During the last days I reposted another dozen of broken links in the Kammermusikkammer. Beginning with the 23th of April, I refreshed 60 titles up to now. They are all listed below, the new one are backgrounded in red, like Zelenka's fabulous trio sonatas.Thursday, July 5, 2012
Another reposted dozen
During the last days I reposted another dozen of broken links in the Kammermusikkammer. Beginning with the 23th of April, I refreshed 60 titles up to now. They are all listed below, the new one are backgrounded in red, like Zelenka's fabulous trio sonatas.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born April 9, 1928)
Tom Lehrer is the most brilliant song satirist ever recorded. You probably knew that already, but perhaps you didn't know this: His first album, Songs By Tom Lehrer, was one of the most profitable investments in the history of the music business. Recorded for an initial studio cost of $15 (15 dollars - for the entire album) and initially released for sale only on and around the Harvard University campus, Songs By Tom Lehrer went on to sell 370,000 copies on Lehrer's own do-it-yourself label, becoming one of America's biggest-selling - if not the biggest-selling - humorous-music album of the 1950s on any label, large or small.
Lehrer’s career as an entertainer was as brief as it was brilliant. He didn’t become a professional performer until 1952, just before he made his first album. He dropped out of showbiz in 1960, and two years of that eightyear span were spent in the Army. Aside from a very short comeback in the mid-'60s (when he recorded his highest-charting album, That Was The Year That Was), he's spent his time teaching and, by his own account, taking life easy.
Tom Lehrer was born (April 9, 1928) and raised in New York City.
"My father was a tie manufacturer, a big man in the industry. I had a normal childhood, I would say. I took piano lessons; everybody did in those days. I didn't like classical music, though. I would practice the absolute minimum that I had to for my piano lesson, and then I would start picking out popular tunes I'd heard on records, and my parents finally caught on. They didn't have many pop-piano teachers in those days, but my mother, bless her, actually scouted around and finally found me one.“
A precocious student, Lehrer graduated from high school at age 15 and entered Harvard. He soon began writing little songs and parodies for parties and special occasions. (In 1945, at age 17, he wrote "Fight Fiereely, Harvard".) He got his bachelor's degree in mathematics at 18 and remained at Harvard as a graduate student until 1953, except for one year spent at Columbia University.
"The first time I ever sang for anybody, other than at a private party, was when I was in graduate school. They had a quartet singing contest at a law school dance, and four of us entered and sang some of my songs. We were the only entry, so they refused to give us the prize, but we sang anyway! Then we got hired to sing at the Harvard freshman smoker, an annual event where the whole freshman class – all boys in those days - got together to drink beer and throw up. The other three singers went on to other careers after that, but I continued to sing on my own around the campus, at dance intermissions, things like that.“
"My first real public performance was in the fall of 1952, at a nightclub called Alpini's Rendezvous in Boston, for $15 a night. I got a couple of $5 raises, but when I got to $30 they said that was too much, so I quit" The LP record had recently been introduced, which made it more feasible to record and release an album on one's own than it had been in the days of fragile, cumbersome 78-r.p.m. discs.
"There was a doctor in Boston named Shep Ginandes, who sang folk songs. He made an album of them and issued it privately. I called him up, and he helped me a great deal. I found a studio in Boston, and they set up the recording session plus the LP pressings and the printing of the jackets. I recorded the first album on Januara 22, 1953, all in one session. I think it just took an hour; it might have been a little longer.“
„The whole idea was just to sell it around Harvard. Record stores agreed to take it for $3 and sell it for $3.50, just as a public service to the community. Also, each dormitory at Harvard had a newsstand kind of thing, and they would also sell it, give me $3 and sell it for $3.50. The first 400 copies have my home address at the time on the back: 6 Kirkland Road."
"I began getting orders from college towns around the country. Then I began getting a lot of orders from San Francisco, which I couldn't figure out. It turns out that the music reviewer of the San Francisco Chronicle had devoted a whole column to the record, giving the price and the address."
At Christmastime 1953 Lehrer was booked into the Blue Angel, then one of the top nightclubs in New York. After he talked the city's two largest specialty record stores into carrying the album, which promptly began flying out the doors, several major record labels expressed interest. All of them eventually backed off because of the album's controversial lyrics. Like it or not, Lehrer remained an independent entrepreneur.
