The Classical Music Thread

[Sweet_Caroline]

Ideal for kicking off your shoes at the end of a long day and chilling.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xueopsTHesw]J.S.Bach - Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 - Adagio - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogotVeBO6M]Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Op. 49 - TELARC Edition - WARNING! Digitally Recorded LIVE Cannons! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Ideal for kicking off your shoes at the end of a long day and chilling.

J.S.Bach - Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 - Adagio - YouTube

thanks for refreshing my memory with yet another wonderful forgotten piece...

 

[bayoubill]

Bach's music has been described by one reviewer as having come from a "celestial sewing machine"...

I'm pretty sure he meant it as a complement...

Concerto For Four Harpsichords, After Vivaldi...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACY9eYH4rqM]J S Bach 4 Harpsichords Concerto BWV 1065 after A Vivaldi - YouTube[/ame]

 

[skye]

Love Erik Satie ......

"Trois Gymnopédies"


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DBoiyBoJ8]Erik Satie "Trois Gymnopédies" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgl_2JRIUs]Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) (Last Night of the Proms 2012) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

For today here is a link to the best American composers and details about them.

The best American composers - Classic FM

Leonard Bernstein
John Williams
Igor Stravinsky
Eric Whitacre
Philip Glass
Elmer Bernstein
Steve Reich
Samuel Barber
Jay Ungar
Morten Lauridsen
George Gershwin
Danny Elfman
John Cage
Aaron Copland
Charles Ives
Charles Pachelbel
Arnold Schoenberg
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
John Adams
James Horner​

 

[bayoubill]

'nother wee-hours favorite...

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major...

performed here by greats Brendel on piano and Marriner on the podium...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdtUuECcYs]Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 K 595 B flat major, Alfred Brendel Neville Mriiner - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY]CLAUDE DEBUSSY: CLAIR DE LUNE - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: CLAIR DE LUNE - YouTube

Or as Victor Borge says, "Clear the saloon"

 

[PixieStix]

an orchestra version of a Folk metal song

 

[Ropey]

The LA Guitar Quartet - Rossini: Overture to "The Barber of Seville"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm42GTR47pU&list=PL280A0B8A3964A5A9]Los Angeles Guitar Quartet at 92nd Street Y - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6A96yQO82I]Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte · Alessandro Crudele - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSq_nwoG43s]Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin - New York City - YouTube[/ame]

 

[freedombecki]

[ame=http://youtu.be/fKfGDqXEFkE]Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16 (complete) - YouTube[/ame]

This was in the movie "Song of Norway."

 

[freedombecki]

[ame=http://youtu.be/ByWhPFjBqhE]Grieg - 25 Norwegian Folk Songs and Dances, Op.17 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

How about a little Chopin?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0Z6g1XJkU]Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Fantasie Impromptu - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, Eine Kleine Nacht Musik by W.A. Mozart.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbxIT9W1AY]Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525 Karl Bohm, Wiener Philharmoniker - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

A little Faure perhaps?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw]Gabriel FAURE': Pavane, Op. 50 - Paintings By "CLAUDE MONET" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Borillar]

I was a band/orchestra geek back in the late 60's and early 70's. Played some keyboards among other things. Synthesizers were new back then, and I really enjoyed some of the electronic interpretations of classical music such as "Switched on Bach" by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos. A few years later, I stumbled upon a Japanese artist named Isao Tomita, who covered several Romantic composers such as Stravinski, Debussey, Ravel, Holst, and others. This is from his interpretation of the Planets, by Gustav Holst. Pretty trippy stuff too.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMsyzyiHLQ]Tomita Planets - Venus, The Bringer of Peace - YouTube[/ame]