La Villa d'Este

20:55 17th Jun 2013

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Eduard Kunz performs Scarlatti Sonatas.

18:12 14th Jun 2013

Notes: 104

A fight with a piano that came near proving disastrous to the greatest of pianists, occurred on shipboard while Paderewski was on his way to New York a short time ago. Paderewski in his state room had a small upright piano on which to practice. It was fastened to the floor by means of bolts. On the opposite side of the room was the bed. In a heavy storm the piano was loosened by the rolling of the vessel. Straight it made for the pianist and crashed into his bed, nearly pinning him to the wall. Paderewski on reaching the floor rushed to the opposite side of the room. Instantly the piano followed, coming at him with great force. He dodged it, but it came at him again, being hurled about in the room by the rolling of the boat. The pianist tried to get out the door, but could not loosen the bolt and he was thus hemmed in with the tumbling piano which threatened to crush him to death at every second. There was nothing to do but wrestle with the instrument. He grasped it as it came toward him again and after lengthy struggle in which he was nearly exhausted, succeeded in binding it to the wall.

— – Popular Mechanics, 1902 (via futility closet)

(Source: 90scup90sbusseat)

16:53

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Does anyone know what piece this is?

14:00 13th Jun 2013

Notes: 3

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Olga Jegunova performs Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major, K331

Andante grazioso 0:00 Menuetto 6:53 Alla Turca - Allegretto 10:24

13:04

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Tags: Anderson and Roe piano arrangements chamber music stravinsky

Anderson & Roe plays arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring - Augurs of Spring (Part 2 of 10)

11:52

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Reblogged from coffeeandoperatics

Tags: opera muppets verdi rigoletto

coffeeandoperatics:

operaswag:

This is the best thing ever. Muppet(?) singing La Donna e Mobile.

This! This! This!

16:05 12th Jun 2013

Notes: 17

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Anderson & Roe plays arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring - Introduction to Part I

16:04 11th Jun 2013

Notes: 6

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Live (unedited) audio recording of Yehuda Hanani (cello) and Walter Ponce (piano) playing this rarely-heard piece of Chopin, October 17, 2009, in the concert series of Close Encounters With Music in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

15:54

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Tags: rosalyn tureck J.S. Bach bach piano keyboard Miami International Piano Festival

Rosalyn Tureck performs an aria from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations,

from a 2002 lecture on Bach’s ornamentation for the Taubman Institute in Williamstown, Massachusets a few months before her death.

11:56

Notes: 13

Reblogged from mahleriana

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Symphony of Ideas: Bill Evans - Creative Process and Self Teaching

misterbartmiller:

11:56

Notes: 37

Reblogged from welltemperedlistener

Tags: schubert chamber music

Plays: 157

bachsweets:

Schubert
Octet In F, D 803: (II) Adagio

Mozzafiato & L’Archibudelli

11:41

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Reblogged from mahleriana

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musicprag:

MET / Le Comte Ory - Flores/DiDonato/Damrau (COMPLETE OPERA)

I wonder where some people get complete operas from the Metropolitan opera.

18:13 10th Jun 2013

Notes: 16

Reblogged from hintersatz

Tags: sandrine piau mendelssohn song vocal

Plays: 92

hintersatz:

Sandrine Piau sings Felix Mendelssohn’s “Schlafloser Augen Leuchte, trüber Stern”.

Schlafloser Augen Leuchte, trüber Stern,

Dess’ tränengleicher Schein, unendlich fern,

Das Dunkel nicht erhellt, nur mehr es zeigt,

O wie dir ganz des Glück’s Erinn’rung gleicht!

So leuchtet längst vergang’ner Tage Licht:

Es scheint, doch wärmt sein matter Schimmer nicht,

Dem wachen Gram erglänzt die Luftgestallt,

Hell, aber fern, klar, aber ach, wie kalt!

12:41

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Reblogged from kuhchung

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chat log: so mad at teebao

One does not reveal one’s magic tricks..

kuhchung:

but I won’t talk to her directly. I know she reads this, so I’ll just passive aggressively post this here.

I dreamt that teebao showed me a card trick. It was incredibly realistic too, as far as dreams go. I chose a card from a deck, then she just picks out 7 cards to create a smaller deck, and…