For Your Listening Pleasure

"Szell / Wagner, The Cleveland Orchestra ‎– Great Orchestra Highlights From The Ring" From June 2019 - Before George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, George Lucas’ Star Wars, and Tolkien’s Middle Earth chronicles, Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen represented the pinnacle in literary or performance arts at creating an entire mythology. This tetralogy of operas is based loosely on characters from the...

"Guitar Selections, Once Upon the Internet" From Oct 2018 - This playlist is a series of tracks downloaded mainly off the old MP3.COM between 2001 and 2003. They feature three guitarists. Read the original post @ https://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2018/10/guitar-selections-once-upon-internet.html [OUTI-62]

"Felix Mendelssohn on MP3.COM" From Jan 2015 - A pair of chamber works: a string quartet and a song without words (more about that on our teaser below) set for cello and piano.. From his piano works, a pair of virtuoso pieces, including his variations sérieuses, which compares favorably to his friend Schuman's symphonic variations. Finally, a piece for piano four hands, which he may (or not) have...

"Four Bach Keyboard Suite" From Oct 2017 - Today I dig through some old MP3.COM downloads for a Once Upon the Internet playlist o four keyboard suites by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed suites, partitas and overtures in the baroque dance suite format for solo instruments such as harpsichord, lute, violin, cello and flute, and for orchestra. Read the full post @ https://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2...

Liszt Piano Works on MP3.COM" From Dec 2014, We all know the story about Liszt attending a concert by Paganini, and thus vowing to become his musical equal as a pianist - Liszt was viewed by his contemporaries as the greatest virtuoso of his time and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time, period.  Read the full post @ https://www.talkclassical.com/th...

"The Kairos Quartet" From Sept 2016, According to their website the Kairos Quartet, established in 1993, has been the quartet-in-residence at Central Washington University since 1998. "Kairos" is a Greek word for non-chronological time, those special moments when a child is at play or artists are absorbed in their work, when time seems suspended. Read the full post @ https://itywltmt.blogspot.com/...