Happy Baptism of the Lord!
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
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Happy Baptism of the Lord!
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Happy feast of St Francis!
Happy Michaelmas everyone!
Happy Easter… Kommt eilet und laufet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fa...
Great day for the Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsZ...
ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
Louis X proclaiming "France signifies freedom, and any slave setting foot on the kingdom becomes free by that very fact."
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
…and here's what I get for O1-pro, honestly I don't think this is $200 worth of pelican
o3-mini's SVG rendition of a pelican riding a bicycle.
Have you tried O3-mini or O1-Pro yet? Here is what I get for O3-mini:
"yeah you're welcome you load of ingrates!"
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
Actually I should say that for his string quartets I found the Robert Greenberg lectures super useful: www.audible.com/pd/The-Strin...
The piano sonatas one was also cool but I felt like I was more able to grok them without assistance
Another chunk of his I hadn't repertoire I hadn't listened to much out was his cello sonatas, cello is such a gorgeous instrument, here's yo yo ma doing op 69 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9pi...
Or if you want to see the birth of modernism here's op 135 no 2 Vivace, he does a lyric thrumming theme out of a Haydn andante then suddenly **record scratch** and then crazy atonality www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Ep...
He was never a big quartet guy but at the end of his life he only did quartets and produced some of the greatest music in history. I'd say they're probably not the best place to start if you're new to the genre but if you want a taste try op 130 mvt 2 presto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOB4...
I think our modern ears are less attuned to string quartets so it took me a lot of listens to appreciate his quartets, I think Razumovsky op 59 no. 1 might be the best place to start, the opening sounds to me like Frodo heading off on his adventure www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG89...
His last public performance was playing the piano concerto #4 in 1808. Movement 2 is thought to depict Orpheus (piano) taming the furies (orchestra) at the gates of hell.
I think I love this piece more than any of his symphonies. The piano concertos are so underrated, no 5 is also incredible
…parts of that one sound to me like two pianos being smashed together.
One thing I haven't mentioned was that in addition to being a composer, he was considered one of the greatest piano players of his day . Some of his pieces like the Hammerklavier were considered simply unplayable at the time.
I always knew about Pathetique and Moonlight mvt 3, but Waldstein is such a headbanger. The opening theme 1 is hammering 5th notes so basically a 90s grunge sound, then a wild virtuosic bridge breaking into slow stately harmony like church bells, and it keeps going… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quvq...
Happy epiphany! Enjoy one of Bach's great epiphany cantatas, BWV 65 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzr...
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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People love the hero's funeral movement in Symphony #3, but he sketched out the idea in his op 26 mvt 3. Is this the first time someone made a piano do a military drum roll followed by a cannon shot? And yet it's not even my favorite movement in that sonata www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9l...
His early work gets condescendingly labeled "influenced by Haydn and Viennese classicism"... But does this majestic largo from op 7 sound like Haydn or Mozart? Listening to this is like staring for minutes at a Degas it is stunning and it's not even famous youtu.be/vxdutquL_Kg?...
One of my biggest discoveries this year was the piano sonatas. Beethoven was considered the greatest pianist of his time, so this is his native instrument. If his symphones are big lavish oil paintings, his sonatas are sketches. He could work out his craziest ideas freely
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