Classical Music for Aficionados

Hamelin at Verbier
I have not been a big fan of Hamelin.  Have always appreciated his skill and his daring to play difficult pieces, but always found something lacking.  Until now.
His Field Andante just blew my mind! 
And his countenance at the keyboard is so genuine, unaffected and precise.
https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/marc-andre-hamelin-verbier-festival-2014/

From his latest (?) CD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpecebMdeo

I’m now interested in finding pieces from Heinrich Schutz. 

I’m now interested in finding pieces from Heinrich Schutz.

I recommend the marvellous interpretation by Mauesberger of the Geistliche chormusik....Schutz synthetise Italian and German influences...

This work is examplary and operate with an irresistible compelling rythmic pulsation that is sublime and deeply felt by the heart and spirit in this old rendition by Mauesberger...The singers not only sings but we feel the prayers...It is an opera of the soul who walk toward the sunlike Christ.....

One of my cherished choral music work, i listen to it each day for 7 years writing .... It is with the mastering of Italian lighter rythm and German heavier pulsation a choral masterpiece at the same level that Bach work will make habitual with his own contrapuntal complex means and this is not a small feat....



Pure diamond....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnZQ0EPuNqk


I ask to a complete stranger in a music store 30 years ago:" what is the more miraculous choral work you listened to in the last years of your life ? He explode enthusiastically recommending that to me.... i never see him again....

 Was it an angel walking in a music store or an audiophile forgetting his hell ?
😊


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