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]

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/

[papermoon.lady]

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

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

[papermoon.lady]

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

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

[countessalmirena]

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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The Planets (full suite) - by Gustav Holst 

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

[papermoon.lady]

I am trying to reign myself in too. 🙂

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

[papermoon.lady]

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

[imastawka]

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

Spoiler

BTW...it's rein  ladies

[papermoon.lady]

It's beautiful...