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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John Portman on YouTube
Tag: classical
Sonatina for guitar op.52 by Lennox Berkeley, Tal Hurwitz, guitarist
“Menada” by Julia Tsenova, played by Irina-Kalina Goudeva
Sensual Bulgarian double bass. It’s the composer Julia Tsenova’s birthday today. (1948-2010) This is actually kind of mesmerizing.
The Enchanted Lake — Anatoli Lyadov (1909)
Tone painting from 1909. Anatoli Lyadov (1855-1914)
Symphony No. 2 in C major — Robert Schumann / BBC Proms conducted by Daniel Harding
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.
3 Gymnopédies, 6 Gnossiennes — Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Minimalist. Everybody was into Satie to one extent or another when I was in college. I don’t know how it is anymore.
Aphrodite — George Whitefield Chadwick (1910)
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.)
Nocturne in E flat major, op. 33 No. 1 – Gabriel Fauré // Kathryn Stott, piano
Composed c. 1875.
Walter Gieseking plays Franz Schubert Impromptu in B flat Op. 142 No. 3
Impromptu // theme and variations
Piano Sonata — Charles Griffes
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.