"I spoke to Manny Sachs at RCA. He explained that RCA sold refrigerators and other consumer items and wouldn’t want any protests because of something on their record label.“
Radio also shied away from Songs By Tom Lehrer, except for a few FM stations late at night (those were the days when only serious music and hi-fi buffs had FM radios). But those mail orders continued to roll in, more and more each week. Tom eventually set up a downtown office for Lehrer Records and hired assistants to take orders and deal with the pressing plant and the jacket manufacturers. There was another pressing maller, though, that he had to handle personally: the draft. More Of Tom Lehrer was recorded on July 3, 1959. This time it cost a bit more than $15 - the session was held at RCA's first-class studios in New York. Once again, though, the entire LP was cut in a single session - three hours including playback and editing time.
Lehrer held firm to his decision to abandon the concert hall for the classroom. Did he not enjoy performing, one wonders?
"Oh no, it was fine. I enjoyed high school but I wouldn't want to do that again either. I had a good time, going to new places and meeting new people, but getting out onstage and performing was not all that interesting. I felt like a novelist being asked to read his novel every night. One night I was performing at New York's famous Town Hall. I sang 'Fight Fiercely, Harvard' and I started with the second verse instead of the first, and I thought How am I going to get out of this? So I just stopped, and started again, and got confused again, and finally said, 'Oh, you all know this song anyway. Let's go on to the next one.' It was embarrassing. I hadn't been thinking about the song, but about what I was going to have for dinner afterwards or something. So I thought OK, the time has come."
Tom Lehrer has been comedy’s most celebrated nonperformer ever since. But he has never totally retired. He continues to teach a variety of courses in musical theater and in mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Despite having turned his back on his songwriting and performing career, he retains a lot of pride and affection for his creations.
Source: Dr. Demento, in the booklet of „Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer“.
(Quotes from Tom Lehrer are from an interview contucted with him in August 1996)
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Complete work groups reposted inside the Kammermusikkammer
Among the latest re-posts inside the Kammermusikkammer are complete work groups of an artist's string trios, piano trios, flute sonatas, cello sonatas. Beginning with the 23th of April, I refreshed 46 titles up to now. They are all listed below:Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Catherine Anahid Berberian, 1925-1983
Almost certainly, she was the most intelligent singerever to have graced the face of the earth.--
Massimo Mila (1910-1988), Italian musicologist
Her individualistic interpretation and colourful performances were so distinctive that many composers -- Berio, Bussotti, Cage, Henze, Maderna and Stravinsky (amongst many others including the author Anthony Burgess) composed for her inimitable capacities and talent.
Cathy Berberian invented the new vocal techniques, 'la nuova vocalità'. She unsettled encroached conservative conceptions by sheer individuality, talent and ability. Her capacities as an actress were as dazzling as her musicianship, according to Peter Brooke with whom she worked.
She shook free Monteverdi from years of dust and reached across centuries of répertoire to the avant-garde of her day, ennobling Kurt Weil, Folk Music and The Beatles en passant.
Cathy was a true multiartist with a comparativist perspective and philosophy, the centrepin of which was:
There is no division between the Arts -- there is good and there is bad; nothing else!
She appreciated all genres of music and art inside a multi-disciplinary concept. To be aware, to appreciate, to be forever inquisitive upon a deeper level of study and social history were her prerequisites for work within every discipline. She acted, translated, composed, researched brilliant programmes and filed her work in a pre-computer age inside her head and paper folders.
Cathy Berberian's rightful place as Muse to the evolution of Music in the second half of the twentieth century is yet to be fully appreciated.
Source: Jennifer I Paull, Vouvry, Switzerland, in an article from 6 March 2008, in Music and Vision.
Visit my recent post "Luciano Berio - Cathy Berberian - Recital I for Cathy in the KammermusikkammerMonday, March 19, 2012
Milton. Preface - aka: Jerusalem
In my recent post on Brahm’s quintets and William Blake’s poems I cited “Milton. Preface” in the original and in the german version translated by Wolfgang Schlüter. Naturally, this motivated me to poke my nose in samples of Hubert Parry’s anthem on youtube.
