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Prelude and Fugue: Bach’s Music in the Vaults of Heaven
I remember the night that my father came home from work with a copy of the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields’ recording of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. It was a double-LP boxed-set (recorded music came on black vinyl discs in those days) with extensive booklet of…
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Tomaso Albinoni, Six Concertos Pour Hautbois (Erato, EFM 18024, 1975) – Pierre Pierlot, Oboe, I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone
This was one of my father’s favourite records. It has been in the family since the 70s – I am pretty sure that my father bought it at Sam the Record Man as soon as it came out in…
Listening to Music
“Music is inscribed between noise and silence, in the space of the social codification it reveals,” Jacques Attali noted in Noise: A Political Economy of Music. “Every code of music is rooted in the ideologies and technologies of its age, and at the same time produces them.” It is the aural space where we create and where we interrogate out times. For Attali, that meant probing the limits of political economy, but it is more than that: It is where we sing out stories and harmonize our collective lives. That is why we must listen, and this website is about my adventures in listening to music…
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Prelude and Fugue: Bach’s Music in the Vaults of Heaven
I remember the night that my father came home from work with a copy of the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields’ recording of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. It was a double-LP boxed-set (recorded music came on black vinyl discs in those days) with extensive booklet of…
Tomaso Albinoni, Six Concertos Pour Hautbois (Erato, EFM 18024, 1975) – Pierre Pierlot, Oboe, I Solisti Veneti conducted by Claudio Scimone
This was one of my father’s favourite records. It has been in the family since the 70s – I am pretty sure that my father bought it at Sam the Record Man as soon as it came out in 1975 – and this record provides a tangible connection to my father, who died in 2012, and…
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