Classical music

[tomcat34]

Schubert - Impromptu Op.142 No.2 - Sviatoslav Richter

[W!nston]

[topdog]

Re: Candide
I posted this same piece in the Popular Broadway Songs thread in the post on [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]. I used a performance conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The first time I heard this was Mr. Slatkin conducting the National Symphony Orchestra at the opening gala for the refurbished Kennedy Center Concert Hall. I was there at the invitation of a member of the orchestra, and it was in the audience that night I saw my former partner for the first time. It was literally our eyes meeting across a crowded theater. We didn't formally meet until six months later, but this music always knocks me back with that memory.


And, it's the best overture ever written for a Broadway musical. So there's that.

[tomcat34]

Orchestra: Musique des Gardiens de la paix de Paris
Conductor: Désiré Dondeyne

[W!nston]

[gorgik9]

I guess I'm a pretty oldfashioned guy when it comes to the cello...

This clip is Pablo Casals playing Johann Sebastian Bach's solosuite for cello, no. 2, in D minor. It's from a mono recording from 1936, from a time long before you could make crap sound fantastic. The only possibility is to have great music and an equally great performing musician...

[W!nston]

That was beautiful gorgik my friend! Thank you.

Having genius compositions and gifted musicians can only be augmented by aesthetically pleasing, damned good looking & HAWT guys on stage too.

Luka is just so beautiful and his face so expressive when he plays his cello it takes my breath away.

[loretta]

[tomcat34]

Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 12, op. 26 - Sviatoslav Richter

[W!nston]