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Discussing and discovering western classical music

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https://channel-kit-classical.vercel.app

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Beethoven, Chopin, Bach and Mozart, I always find graphology possible/reflective of certain internal shapes in their ways of thinking, can you guess which is what. I am adding the other two in thread

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My romantic phase continues, found a Schumann song arranged for Cello, the text based on a poem from Joseph Eichendorff about an old knight asleep in his castle. https://youtu.be/9JCYemfrVbo?si=7_FlRqS8A74f2jGZ

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Poetic that the LA Phil is doing Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony on Saturday. Tickets are scarce, doesn’t look like they’re canceling. Should be quite a moment.

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I am admiring this choice of freedom, apparently even Goethe submitted to the royalty, but Beethoven somehow survived and even managed to ignore deafness and kept going. "Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven." " Those are the words of a man truly not lacking in self-confidence. With them, Ludwig van Beethoven once put Prince Karl von Lichnowsky in his place. In the year 1800, the composer's noble patron had guaranteed him a yearly stipend of 600 guilders. Beethoven had just arrived in Vienna, and the funds were to bridge the gap until the composer earned a regular income. That was never to happen. During his entire time in Vienna from 1792 until his death in 1827, Beethoven remained a freelance musician. Unlike most of his predecessors, he never had an official position at a court or in the service of the church. By Deutsche Welle Painting Stieler

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I am practicing Beethoven Waldstein sonata, final parts of first movement. Lightness of being, triumph over destiny itself. Beethoven in his most heroic. I love this piece. I am not ready to live stream yet but sharing a little bit here nevertheless, sharing the process

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Itap of Milan Scala where particular type of visual/musical magic happens

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started learning Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing last night

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If you are looking a flow during late Saturday evening remote work sessions, Rubinstein's the answer: https://youtu.be/44a2kZ72RzY?si=qFRXBvXDIqmls-_M

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Today for some reason I am all about Charles Valentin Alkan, a contemporary of Chopin but because he decided on becoming a recluse and a book worm, the world discovered him only later https://www.classical-music.com/features/composers/charles-valentin-alkan https://youtu.be/KpfKBRDt8Ow?si=s8OKvlDWSpwc5Ce2

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well on the way to finish everything here getting way more opinionated in music somehow made me way more opinionated in life choices i wont recommend this

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I have found Shostakovich very much able to wake me up from any type of slumber that modernity sometimes lulls, so here attached very interesting video with Bernstein enlivening the atmosphere What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in ‘serious' music. - Composer Dmitri Shostakovich https://youtu.be/KUnnEH7yxyc?si=4DBatxZHoJ0NHs4_

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Still listening to this Banger, I found in Hellsing Ultimate. It also made me think I should go to the Opera again this year; I love the drama and the exuberance, and it's also nice to dress up once in a while. https://youtu.be/G3_OZ6fQzVc?si=uAR30qV81wBbIGXp

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Here is a visual celebration of Wagner. For those with passion for opera, this might be of interest. I recently visited this castle https://maps.app.goo.gl/feXCaPqrqAkhUN6E8?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy and even though it was way over the top it was still inspiring, where idealism lead and how much music can materialize in the architectural forms both interior and exterior (I don’t have my own photos of interior but exterior is mine)

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Chopin on piano - everyone knows. Chopin on guitar - rare (esp this virtuously) https://youtu.be/mVathRye31Q?si=qmaSkVmjkVIP8ap0

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