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Joined: Feb 29, 2008
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: Chamber-/Instrumental-Solo Music on Youtube
As promised in the Orchestral Thread I also open a thread for every find of chamber music or solo performances found on youtube.
Please feel free to post anything from Instrumental-Solo to bigger chamber ensembles.
In this thread you can also discuss about the videos and performances, post alternative versions and so on.
Also vocals (e.g. singer with piano accompaniment, choir with few instruments, choir and organ etc.) can be posted here.
In this thread you can also discuss about the videos and performances, post alternative versions and so on.
An Opera-thread by weaponlordzero can be found here!
For choir a-cappella videos please see this thread!
Have fun contributing and enjoy!
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Jeux d'eau for piano
performed by Svatoslav Richter
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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bpewien
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartets Hob.Ⅲ 38 "The Joke"
transcribed for 8 Horns,
performed "The Horns of the Berlin & Vienna Philharmonics"
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:
Krzysztof Penderecki (*1933)
Capriccio for oboe & 11 strings (written in 1964)
A great example of the avantgarde-techniques invented and used since the 60ies.
At first perhaps not an easy listening experience, but a door into a new world of sounds & music.
Give it a try!
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Piano Etude No. 13, "The Devil's Staircase" (L'escalier du diable)
performed by Greg Anderson
A very difficult piece, and a very unusual video... _________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject:
Arthur Rubinstein plays
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
"Aufschwung" (Flight of Fancy)
I've played this piece myself a couple of years ago, Schumann is one of my favourite composers for piano because his works sound so great and still are relatively easy to learn and play. They do not run for ecclecticism or virtuosity for it's own purpose. There's always something extremely lyrical and musical happening within - something that I sometimes miss with Chopin or Liszt which tend to "just let it run" (literally).
Rubinstein makes a much more intimate interpretation than I'm used too.
He doesn't run for the big "boom" and virtuosity effect, he shows a Schumann in the middle of desperation and hope.
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
String Octet E Flat Major, op.20
Young Felix was 16 (!) years old, when he composed his octet for 4 violins, 2 violas & 2 cellos.
In this quite good performance (some flaws are in it of course, since it's a live recording) of the wonderful 1st movement (the other 3 can be found on youtube) the musicians are:
Concert at Sala Olido Ago/03/2007, Sao Paulo - BRAZIL, with friends and musicians of Sao Paulo Municipal Sinfonic Orchestra.
Part I
Part II
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:
Another Mendelssohn.
His "Lieder ohne Worte", op.19 (Songs without words) are some of the most beautiful pieces ever written for piano (and other instruments).
Here you have the 1st song in E-major.
This is a just-listen-vid since there's nothing happening besides the showing of a portrait of good old Felix.
But the music (and the sound quality) therefore are way better
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Ständchen (zögernd leise...) for Soprano and Male Choir
The lyrics are from a poem by the austrian poet Franz Grillparzer, basically a romantic one.
The title "Ständchen" also stands for another, better known song by Schubert from his songs-cycles. But I just forgot which one of the 3... *embarrased*
Regarding the video:
This is the only good one I've found on youtube, but the audio quality and the musical performance is marvellous!
So don't give a d*mn what kind of pictures (btw. all taken from locations in Vienna, Austria) are running through this vid, the music is the important thing!
Close your eyes and enjoy!
Juliane Banse, Soprano
Vienna Vocalists
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:56 am Post subject:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Der Erlkönig (The Erlking)
Text from the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
English translation of the "Erlkönig": Who rides so late through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy safe in his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
"My son, why do you hide your face so fearfully?"
"Father, do you not see the Elf king?
The Elf king with crown and robe?"
"My son, it's a wisp of fog."
"You lovely child, come, go with me!
Nothing but beautiful games I'll play with you;
Many colourful flowers are on the shore,
My mother has many golden robes."
"My father, my father, can't you hear,
What the Elf king quietly promises me?"
"Be calm, stay calm, my child;
It is the wind rustling in the dry leaves."
"Do you want to come with me, fine lad?
My daughters should already be waiting for you;
My daughters lead the nightly folkdance
And rock you and dance and sing."
"My father, my father, and can't you see there,
The Elf king daughters in the gloomy place?"
"My son, my son, I see it well:
It is the old grey willows gleaming."
"I love you, your beautiful form entices me;
And if you're not willing, I shall use force."
"My father, my father, now he takes hold of me!
The Elf king has wounded me!"
It horrifies the father; he rides swiftly,
Holding in his arms the moaning child.
He reaches the yard with great difficulty;
In his arms, the child was dead.
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Schubert is known as THE master of the german lied.
He wrote over 1000 (!) songs which are highly reputated in todays repertoire.
The best example is his ballad to the "Erlking".
It's rightfully one of the best & most touching songs ever written.
Schubert composed the music around the gallopping of the hourse, the singer (in this case a bariton) has to sing and play 4 different characters:
The narrator, the father, the sick child & the Erlking.
Not only a vocal, but acting challenge.
The piano part is regarded as one of the most exhausting and technically critical parts in music history.
The music scientist Charles Rosen had an interesting statement about it, taken from his "Piano Notes":
"It is interesting to note that the most painful of all octave passages to execute are not to be found in Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov or even in Listz , not even in the notorius Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody , but in the accompaniment to Schubert's Erlkonig.Those octaves obviously gave trouble even during the compser's lifetime when the piano had a much lighter action , since he wrote out a simplified version of this song - simplified for the pianist , that is."
The pianist Hugh Song posted a very interesting article about the best ways ("cheating") to get over this piano part.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Gerald Moore, piano
Filmed in London, May 14, 1959
It takes a bit of acting skill to sing this song properly. You have to perform 4 characters within your own vocal expression: The Narrator, the Father, the dying boy, and the Erl King. Thats the hardest thing about this piece, and Fisher-Dieskau does it wonderfully! _________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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1st movement, Allegro -
performed by the incredible (and sadly not anymore performing) Alban Berg-Quartet:
Part I
Part II
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
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Wed May 14, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite, recorded at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yvonne, France in 1991.
Here another version, performed by Mischa Maisky:
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:43 am Post subject:
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Paganini Variations - Version for 2 Pianos
Enrico Pace and Igor Roma performing.
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:
Philippe Delacour plays Final from
Louis Vierne's
6th Organ Symphony
on the Mutin - Cavaille-Coll organ at Notre Dame de Metz, France
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:
I am a HUGE organ music fan!! Thanks bp! _________________ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
-- Felix Mendelssohn
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:
Someone needs to keep things fresh around here _________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
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