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A challenging return to the office full-time this week (after working remotely 90% of the time for the past two years). Playing this quietly right now.
Bach - Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079) - Jodi Savall & Le Concert des Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crRuvK3jOvs |
Schubert - String Quintet in C Major (Op. 163, D. 956)
Isaac Stern - violin Alexander Schneider - violin Milton Katims - alto violin Pablo Casals - cello Paul Tortelier - cello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk |
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Recently spent a lot of time listening to The Complete String Quartets by Vagn Holmboe (Decapo 8.207001) .First impressions were of a jumbled mess but after a lot of patient listening I ‘cracked the code’ and now wonder why I found the experience like learning another language. Unfortunately a large number of recent classical compositions make no sense to me after more listens than I care to remember. Sometimes I wonder if they make sense to anybody. Maybe it’s just me? Maybe it’s just that some refuse to admit the emperor really has no clothes?
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On the other hand I can see this form as almost valid if it’s attempting to describe the ‘intellectual’ absurdities of deconstructionism and/or the present state of the world. |
French composer/organist Olivier Messiaen (1909-1992) improvises at the organ of the Paris Church of the Sainte-Trinité (Holy Trinity), where he was organist for more than six decades (since 1931).
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Trinity College Cambridge performing the Durufle Requiem during the early days of the Covid pandemic, hence the masks and the unusually wide spacing of performers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-RiYOpaYVw Don’t much like the organ accompaniment. The original orchestral backing works better to my ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGoD-Cr-Wek |
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