melodien

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) (French)

from the First Book of Harpsichord Pieces: Allemande

by Scott Ross

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musicforawhile:

François Couperin - Quatrième livre de suites pour clavecin (1730): La Convalescente

Mitzi Meyerson 

Couperin’s four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in 1713, 1717, 1722, and 1730, contain over 230 individual pieces, which can be played on solo harpsichord or performed as small chamber works. These pieces were not grouped into suites, as was the common practice, but ordres, which were Couperin’s own version of suites containing traditional dances as well as descriptive pieces. 

Many of Couperin’s keyboard pieces have evocative, picturesque titles and express a mood through key choices, adventurous harmonies and (resolved) discords. They have been likened to miniature tone poems. 

The early-music expert Jordi Savall has written that Couperin was the “poet musician par excellence”, who believed in “the ability of Music [with a capital M] to express itself in prose and poetry”, and that “if we enter into the poetry of music we discover that it carries grace that is more beautiful than beauty itself”.

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oldhollywood:

Kronos Quartet - Dr. Van Helsing & Dracula (composed by Philip Glass, via Philip Glass: Dracula, his score for 1931’s Dracula)

Additional tracks here.

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bachsweets:

Handel
Organ Concerto in D Minor, Op.7 No.4, HWV 309: (I) Adagio


Simon Preston, organ
The English Concert - Trevor Pinnock, dir.

NOTE:  Best listened to on a rainy Thursday.

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malipstick:

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) (English)

from the Opera The Fairy Queen: Now The Night

by Philippe Jaroussky & Andreas Scholl (!!) & Ensemble Artaserse

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leadingtone:

Schubert - Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142/D935, No. 4
Murray Perahia, piano

(photo by dreamer@desh) 

music-ex-machina:

Jory Vinikour - Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914 clavecin (Bach)

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blogthoven:

1st movement - Trauermarsch (Funeral March) of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Pierre Boulez conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

idroolinmysleep:

Henry Purcell, Sonata for Trumpet and Strings in D Major, Z. 850, John Wilbraham, trumpet, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, cond.

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bachsweets:

Jean-Philippe Rameau  (1683 - 1764)
Dardanus: Act 5 - Chaconne


Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, dir. 

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mhsteger:

The Chaconne, from the Suite in G, for two viols, composed in 1686 by Marin Marais (born 31 May, 1656; died 15 August, 1728); performed here by the Smithsonian Chamber Players: Kenneth Slowik and Jaap ter Linden, bass viols, and Konrad Junghanel, theorbo, on a 1990 recording for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

A 1704 portrait of Marais by André Bouys (1656–1740)

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zveneczi:

Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594): Matona mia cara

Deller Consort

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sheeper:

J.S. Bach: Canon perpetuus super Thema Regium

Musickalisches Opfer BWV 1079 (1747)

Barthold Kuijken: flauto traverso

Sigiswald Kuijken: violin

Wieland Kuijken: viola da gamba

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sheeper:

Sarabande Grave

Marin Marais: Suite In G Major, 3rd Book, Pièces De Violes

Palladian Ensemble