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Jan. 7th, 2010 @ 01:43 am Ensemble XXI & Polar Voices
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Jan. 2nd, 2010 @ 10:26 pm A survey of Mahler recordings
Current Music: Tchaikovsky, Concert Fantasy Op. 56, M. Pletnev, piano, Philharmonia Orchestra
Jens, one of the posters at Ionarts (which is based in Washington DC), has posted a very extensive survey of Mahler recordings at the WETA blog, with his personal preferences.
You can find it here: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/12/mahler-survey.html

Of his recommendations, I own only ten. But then I only have a total of 71 Mahler recordings overall--a fairly small inventory.

(Cross posted to LJ's Mahler community)
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Dec. 30th, 2009 @ 12:09 pm Been reading Beethoven's letters...
And various other things related to him.

Hi. I'm Crysania, aka Michelle. I'm new here, but not new to classical music by any means. I've been studying it for most of my life and I currently teach part time at a couple universities, waiting for my break to get into a full time teaching position!

Anyway...I've been reading a book called Beethoven: Letters, Journals, and Conversations, edited by Michael Hamburger. It's been a fascinating read and there's nothing better than getting information on the composer directly from his own pen or the pens of those who knew him personally.

I thought some folks in the classical music communities might be interested in some of my favourite passages from his letters and the journals, so I'm going to share them behind the cut. Enjoy!

( Beethoven letters and journals )
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