Classical Music

I am going through a classical music stage.

On NPR I heard a beautiful swirling piece composed by Franz Liszt. I went home home to see if I could download it in my e-music budget.

Franz composed a number of pieces made for opera. Some of the opera were Verdi and others were Wagner.

Its amazing what the piano can do as a musical instrument. These are not your usual piano pieces, but rather thundering and wistful melodies that work together to conjure great numbers. Talk about playing with feeling. I don't see how a pianist could play these without getting lost in the emotion.

Another classical hunt sent me looking for classical underpinnings of Wynton Marsalis. He has some very important position at the Lincoln Center. He is known in many circles for his jazz interpretations. I used the same service,(emusic) and found some very brilliant recordings of classical "pop" selections such as the Flight of the Bumblebee and Carnaval of Venice (their spelling). Also there were a few Allegros and other classic numbers by Haydn, Mozart and Hummel otherwise known as the trumpet concertos. Overall pretty cool stuff.

There was a U-tube video of Wnyton Marsalis with the rock violin player, Lucia Micarelli. So.. of course I had to have an album of that.

So off I go into the classical music jag.. Kind of fun.

: ) Pat