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Sa., 26. Mai. – THE NEW ROMANTICS


Als bedeutender Komponist und Pianist der Romantik lebte Robert Schumann Mitte des 19ten Jahrhunderts auch eine Weile in Düsseldorf, wo er als Städtischer Musikdirektor aktiv war. Die Stadt Düsseldorf veranstaltet deshalb zu Ehren des großen Romantikers das Schumannfest und überließ in in diesem Jahr dem in Düsseldorf lebenden Musiker Volker Bertelmann die Kuration eines Abends. Der Musiker, der unter dem Künstlernamen Hauschka je nach Zählweise knapp elf Alben veröffentlicht hat, auf denen er mit Hilfe eines präparierten Klaviers und teilweise auch mit der Unterstützung eines Drummers und anderer Gastmusiker sphärische Klangwelten erschafft, lud sich für den Abend mehrere befreundete Musiker ein, die wie er von Schumann inspiriert sind oder ähnliche Wege gehen, wie der Romantiker. Namentlich Owen Pallett und Ólöf Arnalds

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We are pleased to induct the Class of 1959, they are

Yvonne Printemps
Ella Fitzgerald
Robert Schumann
Oscar Straus
Gertrude Lawrence
Flanagan and Allen
Benjamin Britten

Congratulations to them all.

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Voting has now opened for the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012 – your chance to name the very best recordings made throughout last year. BBC Music Magazine jury of critics has selected the 21 nominated discs and DVDs from almost 300 five-star recordings reviewed during 2011. And now it’s over to you.

There are seven categories: instrumental, orchestral, opera, vocal, chamber, choral and – new for this year in the voting categories – DVD. Simply go to www.classical-music.com/awards2012, listen to tracks or watch clips from the nominated recordings and then choose your favourite in each category.

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Once you’ve voted in all seven you’ll be automatically entered in a draw to win some spectacular prizes, including a brand new limited edition Kemble Centennial piano worth £7,000 or a Yamaha MCR-555 hi-fi worth £380, plus copies of all nominated CDs and DVDs.
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read more here:

short summary:
... these artists (from a total of 493) seem to be characteristic over all of 'em:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Claude Debussy
Edvard Grieg
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Glenn Gould
Dmitri Shostakovich
Maurice Ravel
Antonio Vivaldi
Johannes Brahms
Erik Satie
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Liszt
Robert Schumann
Georg Friedrich Händel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Antonín Dvořák

these groups were compared:
Classical (6043 members)
Conductors (67 members)
20th Century Classical (1230 members)
Baroque (1133 members)
Mozart (765 members)
Asian Classical Music (15 members)
Japanese composers (390 members)

plus:
Classical cello = <3 (113 members)
Harpsichord Music (106 members)
Piano (1556 members)
Piano Players (450 members)

Tori Amos - Night of Hunters

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After long and hopeful waiting I finally got my copy of Tori Amos' latest album Night of Hunters, on the 30th of September 2011 to be exact. Being a classical album it is quite different from her earlier work, but the same way I fell in love with her earlier albums, I fell in love with this one. It is a very special and original album. It is a concept album which she describes herself as a "21st century song cycle". It tells the story about a woman who is left by her husband after their journey to Ireland, a land with a lot of mythical background. After he has left she meets the shape-shifting creature Anabelle, first in the form of the Fox, later as the Goose. This creature leads her through a kind of self-investigation to get a better understanding of what happened in her relationship and what lies underneath. After she got a last advice from the Fire Muse, she finds peace with her situation. …

Physical albums / CDs


A
America - America
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
Alice Through the Windshield Glass- Keep Your Eyes On The Road
Arcade Firer - The Suburbs

B
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
The Beatles
- Please Please Me
- With The Beatles
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Beatles for Sale
- Help!
- Rubber Soul
- Revolver
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Magical Mystery Tour
- The Beatles
- Yellow Submarine
- Abbey Road
- Let It Be
- Past Masters
blessthefall- The Last Walk
Bob Dylan
- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
- Best of Dylan
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrows
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again

C
Camel - Mirage
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Coldplay - X&Y
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

D
David Bowie
- Best Of Bowie
- Heroes
dEUS- Pocket Revolution
Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope
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musical neighbourhood for last week (my library contains 64717 plays right now):

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Your musical compatibility with rivkahrrrobot is VERY HIGH
Music you have in common includes Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Schumann and Leoš Janáček

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Your musical compatibility with jasminlouise182 is VERY HIGH
Music you have in common includes Leoš Janáček, Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Camille Saint-Saëns

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Your musical compatibility with simonkaspar is VERY LOW
Music you have in common includes Gustav Mahler and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
2011 Apr. 8

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Music you have in common includes Leoš Janáček, Costin Miereanu, Johann Mattheson, Robert Schumann and Erin McKeown
2011 Apr. 8