This was the best I found – because of the harmony between pictures, music and captions:
Other acts worthy of mention: a rather bombastic one (well tuned however) – one from the Last Night of the Proms – The Royal Wedding – The Four Crooners.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Carl Reinecke: Mozart - Piano Concerto in D K.537 - Larghetto
Reinecke is best known (if at all) today as a composer. He was also a highly regarded pianist and conductor, and he has the honour of being the oldest pianist to commit any performance to a recording. He made no acoustic recordings, but made a number of piano rolls for the Welte reproducing piano. This system captured dynamics, pedalling and attack of notes. It did not satisfactorily reproduce the tonal variations or the subtle inner voicings within chords so well. Bad rolls, or badly adjusted reproducing equipment can easily lead to rhythmically lumpy playback or other aberrations, leading to a bad name for piano rolls amongst many critics. However, in a good reproduction the recording can be very fine, and convincing.
This performance is Reinecke's transcription of the slow movement Larghetto from Mozart's Piano Concerto in D K.537. The roll dates from 1905, towards the end of Reinecke's life.
This post serves as an ad for my recent article on Carl Reinecke at the Kammermusikkammer, which I dedicated to Anchusa. If you are interested now: Visit and enjoy!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Storm! (2nd bunch of new blogs)
“The storm is here, many vessels are gone, cowardly rats deserting the ships, each wave is bigger than previous …” and this is the best moment to spread optimism, i.e. to publish the second bunch of new entries in my lossless classical music blog list.As I already mentioned with the first bunch: It’s for your convenience only. All figures and ciphers are very about. No harms intended.
Blog | Owner | Posts | Followers | Remarks |
Classical Music | Haiken | 207 | 22 | cool look (black and light green) |
Blog Musik Klasik | BMK | 360 | unknown | From Indonesia, with love |
piano classico | lobão | unknown | 83 | From Brazil, at blogger since January 2009 |
The Slow Closing System | Steve | 40 | 21 | small but fine collection |
Pristine Classics | Tin Ear | unknown | unknown | vinyl rips ("the greatest recordings, the finest sound") |
Modern Academics | GFox | unknown | unknown | "I like 1750 Bach and before, and Debussy after, and in the middle, l don't listen." |
Monography's Classics | monography | 10 | 6 | Only Herbert von Karajan |
Lohengrin's Classical Music | Lohengrin | 433 | 72 | From Seoul, Republic Korea |
Wolf Fifth | Wolf Fifth | 114 | unknown | "Rare vinyl records from the golden era of avantgarde and experimental music" |
Carlos Kleiber Mania | nvc365 | 74 | 48 | with manic focus on Carlos Kleiber |
Odeon | OdeonMusico | 155 | 38 | "A kind of theater in ancient Greece in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public." |
The Music For Piano | Fly | unknown | 43 | big pictures on black, sources in Flac and mp3 |
Enter the Mirror | Ka | 168 | 22 | From China |
Monday, January 30, 2012
Robert Volkmann: "Romance" op. 7 for Cello and Piano (world premiere performance)
Robert Volkmann: "Romance" op. 7 for Cello and Piano,
Peter Bruns / "Ex Pablo Casals" Tononi cello 1730
Annegret Kuttner / piano
world premiere performance
This is an ad for my new post of Volkmanns piano trios.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A bunch of new blogs (part one)
Discobole, owner of Paroles geléesMany new lossless classical music blogs occurred since my last notification in September 2010. Finally I found time to tabulate the first bunch (of two) for your convenience.
All figures and ciphers are very about. No harms indended!
