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For the well-tempered pianist

Gyan — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:26:10 -0800

An interactive Shockwave-based look at Bach's Well-tempered Clavier. Go one level up and explore the entire coverage of Bach.

What I learned from Sergiu Celibidache

matteo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:31:40 -0800

Music is nothing.
Sound could become music.
The end must be in the beginning,
and the beginning in the end.
I am here because I am not here.
Music lives in the eternal now.
Music is the now becoming now.
What I learned from Sergiu Celibidache, by Markand Thakar. More inside.

Beethoven's Ninth: the Score

matteo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:47:47 -0800

Beethoven's Ninth -- the score.

MetaRaga

Gyan — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:32:13 -0800

ITC Sangeet Research Academy - a guide and resource of Hindustani classical music
RealPlayer and Flash recommended

Wagner, the repulsive giant

matteo — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:56:37 -0800

Wagner, the repulsive giant If, on one hand, you ever wanted to know what a swine Richard Wagner was, this is the book to tell you. It does so at length, in reliable detail, calmly, without prurience, perfectly backed with documentation, and in a translation whose only fault is in giving no Translator’s Notes for in-house German references. Joachim Köhler sustains his story with new ideas, revises other interpretations and modestly deconstructs Cosima née Liszt’s creation of “Richard Wagner Enterprises Inc”. (This she developed so far as to keep Parsifal exclusive to Bayreuth, prompting George Bernard Shaw to remark in 1889 that it “would almost reconcile me to the custom of suttee”!).

Classics await in the future.

Specklet — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:14:28 -0800

Recently discovered: works by Bach and Munch.