19-06-2022 03:42 PM - edited 19-06-2022 03:44 PM
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
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on 13-07-2022 09:06 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
cond. Penderecki, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
This is eerily horrible, so painful that it burns the skin of the soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSer6k-4zj0
on 13-07-2022 09:36 AM
Debussy: La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques
This is one of my favourite recordings of this work. The Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder whips up the waves beautifully; it's delicate and fascinating, the oriental sea in all her incarnations. There isn't another recording that has the orchestral clarity of this one: really beautiful texture.
Another superb recording is with the French National Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Krivine. This performance seems to delve into the fantastical, with la mer teeming with extraordinary creatures and sensations. It's wonderful playing.
on 13-07-2022 09:48 AM
Johann Strauss II - Wo die Zitronen blueh'n
Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben)
on 13-07-2022 09:58 AM
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15
*played by Martha Argerich at 8 years of age*
Maybe not the best recording quality, but it was 1949 and it is so exciting (for me at least) to listen to little Martha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8qvQeXEAa4
And here she plays Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54 three years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKyHHJB3Gg
13-07-2022 10:04 AM - edited 13-07-2022 10:04 AM
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Again, I've chosen a performance with Sir Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra (live recording). It's delicate and sensuous and sheer magic.
As an alternative, here's Nureyev dancing like a god to it (the original choreography by Nijinsky). Oh mon dieu, mon dieu, mon dieu - animalistic, frank yet stylised, natural, yet very firmly rooted in the antiquity of this pastoral scene of the faun and the nymphs... I'm enraptured by this. It looks like a series of panels, painted in a neo-classical style, come to life.
on 13-07-2022 10:47 AM
Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K. 418, (one of the Mozart concert arias), sung (live) by the peerless Edita Gruberova, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
There are other wonderful coloratura sopranos who've recorded this, but this is the version to which I keep coming back.
on 17-07-2022 08:36 AM
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Performed by the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the University Chorus and Alumni Chorus, and the Pacific Boychoir at the Mondavi Centre at UC Davis (June 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM
on 22-07-2022 04:51 AM
Just "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana":
on 22-07-2022 05:02 AM
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Budapest Strings
Bela Banfalvi - Conductor
on 22-07-2022 05:15 AM
Something different...
Adrian von Ziegler - Darkness Eternal