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Magritte
A picture of a pipe is not really a pipe, and a daylight-filled sky can shine over a streetlamp-lit townhouse, and a painting of a window inside a painting of a sitting room can be the window in that sitting room, and a room-sized rock can gaze out of that room at the sea, and,… Read more →
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Max Beckmann On My Painting
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the last 100 years, and On My Painting is one of the key texts essential for understanding his work. Composed in 1938, it was read by Beckmann at the opening of the 20th-Century German Art exhibition in London, a riposte… Read more →
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Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam
Between 1937 and 1947, while he was in exile in Amsterdam, the German-born painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) made approximately a third of the work he would create in his lifetime. When he moved on, it was to accept an appointment as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Before that peacetime respite, he countered… Read more →
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Bach: The Goldberg Variations
The clear-cut rhythms, riveting articulation, and contrapuntal acumen of Glenn Gould’s 1955 debut Goldberg Variations characterize this 1981 remake to strikingly different results. This later version is more deliberate in pacing, stark in expression, thoughtful with ornamentation, and tightly organized (if a mite theatrical) in terms of tempo relationships. Whereas there are no repeats from… Read more →
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Furtwangler Conducts Beethoven – Beethoven: symphonies no 3,4,5, & 9, Leonore
These may be the most gripping performances of Beethoven’s symphonies you’ll ever hear. No, not necessarily the most enjoyable or even the most accurate, but gripping–to say the least. In these wartime performances of Symphonies Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9, Wilhelm Furtwängler is at his most expressive, angry self. Conducting six of… Read more →
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Shostakovich – Complete Quartets – Borodin Quartet (6 CD Set)
Label(s): Melodiya Year of release: 2006 Recording length: 429:56 Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich Performer: Sviatoslav Richter Band: Borodin Quartet / Gosudarstvennyj kvartet imeni A.P. Borodina Read more →