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Another Lullaby: Brahms Op 117 no 1
Liszt’s Strangest Masterpiece
Rach meets Bach: Rachmaninoff’s Moment-Musical in B minor
Rachmaninoff’s Depression: Etude-Tableau in G minor
Debussy: “La Terrasse des audiences du Clair de Lune”
Percy Grainger: Blithe Bells
Today’s video is a rarely played arrangement of one of the most famous J.S. Bach pieces of all time, the aria “Sheep may safely graze,” from his cantata BWV 208. It’s a highly imaginative arrangement, that in no way tries to be precise in transcribing the original. In effect Continue Reading
Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale
Today’s video is a performance of a lovely little miniature that Tchaikovsky wrote in 1882—the Valse sentimentale op.51 no.6. I first heard this piece in a performance in an old documentary by the wonderful cellist Gregor Piatigorsky—and I was surprised to learn later that the usual way that string players Continue Reading
Glenn Gould thought Mozart was a bad composer??
Today’s video is a little bit of a departure from my habit thus far—I stumbled across a brilliantly fascinating and slightly infuriating video of Glenn Gould criticizing Mozart the other day, so I decided to do a reply in which I directly address Gould’s points. Mozart is one of Continue Reading