Blog | Owner | Posts | Followers | Remark |
Café Chopin | Chopin | 50 ?? | 10 | older blog, has been refreshed |
ahhfwww Classical | ahhfwww | 1200 | 173 | blog labels refer to cd labels |
Duke | Duke | 57 | 69 | last post April 2011 |
DisinfestAvaxhome | Toutatis | 322 | 114 | Does not agree with Avaxhome |
zumschein | zumschein | 128 | 21 | With A Little Help From My Friends... And Torrents |
tempesta musicale | Cassis | 122 | 14 | From Riga, Lettland |
The World of Classical | anonym | some 100s | 116 | Liszt complete piano music |
Only Classical | Calvin | 1353 | 170 | Posts Beethoven: 171, Mozart: 123, Chopin: 88, ... |
bayreuth's classical music resources | bayreuth | 237 | 105 | joined Blogger in November 2010 |
MetroGnome Music | Progress Hornsby | 45 | 80 | Cites Longfellow: "And the night shall be filled with music..." |
Clásicos en vinilo | Yayo Salva | 177 | 132 | Posts since 2007 |
Paroles gelées | Discobole | 35 | unknown | big pictures, extensive text (in french) |
sHared iTunes | sHared iTunes | 68 | unknown | Click to "Date" or "Label" to get surprised |
Panovnik | Panovnik | 413 | 84 | live records from concert hall or radio |
Laureate Conductor(s) | Guido | 149 | 101 | rare, unpublished & out of print material, focused on the great(EST) conductors of the past |
33+45=78 | stylus | 70 | 50 | extensive collection of historic 78s & LPs |
Great Pianists | RichterGilels | 15 | unknown | Out of print and non-commercial piano recordings |
Sentidos | Julio Salvador Belda Vaguer | 483 | 160 | "dedicado a la Música, a las emociones que va despertando, a compartirlas y a sentir conjuntamente su belleza" |
Classical music and Discography | iok19 | 939 | indecipherable | thousand posts in a single year (!) |
Musica Clasica en DVD | karajanmania | 200 ?? | 50 | Only DVDs |
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Reply to a Pointed Question
Stuart Hall asked me:
Hello Nemo
Please - what is the name of the picture you use at the top of your kammermusikkammer blog - the one with musicians seen from below around wooden railings?
And who is the artist?
many thanks
Stuart Hall
Reply:
Gerrit van HONTHORST
(b. 1590, Utrecht, d. 1656, Utrecht)
Musical Group on a Balcony
1622
Fresco
Private collection
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
My Blogroll of lossless classical music blogs is still most comprehensive
Recently, my dear colleague Otto started his Opera House. Like his two others blogs, the purpose „is two-fold… to give back to the community who has helped me so much over the years and provide info to my radio listeners. Thank you both and thank you 1.FM for your continued support. All of the cd's you find here are the latest additions to the web radio and are broadcast or will be in the near future.“
Random Clasics started as mp3 blog, but switched to FLAC sometime in the past. Fred says: „I love old recordings. Turn me loose in a used record store and I'll spend hours there. Everything I upload here is from my collection and is vinyl. Working with vinyl is not a perfect science and often the results are far from pristine. Let me know if you have a request - I might have it! PLEASE let me know if there are any download issues. Thank you much for visiting my blog!“
Also musica del siglo xx occasionally turned to lossless. I mentioned the Colectivo Ruben Vizcaino Valencia already before.
Avant que j’oublie is the sequel of The High Pony Tail. Maready decided to change his blog name and address, without stating a reason.
Problembär's Pantheon is a new lossless blog with up to now only one post. Problembär promises to post more: „I'll be updating this site about once a week. I may upload some of my old stuff in lossless in the future. But the next few things I have ready will be new. Hope you all enjoy this new blog.“
5 against 4 („It’s the most beautiful ugly sound in the world“) features this year's London Proms , the „World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival“, with recordings, program notes and thoughtful reviews of all the premieres.
Guanacanto („Por la música, vale la pena vivir … en Guanajuato“) contains postings on Mexican Barocco music by composers I never heard before.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Expanding the list of lossless classical music blogs never ends…
The Music Parlour ~ Historical is a spin off (or a subset?) from Tin Ear’s Music Parlour. The latest posts were Sir Thomas Beecham’s Zauberflöte from 1937, Mengelberg’s Beethoven Symphonies from 1940 and Beethoven’s 5th piano concert performed in 1922. (picture aside). Stuff for the connoisseur, you see. Jolyon has an excellent „My Links“ Page, with references to discographies & catalogues, free downloadable recordings, journals, and more.
Alucard from Italy runs the 18CenturyMusic Blog, „because classical music is not only Haydn and Mozart“. He posted Zelenka, Abbé Vogler, Sammartini, Myslivecek, Stamitz, etc., but nevertheless Haydn frequently occurs. I know Alucard from avaxhome under the nickname Kushami, but were not aware of his personal blog. You may also visit his YouTube channel.
