Classical music [Youtube Clips]

[ihno]

 

[W!nston]

Luka Sulic - Clair de Lune (Debussy)

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[Shelter]

Hello Ihno, I want to thank you so much for this little gem, just after the plebiscite in Scotland.

I know, we are not the very best friends ever, but we can try to find together again slowly and step by step. What do you think?

 

[Sinnerr]

 

[ihno]

@shelter: I can live in peace with others, no problem.



This a real gem:

Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 11 RV 210 D major
Giuliano Carmignola, violin & Venice Baroque Orchestra Allegro Largo Allegro

It was published in 1725 together with the popular "4 Seasons" concertos (12 altogether). Most of the concerts had names (like the 4 seasons) and a rather detailed program.

This doesn't have such a program but was most likely selected for publication by Vivaldi as an excellent example of his art.

The first and the last movements have rather remarkable fugue-themes. Then again it's in d-major, which is considered a rather lusty key. So it's also very energetic.

Only a few years before the people lost the interest in the late-baroque style of Vivaldi (the late Bach was an old fashioned dinosaur too), when the Age of Sentiment slowly started (that's when the duke, duchess and their servants lay in each others arms, crying all day).

You can also see the small ensemble in the vid. In 1725 people always used what they had so there was always a great liberty in choosing the instruments. But it was far away from the size of the modern orchestra. And there were some instruments back then that were long forgotten (which you see here too).



The score also had gaps, where the soloist is supposed to do something on his own . Later there was a big fuzz about those gaps (cadenzas), don't know if this was already so in Vivaldi's time.

Anyway, this ensemble - Europa Galante - has put a piece from another concert in the variation part (2:54), which was also in the concert that Bach transformed for organ. Fits just great.

 

[ihno]

RIP Christopher Hogwood
*10.9.1941 in Nottingham; † 24.09.2014

Christopher Hogwood, the year long director of the Academy of Ancient Music died yesterday with only the age of 73 years.

During his time with the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) they have made a countless number of very important recordings, which still are - and will be - essential.

One of their most remarkable projects was the complete recording of all Mozart-Symphonies on historical instruments in the late 70s and early 80s.
The last movement of the last symphony



With that and other recordings (Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven's 9 symphonies) he defined new standards.

Vivaldi:



The Hogwood-recording of Handel's Messiah from 1979 is still the most essential to me:



He currently was still working on his cycle of the Haydn symphonies (more than 100), which was interrupted by Decca (when the company was sold). That cycle will remain unfinished.



There are also interesting and enlightening speeches and lecutures of his he held in recent years available on youtube:



A friend has visited him some years ago. He was gay of course (like many baroque musicians) and lived in a house that crammed with harpsicords and fortepianos of all different kinds and ages.

 

[W!nston]

BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 7, 2nd movement - Leonard Bernstein

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[puckinla]

carmen met opera radio bcast 1952 rise stevens richard tucker

 

[tomcat34]

Chopin - Sonata No 2, Op 35 Funeral March in B-Flat Minor (Marche funèbre) - RACHMANINOFF

 

[gorgik9]

Oskar Lindberg: Gammal Fäbodpsalm från Älvdalen (Old pastoral hymn from Älvdalen, Dalarna, Sverige.)

 

[gorgik9]

 

[antoineee]

Pachelbel - Canon in D

 

[haiducii]

Girl shakes boobs to Mozart

 

[gorgik9]

I think Wolfie would have liked this:thumbs up::rofl:

 

[jjjack]

Nikolaus Bruhns



Danish-German organist Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) died at the mere age of 31, so he left only a handful of works. Even so, that handful of music plays a major role in the literature for pipe organ.

 

[peter123]

great, thx for posting jjjack :thumbs up:

 

[peter123]

...somehowe classic too:




....Point of view lol
:cheers:

 

[peter123]

 

[That1Guy]

 

[jjjack]

Thomas Tallis


I posted an all-recorder version of this earlier. Note the Gloria Patri at the end.