Classical Music Appreciation Thread

[papermoon.lady]

 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]

This is the piece that first made me love music that is not classical in the strict sense of the word...

Vaughan WIlliams - Sinfonia Antarctica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6YBg7PLag

[countessalmirena]

Rameau: Les Sauvages (from Les Indes galantes). Perf. Les Arts Florissants cond. William Christie

https://youtu.be/3zegtH-acXE

[countessalmirena]

Schubert: Ständchen (Schwangengesang, D. 957, No. 4. “Leise flehen meine Lieder”). Sung by Olaf Bär, accomp. on guitar by Jan Žáček.

https://youtu.be/E8_U_R1R5AU

[papermoon.lady]

Vasily Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVakXOkE2G4

[papermoon.lady]

John Williams - Flying Theme (from E.T.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-qrMz-JAzo

[papermoon.lady]

Lovely arrangement. Interesting how lovely arrangements can sound.

I think not too long ago I posted Bach's Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 played on the harp...

[papermoon.lady]

Voi che sapete (from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro)

Sung by Cecilia Bartoli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDeFdGzthV0

[papermoon.lady]

Schubert - Du Bist die Ruh (sung by Barbara Bonney)

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

[papermoon.lady]

Mozart - Ach, Ich Fühl's (sung by Barbara Bonney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmHyA4WsJAM

[countessalmirena]

Bonney is a gorgeous Pamina… one of the finest.