Contrapunctus

"What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters"~Edgar Degas

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Mabuse. Detail from St. Luke Painting the Madonna, 1523.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau: Concert nº6: “L’Egiptienne”, from 6 Concerts Transcrits en Sextuor. Les Talens Lyriques. Christophe Rousset.

If epicureanism exists….

Semper in memoriam, Jean-Philippe Rameau.

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Thetis dipping her son Achilles in the River Styx by Reubens 

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Fauré, Élégie for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 24

Walter Susskind, Philharmonia Orchestra 

Janos Starker, cello

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Hannibal’s music : show only | extrapolated

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Santa Filomena, 1840, Collocazione Cattedrale, Pistoia

Bezzuoli Giuseppe 

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The Cabinet of Cornelis Van der Geest (1628) – Willem van Haecht

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Philip Alexius de László (Hungarian born British painter) 1869 - 1937

Portrait of Raymond P. Johnson-Ferguson, 1923

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William Blake - Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell. An illustration for The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XXXI. 1824

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I've been trying to figure out a motif I can work on for this blog this summer. I'm thinking something more "modern" like bauhaus and de stijl. Would you hate me if I started incorporating "early" graphic design?

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k-a-t-r-i-n-a-13:

Woman Reading in an Interior. Oil on canvas.

Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (Danish, 1863-1935). 

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Since 2002 Martha Argerich’s Progetto at the Lugano Festival has brought together many notable artists for memorable concerts of chamber and orchestral music. This 4-CD set offers a rich selection of live concerto recordings, all with Martha Argerich and all first-time releases. They include a number of works new to her Deutsche Grammophon discography (Mozart, Prokofiev, Bartók and Poulenc) in addition to scintillating performances of Schubert, Brahms and Milhaud – all CD premieres of pieces absolutely new to her repertoire.

It’s a mixture of the familiar and the new; but even the familiar gets an extra frisson through the tension and edge of live performance atmosphere. The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana is Ms. Argerich’s excellent partner under a variety of conductors including Charles Dutoit, Ion Marin and Alexandre Rabinovitch; piano colleagues such as Rico and Paul Gulda (Mozart Triple Concerto) also join her on stage, while Karin Merle takes the seat at the second piano in this performance of Darius Milhaud’s delightful Suite, Scaramouche. The performance took place in Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano, on 15th June 2004.

In order to fit all three movements (Vif, Modéré and Brazileira – Mouvement de samba) within Tumblr’s file-size limit, I’ve had to reduce the MP3 quality quite drastically. Far from my usual 160 kb/s, this is only at 112. Hopefully this won’t spoil enjoyment.

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Portrait of a German Girl artist unknown, late 1500’s source

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Alexandre Charles Guillemot (1786-1831) Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (Detail) Oil on canvas, 1827

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Edgar Degas, Two Riders by a Lake, 1861

Pen & ink.

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Titian and his workshop made at least seven versions of this painting.

This version is the only composition that shows the Magdalene’s Bible resting on a cloth-covered support rather than the usual skull.

The Penitent Magdalene, 1555-1565, Titian. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Bernard van Orley - Das Martyrium der Hl. Katharina

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Jan Saenredam and Domenicus Rottenham, Jael and Sisera, c1595