per request

I've been hugely into Wagner the past month or so. I've somewhat digested Tristan und Isolde, and I've started working my way through his Ring cycle.

Try and listen to the final Beethoven piano sonata, no 32. It's being my favourite (and thus one of the best pieces of music ever). In the second movement, watch out for Beethoven inventing jazz a century early.

I've heard it, but not closely. I'll give it a listen sometime soon, I hope.

Listen to Carl Vine's Piano Concerto if you haven't already.
Good stuff.

mmmm satie


mozart avec old vlad

Found these awesome books of Wagner's operas at home, they have the libretto in German on the left page, the translation on the right page, and best of all, there's an index with all the leimotivs and they show which one is being used at which point in the text. Helps a lot to understand everything and makes for really active listening.

I've been looking for The Complete Organ Works of Messiaen by Latry for awhile now, and I can't find anything. I wish more people talked about him here.

"Quartet for the End of Time" is legendary.
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