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  1. Do you like the sound of the harpsichord?

    There have been some discussion on various threads about people's view on the harpsichord. I personally find the sound, including that of the modern harpsichord, moderately annoying, to the point of actually avoiding music that has excessive harpsichord sound (barely audible, background continuo...

  2. 10 Biggest Classical Music Celebrities of the Last 50 Years (Composers/Performers)

    Just finding out about John Ogdon, who I didn't know anything about. He could be called one of the top ten classical music celebrities of the last 50 years, if you make a distinction between performer and composer. Leonard Bernstein would be another even though he's a composer also. Someone...

  3. Found my funeral music, what's yours?

    Hello I have thought about this for some time and I think I have found my funeral music, it is the Adagio from Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fuga in C Major, here is the piece and the Adagio starts at the 5:05 marker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNZ1AEuJ3lM But I thought I...

  4. More Haydn or Mozart in your collection?

    In reorganizing my CDs recently, I was surprised to learn that I own far more recordings of Haydn's music than Mozart's. And my Mozart collection had far more duplicated works (numerous clarinet quintets, Masses in C Minor and Symphonies in G Minor) than the Haydn; if you controlled for that...
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