Bathylle

Opera, film music, classical music and... who knows

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Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements - Solti, Bayerischen R.O.

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Charles Dutoit: 'Today’s young musicians have no culture'

Charles Dutoit is one of the world’s greatest conductors - and most feared.

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The Mysterious Music of Georg Trakl

Both Wittgenstein and Heidegger found themselves, at pivotal moments in their careers, turning to the arresting work of the early twentieth-century Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887–1914). Not surprisingly, Wittgenstein and Heidegger responded to Trakl’s striking and still mysterious poems in sharply divergent—one might almost say opposite—ways.

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Bernard Herrmann - Psycho Suite

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a cond...

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Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (1949) [Score-Video]

Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (1949) Rudolf Kolisch, Violin Eduard Steuermann, Piano

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Heard of Giacomo Meyerbeer? He’s on the Cusp of a Musical Renaissance

A new album is one of the signs of renewed interest in the once-popular works of this 19th-century opera composer.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrMGqAmjbug)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1pTRR8l20)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWCPyx2MAK4)

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Why You Shouldn't Listen to Music While You Work

Unless you’re a truck driver or surgeon, it will hurt your performance.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebw0NeGlQUE)

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When Music Is Violence

From trumpets at the walls of Jericho to pop songs as torture in the Iraq War, sound can make a powerful weapon.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kronJxgK6c)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7MPc9M5Jo0)

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Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized

One championed early music, and the other was a modernist, yet more parallels can be drawn between the two than either might have preferred.

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The use of music in the films of Ingmar Bergman