Op.93
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12'05" | Realization (.MP3) | Score (.PDF) | |
Another quick, little bagatelle to cleanse the sound palette after the Drang of the 3rd piano concerto. It came quickly, because fully 50% of the movements are in ponderous tempi: Grave, Largo, and Gravissimo. Also, there appear to actually be two Scherzi in this little piece, neither of which is in 3/4 time. No extra charge.
For the uninitiated, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one of the noblest and most ancient Hindu scriptures:
Ah, Maitreyi, my beloved, the Intelligence which reveals all - by what shall it be revealed? By whom shall the knower be known? The Self is described as not this, not that. It is incomprehensible, for it cannot be comprehended; undecaying, for it never decays; unattached, for it is never bound. By whom, o my Beloved, shall the knower be known?1. Prajapati, a form of the creator-god Brahma
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