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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mozart: Requiem (Sir Colin Davis, LSO)
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| December 5 |
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horizon
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21 Jan 2020 |
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December 5 is the death day of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The day when Requiem, who was trying to compose while he was giving his last breath in poverty, said goodbye to this world as he barely completed that beautiful “Lacrimosa” episode.
Every time I listen to Lacrimosa, I hear his breathing between death and life.
Even there, saying hello to death does not leave the joy of life. Then, an unclaimed funeral and the burial of the poor burst into us.
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4 of 4 found this review helpful |
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E.S. Posthumus - Makara
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| Repetitive! |
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bonnie
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26 Mar 2019 |
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Posthumus seems to get an idea and works it over for too many bars. "Kuvera" is particularly worked to death.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Domenico Scarlatti - Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 3 [Jeno Jando]
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| Novel and Composer |
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I was reading a book by Jose Sarmango that Baltasar and Bilimunga, I came across Domenico Scarlatti in this novel and now I am listening to his music in this atmosphere, it might be interesting!
They wrote about the novel;
On one side, the Portuguese monarch, Dom Joao V, a febrile nincompoop who diverts himself with toys by day and impregnates compliant nuns at night. Around him circle his sleepy queen, fawning nobles, starchy footmen. Eager for an heir, Dom Joao V promises the Franciscan order that if it intercedes effectively with the heavenly authorities, he will reward it with an enormous (and unneeded) convent in the town of Mafra. The Queen conceives - hurrah! The King lives up to his promise - bravo! The Portuguese peasants, conscripted to labor in Mafra, sweat and suffer. On the other side, two characters based on historical persons. Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, a heretical priest who disdains the Trinity, keeps working on a machine named the Passarola (Portuguese for big bird) with which he means to take off for freedom. And Domenico Scarlatti, the famous musician, comes to Lisbon to teach the King's clumsy daughter but soon finds himself far more interested in the padre's plans for flight.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Vyacheslav Pershin - Time In The Movement
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| Time in the Movement |
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bonnie
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24 Aug 2018 |
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I like just about everything we have in the AFM library, but Pershin has sent in four of his cds & all four are variations on the same pressured theme. His piano playing is highly adept, but again, there is no change of pace or feeling within his works. I never choose to request his things.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Mario Lanza - 100 Hits Legends: Mario Lanza
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| 100 HIts by Mario Lanza |
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bonnie
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10 Jul 2018 |
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I loved Lanza, but "More Than You Know" on this cd is extremely out of tune & every note he sings grates on my oboist ears heavily. Now I'll have to see what I notice about the other tunes on this one.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
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| Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
| By: |
bonnie
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23 Feb 2018 |
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has astonished me since I was a child. Now I'm 77, and with Mac Wilberg at the helm, their outstanding in house composer, they are surely at the peak of great performances. The orchestra is always excellent, and the acoustics are surely among the best in our world.
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