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Music is an anthology of feelings and each note represents a universe of emotions . Franz Schubert Impromptu in G flat Major , Op 90 , No. 3 is an absolute miracle ! Schubert really knew how to capture beauty in his music . This extraordinary beautiful song like piece is the
Do you want to find yourself in Love ? Listen to
#Mahler
Symphony No 5
#Adagietto
is often referred as a love letter from composer to muse . The fourth movement is sumptuously soft and glassy , the sweetest melody that plays in the depth of heart . Amour…
Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No 2 , it’s a mighty work , an insistent and incendiary work . One of the greatest Piano concertos , is the most personal and in emotional terms has the most to say . After receiving a suicide letter from his dearest friend Max was understandably
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’s 9th Symphony : incomprehensible , irresistible and some believe it’s the summit of composer’s art . The final movement is an explosion of joy Beethoven gives an uplifting joy to listeners, its almost unbelievable abundance of beauty and stunning joy
What distinguishes
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and his music from other composers is that he belonged to no music school and subscribed to no dogma. He was not interested in the Piano technique as an end in itself , it was colour , nuance and phrasing that set him apart and made his playing unique
Brahms Piano Intermezzo Op 118 No 2 ; In every note , an ocean of untold Love Story . This lyrical , moving nocturne like Intermezzo pulls us into a world of dreamy and quiet longing . It sways tenderly like a lullaby with the lyrical Brahmsian sophisticated web of inner voices .
I just returned from a field study in Singapore . I am not a music academic , but in the same way we don’t have to practice botany to appreciate the lessons of balance and replication in the beauty of nature , we don’t have to be professional musicians or professors of theory to
Brahms Piano Quartet No 3 : Andante . Let The Music take you where you long to be : The Andante from Brahms’s Piano Quartet Op 60 captures our sorrow , I can never hear it without a silent tear rolling down my cheeks. The descending Cello melody pitched like a human voice , is
One of the most heart wrenching but incredibly beautiful music of
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is
#Prelude
No 4 in E minor . This eloquent short piece speaks volumes in a span of time under 2 minutes expressing moments of sadness from a piano master , one of his saddest works Have a hanky ready
#Larghetto
a testimony of
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’s dazzling pianistic skill Larghetto , piano concerto No 1 calm and melancholy , it’s a kind of reverie giving the impression of someone looking gently towards a spot that calls to mind a thousand memories. More like an exquisite poem
SILENCE is an art : Silence has a lot to say . Learning to listen in to musical silence urges us to heed The Unspoken . Composers call this Liminal Silence . In the final of La bohème Opera , Puccini paints an ephemeral silence . In one fleeting heartbeat 💗 neither voice , nor
Mozart Piano concerto No 20 ( Romance ) The piece does justice to its name , with its lyrical passionate , tender and romantic melody . This was a concerto much admired by Beethoven who wrote Cadenzas for it . It’s one of the most beloved and popular in the repertoire , it’s even
Music is the space between the notes : Claude Debussy 🎵 I love this quote , it reminds us that beauty needs a certain amount of emptiness to be appreciated . Silence is at the heart of Music : The dramatic silence after the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is
Music maybe called the sister of painting for she is dependent upon hearing , the sense which comes second …….. Leonardo da Vinci …… Music arrives intangibly , we can not hold it in our hands , we can feel the beauty of music in our hearts 💞 nor painting , nor music do not
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all , it’s the most difficult to play ….Arvo Pärt ( Estonian Composer ) Édith Piaf knew how to find a song captivating hearts with her voice : She conveyed the emotion within the lyrics of La Vie en rose 🌹 It’s said she wrote
Shostakovich Waltz No 2 : A dance that takes Soviet theatricality and combines it with a sense of romantic lightness to create something profound . It is a good example of how music can tell stories without words and it’s painted with memorable melody lines , conflicting
I don’t break Hearts , I break Beats on my Piano 🎹 It’s not easy to capture in words something so elusive and personal as Piano music . The word Piano itself possesses an ethereal charm among all musical instruments . What the music of Bach , Schubert , Chopin , Debussy or
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’s Zal ? The mysterious melancholy /longing / pathos in his music , you can hear his aching heart about his homeland . The Zal comes to notice in Chopin’s Mazurkas . Mazurka Op 63 No 2 is one of the most sublime and minimal yet full of Pathos best example for Zal
If you were a composer of your life……? ? And what if the pages of life’s lessons are found through the composer’s pen ? If your life were a musical score how would it unfold ? Would it be a chart - topping chorus and refrain or a slow chromatic Wagnerian overture ? Perhaps you
#Barcarolle
or boat song by
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, a piece for solo Piano three years before his death. Chopin’s Barcarolle features is a sweepingly romantic and slightly wistful tone, in a F sharp Major A work that intoxicates with the beauty of its sound , thrills with ardent
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 : a composer who aims at expressing the deepest emotions in his works with a mysterious ability to touch the deepest part of soul The Second Symphony boasts heartbreaking melodies in first and especially The Fourth movements . Powerful ardent
Without Music , life would be a mistake . And those who were seen dancing 💃 were thought to be insane by those who could not hear The Music 🎵 ……… Friedrich Nietzsche
The past beats inside me like a second HEART 💜 Four years ago on this day ; every morning I remind myself at the funeral of my husband the moving words of his grief stricken mother : There are WOUNDS , they don’t BLEED but HURT badly .
