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The Best Live Recordings on Youtube

Hi folks, I’m in the middle of moving and needed something to do to explore music while my system is in storage (might be up to a year). Started streaming live recordings on youtube on my laptop and decided it would be worth it to make a list/channel.

In case anyone likes watching such content, the link is below. I only add quality recordings (both visually and sonically) of quality performances. No real genre restrictions, so maybe you can find something you like...

Please post or send any suggestions for growing the resource. Hopefully it helps spread high quality music to more people...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTpjNA4kJHQNaoKPrv0XvTQ
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@schubert I'll agree with your steps, but not that they're at all related to the "realness" of the music.  They are simply related to complexity and the technical proficiency and expertise needed to create the end product.  Like I said, the accomplishments of classical musicians and composers are stunning and worthy of praise.  They're just not more musical than anything else. 

It's just as much music when it's made by a group of people sitting around a campfire as when it's made by an orchestra in the Sydney opera house.  To deny that is to deny classical music's genesis story...  
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I'll submit three videos from the channel that haven't been discussed in the thread for consideration.  In all cases, I'd argue the performers perfectly bottle a specific human emotion and transmit it via their music. 

And I'll agree with you in this regard... like you said, "all I have is real music, you won't like it."

Scary Pockets cover Ummbop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiShsfvbFUA&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=102

Idles at a NPR Tiny Desk Concert:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMehItNQKAA&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=127

Rhye, live on KEXP:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8g8l3m8ig&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=104

The brilliance isn't in the technical proficiency, it's in the artists' ability to transmit their emotional experience to listeners.
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On Second this might be better for you as starter .
Janacek is easy for me with 50 years of Classical , up to you.
https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ?t=1

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The Brilliance of Classical is in the composer and the players ability
to translate the composer to the audience as written .Classical players get  emotion from the audience , dozens of good ones have told me so.

You make it a math problem .

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Thanks @schubert   Takes me a bit more time to work through the classical recommendations, but I'll have a listen.  No doubt that there's a huge amount of worthy, top notch music in that genre.  And as you can tell, I'm unfairly biased against it.  As a poor white guy from farm country in Kansas, I just have an anti-elitism, anti-upper class trigger.  No good letting such biases get in the way of appreciating music though.  Thanks for sharing.  
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