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I don't know if anyone have seen this ad before, I thought it was charming and beautiful!
It's in German, but it's subtitled.
Just imagine....
iPod meet Mozart:
_________________ "This E is very forced. One can see that it was written only to go from one consonance to another in parallel motion, --just as bad poets write nonsense for the sake of a rhyme." --WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART--
Brilliant! I was just talking the other day with a pianist friend of mine about his difficulties dealing with pieces by Rachmaninov requiring huge stretches. I'll suggest this solution to him.
_________________ "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. " - Walter Pater
after listening to the whole series of Cherubini's string quartets, I remebered that the only other great string quartet* by an Italian composer of the XIX century I know is Verdi's Quartet in e minor. It's the only one important chamber work by Verdi. or better: the only instrumental work (apart from Opera Ouvertures and Ballets) he wrote in his mature age. It was written, if I'm not mistaken, about 1870 (at the time of "Aida").
I haven't any recording of this beautiful work (a remarkable lack in my collection!), and so I searched the tube for some clips. The best one I found is this one of the first movement:
there is also a complete series of the four movements by the Oberon String Quartet (not good audio quality)
with a special reccomandation and dedication for Sorin, and for all the partecipants to his thread about Cherubini's quartets
* Not taking into account: Rossini's six "Sonate a quattro": indeed they are quite good, as exercises of composition by a precocious boy of 12, but imho nothing more; nor Paganini's "pseudo-quartets": they are really "chamber violin concertos": the prevalence of the first violin is too much overwhelming.
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I was just talking the other day with a pianist friend of mine about his difficulties dealing with pieces by Rachmaninov requiring huge stretches. I'll suggest this solution to him.