Have you ever notice.....

[Joy]

Originally posted by AndrewMyers:
Smetana's string quartet 'From my Life' is pretty good. Not a hit, I guess, but very striking for its graphic depiction of the onset of deafness in the last movt - yes, Smetana went deaf too, though by all accounts he didn't cope with it quite as well as our very own Ludvig.

I've heard this piece too and you're right it is a graphic depiction of his deafness. He went deaf in 1874. In 1875 he wrote this to a friend, "The ear is quite healthy externally. But the inner apparatus, that admirable keyboard of our inner organ, is damaged, out of tune. The hammers have got stuck, and no tuner has so far succeeded in repairing the damage."



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'Truth and beauty joined'

[Tony John Hearne]

Originally posted by Peter:
Bruch - Violin Concerto
Bizet - Carmen (though there is the L'arissiene suite and the symphony in C).
Glinka - Rusmin and Ludmilla
Albinoni - Adagio
Percy Grainger - English country garden.
Holst - The Planets
Dukas - Sorcerer's apprentice
Bellini - Norma
Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana
Jihann Strauss Sr. - Radetsky march
Reznicek - Donna Diana
Rubinstein - Melody in F
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Khachaturian - Spartacus
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Anon - Greensleeves

Peter An interesting choice but I can't agree on Gershwin "An American in Paris" and the "Concerto in F for piano and orchestra" are thrilling pieces, alongside "Rhapsody in Blue" as I am sure the late and very great Leonard Bernstein would have agreed

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Love from London

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Tony John Hearne:
... on Gershwin "An American in Paris" and the "Concerto in F for piano and orchestra" are thrilling pieces, alongside "Rhapsody in Blue" ...

And don't forget the compelling, rhythmic "Cuban Overture". And "Porgy & Bess", an honest to God opera! Of course, Gershwin, like Schubert, was best known for his Lieder.




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Regards,
Gurn
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[Tony John Hearne]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
And don't forget the compelling, rhythmic "Cuban Overture". And "Porgy & Bess", an honest to God opera! Of course, Gershwin, like Schubert, was best known for his Lieder.


Thanks Gurn You are not wrong!!

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Love from London