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# **Mozart: His Favorite Instrument — the Clarinet** Although **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** was universally admired as a master of the **keyboard** and an excellent **violinist**, his **true instrumental affection** lay elsewhere. Among all orchestral…

# **Lully - L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil - Jordi Savall** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/lully-lorchestre-146358186?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/lully-lorchestre-146358186?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Anecdotes and Curiosities from the Life and Work of Mikhail Glinka** **1. A sickly child who heard bells before music** Glinka spent his childhood at the family estate of Novospasskoye under the strict…

# **WHY MOZART WAS THE ABSOLUTE GENIUS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC** ## **1. An unrepeatable combination of natural gifts: intuition, ear, and total memory** Many composers were prodigies, but **none combined such a…

# **Beethoven: Militarmusik - Gewandhaus orchester Leipzig - Heinz Bongartz ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-heinz-145501942?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-heinz-145501942?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - The Choice of Hercules - Dettingen Te Deum - Festpiel Orchester Göttingen - Laurence Cummings ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-choice-of-145464825?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) # ***The Choice of Hercules*****: A Complete Narrative Portrait** ## **I. Handel in 1750:…

# **Mahler - Symphony No.5 - Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Sir Georg Solti ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/mahler-symphony-145338530?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mahler-symphony-145338530?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **LOUIS SPOHR — SYMPHONY No. 9 (“ERINNERUNG AN MARIENBAD”), A FULL ANALYSIS** # ***(WoO 75, 1851)*** ## **I. Introduction — A Late Work of Memory and Atmosphere** Although Louis Spohr never numbered it…

# **A FULL ANALYSIS OF LOUIS SPOHR’S EIGHT SYMPHONIES** ## **I. Introduction — Spohr’s Symphonic World** To explore the eight symphonies of **Louis Spohr** is to enter the most refined borderland between the Classical…

# **SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL MACKENZIE — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood, and the Formation of a Scottish Musician** Alexander Campbell Mackenzie was born on **August 22, 1847**, in Edinburgh, into a family where…

# **THE DEATH OF RIMSKY-KORSAKOV — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. The Final Years (1906–1908): A Man at War with His Times** By the last years of his life, **Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov** found himself living…

# **Telemann - Orchestral Suites - Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-suites-144270649?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-suites-144270649?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Brahms - Symphony No.4 Op.98 - Carl Schuricht, Orchestre National de la RTF (Altus, 1959) ** **A fabulous Concert - Stereo ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-symphony-144202126?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-symphony-144202126?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Brahms - Symphony No.4 Op.98- Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux (DG, 1958) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-symphony-144201982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/brahms-symphony-144201982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Beethoven - Symphony No.3 Op.55 - Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Decca, 1960) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-no-3-144201388?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-no-3-144201388?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **LORIN MAAZEL – ANALYTICAL PROFILE OF STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES** ## **I. STRENGTHS** **1. Extraordinary Technical Mastery** * One of the most precise baton techniques of the 20th century. * Gesture economy: minimal movement,…

# **Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73 - Eric Heidsieck, Orchestre Léon-Barzin, Jean Jacques Werner (Integral, 2004) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143832020?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143832020?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73 - Valery Afanassiev, Mozarteum Salzburg Orchester, Soudant (Ohems, 2002)** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143831572?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143831572?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73 - Rene Duchable, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson (Versailles Opera Royal, 2002) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143831443?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-143831443?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

W.A.Mozart "Le Nozze di Figaro" (1968) -Edith Mathis · Hermann Prey · Gundula Janowitz-Edith Mathis- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau-Tatiana Troyanos- Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin · Karl Böhm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BULyAmLxL2s&t=1951s A discographic gem, a masterpiece in a…