Posted 1 week ago

It has been a long time since I posted something in here. Well, I would love to have plenty of time to do everything I want to do, but that’s quite impossible sometimes.

Today I was listening Richard Strauss and he definitely a composer that I regard of of the best. Then I decided it was a good time to up-to-date this tumblr with something very unique (and very difficult this piece scares that crap out me, pardon my French): Don Juan. 

I do hope you all enjoy as much as I do.

Richard Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20

Silvesterkonzert 2006 - Sir Simon Rattle

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Posted 10 months ago

It’s a very delighted interpretation of Beethoven’s Sonata “Appassionata” for the Piano. I’m not that fan of Baremboim, but I must admit he played it very well.

zveneczi:

Beethoven. Sonata para piano n.º 23 en Fa menor, Opus 57 “Appassionata” - I. Allegro assai

(by Despierta Universo)

Posted 11 months ago

That’s was a really surprise for me. Mixing Lady GaGa with Bach is so unusual!

The person who did it was really good.. (s)he just rewrote Bad Romance by Lady GaGa using Bach’s style of composing.

Hope you all love it as much as I did. ^.^

thepiano:

Song of the Day #128- Lady Gaga Fugue

A mixture of Lady Gaga Melody and Bach. Very intriguing.

Posted 1 year ago
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Beethoven: String Trio in E-flat major, Op.3 - 1. Allegro con brio

Mutter, Giuranna, Rostropovich

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Beethoven, String Trio In E Flat major , Op.3  I. Allegro con brio Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Anne-Sophie Mutter (Violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)

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Posted 1 year ago

G.Tartini - Sonata in G minor (“Devil’s Trill”) - 1. Larghetto afetuoso

Oscar Shumsky, Milton Kaye

Tartini isn’t just the ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata, despite of this is the most famous work of him. Well, I believe Tartini is more known among Violinists than other instrument players or lovers and it’s quite easy understand that, because he was a great Violin teacher: “L’Arte dell’arco” is one important study for young intermediate-advanced Violinists (as Casorti, Ševcík, Flesch, etc., are important too).

He also wrote many Operas, but I think all of them have a minor importance; the real gold is hidden in his Concertos, Sonatas and general works for the Violin. Fabio Biondi recorded another Tartini’s Sonata in G minor (Op.2 no.1) in his 2003 CD called “Italian Sonatas”; I must be honest: this CD is worth just for Veracini’s and Tartini’s Sonata, ‘cause I do think that Geminiani, Locatelli and Mascitti suck.

For whom doesn’t know Tartini at all, I strongly recommend his famous work, the Devil’s Trill Sonata. There’s a story behind this work and you can look for it on the Wikipedia database: it’s quite simples and easy.

There’re a really big bunch of well known Violinists who performed the Devil’s Trill, as Perlman, Mae, Mutter, Prihoda, etc., but I’ll post here a performance of Oscar Shumsky, not really known by people, but a really good Violinist; perhaps this is my favorite record of this Tartini’s Sonata.

I posted the first movement, but I’ll let here links for the rest.

Part 2 - Movements 2, 3 and 4

Part 3 - Candenza and Finalle

Posted 1 year ago
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Chico Buarque - Dura na Queda

Chico Buarque is one of the most important Brazilian singers and composers of Brazilian Popular Music (known as MPB). Chico has many passions and it reflects directly in his music. I’m such a fan of him.

Well, I strongly recommend many songs of him as: Construção, Maria e João, Geni e o Zepelin, Noite dos Mascarados, Valsa Brasileira, Feijoada Completa and his Saltimbanco Opera.

Hope you all enjoy it!

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Posted 1 year ago
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W.A.Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 27 in B-flat major - 1. Allegro

Freiburger Barockorchester, von der Goltz, Andreas Staier

I do like most of all Piano Concertos of Mozart: they’re so simple and gorgeously beautiful. I should say that my favorites are 20, 21, 23 and 27. I bolded [sic] the 23rd ‘cause it’s so special for me that I’ll certainly post something about it later, but I could tell you all that the 23rd is perfect: that bassoon solo on the Adagio is MAGIC.

Talking about the 27th isn’t easy as I thought earlier. It’s the last of all Mozart’s Piano Concertos. I do think that the last 7 Concertos are kind of more beautiful and easier than most of the 27; well, it’s something I guess, you can disagree! My favorite record of some Mozart’s Piano Concertos is that one with Abbado and Maria João Pires.

Well, I wanted to talk more about the 27th, but I can’t: it’s missing something in me and I don’t want to write things that I will regret later. But I should tell you all that this performance is very excellent. I loved it at the first “sight”.

Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.

beneetu:

Mozart: Piano Concerto #27 K 595 - 1. Allegro 13:43

 Andreas Staier(forte piano); Gottfried Von Der Goltz: Freiburger Barockorchester

 Mozart: The Last Concertos


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grooviejazz:

Tres Palabras’ by Brad Mehldau [Anything Goes, 2005]

Ironically, Anything Goes would have been a more fitting title for pianist Brad Mehldau’s previous effort, the idiosyncratic and experimental Largo. Completely eschewing the electronic flourishes and horn sections that characterized the 2002 Jon Brion-produced album as Mehldau’s most adventurous release up to that point, Anything Goes is actually a return to a more traditional approach. Featuring his longtime sidemen bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, Mehldau has crafted a thoughtful and pretty standards-based album. Classics including the title track and “Get Happy” are artfully deconstructed in a style that calls to mind a deft blending of Mehldau’s most obvious touchstones, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. Similarly, “The Nearness of You” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” are masterpieces of impressionism that veritably weep with the plangent yearning of Miles Davis’ trumpet. However, by the time Mehldau turns Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” into the missing track off Sketches of Spain and solidifies Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” as the most poignant ballad ever written, Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen.

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J.S. Bach: Concerto for 3 Harpsichords, Strings and Continuo no.1 in D minor, BWV 1063 – 1. Allegro

Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, Gerhard Oppitz, Hamburger Philharmoniker

Gorgeously played! I do recommend you all to listem this Concerto. 

navigolucky:

Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, Gerhard Oppitz, Hamburger Philharmoniker

oranc:

Bach: Concerto for 3 Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo No.1 in D minor, BWV 1063 – 1. (Allegro) (05:14)