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Drew Henderson and Michael Kolk play a fantastic arrangement of the second movement from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony (Allegretto) on guitars. Well worth listening! The arrangement can be purchased here.  

Georg Philipp Telemann. Concerto for Flute, Viola d'amore, Oboe d'amore in E-Major, TWV 53:E1.

Ich interessiere mich für die deutsche Sprachgeschichte, also denke ich daran, wenn ich einen neuen Gesang finde. 

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Handel’s Concerto Grosso Opus 6, No. 8 in C Minor. HWV 326. 

Leonidas Kavakos playing Johannes Brahms’ outstanding violin concerto. 

I am stunned by the heavenly melodies inside Schütz’s Selig sind die Toten. Heinrich Schütz’s music contains such poignant feeling and vitality. One of the first pieces, if not the first, that I heard from Schütz was his In lectulo per noctes. From then, I was hooked by the simple richness of his melodic lines and how he fused Italian styles which he had learned from Giovanni Gabrieli with the nascent North German style. Later composers such as Bach would learn a great deal from him. 

A marvellous piano quintet from Robert Schumann in E Flat Major, Opus 44, dedicated to his beloved Clara Schumann. I wonder whether she would have performed this work along with the stringed instruments. Schumann’s orchestration for these are marvellous, and the ending movements increase in intensity all the while. Had to stop and admire some of these pieces.