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Still a newbie on this site but thought I'd share as well 🙂 I'm still not yet out of my Scriabin 'phase' (if you can call it that), where after a long period of listening to sections all over his compositional repertoire, I've recently started sorting through all of his opus numbers in order. As of now, the Op. 37 Preludes have graciously infected me over the past few days. I think they encapsulate what makes middle-period Scriabin so intoxicating; a moody temperament, harmonies that remind me of slightly-burnt sugar, and, occasionally, some lovely lyricism. A bit of the Belgian vocalist Jacques Brel has popped back into my schedule for sanity's sake. As an ongoing student of French at school, I fell into a bit of a old-school French chanson rabbit-hole a while ago and only just evicted the last of these bangers...or so I thought. Nothing comes close to the theatricality of this. And after an extended period of time having only known Zhu Jian-er for his orchestral masterpieces, I went back for a couple of solo piano works. These two preludes (Op. 4) date back to 1955 and are some of his oldest, and though they evoke a somewhat more fluid and reserved sound than what I expected, numerous idiosyncratic features still stand out to me: beautiful melody and phrase writing, carefully-applied impressionistic harmonies and masterful mood-setting. Even parts of these piano works sound like they were conceived with an orchestra in mind, looking at bars 21-29 in Prelude No. 1.

Hey Arjuna, This week I'm still listening Bach's Orgsn works. I really think that Bach displays some even more amazing counterpoint, affect and timbre in his organ works more than some of his other keyboard works, since he's a virtuosic organist. This one really has some of Bach's best counterpoint. It's effect is monumentous. These two remind me the Passions and Mass in B minor with how tragic they are. The subject of the fugue just get into my mind... Henry

As usual I'll start. Listened to a fair bit of Schubert's vocal works, including; and I also dived deeper into Berlioz, finding pieces like: I also revived my love for Mendelssohn:

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Fine piece! Congratulations on the 2nd prize.