Viva la musica!

Originally created as a sort of shunting station for audio posts, this is slowly developing into a blog about all things related to music.

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Camille Saint-Saëns: «Le rossignol et la rose»

Rita Streich, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Kurt Gaebel

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Camille Saint-Saëns, c. 1895.

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A Minuet For Solo Piano Written By Maurice Ravel In 1909 To Mark The Centenary Of Joseph Haydn’s Death.

"Menuet Sur Le Nom D’Haydn" ( Minuet on the name of Haydn ) By Composer Joseph Maurice Ravel, Performed By Pianist Philippe Entremont

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" Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11 " ( Perpetual Motion ) By Composer Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) Performed By Virtuoso Violinist Salvatore Accardo

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His name ought not to be Bach (brook), but Ocean, because of his infinite and inexhaustible wealth of tonal combinations and harmonies. Bach is the ideal of an organist.

Beethoven, 1824 (via blogthoven)

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The Beatles - Octopus’s Garden.

We would be warm below the storm. In our little hideaway beneath the waves.

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Lotte Lehmann sings Zueignung (1938)

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Zarah Leander - Den Sista Valsen (1937)

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Scottish soprano Mary Garden dressed for an operatic role, 1909

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I can wear long skirts when I'm 40

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Yuja Wang’s short dresses have attracted as much attention as her virtuoso performances at the piano. Ahead of London concerts, she talks to Ivan Hewett

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Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)

Work: Giga (Quadrilha Caipira) from Bachiana Brasileira Nr. 7 (1942)

Performer: Nashville Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn

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You are a genius, Bellini, but you will pay for your great gift with a premature death. All the great geniuses die young, like Raphael and like Mozart.

Heinrich Heine to Bellini in the spring of 1835. A few months later, the composer was dead, not yet 34 years old.

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Opera must make you weep and die

Verdi and Wagner raved about his elegiac, tender, proto-feminist operas. But Vincenzo Bellini, born 200 years ago today, is rarely given his due now. Tim Ashley reports.

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Tchaikovsky, Uzh polnoch blizitsya (Lisa’s scene and arioso from The Queen Of Spades)

Valery Gergiev, Kirov opera & orchestra

Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano

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Henri Lehmann: Portrait of Franz Liszt, 1839.

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Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli, S.162 (rev. version 1859) supplement to Années de Pelerinage, 2ème année: Italie (S.161) - 1. Gondoliera

Jorge Bolet, piano

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Hector Berlioz: Tristia, Op.18 - 3. Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet

Pierre Boulez, The Cleveland Orchestra

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The Tristia were written between 1831 and 1844 and published in 1852. They were never performed during the composer's lifetime.