Beautiful baroque. Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Fabio Biondi (violin)
Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord & positive organ)
Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall (conductor)
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Beautiful baroque. Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Fabio Biondi (violin)
Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord & positive organ)
Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall (conductor)
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Sensual Bulgarian double bass. It’s the composer Julia Tsenova’s birthday today. (1948-2010) This is actually kind of mesmerizing.
Tone painting from 1909. Anatoli Lyadov (1855-1914)
Is Daniel Harding a fellow Schumann-phile? I have thought from early in life that Schumann and I resonated on the soul level. When Daniel Harding mentions Schumann’s intimacy, he is speaking of what I have always felt. In fact, it is so personal that I can not adequately put it into words. I have known many folks who admired Schumann, thought he was a great composer, etc., but they always seemed to me to be not quite resonating with his music as I do; and maybe it is as it will always be. Schumann may be the most personal composer in my own musical life. Symphony No. 2 is one of my favorite and most personal pieces of music. It also carries the life of many years of listening to it. It always stops me in my tracks.
Minimalist. Everybody was into Satie to one extent or another when I was in college. I don’t know how it is anymore.
U.S. composer. One of the “New England group” of classical composers.
Can you imagine Aphrodite first in her garden and then visiting the world? I can. (But, of course, it not necessary to imagine anything.)
Composed c. 1875.
Impromptu // theme and variations
Charles Griffes (1884-1920). U.S. composer. Generally known as an “impressionist” (but you may know by now that I think music and art can be, and often is, overcategorized.) This is his only piano sonata. There is no question that Debussy, etc. had a strong influence on him as did Scriabin. But his music is his own..recognizable, I think.