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Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 | 10:14
Vladimir Horowitz - The Complete Original Jacket Collection
like most laypeople, i am familiar with the opening lines of Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B flat major and Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, and i could probably tell you they are nicknamed "Funeral March" and "Moonlight", respectively, but i wouldn't have been able to give you the formal names. i didn't even realize Chopin wrote the funeral march despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity. we have snippets of classical music floating around our lives all the time but rarely do we hear the entire movement, much less the full sonata. listening to the complete original jacket collection of vladimir horowitz recordings is a revelation to me. even outside his superb, if at times revisionist, playing, i'm not sure i've heard full versions of any of these pieces. i still couldn't tell you what the rest of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C sounds like, or even that it's called "Waldstein", but i'll hum the initial melody now and then. this is a clear sign i need more classical music in my life. and not just in the background, but in a context where i know and appreciate it. i don't want it all broken down and analyzed, but i do want to reach a point where i can hear the third movement of a Mozart sonata and tell you which one it is. this will take years of conscious listening, i know, but as a goal it is decidedly worthwhile.
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