May 2013
47 posts
“Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.” - Richard Wagner
May 24th
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May 24th
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Listen“Dalla sponda tenebrosa” from Wolfgang...
May 24th
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“I came into the world almost completely blind on account of which my parents felt a very keen chagrin. I was surrounded by a warm and continual tenderness which very early predisposed me to an almost unhealthy sensitivity. This was to follow me all my life, and was to become the cause of intense joys and inexpressible sufferings.” - Louis Vierne
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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ListenLouis Vierne’s amazing Messe Solennelle -...
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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Listen“One has to keep one’s distance from...
May 22nd
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May 21st
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ListenGeorge Frideric Handel’s epic “Zadok...
May 21st
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why am i spending so much time and effort posting classical music?
May 21st
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May 20th
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ListenOscar Shumsky plays Pierre Rode’s 24...
May 20th
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“When I am completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.” 
May 17th
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May 17th
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ListenArthur Grumiaux and Clara Haskil plays Wolfgang...
May 17th
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May 16th
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ListenLebanese pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha plays...
May 16th
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May 15th
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ListenAnton Bruckner’s Nachspiel in D minor....
May 15th
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May 14th
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ListenJoshua Bell plays Jean Sibelius’s Romance...
May 14th
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“Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.”
May 12th
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May 12th
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ListenJordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI plays...
May 12th
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Happy Mother’s Day!
May 12th
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May 12th
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ListenGioachino Rossini’s Overture from the...
May 12th
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May 10th
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ListenMichio Miyagi’s “Haru no Umi”. 
May 10th
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“There is infinite hope, but not for us.”
May 9th
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May 9th
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ListenErmanno Wolf-Ferrari’s amazing...
May 9th
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May 8th
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ListenEvgeny Kissin plays Robert Schumann’s...
May 8th
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May 6th
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ListenErik Satie’s “Les trois valses...
May 6th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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ListenGustav Holst’s EPIC “The Planets -...
May 5th
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May 4th
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ListenAtar Arad plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s...
May 4th
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“It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ” 
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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ListenSergei Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff’s...
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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ListenPeter Broderick’s “Floating /...
May 2nd
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April 2013
28 posts
Apr 30th
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ListenIn Memoriam, Janos Starker plays Gabriel...
Apr 30th
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Very very very sad news. Janos Starker dies at 88.  He was by far my favorite cellist. 
Apr 29th
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