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A post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music: Russian cycles, part 3

Sergei Prokofiev [Still waiting to be reunited with my CD collection! So this episode is not exactly centered on a particular work, but rather on Prokofiev himself. There are a few suggestions below, of course.] —————– My love affair with Prokofiev started by chance, and it happened after years of not really listening to a lot Classical music. [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: Russian cycles, part 2

Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony no.5 [apologies for the lack of excerpt to download this week...I should be reunited with my CD collection once I reach Toronto!] ———————- I never really got into the Smiths. Maybe it was a variety of factors, but even when I started reading about how influential they had been to a whole lot of bands [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: Russian cycles, part 1

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheherazade. ———————- I’ve been wanting to resume the series for a while now, but life has this unknowable knack for getting in the way, and while I’ve been trying to work on new music as well, there simply didn’t seem to be time to devote to this project. Now, as I transition from one continent to [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 10

Claude Debussy, Preludes Volume I. Voiles ———————- It’s the end of the year. For some it’s the end of the decade, though everyone knows that the decade will only end next year… either way, everywhere you turn someone is writing a top 3/5/10/100 somewhere. So that set me thinking. If I were to pick my 3 favourite [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 9

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto n.23, K 488. 2nd Movement ———————- It’s the end of the year. For some it’s the end of the decade, though everyone knows that the decade will only end next year… either way, everywhere you turn someone is writing a top 3/5/10/100 somewhere. So that set me thinking. If I were to [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 8

Johann Sebastian Bach, Aria, the Goldberg variations ———————- It’s the end of the year. For some it’s the end of the decade, though everyone knows that the decade will only end next year… either way, everywhere you turn someone is writing a top 3/5/10/100 somewhere. So that set me thinking. If I were to pick my 3 [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 7

Charles Ives – The unanswered question —————— “there is a great man living in this country – a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one’s self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives” Arnold Schoenberg “Beauty in music is too often [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 6

Arthur Honegger – Pacific 231 —————— A few favourite travel memories: Taking a very early bus from Palermo to Catania, leaving at 5 AM and listening to Autobahn and Trans Europe Express on repeat as the sun would rise Taking a train from Lyon to Turin on my way to my parents’ house, and listening to Boom Boom Satellites’ [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock guide moves to Wednesday

Hey there, just a quick one for those of you who follow this weekly diversion: a post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music will now be published every Wednesday. This has more to do with a timetable conflict than anything else, and Wednesday seems like a better choice for me at this point. I do have more [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 5

Igor Stravinski, the Rite of Spring (apologies for the lack of podcast this week. The podcast will resume on the 1st of December) ————— Here is an analogy. All we have to do is go back a Century. Let’s assume that the canon of post-rock as we know it is this music of epic proportions, soundscapes unfolding in rising [ READ MORE ]

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