Advantages: A discovery unforgettable Disadvantages: Nothing
...difficult in the same time.
I try to do it:
1) He make a full immersion in historycal background of Chopin;
2) He loved to study hand-written Chopin's music;
3) Like he said, he stopped to learn a work when "sounds flow in my blood".
4) An intelligent control by means of mind and heart.
He plays Chopin's Nocturnes suspended in "time": night is not only darkness, mystery or passions; night in Chopin is without time also...
This Arturo understood and now we can hear a strange dimension of time.
Of course, there are passions, loves, cryes but these are nothing...in front of a world without time.
Often Nocturnes seem lullabyes: it is true!
But they send to sleep the death not the listeners!
Then, these musics are a victory on the death!
Other pianists have played these Chopin's works: Horowitz, Schnabel, Pollini, Richter...
Some years...
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Advantages: Haunting, passionate music to get lost in. Disadvantages: It's classical and this puts people off before they even try it.
...interrupt it - particularly something as mundane as housework.
Floon and I are obviously not alone in finding the quintet special. This music has aroused the passions of many and the notes say” Many musicians have spoken in awe of its spiritual Elysianism, including the pianist Artur Rubinstein (who requested the slow movement be played at his funeral), the great nineteenth-century cellist Alfredo Piatti (who asked for it to be played during his dying hours to send him into the next world), and the renowned quartet leader John Saunders who had the opening seven bars of the first movement’s second subject inscribed on his tombstone above the following Shakespearian quotation (Sonnet XVIII):
So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
String Quintet in C Major, D956 (1828)
The title conveys...
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Advantages: another smahing album! Disadvantages: not quite as good as previous album
...With the first track on this album being Roll Up and Shine, its a great start to yet another amazing album from Stereophonics! Although maybe not such a good album as Word Gets Around, Performance and Cocktails is still class! With brilliant songs such as, Bartender and the Thief, Stopped To Fill My Car Up, I wouldn't Believe Your Radio and T-Shirt Sun Tan, Performance and Cocktails is another unique album from the Phonics.Although Performance and Cocktails is not quite so good as its predecessor, Word Gets Around, Stereophonics have written another smashing album, with Kelly's great vocals and the lyrics in the front cover, so you can figure out what he is singing about and so you can sing along, Performance and Cocktails is an album you must have!...
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