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5 votes
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Castlevania II Simon's Quest - Medley - Acoustic/Classical Guitar Cover - Super Guitar Bros (2020)
7 votes -
Five classical composers write for metal band
10 votes -
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Dirt (1987)
3 votes -
Classical pièce: Aleksandr Borodin — String Quartet No. 2
7 votes -
Happy Canada Day! O Canada performed by Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (2009)
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Classical entrée: Dohnányi Ernő — Serenade, Op. 10 (for string trio), Mvt. 2: Romanza [3:40]
7 votes -
Classical pièce: Nikolai Kapustin — Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 54
5 votes -
Classical entrée: Nikolai Kapustin ― Eight Concert Études, No. 6. "Pastorale"
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
13 votes -
Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning
15 votes -
Five Elise – Take Five and Fur Elise mashup (2020)
10 votes -
Xuefei Yang plays "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in her backyard (2020)
7 votes -
This mile-long wooden xylophone plays Bach's Cantata 147 when you roll a ball down it
8 votes -
Lau Noah - La Belleza (Apartment Sessions) (2020)
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Gautier Capuçon ∙ Alain Altinoglu
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Where to start with Mozart?
Reading the excellent "Cave in the Snow", a biography of Tenzin Palmo, I learned of her love for Mozart and it got me thinking. For whatever reason my classical knowledge is limited, mostly...
Reading the excellent "Cave in the Snow", a biography of Tenzin Palmo, I learned of her love for Mozart and it got me thinking. For whatever reason my classical knowledge is limited, mostly leaning towards more experimental contemporary composers (Cage, Pärt, Reich etc) and so I know very little about what you might call the classical heavyweights (Mozart, Chopin, Bach). With that said, where is best to start with Mozart?
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Ewan Dobson - Scarlatti - Sonata K53 (2020)
5 votes -
World BEAThoven Project
5 votes -
Jacob De Haan - Ammerland (2001)
3 votes -
Strike with the band - The world of classical music is neither noble nor fair, though its reputation says otherwise
6 votes -
Play with Ray – Ray Chen gives Hollywood Bowl debut to eighteen-year-old Laura Kukkonen
3 votes -
Manu Delago Ensemble - The Silent Flight of the Owl (2019)
1 vote -
Olivier Messiaen - Préludes pour Piano (1929)
3 votes -
Frank Zappa - Amnerika
5 votes -
George Crumb: "Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)"
6 votes -
Lau Noah - El Jardinero | Night Owl S4 • E12 (2019)
2 votes -
Vilayat Khan & Munir Khan - Raga Bilaskhani Todi (1987)
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Lau Noah - La Belleza | Night Owl S4 • E6 (2019)
2 votes -
Manu Delago Ensemble - BFG (2018)
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The greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something...
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something like a self-help book. What I've found is exactly the opposite, and I have found novels such as Great Expectations to be even more influential than anything I've ever read.
So I ask you all, what is the greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
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From the clavichord to the modern piano
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What's the deal with Proust?
I've never read Marcel Proust, and I know very little about his work. But every serious reader of literature I know absolutely gushes over him, but never seems to be able to explain what's good...
I've never read Marcel Proust, and I know very little about his work. But every serious reader of literature I know absolutely gushes over him, but never seems to be able to explain what's good about it or what the books are even about.
The scarce pop-culture references I see to his work (like in "Little Miss Sunshine") seems to cast an affection for Proust as kind of a mark of being an unmoored and depressive romantic.
So is he worth reading? The full collection of "Remembrance of Things Past" is nearly $100, so that's not a trivial amount to invest. Is there a recommended/definitive translation or edition I should read? What should I keep in mind or be open to if I do try giving it a shot?
By that last question I mean like, I'd have hated "Catcher In the Rye" if I wasn't told ahead of time to approach it from the mindset of a 15 year old boy. Or I kind of hated 'Madame Bovary" but when explained to me that this was Flaubert's exercise in trying to make people see themselves in an adulteress, a generally reviled archetype, and this was groundbreaking for the time lets me at least appreciate it for accomplishing what it's set out to do. Are there any literary contexts like I this should have in my head before I delve in?
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Anoushka Shankar - Voice of the moon (2005)
4 votes -
Gabriel Fauré - Sicilienne, for cello & piano, Op. 78
8 votes -
Classical Music at the Yellow Lounge in Berlin
4 votes -
Yo-Yo Ma: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2018)
9 votes -
George Walker, trailblazing American composer, dies at 96
7 votes -
Beethoven's Große Fuge (Grand Fugue) op. 133, visualized
3 votes -
Kepler Quartet - Ben Johnston / String Quartet No.4 "Amazing Grace" (2017)
6 votes -
Daniel Corral - Polytope excerpts (2018)
3 votes -
Zoe Keating - Tetrishead (2005)
3 votes