Welcome, the signature series continues. As always, you will need to go the CBC Radio 2 website to hear the compilation and voice over about the beauty and the majesty of what music in the key of C minor has to offer.
C minor: The Tortured Genius
Also known as:
The Solipsist.
The Misanthrope.
C minors you might know:
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Lord Byron.
Kurt Cobain.
The notes: C – D – E♭ – F – G – A♭ – B♮ – C.
Number of flats: three.
Relative major: E-flat major.
What they said about C minor in the 18th and 19th centuries:
“A tragic key, fit to express grand misadventures, deaths of heroes, and grand but mournful, ominous and lugubrious actions.” – Francesco Galeazzi, 1796
“Sounds in deep tones of misery; it proclaims rigid, numb grief. Fear and horror. Bitter lamenting. And despair.” – J.A. Schrader, 1827
More C minor listening:
Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms.
Symphony No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
The Canadian connection:
“The Floor” by Buck 65.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
2 comments
October 19, 2012 at 8:49 am
Jim
Mozart also liked c minor and wrote a fantasy in that key. The fantasy is purported to be a written improvisation. Also incorporated into the Ingmar Bergman film ‘Face To Face’.
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October 25, 2012 at 10:27 pm
The Arbourist
Gould’s interpretation is moody and dark. I like it, thank you for the link. :)
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