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Beethoven 3rd Symphony, first movement – last few notes… Davide, my dear friend, my Maes
2019-06-13 23:00:00
Hannes Minnaar & Isabelle van Keulen: Beethoven - Violin Sonatas (HD)
Ludwig van Beethoven:01. - 03. Violin Sonata No.1 in D major, op.12 no.1 [18'54]04. - 06. Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, op.12 no.2 [16'20]07. - 09. Violin Sonata No.3 in E-flat major, op.12 no.3 [17'36]10. - 12. Violin Sonata No.4 in A minor, op.23 [17'58]13. - 16. Violin Sonata No.5 in F major, op.24 'Spring' [22'58]17. - 19. Violin Sonata No.6 in A major, op.30 no.1 [20'55]20. - 23. Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2 [25'13]24. - 26. Violin Sonata No.8 in G major, op30 no.3 [16'40]27. - 29. Violin Sonata No.9 in A major, op.47 ‘Kreutzer’ [36'11]30. - 33. Violin Sonata No.10 in G major, op.96 [26'57]Isabelle van Keulen- violin and Hannes Minnaar- pianoChallenge Classics CC72650 (recorded August & September 2014; released 2014)(Digital download; 24bit/96kHz flacs, booklet, cover and back scans)Recording venue: MotorMusic Studios, Mechelen, BelgiumRecording engineer: Steven Maes; Producer: Felicia BockstaelHere is a fine set of […]
2015-03-15 13:50:54
I chose today’s piece to celebrate a neighborhood in Paris, called the Marais, where I spent a lot of time during a semester of my senior year abroad in Paris in 1977. The piece was written by the 18th Century French composer, Marin Marais. Le Marais is a section of Paris on the Right Bank that starting in the 13th century was the fashionable place to live for the upper crusties. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a large number of Ashkenazy Jews settled there and it became a kind of garment district . My friend, a budding Canadian painter named David Maes , house sat there for a while. In all honesty, I hadn’t heard this piece when I lived in Paris. It came to me via a friend, who’d heard it in a film called “Tous Les Matins Du Monde,” which was about the life of the […]
2015-01-29 06:01:50
[…] know what they always say? They all just write a certain amount every day. Day in and day out.” “I don’t get it,” I said. “You become a writer by writing.” But as I said, back then I thought you became a writer by living a bohemian existence. And there was no better place to do that than Shakespeare and Company. The other day, I mentioned meeting a Canadian painter about my age named David Maes. He and I became close friends rather quickly after we met. For a while, we sort of competed against one another for the affections of a German girl named Ingeborg, who was living at Shakespeare and Company. Ingeborg had a face like Ingrid Bergman, and like me was trying to turn herself into a writer. She was terribly depressive–I think she once showed me how she had burned her arms with cigarettes to punish […]
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