Classical Music for Aficionados

Perhaps you might like this 204, she about blew me off my chair !

Sol Gabetta, in the last part of the Saint-Saens Cello # 2 , both it and her
seem little known in US .

This little outing won her the Opus Klassic ,the leading award in Germany for Classical Music .
Hard to believe a rather slim women can play like a powerhouse !

https://youtu.be/6lomOwF-LFs

Well , she can do his totally different 1st as well.

https://youtu.be/gdk7ELY68Ec?t=2


And make known the Greatness of Haydn on his 1st Cello Concerto .

https://youtu.be/gdk7ELY68Ec?t=2

Whoops ! got 2 Saint-saens 1st.

This is the Haydn Concerto in C , one of my fave’s period.
Sol does improvise , in her case check the cadenza.
She surely is a Great Artist !

https://youtu.be/g99hqqNFvg0?t=5

I’m not sure, but from that church and her name , I’d say she is from the large Italian group in the Argentine

@schubert        Hi Len, I've just this minute logged on and found your posts. I promise to check tomorrow and get back  to you as it's nearly time for bed over here . I love the Haydn C Major concerto, one of the nicest ever written and for me definitely up there with the Dvorak so I'm going to look forward to that. At the moment I am winding down with Arrau playing Schumann's Etude Symphoniques and enjoying every minute of it ( always an under current and darkness in Schumann ).
Oidhche mhath  Jim.

Gabetta is a first class cellist if a little wayward, I heard her in a Proms about 3 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed her so I’m looking forward to tomorrow.

jim204674 posts10-08-2021 8:40amI think Western Classical music is falling in on itself and being dumbed down day by day. Every time I hear New Music I despair, Discordant, single lines with no harmony attached, written from a keyboard attached to a computer and then it goes through the Sibelius program to sort out themes and harmony then. The whole thing is bereft of any soul and then has to be played by orchestras who hate every note but who won't get funding if they don't play it.

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Hard for me to follow up on this  bullseye comment.

It never occured to me, to investigate other 21st C composers, , not after my discovery of 
Pettersson, Schnittke, Elliott Carter and last but not least  Hans Henze.

What all began with Correli, Vivaldi, Bach , has, like all good and great things, now have come to its finale.
What a  genre of  muisc. From Bach to Mozart (can I skip over my least fav composer Beethoven, when in fact I HATE all his **music * with a  passion,,)
Then on to Puccini, Wagner, Debussy many others, and the finale to this magnificient art form, with the 4 previous mentioned composers. 
But I must say, what a  finale, what a  fireworks show at the end.
If Correli , Vivaldi and Bach could could hear what musical works, that Schnittke, Pettersson, Henze and Carter has accomplished, they  would be in shock of when they began and  to where  these 4 giants have ended this art form.


Modern day composers, what is their inspiration??
This i would have to know.
Undoubtable , what they find as motivations to score, is nothing I am in the least bit interested. So like yeah, outside those 4 finalers of the tradition, , I have no interest in anything *modern*.
No thanks.