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Nice to have known you. Course, there WERE other Bachs. Of the three J.S. Bach sons who wrote music C.P.E. has kept me most intrigued. Your post has rekindled my interest in a box set that I had on steady rotation for a while: a 54 disc box set of C.P.E.’s “complete work”. It isn’t. But it’s a copious collection, the chief downside of which is the singular contribution by pianist, Ana-Marija Markovina, on all of the solo keyboard compositions (half of the collection!). Material of this scope and volume demands multiple interpreters, imo. Nonetheless I recommend it as a decent survey of the composer who was considered THE Bach of his generation. It’s available for purchase but also streaming on most platforms.


The Complete C.P.E. Bach (2018, Profil - G Haenssler)

Marie Monday

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Flying Pictures at an Exhibition Vivan and Ketan Bhatti, Flying Steps (2019, Sony)

"Originally created for a collaboration with the dance group FLYING STEPS, Vivan and Ketan Bhatti took Mussorgsky's “Pictures at an Exhibition” as a starting reference point for a new composition and contemporary interpretation. Their compositional process can be best described by the term “palimpsest”, which is a manuscript for a piece of writing where the text has been repeatedly scraped or washed off in order to make rewrites, literally ‘overwriting’ text on top of fragments of the original text. As a result of this compositional method, the original work of Mussorgsky and Ravel always shimmers through in their new composition but varies in intensity." wisemusicclassical.com

If you enjoy Mussorgsky you'll at least appreciate this album. Fun listen. I'd love to see a performance live. They've got a couple of live dates in Hamburg coming up (not sure if it's virtual or not). Recommended.
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Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N 16 "Italian": II. Andante con moto Felix Mendolssohn New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein

I can see why people would hate Bernstein's measured take on this famous movement but I also think it's just the right pace. In any case, as a stand alone piece from a full symphony it plays beautifully.

OccultHawk

Cool album cover.



Boulez conducts Ligeti

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abGJ...38D1A8&index=2

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Even if her playing isn’t perfect I think I enjoyed that more than when played by an orchestra.

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Yeah I mean I take it within the context of the arrangement. That piece, alone on a classical guitar - that's about what you're going to get. If a computer had simulated it, I wouldn't have liked it as much.

There's a beauty in the error. It's like a timestamp on a performance.

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I like shost but the orchestra on that is little assclowny tbh

I know it’s a waltz but it’s better if that isn’t highlighted too much

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending - Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Iona Brown (solo violin), Neville Marriner (conductor)