The Classical Music Thread

[eots]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ]Teenage Dirtbag - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - BBC Proms - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XT72VAk1M0&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU&index=6]Dudamel plays the Bacchanale by Saint Saens - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabEfOQRG3U]Sommernachtskonzert - Borodin - Polovtsian Dances - Dudamel & VPO - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Does anyone here enjoy the New Year Concerts from Vienna?

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Now here's a superb interpretation of Roderigo's Concierto De Aranjuez. This version was performed by the late Miles Davis and arranged by Gil Evans. Classical meets jazz.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZmSaOQOzU]Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

This is absolutely beautiful.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fws9BxLPLl0]Bellini-Thalberg Casta Diva (2010 transcriptions recital, part 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Maurice Ravel - Pavane for Dead Princess - YouTube

wow... don't know anybody else besides me who's ever heard of this tune...

that is, besides my years-ago music instructor who assigned me the cornet transcription of this tune to practice and memorize...


eta: I was gonna give pos rep to you for having resurrected a sweet forgotten memory...

but the system won't let me 'til I spread some more around...

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Maurice Ravel - Pavane for Dead Princess - YouTube

wow... don't know anybody else besides me who's ever heard of this tune...

that is, besides my years-ago music instructor who assigned me the cornet transcription of this tune to practice and memorize...

It is beautiful isn't it? They play it a lot on the classical music channel I listen to.

And now, as they say, for something different.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrss4kBi2M]Jeremiah Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary - YouTube[/ame]



Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 1 December 1707) was an English baroque composer.
Thought to have been born in London in 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal. "A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own" caused him to commit suicide by shooting himself. Before shooting himself, he also considered hanging himself and drowning himself. He was succeeded in his post by William Croft.

Clarke is now best remembered for a popular piece, the Prince of Denmark's March, commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary. From c. 1878 until the 1940s it was attributed to Henry Purcell. It was published as "Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell" in William Sparkes's "Short Pieces for the Organ", Book VII, No. 1 (London, Ashdown and Parry). This version came to the attention of Sir Henry J. Wood, who made two orchestral transcriptions of it, both of which were recorded. This further cemented in the public's mind the erroneous notion that the original piece was by Purcell.

The famous Trumpet Tune in D, also misattributed to Purcell, is actually taken from the semi-opera The Island Princess, a joint musical production of Clarke and Daniel Purcell (Henry Purcell's younger brother), which is probably the reason for the confusion.
The Prince of Denmark's March, commonly, though erroneously, known as the Trumpet Voluntary, is a work by Jeremiah Clarke, composed around 1699. Clarke was the first organist of the then newly rebuilt St Paul's Cathedral.

For many years, the piece was incorrectly attributed to his elder, and more widely-known, contemporary, Henry Purcell, who was organist of Westminster Abbey. The misattribution emanated from an arrangement for organ, that was published in the 1870s by a Dr. William Spark, then town organist of Leeds. It was later adopted by Sir Henry Wood in his well-known arrangement for trumpet, string orchestra and organ.

The oldest source is a collection of keyboard pieces published in 1700. A contemporary version for wind instruments also survives. According to some sources, the march was originally written in honour of George, Prince of Denmark, the consort of the then Princess, later Queen Anne of Great Britain.

The march is very popular as wedding music (it was played during the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles in St Paul's Cathedral) and was often broadcast by the BBC during World War II, especially when broadcasting to occupied Denmark

 

[bayoubill]

'nother wee hours favorite...

Hector Berlioz... Symphonie Fantastique...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEa1PiO3Ss4]Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, op. 14 (von Karajan).wmv - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

anybody need a shot of adrenalin...?

here's the next best thing...

Bela Bartok... Mikrokosmos #153...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e5Qy79NaDQ]Bartok ; Mikrokosmos #153 ; Bulgarian Dance Rhythm - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Maurice Ravel - Pavane for Dead Princess - YouTube

wow... don't know anybody else besides me who's ever heard of this tune...

that is, besides my years-ago music instructor who assigned me the cornet transcription of this tune to practice and memorize...

It is beautiful isn't it? They play it a lot on the classical music channel I listen to.

And now, as they say, for something different.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrss4kBi2M]Jeremiah Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary - YouTube[/ame]



Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 1 December 1707) was an English baroque composer.
Thought to have been born in London in 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal. "A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own" caused him to commit suicide by shooting himself. Before shooting himself, he also considered hanging himself and drowning himself. He was succeeded in his post by William Croft.

