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The first movement of Maurice Ravel's piano suite, Gaspard de la Nuit, performed by Seong-Jin Cho.Bonus video! Yet another musical instrument I had never heard of. Source link
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Man Attributes Classical Music Knowledge To Watching Bugs Bunny Cartoons
MADISON, WI — Local man Brad Pulman admitted to friends that all the knowledge he has ever obtained about classical music he received by watching classic Bugs Bunny cartoons."Oh, yeah. The Barber of Seville? That's by Italian composer…
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French baroque-period composer Jean-Féry Rebel's "Le Cahos" from his ballet Les élémens. The opening sounds astonishingly modernist in its dramatic dissonance. Source link
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This sounds very much ahead of its time: Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor, performed by Maria João Pires. Source link
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J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed by Armenian harpist Ashkhen Gavorkian. Source link
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra on Arabian Themes, by Fikret Amirov and Elmire Nazirova (performed by Khatia Buniastishvili and the Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte-Carlo). Source link
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Alexander Glazunov's Concert Waltz No. 1 (the Russian National Orchestra, under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev. Source link
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli performs several brief sonatas by the Italian baroque-era composer Domenico Scarlatti. Source link