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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

imastawka · ‎19-06-2022

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

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

papermoon.lady · ‎19-06-2022

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)

myoclon1cjerk · ‎19-06-2022

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....

countessalmirena · ‎19-06-2022

… 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.

countessalmirena · ‎19-06-2022

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

papermoon.lady · ‎20-06-2022

@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. 🙂