Clarke is now best remembered for a popular piece, the Prince of Denmark's March, commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary. From c. 1878 until the 1940s it was attributed to Henry Purcell. It was published as "Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell" in William Sparkes's "Short Pieces for the Organ", Book VII, No. 1 (London, Ashdown and Parry). This version came to the attention of Sir Henry J. Wood, who made two orchestral transcriptions of it, both of which were recorded. This further cemented in the public's mind the erroneous notion that the original piece was by Purcell.

The famous Trumpet Tune in D, also misattributed to Purcell, is actually taken from the semi-opera The Island Princess, a joint musical production of Clarke and Daniel Purcell (Henry Purcell's younger brother), which is probably the reason for the confusion.
The Prince of Denmark's March, commonly, though erroneously, known as the Trumpet Voluntary, is a work by Jeremiah Clarke, composed around 1699. Clarke was the first organist of the then newly rebuilt St Paul's Cathedral.

For many years, the piece was incorrectly attributed to his elder, and more widely-known, contemporary, Henry Purcell, who was organist of Westminster Abbey. The misattribution emanated from an arrangement for organ, that was published in the 1870s by a Dr. William Spark, then town organist of Leeds. It was later adopted by Sir Henry Wood in his well-known arrangement for trumpet, string orchestra and organ.

The oldest source is a collection of keyboard pieces published in 1700. A contemporary version for wind instruments also survives. According to some sources, the march was originally written in honour of George, Prince of Denmark, the consort of the then Princess, later Queen Anne of Great Britain.

The march is very popular as wedding music (it was played during the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles in St Paul's Cathedral) and was often broadcast by the BBC during World War II, especially when broadcasting to occupied Denmark

my cornet instructor would sometimes assign me baroque stuff like this to practice and memorize...

gotta say, these kinds of pieces bored the living shit outta me...

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

That's the idea. It was to get you to master something technically.

 

[bayoubill]

That's the idea. It was to get you to master something technically.

yeah... I know... and I knew it back then...

it was all about exercising the fingers and imprinting the piece in my memory...

but it still sucked having to learn and memorize stuff I had absolutely no interest in...

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

And speaking of Victor Borge. We saw the serious side of him in his performance of Clair De Lune, now watch his comedic mastery with Soprano Marilyn Mulvey in their performance of Gieuseppi Verdi's (Joe Green to you) Cara Nome.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKIE8vjBQI]Victor Borge Hands off! The funniest night at opera you could get - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rycw8BS4WJA&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU&index=16]Andre Rieu - Clog Dance & Strauss co - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDnv4CMRX0]Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck, Viviana Guzman, flute - YouTube[/ame]

Here's a woman who is not only an accomplished flautist, but dancer as well. Get this, if you don't already know her background and the incredible adversity she faced growing up, you will like this short bio of her. She was born with dislocated hips and spend most of her childhood undergoing 11 surgeries and body casts. And look at her today. She is breathtakingly beautiful and her mastery of the flute is incredible.

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFaWJQHwbA]Wynton Marsalis Haydn Trumpet Concerto - YouTube[/ame]


Those of us with backgrounds in music know Wynton Marsalis as an amazing jazz musician, but did you know he's an accomplished Classical Trumpeter as well?? Here he is with John Williams and the Boston Pops performing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck, Viviana Guzman, flute - YouTube

Here's a woman who is not only an accomplished flautist, but dancer as well. Get this, if you don't already know her background and the incredible adversity she faced growing up, you will like this short bio of her. She was born with dislocated hips and spend most of her childhood undergoing 11 surgeries and body casts. And look at her today. She is breathtakingly beautiful and her mastery of the flute is incredible.

Excellent performance, thank you. (Sorry, I am out of reps for you!).


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjY6w1KQMo&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU]Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks 1/2 (Ouverture) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDlkAGGieBA&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU]Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks 2/2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck, Viviana Guzman, flute - YouTube

Here's a woman who is not only an accomplished flautist, but dancer as well. Get this, if you don't already know her background and the incredible adversity she faced growing up, you will like this short bio of her. She was born with dislocated hips and spend most of her childhood undergoing 11 surgeries and body casts. And look at her today. She is breathtakingly beautiful and her mastery of the flute is incredible.

Excellent performance, thank you. (Sorry, I am out of reps for you!).


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjY6w1KQMo&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU]Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks 1/2 (Ouverture) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDlkAGGieBA&list=PLBzJa6s9jB9wOmwQiG92WhcBS9DywNQvU]Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks 2/2 - YouTube[/ame]

did you watch Marsalis' performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto?

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

did you watch Marsalis' performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto?

Yes, I have just watched it. Excellent.