Dead-Composers Society

[Parker Owens]

I do! Just forgot to hit the button! Sorry...

2 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

....god no one likes Clara Schumann..... ? 

 

insane  

 

 

 

Last night's piano Quintet was astounding...

[AC Benus]

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

I do! Just forgot to hit the button! Sorry...

 

Last night's piano Quintet was astounding...

Oh, was it Clara's  

 

(and the chide was for northie, not  you... hehe) 

Edited June 17, 2017 by AC Benus

[Parker Owens]

Tonight's concert program...

 

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op 34, CM Von Weber

 

Piano Trio #2, J Turino

 

String Quintet, op 77. A Dvorak

 

[AC Benus]

Finally!!! A staging of Cavalli that explores some of the awesome sensuality in every bar of his incredible stage music. This vid is tantamount to soft porn  

 

 

[Parker Owens]

5 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

Finally!!! A staging of Cavalli that explores some of the awesome sensuality in every bar of his incredible stage music. This vid is tantamount to soft porn  

 

 

 

This is amazing. Were  they even allowed to imagine this in the seventeenth century? Incredible.

[AC Benus]

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

 

 Were they even allowed to imagine this in the seventeenth century? 

OH YES! Sometime I'll post scenes from Calisto. So many sex scenes - including Jupiter seducing Calisto disguised as Diana. Also, one of the nymphs was written for a male tenor to perform; he's hot for Mercury. 

 

 

Edited June 23, 2017 by AC Benus

[Lux Apollo]

Thanks for sharing that, AC. Awesome stuff.

[AC Benus]

19 minutes ago, Lux Apollo said:

Thanks for sharing that, AC. Awesome stuff.

Thanks, Lux, and warms hugs for you, my buddy, today 

[AC Benus]

just for you, Lux. Smile, plz - this music insists 

 

 

[Former Member]

Always good to cheer me up and give me energy:

 

 

[AC Benus]

@J.HunterDunn Something for your summer day, my friend. You should like the opening for sure  

 

Alessandro Scarlatti, Erminia, 1723

 

 

[AC Benus]

@Lux Apollo This one's for you, Lux  I'm not sure the performance is the best, but some of the arias are really interesting, like the first one. Let me know what you think. 

 

Nicola Fago, Cantate a Ariette, circa 1695 

 

 

 

Edited June 30, 2017 by AC Benus

[Parker Owens]

And for you, @AC Benus...

 

 

[AC Benus]

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

And for you, @AC Benus...

 

 

Thank you, dear friend! I have not heard this aria, but I do love Pergolisi  

[AC Benus]

@Parker Owens For you, this awesome recording of Josef Hoffman performing the Liszt piano transcription for Wagner Tannhäuser overture. It was recorded in 1915, but comes to life with each new unscrowling. Hope you like it (the playing starting at min 5:40 is fascinating....) 

 

 

Edited June 30, 2017 by AC Benus

[Parker Owens]

8 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

Thank you, dear friend! I have not heard this aria, but I do love Pergolisi  

 

When I was an undergrad, I sang this as part of my senior recital...

[AC Benus]

On 6/26/2017 at 10:38 PM, Lyssa said:

Always good to cheer me up and give me energy:

 

 

One for you, Sister Lyssa  

 

This is a very interesting performance.... Mozart's Fantasy in c minor 

 

 

[AC Benus]

And one for myself  This is the central ensemble from Paisiello's I Pittagorici, 1799. It's a really convincing performance - makes one remember why Paisiello was considered the world's greatest stage composer for most of Mozart's lifetime.   

 

 

[Lux Apollo]

On 6/30/2017 at 1:04 PM, AC Benus said:

@Lux Apollo This one's for you, Lux  I'm not sure the performance is the best, but some of the arias are really interesting, like the first one. Let me know what you think. 

 

Nicola Fago, Cantate a Ariette, circa 1695 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing this AC. I was unaware of this composer's existence! And he was one of Jomelli's teachers, too. The music is definitely of quality, and a decent variety of gesture and idiom explored in the set. Fairly restrained harmonically, though there were a few interesting moments in some of the recitative. I wish I spoke Italian, because I feel like I'm definitely missing half the story just enjoying the music without understanding the speech. Very enjoyable, though. 

[Tiger]

One of my personal favorites, Bolero!

 

 

[AC Benus]

12 hours ago, Tiger said:

One of my personal favorites, Bolero!

 

 

A really nice performance too! Thanks for posting this. I'm one of those guys who still thinks of Bo Derick and the movie 10 when I hear this.... Played it on TV when I was a kid....okay, when I was a teenager  

[Tiger]

 

[AC Benus]

48 minutes ago, Tiger said:

 

Oh, Zubin Mehta, very nice  

[Tiger]

 

[AC Benus]

This is a lovely sounding instrument... Cristofori pianoforte, circa 1720