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I upload videos of (classical) music, synchonised with the score. I try to find the best recordings, with a deliberate bias towards post-1990 stuff that isn't too well known. Then I try to say something about the music which will make you like it more. That's basically it!
Among all of Beethoven’s variation sets, this is the most funny, good-natured, and consistently extroverted. There’s lots of hand-crossing (the second cantus firmus variation, Vars. 3, 8, 10, 11), pedal points both funny and sublime (Vars. 9, 10, 13, 15, 16), and only occasional forays into minor k… Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61 in Ab Major (Yoshihiro Kondo, Kate Liu, Leonskaja)
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