During any concert that is done with great presentation , I don’t hear The Music anymore, I just live it . It absorbs me . Every concert is a mystical experience , and ecstasy . 🎵 Hebert von Karajan
Music is Shorthand of Emotions : the well known quote by Leo Tolstoy , he subtitles his play The Living Corpse ( 1911 ) Music’s ineffability transports us away from the mundane , allays sadness , evokes laughter , brings us to tears and rallies us to stand in unison . It
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 , The Second movement : A pure magic , when I listen to The Second Movement Andante I am full of tears and moved into wordless languishness by the music Shostakovich composed this music in celebration of 19th birthday of his son Maxim who later
The Piano as a medium for expression is a Whole World by itself . No other instrument can fill or replace its own say with The World of Emotion , Sentiment , Poetry , Imagery and Fancy 🎵🎹🎵 Leopold Godowsky , Polish American Pianist
A Piano piece tinged with melancholy . One of favourite piece by Schubert , his Impromptu No 4 in A - flat , D. Always evokes sadness for me, with its delicate fluttering semiquavers and poignant harmonic shifts. This Piano piece invites you to an emotional journey
Dim the lights and listen to a slow pretty song flowing Piano arpeggios Morgen by Richard Strauss.There’s so much depth with this relatively simplicity . I think everyone has had one of those moments where you stop and say : I wish I could just stay in this moment forever
Literature has been an integral part of classic music . The first influential story that comes to mind is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet . Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture is an absolute masterpiece and my personal musical take . Franz Liszt , Faust Symphony is inspired by Goethe’s
The Kreutzer Sonata : Beethoven and Tolstoy ( Music meets Literature ) The Violin Sonata No 9 by Beethoven is a sonata for Piano and Violin notable for its technical difficulty , extreme length and emotional scope . Both music and literature evoke emotions , and all that
Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony : A masterpiece created during his emotional turbulence which was not a musical suicide note , instead The Sixth Symphony is a vindication of Tchaikovsky’s power as a composer . It’s often known as Pathétique , it’s interesting to know the word (
The Piano Quintet by César Franck : Music is the perfect medium to express deep emotions like a sweet perfumed rose 🥀 The Piano Quintet is a mighty ensemble comprising two self - sufficient entities , the string quartet and the piano capable of nearly orchestral sound and colour
Love ❤️ has always been a highly personal and private affair for me , may be that’s why I’m drawn to music . Some music elicit the elusive emotion in us . Music can bring forth the emotions and at the end leave us content . The song that makes me think about love is devine and
According to Alan Walker it’s interesting to know about the influence of Italian Opera on
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music such as operas of
#Bellini
, Chopin attempted to enshrine the memory of opera singing in his melodies This love affair can be traced in his Nocturnes inspired by opera
Fritz Kreisler arr . Rachmaninov - Liebesleid ( love’s sorrow ) The irresistible sweetness of his Violin sound and his schmaltzy portamentos cause Pianists to despair of the limitations of their own instrument , but help is at hand with Rachmaninov’s reinterpretation of his
If music be the food of love ❤️ , play on ; ….William Shakespeare Shakespeare is an influential force in the music arena . Several of his plays are accompanied by well - composed music . In fact Robert Johanson , an English composer and lutenist
Mahler’s 5th symphony occupies a pivotal place in his endlessly fascinating output . The 5th with its trajectory from mourning to triumph reflects the composer’s life . The symphony is five movements : The Symphony’s third and final part The Adagietto has often been performed as
You are not what you look like , you are what you LOVE ....You are The Music you liisten to , you are The Art you make . To this day Music can express the most powerful feelings of human beings in ways that even words can't emulate .....I have a lump in my throat every time i
The Willingness to Listen , The Patience to Understand , The Strength to Support The Heart ❤️ to Care & just to be there , that’s The Beauty of a Woman …. Happy Women’s Day
Strangers can become Friends just as quickly as best Friends can become Strangers Colette : the most beloved French writer of all time ( Jan 28 , 1873 ) 150 anniversary of her birth
