Classical Music for Aficionados
Another:One of my favorite composer... the Scriabin of the human voices.... He wrote like Scriabin not to move the human heart only but to make it more vast and livelier... Monteverdi use his art to express all there is, he create opera, but Gesualdo sometimes tear the human heart in two parts...One who suffers and the other who recreate.... Thanks for the magnificent unknown to me French interpretation... |
NIGEL KENNEDY'S GREATEST HITS Nigel Kennedy (violin) EMI Classics 1989-2002 English Chamber Orchestra / Kennedy City of Birmingham Symphony / Simon Rattle The Notes: Kennedy gives his thoughts on each tune. Several nice pictures. the lark ascending (Vaughan Williams) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrVDwNt1Nz4 danny boy (trad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keo0Xf4RUsY scarborough fair (trad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVFBVAtSZ7k csardas (Monti) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwrjjsh_aMs Cheers |
If you want to know if your system is good acoustically... Listen to the voices surrounding you in this magnificent recording...A studio recording where the singers walk and plays together, one can hear when they turn their head singing... in some part the voices come from behind my back... The interpretation is in german inimitable... One of my loved modern opera....With the Busoni Faust.... The soul of an era.... Kurt weill with Lotte Lenya the best recording of the three pennies opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR33bL5aNTk&t=850s |
HI-FI FIEDLER Boston Pops Orchestra - Arthur Fiedler RCA Living Stereo SACD Recorded in 1956, 1958 and 1960 This man did as much as anyone to popularize Classical Music. Always came across as, ’this should be fun’. It was for everyone to enjoy, not just the self-appointed ’elites’. Worked in my case. His cover art and musical selections said it all. Some say, ’light’ Classics, I say, ’the good stuff’. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Franz Liszt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaVL6uhZ7xA William Tell - Overture (Gioachino Rossini) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ3xTFmYOwA Marche slave (Piotr Tchaikovsky) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9VzrciZUk Cheers |
Johann Sebastian Bach ENGLISH SUITES 1, 3 & 5 Piotr Anderszewski (piano) Warner Classics 2014 Seems like a lot but they are all very short pieces. The notes give an account of the history of these works. They also talk about 'repeats', for example -- "when all the repeats of the pieces are observed, the revised version can make for a rather awkward structure, skewing the formal balance of the suite away from the other movements"...Anderszewski I have read other accounts of composers being criticized for using repeats. I guess Bach, Beethoven etc... would say, "do you know who I am?" Suite No. 3 in G Minor, Prélude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8cP6tzKIY Suite No. 3 in G Minor, Gigue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-td1Cw3OBg Suite No. 1 in A Major, Prélude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSdoR03Kms Suite No. 1 in A Major, Gigue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQPiknYhggs Suite No. 5 in E Minor, Prélude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUej83R4sng Suite No. 5 in E Minor, Gigue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH2gCpa9hI0 Cheers |
