10/14/2003
The cornetto: all but extinct until the last fifty years or so, but, in its height, the most admired, flexible, transcendent instrument ever played. Everyone agreed that it mimicked the human voice (pa …
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10/2/2003
Primarily a mix - arranged in chronological order - consisting of modern compositions and composers, resulting from a lunch during which someone said they didn't think I could make a mix of classical m …
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6/30/2003
This is a disc I made for a friend who didn't know a whole lot of classical music. This is fairly mainstream/pops, but it's a good intro into different composers and styles. Most of these are songs we …
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5/27/2003
This is the first in a series of "dredged-up" mixes -- they aren't the pinnacle of perfection, 'cause I don't have an ideal collection of specimens to chooose from in the categories I wanna mix. There …
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5/2/2003
ambient/classical...see notes, Disc 1. The final corner of this quadrangle reflects my view of the ambient genera as today's new launching pad for modern classical music; form & function blend well as …
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2/27/2003
Do you know some popular 8th symphonies? The most popular ones here probably are Bruckner and Mahler. (I didn't forget Schubert, but nobody can tell us exactly which one of his symphonies can be called …
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2/2/2003
another Classical/Theme Mix - the legendary '9th Symphony'(including the shorter movements)- some very famous examples, some famous, some unknown - some of them had their premiere here in Vienna ;-)
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1/30/2003
I defined this as mixed genre, but it's really about a break-up and depression in the middle of the coldest winter we've seen here in a long time. It was meant as a comiseration piece / pick-me-up for …
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1/21/2003
Heh. Can you guess what my favorite opera is? I burned this mix in a Greyhound Bus station, so I'm the first to admit it's a little Tito-heavy, but it's only the first of a series, after all. Mezzos ar …
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