What are you listening to? June 2022
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Ojai Sam
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You Ravel in these threats of violins, don’t you?
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Do you dare to DeFalla me?
Ojai Sam
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I’d say the Part is calling the Ketelbey black here.
Unsomnambulist
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Tool - Lateralus (2001)
Zeeba Neighba
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 9 “Jeunehomme” (Andreas Staier/Concerto Koln)
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Marcelle Meyer - French Keyboard Masters (1954)
This may be the first classical album cover I've seen that looks like it belongs in Mad Magazine. The music itself is impeccable: subtly emotional with a true empathy for the feelings imparted by the composer.
Marcelle Meyer was the chosen pianist for every major French composer of the early 20th Century. Wiki tells us:
Marcelle Meyer was born in Lille, France, on 22 May 1897. She was taught piano from the age of five by her sister Germaine, and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1911 at age 14, studying with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long and was awarded the "Premier Prix" at age 16. She then studied Maurice Ravel and Spanish composers with Ricardo Viñes. She coached with Claude Debussy about how to play his Preludes after having met him when she played the premiere performance of Erik Satie's Parade in 1917. Meyer became Satie's favored pianist and premiered Francis Poulenc's Sonata for piano four hands with the composer. She premiered several of his other works and recorded with him.
In the early 1920s she played for Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky. She became famous for her talent and gave recitals in England, Netherlands and Germany, as well as giving many premieres, including works by Arthur Honegger, Alexis Roland-Manuel, and Igor Markevitch. She was also among those pioneers who re-discovered in France the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin and Domenico Scarlatti.
In 1922 Jacques-Émile Blanche painted Marcelle Meyer in the company of Jean Cocteau and Les Six, a group of composers consisting of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.
She died on 17 November 1958 aged 61 after suffering a heart attack while playing in her sister's Paris apartment.
Meyer with "Les Six".
This may be the first classical album cover I've seen that looks like it belongs in Mad Magazine. The music itself is impeccable: subtly emotional with a true empathy for the feelings imparted by the composer.
Marcelle Meyer was the chosen pianist for every major French composer of the early 20th Century. Wiki tells us:
Marcelle Meyer was born in Lille, France, on 22 May 1897. She was taught piano from the age of five by her sister Germaine, and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1911 at age 14, studying with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long and was awarded the "Premier Prix" at age 16. She then studied Maurice Ravel and Spanish composers with Ricardo Viñes. She coached with Claude Debussy about how to play his Preludes after having met him when she played the premiere performance of Erik Satie's Parade in 1917. Meyer became Satie's favored pianist and premiered Francis Poulenc's Sonata for piano four hands with the composer. She premiered several of his other works and recorded with him.
In the early 1920s she played for Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky. She became famous for her talent and gave recitals in England, Netherlands and Germany, as well as giving many premieres, including works by Arthur Honegger, Alexis Roland-Manuel, and Igor Markevitch. She was also among those pioneers who re-discovered in France the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin and Domenico Scarlatti.
In 1922 Jacques-Émile Blanche painted Marcelle Meyer in the company of Jean Cocteau and Les Six, a group of composers consisting of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.
She died on 17 November 1958 aged 61 after suffering a heart attack while playing in her sister's Paris apartment.
Meyer with "Les Six".
Zeeba Neighba
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Jean Sibelius - Lemminkainen Suite (Sinfonia Lahti/Osmo Vanska)
Zeeba Neighba
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Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (Live) (1958)
Just delighted they keep finding these live recordings - just released. A rare example of Ella taking her Song Books live, in this case soon after she recoded the Irving Berlin Song Book. Very nice!
Just delighted they keep finding these live recordings - just released. A rare example of Ella taking her Song Books live, in this case soon after she recoded the Irving Berlin Song Book. Very nice!
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