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Reply #300 on:
April 23, 2020, 04:34:37 AM »
In a classic example of killing two birds with one stone (if I say so myself), here is Dutch contralto Aafje Heynis singing Brahms's
Alto Rhapsody
for the benefit of JH, who is not too familiar with either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssje69SCqBg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_Rhapsody
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April 28, 2020, 02:45:09 AM »
Ever bump into an extraordinarily prolific composer you'd never heard of before? I had that yesterday, thanks to JH (again), the composer in question being Christoph Graupner. Like Bach in Mendelssohn's time, the 20th century brought a revival of interest in Graupner's work that is most encouraging but still has a long way to go.
I have a lot of exploring to do. For now, this spectacular piece may whet your appetite for more. Do read the wiki page and marvel at the prodigious output of a composer who deserves a far better fate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltTtafs95AY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Graupner
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I love the sound of the Oboe d'amore. So it's wonderful to come across (on Dutch classical radio) a concerto for the instrument by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Lotti. (All these new names!) This is the version that was played:
1. Allegro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVq5aIWSYQM
2. Affetuoso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHIyF5ql8NQ
3. Allegro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j41U2nwCEM4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Lotti
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Quote from: JK on May 12, 2020, 05:19:46 AM
I love the sound of the oboe d'amore.
To say nothing of the viola d'amore--and blow me down if there isn't a flûte d'amore as well. And they're all here in this splendid little concerto by Christoph Graupner.
This is for Joshilyn H, who introduced me to Herr Graupner, as a small token of thanks for all the wonderful videos with which she has been regaling us over the past few months and particularly during the present stressful time.
I. Largo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2XizlqURjo
II. Allegro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3MVnAtiwk
III. Adagio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5qE0EB2RI
IV. Allegro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSh8r8hWJ7M
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Quote from: NickandthePassions on February 27, 2015, 08:06:15 AM
I consider myself a fan of "modern" classical music. My favorite are Prokofiev, Debussy, Satie, and Philip Glass (although he's a different era). Prokofiev's Nevsky...woah!
This thread has a lot of good info and recommendations and I'm still going through it. So far I seem to have similar taste to NickandthePassions. Also, I have been enjoying Chopin's Nocturnes lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFs85pLmj4&list=PL552450E1514256AB
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Regarding Satie, my favorites are the Gnossiennes
Link to No. 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGDKlu39xg
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Quote from: spgass on July 01, 2020, 02:37:20 PM
Regarding Satie, my favorites are the Gnossiennes
Link to No. 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGDKlu39xg
Hi spgass.
Glad you're enjoying the thread. I'll try to look in more often.
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August 27, 2020, 03:33:49 AM »
This is for Silken, who celebrates her birthday today. The composer and performer are Argentinian and the venue is Dutch!
Que tengas un gran día!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rCu2Daeyo
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October 01, 2020, 12:28:38 PM »
Last week I heard a work on Dutch classical radio by Florence Price, her
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor
(1931-32). This had the distinction of being the first symphony written by an African-American woman to be performed by a major orchestra. It has a whiff of Dvořák about it but only a whiff. I really like the mood it conveys. Its four movements are as follows:
I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZTmMmcnvHs
II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0oRsqkq0J0
III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d_2JJBcMs
IV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLd-2icN1E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Price
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October 19, 2020, 02:36:42 AM »
Violinist Jelly d'Arányi is a fascinating figure (see her wiki page). The most curious story associated with her is the one about the Schumann
Violin Concerto
.