WHY ? … We Close Our Eyes when we Cry , When We Dream , When We Pray , When We Kiss and When We listen to Music …..? Because The Most Beautiful Things In Our Life are not Seen but felt only by The Heart ❤️
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Alexander Scriabin : Piano sonata No 6 Don’t be surprised if you start shedding tears while listening to this incredible music under the influence of Mysticism The music consists of a single movement and is almost atonal with Mystérieux mood and dark But a marvellous piece
Music begins where words end : Many writers have tried to capture the intangible power of music in words and Marcel Proust is a great example in Swann’s way . A little phrase from a Violin Sonata by Vinteuil draws Proust’s Swann into moods more subtle than mere longing or
It speaks volumes that Nobody has ever measured , even Poets , how much a Heart can hold : Music makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place . Opera is a dramatic story told through the use of music and song , some even consider it to be the most complete art form because it
Champagne Polka :Strauss ll wrote the piece to evoke the sound of Champagne bottles being uncorked . Pop the Champagne , dress like Fitzgerald, drink like Hemingway, party like Anaïs Nin and toast at midnight 🕛🍾 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 when we Love we have Everything ❤️
Dance is the joy of movement : Combining both music and dance , ballet is another beautiful art influenced by literature . Charles Perrault’ Sleeping Beauty inspired Tchaikovsky to compose famous Waltz in his Sleeping Beauty . Not to forget how well - read Tchaikovsky was .
Liebesleid ( love’s sorrow ) : ( arr : Rachmaninov ) It’s true Music comes to rescue when one wants to escape long pressed pain and sorrow , Rachmaninov’s most charming piano piece , a perfect example of Rachmaninov’s beautifully dizzy contrapuntal writing . Even though Fritz
Happy Birthday 🎂 Prokofiev 🎹🎵🎵 Piano Concerto N . 3 This piece is a pure magic , it is a piece that is going to appeal to those who have liking for Stravinsky Petrushka mode . Piano Concerto N . 3 is consistently brilliant in every moment . It’s a brilliant
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Piano Quartet in A minor ; Surround yourself with sweet candles because this piece kindles the flames of Romance , the second movement Adagio poco piu mosso is an emotional roller coaster with a very sensual lyrical theme , a kind of rhapsody
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Astor Piazzolla : Estaciones Porteñas , sitting by the fireplace , if you have lit the candles, have a drink ready , now all you need is a little music. May I then suggest to listen to Argentine tango to make it perfect . The Four Seasons by Vivaldi is often labeled steamy
A Symphony must be like The World , it must embrace Everything ….🎵 Mahler What did Mahler really mean ? Mahler’s famous quote to Sibelius , does it simply mean a symphony should be gigantic like Mahler’s 3rd and 8th ? Or does it mean it should be deeply emotional like
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’s Titanic Concerto : His Piano Concerto no 3 in D minor stands as a colossus in the repertoire not only because it’s the most difficult to play but also it cast on gargantuan scale in terms of melodic gesture , expressive range and technical challenge
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utterly revolutionized what was possible with Piano , he combined physical challenges at the keyboard with melting beauty of poetry . Karol Szymanowski ( Polish Composer )
Tears and chills by listening Gaspard de La Nuit by
#MauriceRavel
, one of the most challenging Piano piece of all time .The exuberant notes add up to one of the most difficult music ever written. We hear the influence of
#Liszt
’s Transcendental Études with mystery & lament
Chopin versus Liszt : Gustave Chouquet director of The Musée du Consevatouire writes in 1835 , Liszt was the perfect example of the virtuoso . He made the most of every effect as if he were a Paganini of the piano . Chopin on the other hand commend with voices within himself ,
My Piano : To scape from this out of tune world I get lost in music - every note , every melody , every sound takes me on a new journey no matter how many times I press the keys 🎹
Music and Poetry , a Timeless Relationship : there’s something unique that connects Poetry and Music . The Greek Rhapsodies The Japanese Tanka , The Chinese Shijing are all typical examples. T . S . Eliot wrote The Waste Land inspired by
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’s The Rite of Spring