I gotta say that I love #Music in almost any form. I have gone through phases where I listened to #alternative, #JamBand and #Classical. Right now #Jazz is my jam - again in almost any form. I mix Herb Alpert with Pat Methany and Miles David.
I have yet to come across a single instance where #classical#music performers deviate (and often directly contradict!) the dynamics or phrasing written down by the composer and that deviation improved matters. Doesn’t matter who the performer is or the piece. (YT is great with sheet music video!) Somehow nobody would ever dare to deviate from the written notes, but phrasing and dynamics is disregarded all the time… consistently making it worse. Count me baffled.
It's 2023, and #appleMusic still can't manage gapless playback of music. Utterly infuriating if, like me, you tend to listen to a lot of music extended pieces that are broken up into smaller tracks
It's ruining Marillion's An Hour Before It's Dark right now 🤨
Spotify never had this problem, but Spotify also has Joe Rogan ¯_(ツ)_/¯
there are not little accounts on the #birdsite, who on first sight promote #classical#art* only to get a whole lot of reactionary crap passed under the radar and show off their simplistic world views and lack of capacity and/or will to get the #postmodern discourse. by all means culture_crit is a perfect example.
*in itself nothing wrong with that at all
Chances are high you know Samuel Barber's beautiful classical piece Adagio for Strings. It has been used in several films, including Platoon.
But not as many people know that there's also a choral variation, called Agnus Dei. Personally, I think that's even more beautiful. Listening to it always gives me goosebumps. Turn up the volume, close your eyes and enjoy...
also: i did all the assembly for our friend chetan's classical recordings that i mastered! one album, two EPs, and three standalone singles. he's going to have a bunch of cool shit coming your way soon. 🧛♂️🧛♂️🧛♂️
and a 90-minute call with a person we're planning a show with
Erik Satie's Gymnopédie, no.1 but a bit different. This is the Microtonal Guitar Duo with their version, featuring flavours of Hüzzâm, which—in Ottoman/Turkish classical music–is a pitch name, a cins (tetrachord, sometimes considered merely a version of hicâz with a contracted centre), and a makam with ascending-descending character in the Segâh family. Don't worry if that all sounds complex, because #MusicTheory involving makams really is a different world. This mainly uses makam Hüzzâm to flavour the improvisation on #fretless#guitar without strictly sticking to the rules and aesthetics built into it. #music#Classical#microtonal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLT411jinNY
"I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over."
As one of the most famous pieces of American classical music, Rhapsody in Blue has been performed by some of the greatest pianists and orchestras in the world. I know - I've watched to and listened to most of them....
I am obsessed with this. Are there any bands out there making #music like this? #Hindustani#classical music + #ProgMetal? This is really, really cool and I need more of it. lol
Checking out the new Discovery Station feature of #AppleMusic and so far, it's a complete bust. Through careful liking and disliking, my New Music Mix has become a great assortment of #classical, #jazz, and #fusion. You'd think #Apple would use a similar algorithm to generate the Discovery Station, but no. Apparently, it thinks I want to “discover" a steady diet of 80s pop.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a child of the 80s and love the sound. But that's not what I'm looking to discover.
An interesting one for #MusicWomenWednesday - sometimes as I'm watching TV, I use Shazam to take note of a song so I can find it later.
Isobel Waller-Bridge is a modern classical composer for TV and movies, and her cool song "Bloom" was in whatever I was watching. That led me to her whole 2015 EP, 'Music for Strings'.
I'm not a fan of your older regular classical type stuff. But THIS? THIS is damn good.
Trying something new here. As a self-taught pianist it's hard to get good feedback and tips. I had considered posting my practices, but who really wants to watch other people do scale and chord inversion exercises. Instead I thought I would start posting repertoire run throughs where either I'm getting close and want feedback or am struggling to see if any one has any tips.
🧵 Today's splendid find. You simply wouldn't expect to find something like this in a junk shop in Bern: A box of theatre, concert, and arts programmes from 1940s and 50s London. Amazing snapshot of post-war Britain... #theatre#history#classical
Rhapsody in Blue - Khatia Buniatishvili on piano, Leonard Slatkin conducting, Orchestre National de Lyon - 2017 (live) - composed by George Gershwin (www.youtube.com)
As one of the most famous pieces of American classical music, Rhapsody in Blue has been performed by some of the greatest pianists and orchestras in the world. I know - I've watched to and listened to most of them....