Classical music [Youtube Clips]

[ihno]

I am willing to listen to any new interpretation of the Goldberg Variations (J. S. Bach BWV 988) and I have several versions of it in my ipod shuffle, Ralph Kirkpatrick and Scott Ross on harpsichord, two versions for the classical guitar, one for a modern reconstruction of a lautenwork which is almost like a harpsichord but with gut strings, an excellent arrangement for string trio and an ethereal version played on the harp. I down-loaded all of them from Youtube and converted them to MP3. I can listen to them over and over again but two of my recent faves are the string trio version played by Mischa Maiski, Nobuko Imai and Julian Rachlin, the harp version came in 32 piecemeal clips but well worth the trouble to download because it’s simply breathtaking, played by Sylvain Blassel on an antique Errard harp.

Yes, the thing I love about Baroque music is that they performed on all instruments that were available to them. "Limitations make inventive" as we say in Germany. Maybe you like it too.

I love this transcription of a organ work most:

 

[trencherman]

My introduction to Baroque music was through transcriptions for the classical guitar which I play. The guitar as you know is a fairly late arrival in the musical scene and started out with very limited repertoire. Early guitar proponents consequently expanded it with transcriptions of music for other instrument which even Bach, they claim, would have done himself. “Limitation is the mother of invention” as English speakers would phrase your German locution. First they transcribed tablatures for the lute which is a close cousin of the guitar anyway. Then they tried those for strings and keyboard which also worked. More recently, even works that seem inconceivably forbidding for the measly six strings of the guitar such as the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D minor (BWV 903) and, believe it or not, the great Toccatta and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565). I can’t thank Youtube and Wikipedia enough.

 

[trencherman]

Here is a sampling of Sylvain Blassel’s playing of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the harp:

 

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Not by Mozart after all but it was supposed to be when Hogwood did his cycle.

 

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[tomcat34]

Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin Waltz Op. 69 No. 2 in B minor

 

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[ihno]

Florence Foster Jenkins lives!

And it's "Liebeslieder" (love songs) not "Leibesleider" (which might mean bodily sufferings). Maybe they thought of the audience?

 

[ihno]

for ear washing...

 

[tomcat34]

Jacques Offenbach - Galop Infernal (Can can)

 

[trencherman]

That above and this below bracket Offenbach for me:

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The Master

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