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Born in 1939, Franz Hummel enjoyed recognition and encouragement of his pianistic gifts by the likes of Richard Strauss, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Elly Ney. The website hyperiummusic.com credits Hummel for making more than 60 LP recordings that “encompass almost the entire classical and romantic repertoire, as well as many modern works.” I’ve heard none of […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-09-28 02:52:32
Ney Rosauro - Reflections On The New World [2004]
2019-06-10 11:06:00
Sufism, Islam, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hopefully the canard that music is haram in Islam was has been laid to rest. But misconceptions linger on, so I hope this thread - or rather golden braid - which stretches from a Muslim master musician born in Vadodara, India in 1882 to a newly released CD from an adventurous Western contemporary ensemble featuring, among others, the Iranian classical singer Haleh Seyfizadeh, may bring some light into an increasingly dark world. The great teacher and musician Hazrat Inayan Khan, who was instrumental in bringing the mystical strand of Islam known as Sufism to the West, was born in Vadodara in 1882. My first three photos show his son Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. He studied at the École Normale de Musique where his cello teacher was Maurice Eisenberg. Eisenberg was a long-term pupil of Pablo Casals and lived next door to the great Catalan […]
2018-04-11 08:22:00
In paradise there is no idle chatter
There may well be life after social media, because the Quran (19:62) tells us that "In paradise there is no idle chatter but only the invocation of peace". If indeed there is a paradise, perhaps the only sound there is the reed flute. Mevlânâ Rumi's epic poem Masnavi begins with the distich "Listen to this reed flute, how wistfully it is singing! About separation it is complaining". In his poetry Rumi uses the Ney - a reed flute - as a metaphor for the human race which since time immemorial has suffered from the separation caused by the egocentric human condition. That photo shows leading Ney exponent, flautist extraordinaire and composer Christos Barbas. He was born in 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece; after studying musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Aristotelio (Thessaloniki) and the School of Oriental and Asian Studies (London) he was taught by the renowned Ney master Omer […]
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