The Repeat Connection
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If it's good, it's worth repeating.
To call a piece of music “repetitive” might seem like a criticism, but the truth is that virtually all music involves repetition of one sort or another.
Of course, there are many ways to repeat something, and composers often play with most of them.
In the next hour, some prime examples—from Handel to Haydn, from Beethoven to Fauré, from Johann Strauss II to Maurice Ravel.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Beethoven - Moonlight, Pathétique & Waldstein Sonatas |
Steven Osborne |
Hyperion CDA67662 |
03457117662 |
| Dance Music of the Renaissance (LP) |
Ferdinand Conrad and ensemble.. |
RCA Victrola VICS-1328 |
[none] |
| Handel & Telemann [for “Alla Hornpipe” movement from the Water Music Suite No. 2, by Handel] |
Zefiro |
Ambroisie AM192 |
822186001929 |
| Albinoni: Adagio [for Pachelbel: Canonin D] |
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
Deutsche Grammophon
429 390-2 |
028942939028 |
| The Sound of Arvo Pärt [for Spiegel im Spiegel] |
Martin Roscoe (piano), Tasmin Little (violin) |
Erato 2564608073 |
825646080731 |
| Haydn: Complete Symphonies [for Symphony #94 “Surprise”] |
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer |
Brilliant Classics 99925 |
5028421999258 |
| Faure: Masques et Bergamasques |
Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot |
Seattle Symphony Media SSM 1004 |
0855404005034 |
| Complete Beethoven Recordings on Archiv Produktion [for Symphony No. 5] |
The Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, John Elliott Gardner, |
Archiv/Deutsche Grammophon 4837269 |
0028948372690 |
| Robert Stolz conducts Waltzes, Marches & Polkas [for “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”] |
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz, |
Sony Classical 88985465542 |
889854655426 |
| Bolero |
Boston Symphony, Charles Munch |
RCA Red Seal
82876-66374-2 |
828766637427 |
