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This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement

Life & Notes2008.09.10
This Week’s Music: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, First Movement
http://www.yf.net.cn/musichall/foreign_music/080218-02.mp3 A faster link, but a different version: http://hdl7lhk7.hfes.cn/uploadfile/e.mp3 Here’s another violin concerto~ Reposting a brief introduction: http://www.hongen.com/art/gdyy/amqbl/ga30903.htm The Violin Concerto in E minor was composed between 1838 and 1844, and first performed in 1845. Among Mendelssohn’s violin concertos, this one is the most famous, and together with Beethoven’s D major, Brahms’s D major, and Tchaikovsky’s D major violin concertos, it is known as one of the world’s four great violin concertos. The whole work is filled with tender romantic feeling and an even, well-proportioned formal beauty; the treatment of the violin is exquisite beyond compare, the melody is lovely, and the technique dazzling, reaching the summit of perfection. It…
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2008年9月10日
This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5

Life & Notes2008.08.25
This Issue’s Music: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, 3 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
For five consecutive issues I haven’t posted any classical music. With the Olympics over, and as a sign that life is returning to normal, let’s bring classical music back to the blog homepage again~ Speaking of classical music, apart from Bach, the composer I’ve listened to most is probably Mozart. Maybe the total time I’ve spent listening to Mozart is even greater. But looking back, I realized that I’ve reposted Bach’s works here five times, yet not once have I posted Mozart. That seems a little hard to justify… So, a Mozart piece it is! Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto is a fine one, and conveniently there’s a complete, high-speed link…
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2008年8月25日
This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)

Site Matters2008.07.06
This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)
Looking for a song that fits a graduation mood, I entered a few keywords and, by a strange twist of fate, found this one. Just recently I happened to hear it in some restaurant; at the time I couldn’t remember what song it was, and so it turns out it was this one. I haven’t watched GUNDAM SEED (among all the anime I’ve watched, not a single GUNDAM series has yet been watched through in full; I’m truly ashamed. By the way, the latest GUNDAM 00 is very good, reaching a kind of brand-new realm), but of course I’ve heard this famous song. If one is looking for a classic…
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2008年7月6日
Singing Karaoke at 17 Mile, 2008-1-16

Life & Notes2008.01.18
Singing Karaoke at 17 Mile, 2008-1-16
17-Mile Drive K-singing 2008-1-16 Gu Chu posted 2008-01-18 14:42:56 A few photos. Each photo basically came with a 10-second recording, which can’t be posted online. A Fei and Xiao Long were very high, San Shi was dazzling, and Ya Li of course had nothing to say either. As for me, of course I was just there to make up the headcount, mainly listening in. I was forced to sing the climax of “Fairy Tale,” picked on my own initiative the “Yeliya Girl” that I’d had tucked away for more than ten years, and in the end sang a bit of “Serve the Country Loyally,” which I learned during military training—so…
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2008年1月18日
This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath

Life & Notes2008.01.09
This Issue’s Music: Elisha’s Smile — from Chuck Brown’s Deep Breath
http://www.bioice.net/~92230001/music/1.mp3 Alicia’s Smile – from Chuck Brown’s *Breathe* Give Us a Smile, Alicia From Chuck Brown "Breathe" New-age minimalist aesthetics, immaculate and unadorned piano tones For a long time I’ve been listening to classical music and Bach, so it’s time to change things up a bit. Let’s listen to some minimalist new-age music. Coincidentally, the first track I opened in *Heat Is On* was already quite “pure” (*Pure* — from Chuck Brown’s *Pure*), but I couldn’t find it on Baidu, so I posted another piece by the same person instead. Too lazy to go looking any further; anyway, this one is not bad either~ Of course, when it comes to…
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2008年1月9日
This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P

Life & Notes2007.12.03
This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P
http://podcache.cctv.com/published1/2007/11/23/pub1195778342427.mp3 I’ve posted a few installments of classical music, so it’s about time to change things up once in a while too~ Today, all of a sudden, I had an impulse to post something a bit more stimulating—to lift the spirits, and at the same time give people a little scare. But after thinking it over, I still decided to be a bit more peaceful and go with something moderately so—namely the latest OP of *One Piece* (OP means the opening theme song). I think the lyrics are pretty good. Below I’m posting the lyrics translated by the Fengxue subtitle team: Roam the world’s seas, and shout at the top…
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2007年12月3日
This Week’s Music: Prokofiev _ Violin Concerto No. 1 _ I. Andantino

Life & Notes2007.11.24
This Week’s Music: Prokofiev _ Violin Concerto No. 1 _ I. Andantino
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/S2002-3.mp3 The first violin concerto by the Russian composer Prokofiev. Senior Butian sent this to me, and I casually searched for it online and unexpectedly found links to the first and second movements. Although it isn’t the version Senior Butian sent me, and the sound quality and overall effect don’t seem very good either, the crucial thing is that the link speed is astonishingly fast—really hard to come by. Music links are hard to find, so I’ll make do with this~~ Since it happens to be time to switch the music feature, I’ll just post this one too; I’m too lazy to sit down and ponder it anymore. By the…
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2007年11月24日
This Issue’s Music: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 881

Life & Notes2007.11.11
This Issue’s Music: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 881
http://www.pierretristam.com/Music/bachbwv881-schiff.mp3 Recently I downloaded the APE files of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier to listen to, and ah—well, Bach really is perfection. No wonder this Well-Tempered Clavier is called the “Old Testament” of music history; Chopin even said that the Well-Tempered Clavier was “the sum and end of music.” Sigh, uh, ah, mm… I really have nothing to say… I just found one at random online (though in fact it wasn’t really random at all—I searched through BWV846~893 one by one, and the usable MP3s could be counted on the fingers of one hand…), and am posting it here.
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2007年11月11日
This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams

Life & Notes2007.11.02
This Week’s Music: Harmonica Solo: The Dance Partner in My Dreams
http://www.wmlife.cn/uploadFile/_wmlife_audio/audioupload/folk/0706/kouqin/8.wma At last, the harmonica that had been gathering dust at home for many years has been found, and a couple of days ago it was sent to me. This harmonica was my dad’s treasure back in the day; they say it even played a role when he was pursuing my mom~ Too bad he has long since stopped playing it~ The good thing about the harmonica is that it’s cheap and easy to carry around. But in terms of timbre and expressive power, it really isn’t all that great, and it’s honestly a rather hard thing to control (though very easy to get started with). As for me, what…
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2007年11月2日
Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Life & Notes2007.10.25
Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
http://media.ewen.cc/wma/n00000027/n0000002749028318.wma Last time in Master Xian’s Schopenhauer class, he mentioned the chaotic, dark state of the world before the first pair of eyes opened. Master Xian said this state is impossible to describe, and cannot be depicted in painting either, but perhaps music could express it somewhat, so he gave this example—the opening section of Ravel’s Left Hand Piano Concerto. When I got back and searched it out to listen, it really did have something going on. Of course, aside from the opening, the overall feeling is also quite good, very marvelous. This piece is one you have to listen to with your eyes closed. The music from the previous…
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2007年10月25日