and to mix it up some...
and Heifitz or Kreisler? (all movements are available for Heifitz but not all in 1)
I'm partial to Kreisler but they both have sweeter technique on slow passages than anyone current
and Heifitz or Kreisler? (all movements are available for Heifitz but not all in 1)
I'm partial to Kreisler but they both have sweeter technique on slow passages than anyone current
Katsaris playing Beethoven Symphonies arranged for piano by Liszt is the trippiest, especially if you know the symphonies already
I have the entire Beethoven/Liszt cycle by Katsaris on CD. It's somewhat amazing.
I have the entire Beethoven/Liszt cycle by Katsaris on CD. It's somewhat amazing.
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Not my favorite Beethoven Symphony but Katsaris Beethoven video is rare and yet...
"THICK AS A BRICK" is the fifth studio album by the English Progressive rock band Jethro Tull. Released in 1972, the album includes only one song, the title track, which spans the entire album. Thick as a Brick was deliberately crafted in the style of a concept album (and as a "bombastic" and over the top parody). The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by a (fictional) 8-year-old boy, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson.
Thick as a Brick was Jethro Tull's first deep progressive rock offering, coming four years after the release of their first album (1968). The epic album is notable for its many musical themes, time signature changes and tempo shifts - all of which were features of the progressive rock scene, of which was emerging at the time. In addition, the instrumentation includes harpsichord, xylophone, timpani, violin, lute, trumpet, saxophone, and a string section-all uncommon in blues-based rock.
Band frontman Ian Anderson was surprised by the critical reaction to their previous album, Aqualung (1971), as a "concept album", a label he firmly rejects to this day. In a interview on In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted Thick as a Brick). Anderson's response to the the critics was: "If the critics want a concept album we'll give the mother of all concept albums and we'll make it so bombastic and so over the top". Ian Anderson has been quoted as stating that Thick as a Brick was written "because everyone was saying we were a progressive rock band, so we decided to live up to the reputation and write a progressive album, but done as a parody of the genre". With Thick as a Brick, the band created an album deliberately integrated around one concept: a poem by a super-intellegent English schoolboy, named Gerald Bostock, about the trials of growing up. Beyond this, the album was a send-up of all pretentious "concept albums". (The idiom "thick as a brick" is an expression signifying someone who is stupid" or slow to learn or understand".)
Anderson also stated in that interview that "the album was a spoof to the albums of YES and EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport". The formula was successful, and the album reached number one on the charts in the United States.
I am home again. Am on a 24hr recall, but I doubt it. Anyway, I gotta say I love the unique and backstories. I used to do a lot of write-ups, and read a lot of others'. Anyway, Ladysmith Black Mambo has been around for 50 years. After Paul Simon brought them to light I started keeping an ear out. I can't do this on the road...I like to listen to your posted music and spend time exploring on my own. Here is a 4-block.
Beethoven's Violin Sonatas give me the picture of watching the movie The Godfather PT 2 without any sound. The quality of the movie is from the 1910's. Just says New York's old Little Sicily neighborhood.
The best band most Americans have never heard of
The Tragically Hip's final show- The singer (Gordon Downie) is battling brain cancer.
The Tragically Hip's final show- The singer (Gordon Downie) is battling brain cancer.
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