Monday, June 30, 2025

Hear three themes get made over!
(Maybe a sneaky way to peek into an imagination like no other?)

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You'll probably know the composer(s?) who created our themes -- and why I've made a group out of these themes KYjvk0FTuxRsclB6ci60...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

(2) It's Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 100th birthday Wednesday!
And (1) We ask a panel of experts:
Can a flute do "somber"?

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WE'RE GOING TO ATTEMPT HERE SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE: THE BEGINNINGS OF TWO DIFFERENT POSTS HAPPY 100th, DIETRICH F.-D....
Monday, April 21, 2025

Schubert understood that life sometimes works out and other times . . . well, it doesn't

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PANICKY MONDAY 12:15pm UPDATE: OMG, after the heap of fixing and tinkering I've done, suddenly the audio clips aren't loading! I th...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

"Out-of-body" Beethoven, part 2: Is one of these three string-trio slow movements even more special than the other two?

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BEETHOVEN: String Trio in G, Op. 9, No. 1: ii. Adagio ma non tanto e cantabile (key: E major) Itzhak Perlman, violin; Pinchas Zukerman...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

"Out-of-body" Beethoven? We have three gifted samples (and then we'll add a couple more)

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"[These three] extraordinary slow movements in the key of E major . . . share an almost out-of-body quality, and it’s inspiring to wond...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The start of an all-too-quick remembrance of a special singer we'll be hearing from (too briefly) in an upcoming Mahler 3 post

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[(MORE) PROPER EXPLANATION TO COME, plus another whole installment (though not today for that!)] MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate (motet, Exu...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

As we've noted, there's more than one reason to care about Mahler's loopy little Wunderhorn song "Ablösung im Sommer," Part 1

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FOR STARTERS, IS THIS THE SAME SONG? MAHLER: Lieder aus der Jugendzeit ( Songs from Youth ): " Ablösung im Sommer " ("Summ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Not that it takes much, but I'm in an "Urlicht" frame of mind -- and we're going to have some other Mahler Wunderhorn songs too

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AND DO WE HAVE A KNOCKOUT " URLICHT " COMING UP! TODAY WE HAVE MUSIC!!!   (It's just not in our usual form) Internet Arc...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Brahms knew, and so did Mahler: Being a for-real functional artistic genius is (gosh!) really hard work

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" Mahler's way of thinking in music did not easily conform to the rules of the symphonic scholars. He could not contain himself i...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Part 2: Marching in anguish, or to triumph, or toward what? In the 1st movement of Mahler 3, we've sure left BrahmsWorld behind! (Then again, are we so sure?)

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"[Mahler] could not contain himself in the A B A divisions of symphonic form. In this unique first movement he adapted large-scale sona...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Part 1: Marching in anguish, or to triumph, or toward what? In the 1st movement of Mahler 3, we've sure left BrahmsWorld behind!

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Oh, for sure we're not in BrahmsWorld anymore. Then again, are we sure we're absolutely sure ? FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: PART 2 OF T...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Coming momentarily (if not sooner): An adventure in musical metamorphosis -- presented in a pair of mutually accessible parts

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EARLY MORNING UPDATE: Part 1 of the post is now posted. Part 2 will be coming soon. UPDATE: Two more clips added, clearly related to eac...