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Classical Music Appreciation Thread

papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:44:58 GMT

I love classical music, and I know the Countess likes it too. Maybe there are also lurkers who like it. 🙂

Anyway, maybe some will like to post classical music here (or listen to it).

You can post opera arias, piano recitals, orchestra concerts... - anything you like. Classical music is used in its broader meaning in this thread.

Please post links rather than embedding videos because sometimes the videos won't load.

Let's start...

Luciano Pavarotti - Una furtiva lacrima/lagrima (from L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7JM0tGgRY

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:52:01 GMT

I adore the Lacrimosa, even if it was not written by Mozart in its entirety.

Lacrimosa (from Mozart's Requiem)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUaIUHYfhjs

https://www.mozartproject.org/how-far-did-mozart-get-into-writing-lacrimosa/

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:03:41 GMT

Dame Joan Sutherland - Eccola! (from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_8wz_xNI0

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:06:28 GMT

Chopin's 24 Preludes Op.28 (played live by Martha Argerich in 1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdx8jC2XLz0

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countessalmirena — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:12:07 GMT

I love classical music so much that I’d better reign myself in with posting examples.

Here is a very beautiful piece by Vivaldi, sung by Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo). It’s called Sposa son disprezzata, and it’s about a wife pleading for her husband to believe her, that she has been loyal and faithful.

https://youtu.be/_FCRZZzbkS8

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not_for_sale — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:18:00 GMT

The Planets (full suite) - by Gustav Holst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=junZNECp8Yo

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:23:39 GMT

I am trying to reign myself in too. 🙂

Beautiful aria by Vivaldi... Thank you for posting it.

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:25:04 GMT

I used to listen to that suite while studying. It's quite magical.

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imastawka — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:15:23 GMT

I don't listen to Classical music all that often, but it's actually movie sound tracks that spark my interest.

There is a movie called Master and Commander that has Boccherini in it's soundtrack.

A movie worth watching BTW. Russell Crowe learnt this piece on violin, so he got all the fingering right on camera. (He didn't want to look stupid just fiddling his fingers)

I have this music playing when I want to relax.

0:00 – 4:38 Boccherini: String Quintet in C, Op.30 No.6

4:39 – 5:55 Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3 in G, K.216 - 3. Rondo – Allegro

5:56 – 7:50 Corelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op.6, No.8 "Christmas Concerto"

7:51 – 10:12 J.S. Bach: Suite for Cello Solo No.1 in G, BWV 1007 - 1. Prélude

10:13 – 12:19 The Far Side of the World

(1) Master and Commander - Sound of HMS Surprise - YouTube

BTW...it's rein ladies

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:18:13 GMT

It's beautiful...

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imastawka — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:25:30 GMT

And of course, everyone knows this one, but probably didn't know it was Boccherini

(4) Luigi Boccherini - Minuet - String Quintet - YouTube

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:42:28 GMT

Something a bit cheerful...

Libiamo ne' lieti calici/Drinking Song with the divine Maria Callas (from Verdi's La Traviata)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYTgJEnR-4

(A translation can be found here: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-traviata-libiamo-ne-lieti-calici-lets-drink-joyful-cups.html)

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myoclon1cjerk — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:42:27 GMT

Satie. Gnossienne No.1

https://youtu.be/oOTpQpoHHaw

No.3

https://youtu.be/yxY5NCPxs8A

Gymnopedie No.1

https://youtu.be/TL0xzp4zzBE

John Williams pays Asturias by Albenoz.

https://youtu.be/GY5y4Rp3tU8

Some more later....

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countessalmirena — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:08:40 GMT

… Yes, it should have been rein. My fingers typed what my head wasn’t telling them to do.

Master and Commander was a good adaption of the book, and the music chosen was beautiful.

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countessalmirena — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:21:12 GMT

The haunting and exotic “Asie” (1. in Ravel’s Schéhérazade) has great beauty and an air of the mysterious about it.

There are several wonderful performances/recordings, with sopranos like Ameling, Gens, Jessye Norman, and more… and I LOVE all of those versions, but I’d like to link to Suzanne Danco as her cool lyric voice with its impeccable French is perfectly suited to it and she’s not as well known today as she should be. I hope you find it as mesmerising as I do.

https://youtu.be/E3TR1gTG3oQ

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papermoon.lady — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:36:57 GMT

@countessalmirena wrote:
… Yes, it should have been rein. My fingers typed what my head wasn’t telling them to do.

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My sleep-deprived fingers (in the realm of insomnia) just copied without thinking.
By the way, last night I was sooooo tired. I went to bed and started to feel all the tension again and basically "woke up". After an hour or so I decided that I could not stay awake another night, so I took more meds... and finally slept a bit. Not much, but even a couple of hours are a blessing for me. 🙂