I’ve added some new synthesizer performances to the Listening Room:

Bachianas Brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos

From Wikipedia:
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”.[1] Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time.[2] He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas brasileiras (“Brazilian Bach-pieces”).

Bach/Handel Concerto

From Wikipedia:
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 [O.S. 21 March] – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.[1] Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation in composition for diverse instrumentation, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France.

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I know the domain itself is not very SEO-friendly, but who cares? I love it! Tell all your friends, your hundreds of friends who listen to electronic classical music to visit www.somanycolours.com (don’t forget to say “colours with-a-u”).

What does the domain and site name mean, you ask? Well, if you listen to “Secrets of Synthesis” by Wendy Carlos, you hear her quote Bob Moog. After litening to the opening of the 3rd Brandenburg, Bob said, “Wow, there are so many colors!”, which surprised Wendy, since at that point she was well aware of how limited were the number of different sounding synthesizer voices. Why did I spell it with a ‘u’? Well, for one the domain without a ‘u’ was taken, and more importantly, I am a confessed anglophile, and that’s how the British spell it! Cheers!

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