Classical Music

[Borillar]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmK2hBBPPc]Mozart / Piano Concerto No.20 Romance / Clifford Curzon / Benjamin Britten - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es]Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Orchestra version) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[HenryBHough]

In case you've never previously heard of P.D.Q. Bach, a word of explanation:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2H6JjE5j_g]Peter Schickele - P.D.Q. Bach - BACH & friends - Michael Lawrence Films - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

PDQ Bach- Schleptet for Winds in Eb (S.0) - YouTube

In case you've never previously heard of P.D.Q. Bach, a word of explanation:

Peter Schickele - P.D.Q. Bach - BACH & friends - Michael Lawrence Films - YouTube

Almost deserving a thread of his own. Here Prof Schickele is with Itzhak Perlman.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSEPUuNP8k]Itzhak Perlman and Peter Schickele, Part 2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

2nd Movement - Ode to Freedom - 1989 - Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven's 9th Symphony HD 720p - YouTube

Feels like heaven touching earth. What a performance, Borillar!

 

[Borillar]

I always think of 2001: A Space Odyssey when I hear the Blue Danube Waltz.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMebrtmcQ74&list=PL1Qkhbr6Wcqb7fPz4NLogJti86SmXm_6W]2001, A Space Odyssey to the Blue Danube - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

2nd Movement - Ode to Freedom - 1989 - Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven's 9th Symphony HD 720p - YouTube

Feels like heaven touching earth. What a performance, Borillar!

Yes it was a brilliant performance. Especially considering that the musicians performing came from several different countries and didn't normally perform together. But then, music is the universal language.

 

[Borillar]

I've been listening to a lot of Classical music lately. When I was young, I played the viola. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of material written for the viola as a solo or primary instrument. A shame, as it has a beautiful tone. Here is a piece written by Max Bruch, who wrote several pieces for viola.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_q0k7sw_o]Miles Hoffman plays Bruch Romanze, Op. 85, for viola and orchestra - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JQZb83oCc]J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

how 'bout some Chopin when you least expect it...?

JACK NICHOLSON-FIVE EASY PIECES-Mad like a dog - YouTube

Is that what they call taking the show on the road?

lol... good 'un...

 

[bayoubill]

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 - YouTube

meh... this piece is like "Stairway To Heaven"...

way fuckin' overplayed... 'n, honest to god, I prolly wouldn't mind if I never heard it again...


how 'bout this 'un...? prolly my favorite Bach piece for organ...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4PJUOeVYw]Karl Richter - Passacaglia & Fugue In C Minor - BWV 582 (1969) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

my favorite rendition of prolly my all-time favorite piece of classical music...

the second movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjtRSgg2fg]Andrew Marriner plays Mozart clarinet concerto - II. Adagio - YouTube[/ame]

 

[editec]

This is, in my opinion, the most heartbreaking piece of music ever written.

Some of you might recognize it from Platoon.

Apologies in advance for the commercial you have to skip before the music.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMwNe9WWmE]Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op. 11 by Leonard Bernstein - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

this gal fuckin' blows me way with her rendition of this piece...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yr7lOM27A"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yr7lOM27A[/ame]

 

[Zander]

This is EPIC!!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk#t=271]2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

 

[bayoubill]

more Prokofiev...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1scluzlPz0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1scluzlPz0[/ame]

eta 'n btw... really not much of a jump from Prokofiev to Elfman...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg8SyAJfaw"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg8SyAJfaw[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

 

[bayoubill]

one of the greatest (and unfairly unremembered and under-appreciated) pianists from before you were born...

playing the four Chopin Ballades...

recorded in 1953...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7szDmEoHPQ]Chopin - Claudio Arrau - 4 Ballades (rec. 1953) - YouTube[/ame]