Late night music.

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Mark Twain's alleged remarks about Wagner.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
And...
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
Many years ago the conductor Lorin Maazel made an orchestral arrangement of the best bits of "The Ring" - no singing! Still over one hour.



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A little Slavic melancholy, and some fireworks too. Tchaikovsky's Dumka Op 59, played here by a young Slovenian pianist, Primož Urbanč.


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A Liszt transcription of a Bach organ Prelude and Fugue, played by the brilliant young Dutch pianist, Hannes Minnaar. Restrained and refined playing, but he builds up effectively towards the end of the fugue, without going OTT in left hand.

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Lux Aeterna (Nimrod - Elgar)

Strangely powerful in these dreadful times.

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Sadly - not President of Ukraine and his wife as widely claimed on social media - but nice all the same



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A charming topical piece by the Russian composer Nikolai Medtner, complete with pretty pics. "Primavera" - Spring.


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Here's Paul Simon's song "April, Come She Will", which cropped up on BBC Radio 3 yesterday, and which I had forgotten about, even though I have it on CD. It first appeared, sung by Simon, in his 1965 album "The Paul Simon Songbook", and the following year it was included in the second Simon and Garfunkel album "Sounds of Silence", transposed up slightly and sung by Art Garfunkel.

It's less than two minutes long, and based on a children's rhyme about the seasonal appearance of the cuckoo, though turned here into an allegory of transient love. This is a live performance from a concert given in Central Park, New York, in 1981.

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I quite enjoyed this performance of Asturias from the Suite Española by Albéniz. Like so many quintessential Spanish guitar pieces, it was originally written for the piano, not the guitar at all. You don't hear the original very often, and some pianists take it very fast, and make a bit of a mess of it, in my opinion. I think this guy does a pretty good job.

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Vladimir Horowitz playing Schumann - Träumerei.

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