Yao (Avax: qzlanyao) started his Classic Collection at August 1st, mainly Bach and the RCA Living Stereo 60 CDs Collection. I like the bright and well-arranged blog design.
Neal’s Historical Recordings moved from Google Blogger to Wordpress („for a variety of reasons“). Update your bookmarks, guys!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Supplements to my list of lossless blogs
When writing the last notification, I forget to mention Le moment musical - Classical music collection. Amedal has offered since November 2009 more than 160 posts which range from baroque to 19th century music, running some of my personnel favorites (f.e. Spohr, Ries, Raff).El baúl del coleccionista is an „Espacio dedicado a la coleccion de grabaciones historicas“, i.e. a place for historical recordings, owned by Dumbarton Oaks. Two weeks ago the blog converted to FLAC; the older posts are still in mp3.
Also Ipromesisposi is an older blog I managed to ignore, alas!
en folía - "Un lugar para la música", active since November 2008, discovered by me as recently as two weeks ago, is a discreet blog on black background (such backgrounds are unusual at the moment). The music selection is excellent.
I put geometria innamorata to the lossless list because of some posts of Wagner, Pasquini, Bernard Parmegiani. Maybe the blog is too weird and does not fit in my list. What do you think?
Last, but not least: A blog, which is no blog, because of missing RSS feeds (yes!) : Rare Classical Vinyl is a repository of the Mercury Living Presence recordings:
"Mercury built a devoted following among classical music listeners in the 1950's and 60's. In 1951, when the company was a Chicago-based independent, it launched its ''Olympian Series'' with the now classic monophonic LP of the Mussorgsky-Ravel ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik. In reviewing that disk in The New York Times, Howard Taubman wrote that the effect was ''like being in the living presence of the orchestra''; Mercury took his phrase ''Living Presence'' as the rubric for its subsequent releases, and carried it well into the stereophonic era."
Monday, June 28, 2010
Notification about new lossless blogs
Well, I made my last notification about new lossless blogs on February 6th, a rather long time ago. Let me report now, what I found in Blogosphere during the last 5 months (without special order):
Maready stated in his blog High Pony Tail: „Most selections are taken from vinyl recordings. Sometimes I use the available technology to 'remove' pops and clicks. Often, particularly in cases where the recording has been made available on CD at some point, I simply record the record to my beloved Sony CD-R recorder and post the results without further intervention.“
The Vinyl Fatigue „gives digital new life to forgotten LPs“, as Lawrence Austin, the owner, declares: „I grew up listening to records -- shellac and vinyl -- and the sound of a needle tracking the grooves of an old LP is still deeply comforting to me -- a sound from childhood, like the fan of the hot air furnace coming on. However turntables are now relatively scare, and we are becoming less tolerant of noise from the medium the music is stored on, so putting up renovated files of what I consider choice, but neglected performances, seemed a good way to spend some time. There are several thousand LPs in the house, a lot of them not re-issued on CD, some of them performances of real importance. If you like something, post a comment. I'd love to hear from you.“
Squirrel is a musician/teacher/writer in New York City: „These LP transfers generally represent noteworthy or neglected recordings from the Great Century which have fallen out of print, out of favor, or out of reach. The focus is primarily on chamber music, violinists, violists, and cellists of distinction, and orchestral music. I strive to balance standard repertoire by interesting and lesser known artists with unusual and lesser-heard works. These are made available here not to circumvent the marketplace, but to fill in the cultural/historical gaps in our collective understanding of recorded posterity for those who wish to listen. They are to be enjoyed, shared, and learned from.“
運銘 (Yun-ming) has contributed to the collaborative blog Meeting in Music in the past, and last May she started her own „Ah Meng’s Blog“, which gained up to now more than 30 followers.
„A 20th Century Opera Collection“ started in April, run by RVV („Un grupo para difundir los libros de la ciencia politica“).
