount Kaylash of 19th-century piano Sonatas at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

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    the easiest classical music to appreciate is probably Dvorak's New World Symphany.

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    I do like me some forte piano.

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    For the discoverers among the members.

    A composer, considered of the highest rank by “connoisseurs”, but hardly known let alone well-known – in the wake of Schubert and Bruckner, an almost contemporary of Mahler and exact contemporary of Schönberg whose work he had performed: the Austrian Franz Schmidt.

    For decennia an admirer of his four Symphonies, his oratorio Das Buch der Sieben Siegeln... I found, tonight, on Youtube his 4th Symphony, from 1932/33, written in memory of his daughter, played very recently by the excellent Sinfonieorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks, which is basically the Symphony Orchestra of Frankfurt, conducted by the great Paavo Järvi (he has recorded the Four Symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon) – but this is a live performance.

    Characteristic of the Symphony is that all four movements are not only linked by the long theme, or phrase, which is played by a solo trumpet at the very beginning, but seamlessly flowing over into each other, actually develop out of it, yielding and combining the most exquisite both romantic and more modernist melodies.

    The continuously breathtaking harmonies (moving in and out of both the romantic and modernist idiom) support a rich, complex tapestry of counterpoint (i.e. of the sounding together of various themes and motifs at the same time).

    But all these fireworks never feel like Schmidt showing off a superior mastery of technique, but they serve to express a poignant meditation on death, spiritual survival, eternal beauty – and thus on the very essence of art. I hope you may share my admiration for this work.

    Franz Schmidt’s 4th Symphony in C major

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    ES Posthumus - Nara


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    This beautiful music woke me up in ways I cannot put words to. I have always had a very deep affinity with nature which I've never been able to truly express. Until I heard this.



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    Music for the vernal equinox and the return of a verdant landscape, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere.


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    Just catching up on the wonderful recent posts here... also to add this exquisite classic. Anyone who knows their classic British Ealing comedy films will remember this from The Ladykillers, where a band of robbers meet their match with 'Mrs Lopsided'.


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