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freebirdyeye:

Siegfried’s Funeral Music

Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/ Decca/ 1959

거장 한스 크나퍼츠부슈와 VPO의 소름끼치는 바그너 연주

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secondgenhybrid:

Wagner’s Die Walkure, Act III – The Ride of the Valkyries. Performed by James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The brass is fucking beastly. THAT BASS TROMBONE.

(The way the soprano solo is written makes her sound like a chicken.. jussayin’.)

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hintersatz:

Modernism in Classical Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel for oboe, bass clarinet, piano and four percussion. (1951)

Stockhausen regarded Kreuzspiel as his first original composition, as opposed to the style-imitation exercises he did as part of his music studies (Stockhausen 1989, 34 & 55). According to the composer, it was influenced by Olivier Messiaen’s “Mode de valeurs et d’intensités” (1949) and Karel Goeyvaerts’s “Sonata for Two Pianos” (1950), and is one of the earliest examples of “point” music. Kreuzspiel was premièred at the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse in the summer of 1952, conducted by the composer. According to Stockhausen, the performance “ended in a scandal” (Stockhausen 1964, 11).

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i12bent:

Robert Schumann: Ich grolle nicht (Heinrich Heine) – from Dichterliebe

Performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Alfred Brendel

(via evanevanevan)

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toniiu:

Bach | Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 – I. Double 

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classicalliterature:

Schubert – Fantasia in F minor, D. 940 (Op. posth. 103)

1. Allegro molto moderato 
2. Largo Scherzo 
3. Allegro vivace Finale
4. Allegro molto moderato

Performed by Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin

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The Beatles, Revolution 9, 1968.

revolutionnove:

Revolution 9

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archive-cinema:

Prosopopée I – Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry (Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul, 1950)

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justabunchofgoodmusic:

Maurice Ravel’s Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor, my personal favorite piano trio (and one of the more difficult to perform!).

Cheers

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classicalliterature:

John Cage – A Room

Composed in 1943, originally conceived as the third part of She Is Asleep (see below). May be performed with or without preparations, which involve 11 notes. Most are to be prepared using bolts, one new material is a penny. The music is written down on a single staff and follows the structure 4, 7, 2, 5, 4, 7, 2, 3, 5 (numbers denote the number of bars dedicated to a particular part of the section), repeated twice.