3 days ago, André Rendeiro stated: „I'm starting this blog with the intent to share some of the music I own as a retribution to some of you who have given so much to me by doing the same. Although I don't possess a lot of music on original CD's (and those are the ones I intend to share), the music I have is of extreme rarity in the blogosphere, mostly premiere recordings of music by portuguese composers. I might acquire some more, and I'll certainly share it with you. The name of the blog "Feldeinsamkeit" isn't properly the better name for a blog which offers portuguese classical music, but my musical roots are deeply in the heart of German music, specially in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler and R. Strauss, so I chose the name of a lied by Brahms on Allmers' poem, which I love.“
Last but not least there are two relaunches/resumes to report: Hot Skin is the former „La Peau Douce“; and http://uncle-osvalds-music.blogspot.com/ is moving to http://domibus-eternis.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The first 100 posts of the Kammermusikkammer
Yes, I am celebrating the 100th post of the Kammermusikkammer, with 100 years old recordings of Josef Hofmann on the piano. (And with some childish reminiscences of grotesque drawings by W.B.)
And here, of course, follow the usual statistics:
Monday, February 22, 2010
A roller coaster animation of Ferdinand Ries' 2nd Symphony
An animation of the First Violin of the Second Symphony of Ferdinand Ries, driving on a roller coaster, won the red dot award for communication design 2009. The music is performed by the Zürcher Kammerorchester, which had commissioned the Virtual Republic (Düsseldorf) to visualize the orchester's claim "GROSSE GEFÜHLE" (great feelings).
View the animation here.
Read my post about Ferdinand Ries in the Kammermusikkammer.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Reducing my backlog of notifications about new lossless blogs
I really have an enormous backlog of notifications about new lossless blogs, and I want to make things a little better with these short resumes:
"Links. Musik Kino Philosophie" is the name of an extraordinary discovery. The owner, Schahed, posted 129 articles since December, with tags like Alexander Kluge, Bruno Maderna, Edgar Reitz, Karl Marx, Modern Music, Opera, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Wagner, Slavoj Zizek, and more. Maybe you can get an idea what all he is interesting in. He offers audios, videos and audiobooks.
"John Bull's 'Circle of Sound'" started on January 23th and contains LP transfers, "many long out of print." The blog's subtitle is "classics for the connoisseur - curious from the world of recorded sound", which makes me curious about his (I imagine him to be a british) future steps.
"Grumpy's Classics Cave" are "ramplings and rumblings from a collector of recorded classical music". The rumbler, his name is CharmNick, is owner of a photocard of London Transport, and also interested in old LPs. I could not resist to republish his portrait here.
Another collector of LPs, much longer active in blogosphere, is Benoit from the "Quartier des Archives". He posts in flac and mp3, tracklists and comments are in French. Most of the posts are pictured with the scanned LP, not the cover. Maybe he lost the covers over the years; the LPs look really old. The blog is a quarry for the audiophile.
موسيقى -كلاسيك
(http://yak-musice.blogspot.com/) was active only in November and December 2007, but the (mostly classical) music is well selected (from Ockeghem and Monteverdi to Saint-Saens and Friedrich Nietzsche), and the links are still active. I discovered the blog last month. The owner signed with Yakoff.
Right now, where I am writing these lines, I stumpled about "The Music Parlour", with music from LPs from the fifties (exactly: 1949 to 1964). As I am reading in some comments, is the owner's name Tin Ear, and he is a close friend of CharmNick (mentioned above)
Friday, January 29, 2010
one million giraffes - Will your giraffe be one in a million?
"My friend, Jørgen, doesn't believe I can collect one million giraffes by 2011. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. You can create your giraffe(s) in any way you like, but not on a computer and no store bought objects. You must create your giraffe(s) yourself!So far I've got 538 229 giraffes, so I need 461 771 more and I have 336 days left.
Let's show Jørgen how amazing the internet is. Please send in your own giraffe!"
Maybe some of my followers can help Ola Helland?
