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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:04 pm
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:40 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:57 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:02 am
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I've been on an oratorio kick - did "Ich will dir mein Herze schenken" from Bach's St. Matthew's Passion, and working on "Hear Ye, Israel" from Mendelssohn's Elijah. Thought about looking at Messiah, but that's fairly overdone.
Besides that, my last favorite piece (although my fiancé/accompanist hated me for it) was Barber's Nocturne. It's a really incredible collaboration piece, but the piano part is really tough. I'm lucky I'm marrying a pianist or there's no way I'd have an accompanist for that piece.
Also as a long-term plan I want to begin work on Schubert's Winterreise. It's not exactly obscure, but it's just hauntingly beautiful and has so many interesting colors. Plus, as you can probably tell, I like collaboration pieces. It's fun!
That all being said, for other instruments... my fiancé recently played Poulenc Trois Pieces that was really incredible, especially the toccata. I'd also love to hear one of the Shostakovich piano concerti live - number 2 is my favorite. The Franck Chorale, Prelude, and Fugue is pretty awesome too, although I've heard that's a HUUUUGE undertaking. It's a really gorgeous piece, though. Lots of intricacies.
Unfortunately besides that, my knowledge of repertoire is dreadfully shallow sad Do feel free to inform me! I'm always looking for good pieces to listen to. Especially chamber rep. I love chamber music.
Oh yeah, speaking of which, there is also a brilliant Shostakovich work of which I performed the final two movements - it is called 7 Verses by Alexander Blok, for soprano and piano trio. It's actually interesting because all 7 movements have different sets of instrumentation, some with just the instrumentalists, some with the singer and one or two, some with everyone. It's a very cool piece, although it takes a lot of work to prepare. I can't imagine doing the whole set - two movements took enough time!
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:03 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:57 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:19 am
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Kea of doom Rikku-the-Gaurdian Those are all wonderful pieces! I recently discovered Schubert's poem cycle "Die Schone Mullerin." OH. MY. GOODNESS. Beautiful German poetry, scored by Schubert. My soul can't handle it. Of the poem cycle, "Der Muller und der Bach" is my favorite. Schubert is the shiz. Also beautiful is "Ich Grolle Nicht," by Schumann. For this one, you need to MUST up the translation to really appreciate the music. So beautiful. German music is just SO. DANG. AWESOME. Isn't it? Haha. Those guys were all geniuses. I like to wonder what Schubert's music would have been like if he hadn't died so young. It's sad to think of all the music the world missed out on!
Schubert wrote his most beautiful music when he was in the deepest part of his depression.
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:05 pm
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Rikku-the-Gaurdian Kea of doom Rikku-the-Gaurdian Those are all wonderful pieces! I recently discovered Schubert's poem cycle "Die Schone Mullerin." OH. MY. GOODNESS. Beautiful German poetry, scored by Schubert. My soul can't handle it. Of the poem cycle, "Der Muller und der Bach" is my favorite. Schubert is the shiz. Also beautiful is "Ich Grolle Nicht," by Schumann. For this one, you need to MUST up the translation to really appreciate the music. So beautiful. German music is just SO. DANG. AWESOME. Isn't it? Haha. Those guys were all geniuses. I like to wonder what Schubert's music would have been like if he hadn't died so young. It's sad to think of all the music the world missed out on!Schubert wrote his most beautiful music when he was in the deepest part of his depression. Yes, I have the same problem. I may not be a huge fan of being mentally ill, but there is a little bit of truth in the "twisted genius" archetype.
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:57 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:23 pm
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 12:06 pm
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