Dima’s next jewelry work in promoting the series “Pictures at an Exhibition” in English. It took 10 hours of hard work on language and music synchronization. As Dmitry modestly said to me. I know it takes more time. This is a very difficult job, as it strains many areas of the brain in parallel —…
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AG UCM Mussorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition” part I. In English
Dear fellow musicians. Please watch carefully and change your mindset towards “interpretation”. We can interpret differently only cerain composer’s mesagges and statements, pictures and and emotional states. But ONLY when we know exactly, precisely what every tone tells to us. Which particular information it carries. One have carefully decipher this information. Study, study and study….
AG UCM Mussorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition” part I. In English.
Aware people and aware music making. We are entering into a new era of aware musicians. One has to prove he fully understands music in a new form of a very high level “philosophical performance” consisting from all “components” of the “music content” – philosophy, literature, poetry, music analyses, history of peoples, history of culture,…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) For A Birthday There is so much to say about Mozart’s brief life – it is an incomplete story, ended unexpectedly by the mortality of the age. But not everyone acknowledges the enigma along with the strange miracle. Although he is almost universally beloved, he is…
Promo Video by Todd A Harris
Well Done. Toddy you even sound as a star. Not only writing but promoting. Talent shows everywhere, as it should be! Amazon would be delighted, I am! AG
As long as humans will exist music will be living and developing
We should always keep in mind that serious (classical) music is not a form of art, but it is a synthetic cultural phenomenon combining art, philosophy, literature, poetry, visionary science, mathematics, visual arts in tones, psychology, religion, history, emotional states, cerebral processes expressed in tones. All together – preserving the living “human soul”. Therefore we…
The institution of “classical music business”
When people react on phrases, thoughts, convictions they meet in other person with the template – “What an ego!” They show two things – their own ego (those who have flexible refined intelligence don’t switch off as ram meeting obstacle). And their stupidity as they even don’t want to digest thouhts they meet, just switching…
Music language
Humans are very funny and naive creatures. It shows especially funny in their attitude towards music. Their naivity and infantilism has no borders, it shows in music as nowhere else. They all “hypothetically know” that music is the language. In a row with mathematic language and verbal languages. Nobody would dare to say they “enjoy…
Anti-music phenomena in the human sonic world
“Excellent” instrument playing and “excellent” conducting are the most malignant anti-music phenomena in the human sonic world. It’s ruining metaphysic of music and the man. Music happens only when people forget on which instrument it was played. Stupidity and talentless is the root of all the ills of humanity. The root of evil. The most…
“Modern civilization”
The main psychological problem of humans of “modern civilization” is not that they are wild and ignorant but that they enjoy being wild and ignorant. Only slow evolution can break this pattern. Another tens of thousands years of their development. And even this is unlikely as there are very few chances that they will be…
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37.
Bach makes one silent, Beethoven makes one talkative (basing on my personal reactions). One of them served God while another one served people. Бах делает молчаливым, Бетховен – разговорчивым. (замечаю по своим реакциям). Один служил Богу, другой – людям.
Our real Petyechka / Настоящий “Петечка”
Cadence. It’s a self-portrait. A Real “Forum”. Listen carefully. Especially the beautiful scene of fear (1.30 – 2.07), lushly written with a cinematic flare. It is very difficult to fully convey the whole picture on stage. This is qualitatively his confession – “I am wanting and wounded” sobbed out in gushes, lost in love…
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F, BWV 1057: III. Allegro assai
This marvelous (otherwise difficult to characterize) fugue does not need comments. As to composition and performance there are three points. Firstly it is a fantastically entertaining display of virtuosity and an example of the highest level of technical complexity from the baroque era. Secondly, it exhibits not a subdued or subtle temperament, but fire instead….
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F, BWV 1057: II. Andante
The first part is very visible and clearly music of the Outdoors, the external vs the internal. A picturesque live landscape. Reverence and reverent people. Flutes, Trills, Peace, Creation. Shepherds. Of course, it is the ” Bach Beam” of the Holy Spirit’s happiness and primitive purity. Bach’s ideas are as clear as crystal – Normal…
About infernal destructive power of stupidity / о глупости
Never ever underestimate infernal destructive power of stupidity. There is no such thing as “passive stupidity”. In any form, in any case, in any situation it causes pain and death. If you unfold the whole long logical chain of all bad things in our life, all evil on our planet. At the very end of…
ANDREI GAVRILOV 