I've decided to listen to ALL of Barber's music on youtube - so many gems! Vanessa, Sym No. 2, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, School for Scandal Overture, Songs, the Lovers, Chamber Music, wow, so many compositions. The guy was a genius, one of America's greatest composers!
This is the recording I first heard, by chance, having borrowed the record from our (then) wonderful public library in London. My introduction to "classical" music was extremely haphazard and unguided. Barber's Capricorn was the first music to open my ears to purely musical imagination - a delight in the.play of instrumental timbre and piquancy and rhythmic invention - without emotional baggage or association. It still beats all other recordings of the piece. Thank you for posting..
Thank you, especially for this particular recording of the only 'neoclassical' piece by Barber. It is one I've always liked and admired, and thinking it 'that good,' wish it were more widely known. Fine piece, 'definitive' archival performance / recording. Great stuff.
All three soloists were still teaching at Eastman when I attended there in 1973-75. A few of my friends were students of Sid Mear, and had plenty of stories to tell about him!
I've decided to listen to ALL of Barber's music on youtube - so many gems! Vanessa, Sym No. 2, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, School for Scandal Overture, Songs, the Lovers, Chamber Music, wow, so many compositions. The guy was a genius, one of America's greatest composers!
This is the recording I first heard, by chance, having borrowed the record from our (then) wonderful public library in London. My introduction to "classical" music was extremely haphazard and unguided. Barber's Capricorn was the first music to open my ears to purely musical imagination - a delight in the.play of instrumental timbre and piquancy and rhythmic invention - without emotional baggage or association. It still beats all other recordings of the piece. Thank you for posting..
Thanks for the erudite programme notes. Very interesting useful and enlightening 🤗🌈
Thank you, especially for this particular recording of the only 'neoclassical' piece by Barber.
It is one I've always liked and admired, and thinking it 'that good,' wish it were more widely known. Fine piece, 'definitive' archival performance / recording. Great stuff.
All three soloists were still teaching at Eastman when I attended there in 1973-75. A few of my friends were students of Sid Mear, and had plenty of stories to tell about him!
Hermosa composición,plena de piruetas y contrastes lo que propicia sugerencias emocionales diversas.
I thought house of Capricorn as in astrological.