Friday, January 15, 2010
RBB Kulturradio: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
1. Vorurteile: Warum Mendelssohn trotzdem ein guter Komponist ist
2. Auf preußische Art: Die Mendelssohns und die Berliner Singakademie
3. Eine Frage der Öffentlichkeit: Die Tradition der Sonntagsmusiken
4. "Göthe, sein Vorbild": Mendelssohn in Weimar
5. High Society: Kleine Revue der Mendelssohn-Zeitgenossen
6. Glaube und Gesellschaft: Abraham Mendelssohn und sein Judentum
7. Raphaelslocken: Felix, zweifellos ein Wunder(kind)
8. Vom Leben im Hinterhaus: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schwester und Frau
9. Vom Dasein als Weltbürger: Felix, Bruder und Künstler
10. Zwischen Geist und Geld: die Familie Mendelssohn
11. Enger als gedacht: Düsseldorf und die rheinischen Musikfeste
12. Ein Glücksfall: Leipzig und sein Gewandhaus
13. Lob des Taktstocks: Felix Mendelssohn als Kapellmeister
14. Von Schumann bis Mahler: Wenn Dirigenten komponieren
15. Der Schwierige: Mendelssohns Beethoven-Bild
16. "Dass ich ein Deutscher sei": Felix Mendelssohn auf Reisen
17. Bach und Händel: Mendelssohn als Bearbeiter
18. Bretter, die kein Glück bedeuten: Arbeiten fürs Theater
19. Der Mozart des 19. Jahrhunderts? Zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption I
20. "Rothe Korallen" und "grüne Seetiere": das Poetische bei Mendelssohn
21. Wagner und die Folgen: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption II
22. "Die blauen Blümlein all’": Mendelssohn, ein Romantiker
23. Queen Victoria lässt bitten: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption III
24. Magie des frühen Todes: das Jahr 1847
25. Konflikte: der deutsch-deutsche Mendelssohn
26. Feuerköpfe, Angsthasen, Museumswärter: Wie geht Mendelssohn?
200 Jahre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Eine Sendereihe des RBB Kulturradio von Jänner bis Juni 2009. Von Christine Lemke-Matwey.
[Zum Originalpost]
2. Auf preußische Art: Die Mendelssohns und die Berliner Singakademie
3. Eine Frage der Öffentlichkeit: Die Tradition der Sonntagsmusiken
4. "Göthe, sein Vorbild": Mendelssohn in Weimar
5. High Society: Kleine Revue der Mendelssohn-Zeitgenossen
6. Glaube und Gesellschaft: Abraham Mendelssohn und sein Judentum
7. Raphaelslocken: Felix, zweifellos ein Wunder(kind)
8. Vom Leben im Hinterhaus: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schwester und Frau
9. Vom Dasein als Weltbürger: Felix, Bruder und Künstler
10. Zwischen Geist und Geld: die Familie Mendelssohn
11. Enger als gedacht: Düsseldorf und die rheinischen Musikfeste
12. Ein Glücksfall: Leipzig und sein Gewandhaus
13. Lob des Taktstocks: Felix Mendelssohn als Kapellmeister
14. Von Schumann bis Mahler: Wenn Dirigenten komponieren
15. Der Schwierige: Mendelssohns Beethoven-Bild
16. "Dass ich ein Deutscher sei": Felix Mendelssohn auf Reisen
17. Bach und Händel: Mendelssohn als Bearbeiter
18. Bretter, die kein Glück bedeuten: Arbeiten fürs Theater
19. Der Mozart des 19. Jahrhunderts? Zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption I
20. "Rothe Korallen" und "grüne Seetiere": das Poetische bei Mendelssohn
21. Wagner und die Folgen: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption II
22. "Die blauen Blümlein all’": Mendelssohn, ein Romantiker
23. Queen Victoria lässt bitten: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption III
24. Magie des frühen Todes: das Jahr 1847
25. Konflikte: der deutsch-deutsche Mendelssohn
26. Feuerköpfe, Angsthasen, Museumswärter: Wie geht Mendelssohn?
200 Jahre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Eine Sendereihe des RBB Kulturradio von Jänner bis Juni 2009. Von Christine Lemke-Matwey.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
What's a Lied? (from the FAQ of The Lied and Art Song Texts Page)
Q. What's a Lied?A. The word Lied is German for song (pronounced /leet/). The plural is Lieder (pronounced /leeder/). Kunstlied is the proper term for "art song" in German, but music-lovers speaking English or French commonly refer to German art songs as just plain Lieder. Note that this site includes art songs in many languages (e.g., in French, the terms chanson and mélodie are used as well as lieder). There are also many madrigals, partsongs and choral works.
