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#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalAugust Week 3
For August, the Classics a Day team chose to celebrate some birthdays. Several major composers were born in August, and some deserve rediscovery. The challenge is to post videos of August's birthday boys and girls to your social media feed.
Bacewicz, Ysaye, Enescu: Music for Strings
That three-dimensional sound stage really makes these works come alive. It also highlights the interplay between instruments, something key to all three works.
Top-flight recording, and top-flight performances.
George Enescu Violin Concerto - unfinished, but unforgettable
Carolin Widmann does just that. Enescu admired Brahms. Widmann brings a little of that Brahmsian phrasing to this work.
#ClassicsaDay #November11 Weeks 4 & 5
The challenge is to post works that are numbered 11 in some fashion, either an opus number, a series number, or even a suite number.
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