Classical Music for Aficionados

It's midnight and  I'm tried  but i think I read Bach had fantastic math power in his head hence counter-point etc

also  Think that Brahms read Pascal - he did have an IQ  off the chart

Oh some drunk or drugy might forget but if you read Pascal  your' likely smart

    enough to remember

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Leibniz improved the computing machine created by Pascal and designed his own one and created the calculus after reading Pascal..Leibniz was very admirative of Pascal genius ...

What is stunning is less the I.Q. of Pascal than his very mature deep thinking in all matter, spirituality included... Even Kafka or Borges could have learned from Pascal imagination of the infinites manifested in every day life mysteries....

Brahms is so great musician and serious spirit i am not surprized that he appeciated Pascal....His creation for chorus are my favorite works...And i am in love with Zymerman/Bernstein concerto number 2 for piano....Because of Zymerman subtle magical  touch more than for  Bernstein  whom is great here for sure...

This work for me embodied late popular 19 century "salon" romanticism...Just a so beautiful concerto that make shadow on  many others  ...Some work are so perfect that listening anything  ressembling them after them is  very difficult...I never was able to replace this concerto by anything else in my heart....

This particular flabbergasting and imperative supreme interpretation save me from my Brahms obsession about my favorite piano concerto the second one...

Played like this Beethoven shine like  perhaps never before and like rarely  after....The pianist is mature and stupendous by his sense of hues and power ... At the level of the few giants of the piano...

Andras Schiff has a very well respected Brahms twin piano concertos that I can really relate to. I think he plays a nearly period Bosendorfer but to hear it you wouldn't know it.