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I always return to this one.

 

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Heitor Villa-Lobos. Bachianas Brasileiras #4



The Simon Bolivar Orchestra is a wonderful youth orchestra from Venezuela. Gustavo Dudamel, their former conductor, and former member, is now the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

 

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Heitor Villa-Lobos. Bachianas Brasileiras #5



You may remember this if you saw "50 Shades of Grey."



This selection is actually titled "Dança" not Danca.

 

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Heitor Villa-Lobos. Bachianas Brasileiras # 2

"Little Train of the Caipira"

 

[primera9]

Hary Janos Suite by Zoltan Kodaly is terrific - try it

 

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Placido Domingo and Rolando Villazón.



I am not a big opera fan but this duet makes my spirit soar.:thumbs up:

 

[raedwulf]

damn, Time to Say Goodbye - Quarantotto/Sartori

 

[ihno]

in memory of
Leonard Bernstein

born 25.8.1918
+ 14.10.1990

Some things are difficult putting to words and the life, the oevre and the impact of Leonard Bernstein is surely one of those.



"West side Story" - Somewhere (Adagio) Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein was conductor and composer, this surely advanced to be one of the gay hymns



Along with Rafael Kubelík he rediscovered back Mahler after he had been banned as "entartet" by the NS regime.



Bernstein Beethoven VPO 1977

Bernstein was 100% passion. There is hardly any record with him where you don't hear him grunting and moaning and when I talked to a friend who had seen him in NY for the recording of Tschaikowsky's fifth he said he was marching his way through the symphony.



Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations IX Nimrod | Leonard Bernstein

The older he got the slower be had the slow movements played. When the told the BBC symphonists how he'd liked to have the famous "nimrod" played they asked if he was kidding. (I told that before).

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Thank you, ihno

"Somewhere" from West Side Story always makes me tear up. Thanks for posting.

I vividly remember the first time I saw the film. It was at the famed Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd. Afterwards as I walked down the boulevard I wanted to break into a dance. It seemed the only way I could express my joy at the excellence of the film. A few days later I was discussing the film with my immediate ex-boyfriend. He had the same reaction but he could have probably done the dancing well. He was a ballroom dance instructor.

Footnote: I often saw one of the main dancers from the film at a gay bar on the beach in Laguna Beach, CA. I never approached him. Too shy to do that.

I appreciated your note about the slow tempo of "Nimrod." It bothered me at first but Lennie got such a rich sound from the BBC Orchestra that I just went along and ended up enjoying it thoroughly.:cheers:

 

[ihno]

I appreciated your note about the slow tempo of "Nimrod." It bothered me at first but Lennie got such a rich sound from the BBC Orchestra that I just went along and ended up enjoying it thoroughly.:cheers:

He usually did that in his later life and he loses me at some point or another.

On the other hand his later recordings were of an amazing precision, transparency with the faster movements. The 1982 DG Elgar Nimord CD (where the Nimrod is from) is one I would always recommend. Of course you hear his first moan already with the first notes of the Enigma Variations. There is the Pomp and C. march No 1 on it too where he did this too - extremly rhyhtmic with the A part and half the speed with "Land of hope and Glory". In the repetition there's an orgue playing.



Tchaikovsky's fifth is another example. Same goes for the sixth. The fourth movement (39:10) benefits from both - not to be able to let go of the music while being seldom that transparent and dynamic.

To me that movement was always like an entrance of Tchaikowsky himself with it's heroic, unstoppable yet dolorous and longing theme, an expression of a gay man in the 19th century. And Bernstein just does it right for me.

I think I'm not too far from it since the theme was to found in the fourth movement of the sixth symphony. And Bernstein just does it right there too.

oh and...

"Somewhere" from West Side Story always makes me tear up.

Mission accomplished.

 

[sammyyummy]

Always been a Mozart - Vivaldi fan.
Sharing with you an addition to my classical music favorites - one that never fails to make me smile.
Alkan

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sniffit, jockuser24
zortek (miss ya!)

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[tomcat34]

Beethoven - Fantasy in C minor for Piano Chorus and Orchestra Op 80 - Daniel Baremboin- Berliner Philharmoniker

 

[boy10]

Thanks. It was pleasant to me.

 

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In my opinion the best version

 

[trencherman]

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In my opinion the best version

Yes!

 

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Juan Diego Flórez:x​

 

[ihno]

Handel - a Passcaille in different versions

 

[powermate]

All good