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Phenomenal Georges Cziffra playing Franz Liszt’s Valse-Impromptu, S.213 A-flat major.
“My piano has been until now my very self, my words, my life, in which I have confided all my thoughts since the most ardent days of my youth; all my desires, dreams, joys and sorrows were found in it. Its strings have shuddered under all my passions, its submissive keys obeyed my every whim.”
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Arturo Toscanini conducting Giuseppe Verdi’s (1813-1901) Overture from La Forza del Destino.
La Forza del Destino is an opera that many old school Italian singers felt was “cursed” and brought bad luck. The very superstitious Luciano Pavarotti avoided the part of Alvaro for this reason.
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Keith Jarrett - Tokyo Encore (November 14th 1976)
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Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas (1994) for 2 Marimbas.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
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Krzysztof Penderecki - Symphony No.3 (IV. Passacaglia - Allegro Moderato)
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Marc-André Hamelin plays Nikolai Medtner’s “Danza Rustica” op. 38 No. 5 from “Forgotten Melodies, Book I”.
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German composer Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Capriccio in E minor, Op. 81 No 3 Andante con moto for String Quartet.
Felix Mendelssohn composed this piece for string quartet in the last few years of his life from 1843 to 1847, which he published shortly before his death as Op. 81. He was 38 years old. The details of the moment of his death are quite poetic. As he lay unconscious in bed surrounded by friends and doctors, a marching band passed by outside his home. A servant absentmindedly threw open the front door and the brass music flooded into his bedchamber. Mendelssohn sat bolt upright in bed with his hands ready to conduct, and then collapsed back on his pillow and was dead.