A friend in Barcelona, Spain told me of an extraordinary recording of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos - here is part of No. 3
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concertos
Musica Florea
Artistic director Marek Štryncl
Concerto No. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VVL...eature=related
Wow !!
http://www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur/download_eng
Last edited by Musicology; 09-11-2010 at 08:21 AM.
A little something to honour the late Pavarotti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ASB...eature=related
A friend in Barcelona, Spain told me of an extraordinary recording of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos - here is part of No. 3
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concertos
Musica Florea
Artistic director Marek Štryncl
Concerto No. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VVL...eature=related
Nice. I quite love the version by the Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9obY...eature=related
The Concerto Italiani with Alessandrini has made a series of consistently marvelous and fluid recordings of the Italian Baroque... including recent recordings of Vivaldi for the Naive label. Their Brandenbeurg Concertos bring an Italianate fluidity and joi de vivre to Bach's great work.
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Hi St Lukesguild ! The Concerto Italiano is a very nice version. Less percussive.
Enjoyed it very much !
BWV 1044/1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3pb...eature=related
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Last edited by Musicology; 09-15-2010 at 06:28 AM.
There is always that question of what was the greatest loss in the history of music. Topping the list we are repeatedly presented with the early deaths of Mozart and Schubert... but also Pergolesi, who was but 26 at his death and yet showed such promise in his operas and his famous Stabat Mater. But one loss that rarely seems recognized is that of what might have been with J.S. Bach if he had only had a more enlightened patronage. As much as I love Bach's sacred choral music, I agree with the critic who bemoaned the loss of any opera by Bach... more concertos and other instrumental music.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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I started listening to classical music "seriously" about a year ago, and have been sticking to music from the Holy Trinity (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) and find myself sometimes lost for hour's in Beethoven's Sonata's, esp. the Hammerklavier recording done by Mitsuko Uchida. Slowly and with much trepidation I've been listening to unfamiliar composers, and have been enjoying F. Liszt piano work and Debussy's Nocturne.
Marvellous !!
J.S. Bach - "Concerto nach Italienischem Gusto"
Arranged for Solo Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo, BWV971 -
Concerto Italiano
(Arranged by Rinaldo Alessandrini)
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONIC...56/p4Mtrgo73VY
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONIC...55/GteXBJdHGbk
Bach arrangement of chorale used in Cantata 22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etB-P...eature=related
Deceptively simple yet eternally sublime!
Discovering baroque and classical music in my teens, I long found Bach impenetrable until stumbling, in middle age, upon the cantatas. For instance, the ethereal sublimity of the duet "We hasten with feeble but diligent footsteps":
"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself"
Goldberg Variations
BWV 988/1-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwEsrdClimk
Last edited by Musicology; 09-19-2010 at 06:30 AM.
Boulez' 1970 Bayreuth Parsifal--absolutely incredible.
Just imagine: Wagner was both an epic lyric poet and a musical composer of genius.
http://www.amazon.com/Parsifal-Wagne...4910667&sr=1-1
Dona Nobis Pacem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpC0OvbpQJ0
''The Globalist Clowns''
AKA 'Sabre Dance'
Aram Khachachurian (1942)
Hungarian State Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY3Rk...eature=related
I have spent much of today learning a piano arrangement of Handel's Largo from Xerxes. When I was a boy, this was a favourite radio request on BBC, but it is only now that I am studying the score, that I see just how great it really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1Iv3DkwVs
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Oh, the hell with classical music. The Stones man... the Stones!!!
WE all need... someone... we can lean on...
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
[QUOTE=stlukesguild;959189]Oh, the hell with classical music. The Stones man... the Stones!!! QUOTE]
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Hugely talented but little known German composer.
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Presto in B Flat Major for Solo Lute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDbe...eature=related
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Presto in G Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVXvx...eature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss
Last edited by Musicology; 09-25-2010 at 11:18 AM.
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