Q. OK, then what's an "art song"?
A. Like most categorizations in classical music (even the term "classical music" is problematic), this is a very difficult definition to make due not only to the blurring of lines that many contemporary compositions create, but also due to the overlap of popular music, pop classics, broadway musicals, and folk music. This definition is intended only as a rough guide to the genre.
An art song is a relatively short piece of music written by a person commonly referred to as a "composer", and set to a text intended to be poetic, for a classically-trained vocalist with some form of accompaniment (usually but not restricted to the pianoforte). During a performance, which is usually in a recital hall these days, even if the piece was originally intended for the salon, the audience sits quietly without smoking, eating or drinking (unless very stealthily). The singer is rarely also the composer of the song. The lighting rarely changes during a performance, and no special set, scenery, or costume (besides typical recitalwear) is required.
I could not say it better...
This is an excerpt from Emily Ezust's Lied and Art Song Texts Page. The Classical Iconoclast calls it "far and away the best source of Lieder and Song Texts", which I only can aggree.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
A Happy New Year to all Followers of Kammermusikkammer!
If you also want to find a four leaf clover, you may follow this advice or maybe this one (or also both)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Pablo Casals plays "El Cant dels Ocells" (Youtube)
Yesterday I posted Pablo Casals performance of the Bach Cello suites. And here is another fine piece, the "song of birds".Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Scoredaddy's goodbye and farewell
Scoredaddy announced the official demise of his blog:
SCOREDADDY'S was my labor of love for more than two years, offering the opportunity to sample obscure and often-impossible to find music: music that is ignored and buried by recording companies, and otherwise unavailable to people in most parts of the world. It was a place of discovery, both for its visitors and for me, as I delighted in learning more about the music I love and share.
In choosing material to feature (almost on a daily basis), I always sought to make SCOREDADDY'S a place that I, myself, would enjoy spending some time at. In accordance with my own musical tastes, I strove to include diverse genres, hence SCOREDADDY'S familiar slogan "superb music of all kinds".
I guess I was doing something right as SCOREDADDY'S attracted a considerable following and I received e-mails and friendly comments on a daily basis. In addition to the stimulating interaction generated by SCOREDADDY'S readers, a group of friendly collectors generously contributed their own shares of hard to find, out-of-print discs and rare LP's. It all seemed like a win-win proposition for all involved, especially since the vast majority of the items on offer were not commercially available in 95% of the world. However, some blog-troll out there in cyber(looney)space was not pleased.
Read the full doleful story...
Friday, December 11, 2009
Appearance in pairs
As a rule of thumb, lossless blogs seem to appear as pairs. The latest newcomers are not really twins (like the recent both ottos), but only casual incidents:
Pepe's Blog (picture on left) is an archive of CDs and DVDs and TV-rips concerning operas, the first and only lossless opera blog I ever heard from. Pepe started on the 8th of November, and has reached up to now 173 posts.
Classical Archives (picture on right) covers the mainstream (instrumental) genres of classical music; artists range from Monteverdi to Penderecki. Since September he posted 29 articles; some of them contain multiple CDs.
The best of luck, dear newcomers!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Timeline of New Composers
When advancing the history of music in chronological order, I recently reached J. S. Bach. With him, born 1685, my blog switches from "Alte Musik" (Early Music) to "Klassik" (Classics). (Following my opinion, the change of an area should be caused by the appearance of an giant).
Here is the second part of the Timeline of Composers, for your convenience. Like the first part, which I posted in February, its not my own work, but stolen somewhere in the net.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brandon's Classics - Música Libre
Recently I discovered two new lossless blogs:
Brandon's Classics, maintained by Brandon, starts on September, 23th.
Música Libre, maintained by expanium, starts on November, 5th.
Welcome newcomers, to the lossless classical community!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (Musica Antiqua Köln)
Two hours ago I posted Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue - together with other chamber music of this master - at the Kammermusikkammer.
An other fine performance by the ensemble "Musica Antiqua Köln" comes from Youtube:
Enjoy! (And then read the original post.)
Kammermusikkammer reaches 300.000 readers
Last weekend, the page counter, which I installed during summer 2008 (I cannot remember the exact time stamp), exceeded 300.000 impressions. I am impressed too.
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