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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

countessalmirena · ‎29-06-2022

Britten: Les Illuminations, Op. 18, sung by one of the loveliest lyric sopranos, Susan Gritton. (She's wonderful in Mozart and Handel, as well.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlXZAjpjPg8

countessalmirena · ‎29-06-2022

Gorécki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Op. 36, with soprano Zofia Kilanowicz.

I have every recording of this work, and even though some wonderful sopranos have sung this, including Susan Gritton and Dawn Upshaw, the recording with Zofia Kilanowicz is something apart from those others. This live version with her (I could only find 2nd mvt) is as good as the CD recording; it has exactly the same combination of beauty, grief, purity, hope, despair, fragility, otherwordliness, sharp depths and waterfalls of emotion. I hope you will fall headlong into the music and the meaning, just as I did.

This is the second movement, live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkjkoNo92I

Here's the whole thing. It's purely instrumental until about 15 minutes in. Superb orchestral playing - it shimmers and weeps to heaven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzZ77EwhZA

papermoon.lady · ‎29-06-2022

I was just going to post Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs this very minute, Countess. Speak of telepathy! Actually I wanted to post it a bit earlier, but I wanted to listen to the performance first to make sure I was satisfied. It is such a powerful Symphony!