SOUND SAMPLES: ''KING HENRY THE VIII''

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Why Switching to Classical Music

''This just might be the geekiest thing I have written, but what do you expect? I’m a physics graduate student. I’ve gone through both of these conversions myself, and realized that there are some interesting similarities between the two, and that the kind of people willing to do the geeky one are probably pretty well suited to doing the musical one. So here we go:

It’s a deceptively different experience

Both situations involve switching to something which, on the surface, doesn’t seem too different from what you are used to, whereas in fact, both are radically different. For example, many people think of classical as basically long-winded and unstructured, especially compared to non-classical stuff. What you don’t realize until you’re well entrenched is that most classical pieces are structured around one of a few basic, but somewhat complex, underlying structures: sonata form, rondo form, etc. Identifying and understanding these forms is geek heaven. In a similar fashion, people new to Linux get a load of the tarted up window managers and see it as basically a free, slightly different looking, version of Windows. Of course, you find out quite quickly that that is just the very tiniest tip of the command-line based iceberg..''

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la Grande Fugue de Beethoven à l'hôpital Ste Anne par le quatuor Diotima

Sortir la musique classique des salles de concerts feutrées, la faire venir là où elle n'est généralement pas entendue, tel est le parti pris de Fugues. Pour ce premier épisode, rencontre entre le célèbre hôpital psychiatrique Saint Anne, à proximité de Paris et Beethoven, dans une de ses dernières compositions, la Grande Fugue, ici interprétée par le Quatuor Diotima, écrite à la frontière entre la folie et la mort.

JESSICA DUCHEN:''WHEN SCHUBERT MEETS BECKETT''

''I'd like to refer you over to The New Yorker today for a wonderful article by Alex Ross about Schubert's Winterreise, as reimagined for the stage by Katie Mitchell. The show, One Evening, makes much of the connection between Schubert's bleak winter landscape of the soul and those of Samuel Beckett. It was premiered in Aldeburgh last summer, visited the Queen Elizabeth Hall and is now in the Big Apple. There's an interview with the performers and director in the New York Times, here.''
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Johann Sebastian Bach, not one of his myriad kids. He really churned them out. Bach is another one of those boys that, like Mozart and Beethoven, everybody and their mum has heard of. He’s one of the greats. If you believe what a whole host of professional and amateur experts has to say on the subject, then he’s the greatest of all time. He’s the Muhammad Ali of the classical world.

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MATT PAPICH-DUSTIN WONG

Audio: Matt Papich & Dustin Wong – Xmas Song 1 | Aural States

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JOSEPH HAYDN

''..Well, one reason is they were both Classical (notice the big C!) composers, and this era was just prior to the drmatic musical explosion which occurred with the romantics. At this time the orchestras were reasonably compact, and things like the modern piano were just getting properly invented, so their sonic canvas was limited. Also, they both wrote at least partly as “court composers” writing pieces for the aristocrats, who wanted elegant and witty pieces, not anything too controversial..''
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ORCHESTRE RHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE

Measha Brueggergosman

Measha Brueggergosman

Measha Brueggergosman - L'Heure Exquise (von Reynaldo Hahn)