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Carlo Gesualdo
VI libro di madrigali (1611)
XX. Se la mia morte brami 

Ensemble Métamorphoses

currently obsessed. 

magnificat text and artwork from the book of hours, duc de berry. 1400s. 


legit.  

goodness, this is just so so much. so much lush, so much swoon, so much cheese. so much and so good. and the progression was like, vivaldi’s go-to, he used it in like, his kyrie and his magnificat as well. 

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Saint-Saëns - Allegro appassionato, Op. 70
Ian Hobson, piano

Sometimes, I really don’t mind that Saint-Saëns is so full of fluff. So is a good pillow.

Have you heard his A-Minor Symphony? It’s all muscle.

This just got steamy.

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and here’s part two, with a reconstruction of the matrix by zoltan goncz. so incredible. goodness. i can’t. 

part one of bach’s contrapunctus from his art of fugue.  

glenn gould is just so much sometimes. bach’s art of fugue, bwv 1080, contrapunctus 14. 

bach’s musical offering, bwv 1079, ricecar 2 a6.  
this analysis in the video is so intense. goodness.  

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A directory of themes from all the preludes and fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, book I.