Classical Music Thread

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I prefer Glass's Second Violin Concerto "American Seasons". Even his style is the same, the music feels more open and less neurotic -- but it could easily due to the performers.

Rome's rightful successor dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SOHbExit0tc
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Malipiero has written a huge number of oddball operas which he considered his most important body of works, but for everybody else his most important contribution might be his symphonies, many of them are about death and remembrance. As in this Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte.

Perhaps the music that you might have the best chance to listen in concert is his pastiches Vivaldiana and Gabrieliana
 
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J. S. Bach's contemporaries, however famous and musically creative they were in life, were invariably eclipsed in our times by our veneration of Bach himself. We've been gradually discovering the treasure of Telemann, yet someone like Christoph Graupner, chapel master of the Hesse-Darmstart court, still languish in obscurity. Graupner's duty of writing for the royal church has produced 1418 sacred cantatas (compared with Bach's 200-something and 1043 by Telemann), all are preserved in the royal library but few are available in modern editions. The cantatas that are published and performed today are, however, absolutely revelatory, such as "Ach Gott und Herr" (Ah, My God and Master), GWV 1144/11.


Here I present the solo soprano aria "Sigh and Weep, My Weary Eyes". Note the repeated string figure first appearing at 0:16. It almost sounds like a strike of thunder that the sinner feels of God, or perhaps the sound of her heart breaking. Bach would never aspire to such explicit tone painting.
 
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