Posts Tagged 'classical'

Scott Joplin, the “King of Ragtime”

The Entertainer:

20 January 2010 at 20:43 - Comments

Taraf de Haïdouks – Asturias

From the album Maškaradă of famous Romanian Gypsy musicians Taraf de Haïdouks.

9 January 2010 at 19:27 - Comments

Vex’d version of Gabriel Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2

21 August 2009 at 03:46 - Comments

Michel Colombier

L’Alpagueur

10 February 2009 at 19:56 - Comments

Max Richter – Embers

The subtle psychological effects of autumn may catch you by surprise.

http://www.myspace.com/maxrichtermusic

31 August 2008 at 17:26 - Comments

Michel Petrucciani – Besame Mucho

I have to post here this interpretation made by the greatest jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani. It is too beautifull!

If you don’t know who Michel Petrucciani was, watch this documentary from Mezzo:

Links: Official page, Fans page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

14 August 2008 at 12:16 - Comments

Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born 1937) is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American classical music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public. Aphex Twin — Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)

Icct Hedral is the Aphex Twin / Philip [...]

8 August 2008 at 10:42 - Comments

George Antheil/ Fernand Léger – Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil’s score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. In this film apear Kiki of Montparnasse as the woman with the weird lipstick smile. Kiki [...]

6 August 2008 at 10:08 - Comments

Pierre Schaeffer

Etudes Schaefferiennes

Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical [...]

5 August 2008 at 13:56 - Comments

Varèse/ Xénakis/ Le Corbusier – Poème électronique (1958)

“Poème électronique” (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century. This recording is only an approximation of the true nature [...]

4 August 2008 at 10:26 - Comments