Here she is performing a piece (with Ethel Hobday at the piano) by her beloved Frederick Septimus Kelly, a composer and Olympic rower who was killed in WWI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1-ydBOlks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_d%27Arányi
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October 20, 2020, 03:41:27 AM »
Right now I'm in the middle of listening to a recent (2019) recording of Monteverdi's
Vespers for the Blessed Virgin
by Simon-Pierre Bestion that takes a disarmingly fresh look at the work (check out the ISSUU booklet on
this page
). I can imagine purists recoiling in horror, but I love it. It's a work I never could take to -- until now. See what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lTmiyz5GfIGymjMOURtlXiMWmGEX87sIg
Curiously, the cover art reminds me of
The Roses of Heliogabalus
, one of my favourite paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
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November 02, 2020, 12:46:02 AM »
Here's one befitting the new month. Max Richter's "November" features the stunning talents of Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsKWKbsYmM
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"[In] the second movement of
Autumn
I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is rather an old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn't want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles'
Abbey Road
." (From the CD booklet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsLoqknbwYU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recomposed_by_Max_Richter:_Vivaldi_–_The_Four_Seasons
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January 04, 2021, 02:27:30 PM »
I never used to have any time for the Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925–2003). I always thought he was taking the p!ss -- until I heard the central movement of an orchestral work called
Rendering
. The wiki page linked below has all the information you need about this fascinating composition:
1. Allegro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmNCEkVW004
2. Andante:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt0qKnwfauo
3. Scherzo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_khW8y1jY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(Berio)
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January 11, 2021, 03:15:12 AM »
For decades now I've been getting this recurring image in my mind, very colourful in a barbaric way and somehow related to mortality in general and the death of Socrates in particular. I could never place it, until I inadvertently found the probable source on YouTube. It's very likely I borrowed this LP of Erik Satie's enigmatic composition
Socrate
(1918) years ago and then forgot about it. The uploader has seen fit to divide the recording in question into three equalish parts. If one part is enough for you, you'd do well to make it part three:
I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqXrbTi0Yo
II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TaUC7LVMjA
III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmrbEE1b0I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrate
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Lately I've been listening to Ralph Vaughn Williams' symphonies.
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Quote from: SMiLE-addict on January 11, 2021, 06:11:54 PM
Lately I've been listening to Ralph Vaughn Williams' symphonies.
I'm most familiar with the first two, both stunning works. I've heard many of the others but they haven't grabbed me as firmly as the London and Sea symphonies.
RVW has written other amazing things for orchestra, such as the Thomas Tallis variations and this one,
The Lark Ascending
, in my recording of choice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzONNtE_WqM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lark_Ascending_(Vaughan_Williams)
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January 27, 2021, 03:12:10 AM »
Looking for a non-vocal album of music from Wagner's
Ring
, I instead discovered this fabulous three-hour collection of the great man's orchestral music conducted by Otto Klemperer, supplemented by his
Wesendonck Lieder
sung by Christa Ludwig. It doesn't get much better than this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTmpISEBWA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesendonck_Lieder
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This is for aeijtzsche, a long-absent visitor to the SS "classical" threads but very important to them all the same. This is the sixth part, "Ad cor", of Dieterich Buxtehude's
Membra Jesu Nostri
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8DvkUnvgY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membra_Jesu_Nostri
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This is best listened to in the dark. It's the second movement, "Apollo", from
Symphony No. 2 "Ad Astra"
(2019) by the Peruvian composer Jimmy López Bellido (born 1978), played live by the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2a_wDDgTEs
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c9d7f7bab1a6237adb4d8fb/t/5d69b239f37f2400016313f7/1567207997755/Ad+Astra_Program+Notes.pdf
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This heart-breaking lockdown video of
Troparian to the Blessed Virgin
by Ukrainian composer Hanna Havrylets rings just as true, if not truer, today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nH2C0ONdI
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I've been fascinated by René Leibowitz as a conductor ever since buying his luminous rendition of Gabriel Fauré’s
Requiem
. And then discovering I already owned a version (on a 78 rpm record bought in a junk shop) of Alban Berg's
Four Songs
, Op. 2 that he had orchestrated and conducted.
A couple of days ago, this wonderful album of music by Albert Roussel conducted by Leibowitz was brought to my notice. Both
Le Festin de l’araignée
and
Le Marchand de Sable qui passe
are magical listens:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqjb2yqFOdVFp-TGjIdUcBYIzY9NVAea0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Leibowitz
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