Beethoven/ Ensemble Tamanial/ Holmes - Secular Vocal WorksBeethoven's secular vocal works, many rarely heard today, were composed for a variety of reasons. Some were written for marriages, to mark the departure of a friend or to celebrate a name day, while others allude to Masonic imagery or set the words of great literary contemporaries, such as Schiller. The larger canvas of Mehrstimmige italienische Gesnge reflects Beethoven's studies of Italian word setting with Antonio Salieri, revealing insights into

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before it eventually yields to a beautiful array of guitar distortion and noise

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His legendary performances on the huge Wurlitzer Theater pipe organ continue to inspire organists in all genres of music

providing a particular grit and signature boom bap sound

Gorgeous plumes of sound evaporate into the ether

with the unusual addition of a piano and an organ - the two instruments that Liszt (and Saint-Saëns himself) favored

some of them from Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen

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Vineta Sareika and Amandine Savary demonstrate once again a sublime

literally dozens of superb pieces would have been irretrievably lost

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