{"id":1328,"date":"2020-08-24T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2024-04-24T14:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:19:51","slug":"mountainous-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/mountainous-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountainous Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the links I have included have been to music that I have played, but there is far more music that I have encountered &#8220;by accident&#8221; so to speak &#8211; although I guess that since I have rarely been in the position of choosing the repertoire that I played even those were accidental encounters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today is one such &#8216;accident&#8217; &#8211; I bought a recording of this for two reasons &#8211; it sounded like a good title and I already knew some music of Richard Strauss. It soon became a favourite. For those unfamiliar, it depicts a day climbing a mountain &#8211; reaching the summit in the middle &#8211; and starts and finishes in the night.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8211; allegedly &#8211; the first work to be pressed on to CD &#8211; a recording by Karajan in 1981<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XRVV32pvBY4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Strauss : An Alpine Symphony<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRVV32pvBY4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the links I have included have been to music that I have played, but there is far more music that I have encountered &#8220;by accident&#8221; so to speak &#8211; although I guess that since I have rarely been in the position of choosing the repertoire that I played even those were accidental encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}