RE: New Thread: Classical Music Influences on Us

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

Welcome, Carl Jacobson!

>I am so happy I found this list. Since I moved from NYC, I've kind of felt
>like an island re: this kind of music. I joined this list because I heard
>there was a discussion about Plasma, one of Cakewalk's loop-based 
>products.
>I never expected conversations on these topics.
>
>I've been on a Scriabin kick lately, especially the Piano Sonatas 5-10. 
>Any
>opinions on his music?

Yes, I just got a piano concert of his. Its very impressif in the 
beginning and then somehow cannot round it up... I wonder about the 
Sonatas...

For the first time I traveled with a PowerBook (which makes live 
totally diferent, even at home) and kept putting it on friends CD 
colections and suck in whatever I thought was interesting. So 
sometimes I did not care enough about documentation... amazing that 
many classical recordings are not on CDDB...

Anyway what I found of interest:

Fauree Requiem. Just beautifull!

Friedrich Gulda: A wild Austrian piano player, exellent Mozart 
interpreter, but also improviser, composer and friend/partner of 
Chick Corea. I dont think he is still alive.
I have seen him playing years ago, finalizing a city open air 
festival. It turned into an incredibly unifying event since he 
touched every group of the society. He is equally funny and deep, 
free and acurate. So is the CD I found, him playing his own 
compositions.

Monteverdi, allways.

Richard Strauss: Die vier letzten Lieder. His testament. Very ripe, 
and prety concrete: He interprets poems almost word by word.

Talles: Somebody mentioned him... he made a work for 30 voices or so, 
a terrifically dense choir, completely ahead of time! I lost the CD...
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