by Adolphe-William Bouguereau

by Stephen Seymour Thomas

From the movie with the same title by Lucino Visconti (1971).

No more than any other talent, is that for music susceptible of complete enjoyment, where there is no second party to appreciate its exercise. And it is only in common with other talents that it produces effects which may be fully enjoyed in solitude.

Edgar Allan Poe, in The Island of the Fay

So much talent you can get lost in this 3 hour recording.

From two songs by Therion (1995), Arrival Of The Darkest Queen and The Beauty In Black.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

I tried to reproduce birds singing with the violin.

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The video source is here.
This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

The goal of music and art is not to be beautiful. Its goal is ultimate truth.

Sergiu Celibidache

A rare ocasional slip and everything is just perfect — a perfect wrong note as William Westney put it.

This is a parody of the movie ‘Interview With the Vampire’, the scene where Lestat scolds Claudia for having tried to kill him (the sound is muffled because I am using a mute).
You can find here another amazing take on this scene (Sonata in E flat, Haydn).

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.