My first Music post (Rostropovich R.I.P.)

This is my first musicpost. I was triggered by my brother's weblog Dutchblog Israel where he posted a video of the great late cellomaestro Mstislav Rostropovich who died a few days ago.

The cello is my favorite classical musical instruments and from the old guard (and I mean that in a respectful way) Rostropovich was one of my favorite musicians together with the Dutch cellomaster Anner Bijlsma and the Catalan Spanish maestro Pablo Casals.

From the younger guard I also like Chinese Yo-Yo Ma, Russian Mischa Maisky and Dutch cellomaster Pieter Wispelwey. Mischa Maisky studied with Rostropovich and spend 18 months in a laborcamp, because after his sister went to Israel into exile Mischa Maisky was seen as an enemy of the state. After his release he emigrated to Israel. Currently Mischa Maisky is living in Belgium. It's interesting to know that Rostropovich also went into exile in 1974 and was known for his fight for human rights and opposition to the Soviet regime. Definitely a remarkable person and outstanding musician.

I've attached a video from Rostropovich from the Prelude of Bach's cellosuites No.1. May the maestro rest in peace.

A new weblog is born

Well this is the kick-off of my new weblog BrownNoiseMusic. I'm already running a photoblog called BrownNoisePhotos and this is my second weblog about music. As you can read in the header you'll find here reviews about new musical discoveries I did (old and new stuff), reviews about new CD's I've listened to, music-DVD's I've watched, interesting or fascinating musicvideos I found on the net. I don't want to limit myself to a certain style or genre, so you can find here things about classical music, jazz, pop, rock, indie, singer-songwritermusic, world music etc...

Later I also might start a blog about my other two hobbies/interests: movies and books/literature, but let's do one thing at the time.

I was thinking about starting a new weblog already for some time, but I didn't know where to start and with what. A blog about music with only reviews of CD's or recommended music would be pretty boring, I think. The idea started to take root a little more after I found interesting and fascinating videos on YouTube about some marvelous acoustic guitarplayers. YouTube is a huge treasury for interesting and beautiful music. After I found out two weeks ago on my BrownNoisePhotos-weblog how easy it is to embed a YouTube-video I thought it was about time to start launching a new weblog about music. And here it is.

This is just the opening post of my musicweblog I'll post some real music stuff later today. Be welcome and enjoy.