Classical Music for Aficionados

I was greatly saddened to hear of his death, he truly was a great pianist.

I already post this post today on my thread: "seeing sounds and music ", but it is his place here too....


If you want to test your audio system but at the same time you want to discover a classical masterpiece:

The most spectacular and difficult piece of recording i have useful to test all aspects of sound including hearing from speakers a recording where the sound COME AROUND the listener and often BEHIND HIS BACK, all that with a stereo system...Believe me or not...😁😊

Philip Glass : AKHNATON


Here the great variety of sound timbres and frequencies, solo and choral voices with Wagnerian tuba and percussions...

A great part of the sound fill my room with often voices not only BESIDE me at left or right, but voices and instruments behind my listening position at the direct opposite of the 2 speakers...

A well done acoustical stereo room is sometimes almost quadraphonic in effects with some well recording piece in my experience....

This cd is impossible to beat for testing the presence of individual instruments and voices perfectly distinguished by their timbre in this enormous mass of musicians....The test for bass will be astoundingly good because of the timbre variety of the different instruments in the bass register...

The best test for any system is timbre voice, because each human voice own an individuality unique to living system and gives a set of acoustical subtle acoustical cues impossible to hear with any instrument ...
And a big mass of instruments or enormous chorals are very difficult to be and stay musically detailled and not mainly indistinct noises on less good system and no controlled room...






This works is also an astounding piece of musical genius which i will resume in this description, which is exactly only that, a description in my words, of the way the composer summarize all the history of music in his own minimalist mastery:


You will "see" around you and not only hear, a huge cosmical and tellurically grounded Wagnerian and Scriabinian opera, transforming itself at some times in a big orchestral Brucknerian symphony which at times become a beautiful complex Monteverdian madrigals set which hide the germs of sublime but ONLY emerging simple masterful counterpoints mantras like in Bach or like in the 5th finale Bruckner symphony, counterpoints mantras that ends often in a powerful chord or a ceremony of drum rolls or an incantatory recitative, like in shamanic ritual of the past mixed with pre-gregorian influence....Astoundingly deep, efficient, and beautiful musically...

All musical genres fusionned here in a minimalist style in plain control, inspired by one of the master of the young Glass, the blind street musician classically educated Moondog, the so called Viking of the 50 th street at N.Y.  Louis Thomas Hardin, friend of the young Glass and one of the creator of this "minimalist" style or at least a mentor of the young Glass....

No doubt here, Philip Glass is a great composer who will stay for the future history....

His Akhenaton is hypnotic and initiatic, transformative at the highest level...

News to me .

I'm sorry but I loathe Philip Glass et al.

I loathe no composers, or musicians, Ervin Nyiregyházi for example ,or any other musician 😊 even if i had my own taste, choices, or habits...Loathing reflect more about us than about the music itself....

And loving Glass dont impede my love for Mozart "Cozi fan tutte" for example...

Then if someone take the time to express loathing about something, new, unknown, and perhaps about something he is not curious or ready to discover, perhaps the loathing is less useful than he think....

I dont remember loathing any kind of musical genre, even heavy metal...

I loathe too much decibels though....

Must i erase my recommendation ? Yes if too much people here loathe it...

By the way i dont remember to take my time to wrote hard words about a recommendation of music here or elsewhere because it is not abolutely pure "delicacy" to my fragile and sensitive taste....I guess i can chew much than some....



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