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Classical music [Youtube Clips]
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James Horner + 22.6.2015
This great Hollywood composer who died recently got noticed when he wrote the music for Star Trek II in 1982, which is still one of the greatest musical contributions to Star Trek, since it was majestic, programmatic and fit just beautifully with the seafaring feeling of the whole movie. Or to be precise: created the mood in the first place.
The piece above are the endtitles. It's similar to the "leaving drydock" music, he talks about in this clip:
Flight from the Reliant and Spock's death.
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Robert Schumann + 29.7.1856
the fourth symphony in the original version of 1841, not published back then because of doubts about the compositon, ten later published (after having worked it over with repetitions and other sonata form-elements that made this work appeare less inside but outside).
To me Schumann was the first modern artist, his music can also be considered "the score of 1848".
Here performed on period instruments by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Simon Rattle.
W. A. Mozart - KV 320 - "Posthorn" Serenade in D major
The Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Christopher Hogwood.
There are some works you get a trillionbillion recordings and there are some you literally get none*, esp. if you value period instruments. Beethoven's triple concerto is one of those or Brahms' double concerto. Schumann's violin concerto has recently been recorded in hip.
The posthorn serenade is one where you can get one or two recordings that are worth it. This here is the reference recording with the late Christopher Hogwood or as I would say in my mothertongue: voll geilimeili!
* "You have to get the new Gardiner Brahms' requiem." / "What's different from the recording from ten years ago?" / "Gardiner was wearing a hat while recording!"
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Get Happy!
One of J.S. Bach’s happiest---like finding the fountain of youth. Also one of his most devilishly difficult fugues. Perhaps that’s why this work is rarely heard. Hurford’s interp has clarity and verve. Fantastically FUN to play!
One of J.S. Bach’s happiest---like finding the fountain of youth. Also one of his most devilishly difficult fugues. Perhaps that’s why this work is rarely heard. Hurford’s interp has clarity and verve. Fantastically FUN to play!
More ecstasy
Oh what joy! I’ve always thought Mendelssohn tragically underrated, but if he could write a masterful fugue (between the intro and repcapitulation) on a theme this difficult, what kind of a genius was he? By age 10, he was writing amazing pieces. Since I watched Simon Schama’s 5-part do
entary titled The Story of the Jews, my love and respect for Felix have been renewed and enhanced, if that’s even possible. Schama’s story is highly recommended. Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of Felix, was a key figure in Europe’s Age of Enlightenment (a.k.a. the Age of Reason).
I like this organist. He’s playing on the Christiaan Müller orgel (1724-1727) at the Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Oh what joy! I’ve always thought Mendelssohn tragically underrated, but if he could write a masterful fugue (between the intro and repcapitulation) on a theme this difficult, what kind of a genius was he? By age 10, he was writing amazing pieces. Since I watched Simon Schama’s 5-part do
entary titled The Story of the Jews, my love and respect for Felix have been renewed and enhanced, if that’s even possible. Schama’s story is highly recommended. Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of Felix, was a key figure in Europe’s Age of Enlightenment (a.k.a. the Age of Reason).I like this organist. He’s playing on the Christiaan Müller orgel (1724-1727) at the Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Handle Night at the Proms
Georg Friedrich Handel---one of the luckiest things that ever happened to England. Revel in the ingenuity! Don’t miss the aria from Semele (“If I persist in gazing, Myself I shall adore,” which starts at about 26:40)---wonderfully farcical and virtuosic. So refreshing and liberating to laugh at ourselves by laughing at this exaggerated display of narcissism. As a gay man who possessed a talent of astronomical proportions, Handel was probably all too familiar with such behavior. First and foremost, though, I think he is laughing at himself. Note the Baroque ornamentation in this aria, most of it probably precisely stipulated by Handel himself. Yet it may also be a glimpse of just how elaborate improvised ornaments could become during that era.
The issue of ornamentation is still very relevant today in popular music, especially as heavily influenced by the elaborate “blue note” ornamentations of African Americans. This style can be very haunting.
Georg Friedrich Handel---one of the luckiest things that ever happened to England. Revel in the ingenuity! Don’t miss the aria from Semele (“If I persist in gazing, Myself I shall adore,” which starts at about 26:40)---wonderfully farcical and virtuosic. So refreshing and liberating to laugh at ourselves by laughing at this exaggerated display of narcissism. As a gay man who possessed a talent of astronomical proportions, Handel was probably all too familiar with such behavior. First and foremost, though, I think he is laughing at himself. Note the Baroque ornamentation in this aria, most of it probably precisely stipulated by Handel himself. Yet it may also be a glimpse of just how elaborate improvised ornaments could become during that era.
The issue of ornamentation is still very relevant today in popular music, especially as heavily influenced by the elaborate “blue note” ornamentations of African Americans. This style can be very haunting.
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3rd mov from the 25th piano concerto from a full recording of all 27 piano concertos from about 10 years ago.
Viviana Sodfronitzki, fortepiano, Musicae Antiquae Collegium Voarsoviense (Early Instruments Ensemble for the Warsaw Chamber Opera), Tadeusz Karlolak.
They have done a wonderful job not only artistically but also with the balance of the fortepiano and the orchestra. The old fortepiano was not really able to be played very loudly but you can hear it very well. This would be my cycle for the proverbial island.