Today I learned of the bandoneon, a variant of the concertina. It’s often used in tango, according to wikipedia. (For musical instrument rubes such as myself, it’s like an accordion.)

I also learned that, with enough reverb applied, it can do a pretty great rendition of that famous Bach piece (which I do happen to love). Enjoy!

I remember, in college, going to the Fred Meyer and buying a bunch of classical music including a best of Bach CD and some other standards like Beethoven and Mozart. It was for studying and focus and having something to play on my new bookshelf stereo. The inspiration was surely a set of tapes that my friend,1 Gianfranco, made and gave me in the year or two prior when I visited him in Italy. I got a whole stack of classical music. I still have those tapes.2

Fourteen classical CD cases arranged in a grid.
Not all this music. I think the dramatic Mozart, Bach, and Strauss 2-CD sets are from that day. Most of the others are within a year or two of that, I think. I don’t even own a proper CD player anymore.

I’ve branched out a bit more than that to modern classical and less mainstream classics too, but I wouldn’t claim any of it is particularly obscure or unheard of.

Got any favorite musical pieces to share?

jg

footnotes

  1. And exchange student that lived with my family for a year. Story for another day. ↩︎

  2. I couldn’t be bothered to go find them and get a picture of those right now. But I want to do that, so I have a record of the choices he made. I’ll tack an update when I do. Maybe this weekend. ↩︎

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