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papermoon.lady · ‎19-06-2022

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

papermoon.lady · ‎21-06-2022

Tartarini - Devil's Trill Sonata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rxl5KsPjs

tasfleur · ‎21-06-2022

"The Swan" from 'Carnival of the Animals' (Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44-5M4e9nI

papermoon.lady · ‎21-06-2022

Papageno-Papagena Duet from Mozart's The Magic Flute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q0ZDZB-AnM

papermoon.lady · ‎21-06-2022

I was listening to this performance a few minutes ago, so I thought I would share it.

It is "Lippen Schweigen" ("Though Lips Are Sealed") from Franz Lehar's "Die Lustige Witwe" ("The Merry Widow").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJL7r6Xa7Jk

countessalmirena · ‎21-06-2022

The love duet (Vogliatemi bene) from Madama Butterfly, with Nicolai Gedda as Pinkerton and Maria Callas as Butterfly

https://youtu.be/y_U66Rl5-O0

I so, so, so love this. Gedda is perfect as the callous but passionate husband, and Callas defined Butterfly for me in a way that no other singer can.

papermoon.lady · ‎21-06-2022

I love this too...

"Che gelida manina" from Puccini's "La Bohème" (sung by Nicolai Gedda)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_gelida_manina

Per sogni e per chimere
e per castelli in aria,
l'anima ho milionaria.

In dreams and fond illusions
or castles in the air.
Richer is none on earth than I!

❤️

myoclon1cjerk · ‎21-06-2022

Something contemporary (1994) from Nicholas Lens wonderful album, Flamma Flamma : The Fire Requiem. Unfortunately the album's not available on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/cs0SYhV_wto

countessalmirena · ‎22-06-2022

Mozart’s clarinet concerto in A major, K622, played by the superb clarinetist Martin Fröst. I’m linking to the second movement (Adagio) which is meltingly beautiful, but I’ll put the link to the entire concerto as well.

https://youtu.be/47EOJCDw7Jw

Entire concerto: https://youtu.be/52ohZSj8OGo

countessalmirena · ‎22-06-2022

La paon, by Ravel, sung by the great Gabriel Bacquier. His voice gives all of the absurdity, glory and arrogance of the peacock; I can see its haughty sharp face and its vibrantly showoffy widespread tail.

https://youtu.be/X0OZvUxIOAU