Posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:05 PM PST by nwrep
A mammoth box set of Mozart’s music is officially the best-selling CD release of 2016.
Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition has sold a total of 1.25 million CDs in the five weeks since its release, announced Universal Music Group via Billboard.
The anthology, containing every musical work written by famed Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), has managed to beat this year’s hit albums from stars including Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West.
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In 220 years, nobody and I mean NOBODY will remember Bouncy, Fake, or Banhanna. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Ha! You think THAT'S a good deal? I got Mozart to come to my townhouse personally and premier a string duet with Paganini that he wrote for the occasion. And it only cost me the price of a tuna fish sandwich!
I love it.
I bought and downloaded the latest Radiohead when it was released a few months ago. For a few extra bucks I paid for the highest fidelity, which was some insanely high bitrate (can't recall right now what it is).
The bitrate was so high, iTunes couldn't recognize it and I had to lower it considerably (down to 2304 kbps 48 kHz) before it was playable on the old iPod. Still sounds amazing.
Yeah, everyone knows that; it was in Amadeus.
“With Mozart you really have to get up to K. 400 and above for the music to get really interesting.”
Think about that.
The final number is K620something.
620 published works. Some of them are Operas well over an hour long. Symphonies of 4 movements, and the 4 count as only 1 K(ochel) number. The 4 movements are just 1 of the 620. The 27 Piano Concertos . . . 3-4 movements each. Each one well over an hour long.
And he died at 35. No computers with music composition tools. He had his brain, a piece of paper and a quill pen to dip in inkwells. Look at those numbers above and think about how many times that quill pen was dipped and how many notes were put on the paper.
We’re talking about inhuman productivity. Even the folks who “prefer someone else” know what those numbers mean.
So here we are 220 yrs later, and there he is.
Want to jaw drop a bit more? The first 120 of those years . . . no recordings of any kind. The pieces of paper, when read by those who could read them . . . they understood. They knew. That’s why he’s here at 220 yrs.
You must be elderly.
A rising tide lifts all ships.
Why, because I like tuna fish?
Death imitating art?
Everyone knows that!
With you on the Hayden
A brilliant performance
My favorite Japanese anime this season is the new comedy ClassicaLoids, which features Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and other classical composers as layabouts in a boarding house. Each week features the composers’ compositions in animated MTV style music videos (remember those?). The show is being simulcast in the US on Crunchyroll free with a one-week delay.
Excellent soundtrack (split into two CDs - one with the original compositions and the other with the classical pieces featured).
Beyonce is just a black Taylor Swift.
Yeah, that's a good one. I also liked Nodame Cantibile.
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