Craigswanson - Pianos + Players

Good god.

I could never pick a single Gould album. But if you absolutely forced me. Well. If you absolutely forced me, I would probably have to pick the Byrd-Gibbons album too.

In Anno 1630, un bel cd di Lorenzo Ghielmi spunta un pezzo per organo di Frescobaldi, Aria detto Balletto, che a me sembra molto molto simile, quasi identico alla Allemande (Italian Ground) di Orlando Gibbons immortalata da Glenn Gould nel suo celebre disco di virginalisti al pianoforte.

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Page from a sketchbook of Arnold Schoenberg.

(via TheDailyBeethoven)

I'll bet that's in a minor key.

oldbookillustrations:

keynotes.

Fred Hyland, from The Yellow Book vol. 6, July 1895.

(Source archive.org.)

And the sound engineers said: "You want perfect acoustics? Huh? Perfect acoustics? OK, here, here's yer perfect acoustics!"

Missing Melody (by George Christakis)