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My loathing for John Cage only grows the more I learn about Classical Music. 4'33" is the sort of thing that can only be done once and "In Futurum" does "it" far better than John Cage could ever dream of.There has been a steady flow of Schulhoff recordings in the past 10 years, most notably the huge variety of chamber music. Fun fact, Schulhoff composed a piano piece, entitled "In Futurum". that consists entirely of rests, predating John Cage's 4' 33" by 30-odd years. And he is hardly the first person who did that.
I don't know anything about Mr. Heinichen's music, but dammit, he knew how to write for the oboe.
Johann David Heinichen: Concerto in G minor for Oboe, Strings & B.c Seibel 237.
Heinichen is still under-recorded. The only easily available (and much acclaimed) recordings are the two 2-CD sets, of concertos and sacred music respectively, performed by Musica Antiqua Köln and directed by Reinhard Goebel.
>J. S. Bach's contemporariesJ. S. Bach's contemporaries, however famous and musically creative they were in life, were invariably eclipsed in our times by our veneration of Bach himself. We've been gradually discovering the treasure of Telemann, yet someone like Christoph Graupner, chapel master of the Hesse-Darmstart court, still languish in obscurity. Graupner's duty of writing for the royal church has produced 1418 sacred cantatas (compared with Bach's 200-something and 1043 by Telemann), all are preserved in the royal library but few are available in modern editions. The cantatas that are published and performed today are, however, absolutely revelatory, such as "Ach Gott und Herr" (Ah, My God and Master), GWV 1144/11.
Here I present the solo soprano aria "Sigh and Weep, My Weary Eyes". Note the repeated string figure first appearing at 0:16. It almost sounds like a strike of thunder that the sinner feels of God, or perhaps the sound of her heart breaking. Bach would never aspire to such explicit tone painting.
Porcelain organ in Meissen. (May be loud.)Already in 1732, Augustus the Strong ordered an organ with pipes and bells made of Meissen porcelain. However, it was only in the year 2000 that the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen, in collaboration with Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden, succeeded in creating the first organ with sounding porcelain pipes.