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Joined: Feb 29, 2008
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: Symphonies/Orchestral Music on Youtube
The internet is full of many great music performances, especially on youtube.
This threads purpose is to show some of the best finds you have made.
NOTE:PLEASE ONLY POST ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PERFORMANCES IN THIS THREAD!
Feel free to post everything which includes Orchestra (any kind of ensemble with more than 15 musicians), pieces with singers/choir and orchestra are fine (Oratories, Requiems, Arias, Solo-Recitals) too.
In this thread you can also discuss about the videos and performances, post alternative versions and so on.
Another thread for Chamber- & Solomusic (including vocals) can be found here, a thread for Operas can be found here
and last but not least a thread for choir a-cappella performances is also available.
Have fun & contribute!
(PS: Filmscores are also okay...)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No.4 "Romantic", 1st movement
performed by the
Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
Rafael Kubelik, conductor
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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bpewien
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
from "Tristan & Isolde"
"Isolde's Liebestod"
performed by Jessy Norman,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
ALTERNATIVE VERSION
"Isolde's Liebestod"
performed by Shirley Verrett,
orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
bpewien
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject:
And here an orchestra only-Version of the "Liebestod" from Wagners "Tristan & Isolde" - makes an interesting comparison.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
_________________ "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 11:26 pm Post subject:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Ouverture, op.96
*edit* It seems that the former video has been removed.
Therefore here a different version:
Recorded in 1986 by Gosteleradiofond, Moscow (good ol' Soviet Days )
Conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov
_________________ "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 12:26 am Post subject:
Igor Stravinsky's Firebird - Infernal dance
Berliner Philharmoniker. Claudio Abbado, conductor.
_________________ 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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Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:
Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the bumblebee
Berliner Philharmoniker. Zubin Mehta, conductor.
_________________ 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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Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claire de Lune, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra,
conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
_________________ "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 9:49 am Post subject:
bpewien wrote:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Ouverture, op.96
bp, try clicking on your link. It says it's no longer available.
bpewien
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:
Strange, yesterday the vid was still on.
I'll check it out later. _________________ "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 10:07 am Post subject:
bpewien wrote:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claire de Lune, orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra,
conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
What a great rendition of Claire de Lune. Great find bp
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:
I fixed the link of the Festive Overture now.
Let's stick to Stokowski-transcriptions.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565
transcribed for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski,
performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
_________________ "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 3:40 pm Post subject:
John Rutter (*1945)
The Lord is my shepherd from his Requiem
_________________ "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 4:11 pm Post subject:
Olivier Messiaen (1906-1992)
Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano), Cynthia Millar (Ondes Martenot), Andrew Davis (conductor) and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain play Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony, 5th Movt "Joy of the Blood of the Stars" at the 2001 Proms.
This is merely 6 minutes of this big 75 minute piece.
_________________ "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 Mar 02, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Background: A Survivor from Warsaw is a work for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg in 1947.
The initial inspiration for the work was a suggestion from the Russian emigrée dancer Corinne Chochem for a work to pay tribute to the Jewish victims of the German Third Reich. While the collaboration between Chochem and Schönberg did not come to fruition, Schönberg continued to developed the idea for such a work independently. He then received a letter from the Koussevitzsky Music Foundation for a commission for an orchestral work.
Schönberg then decided to fulfill this commission with this tribute work. He wrote the work from 11 August 1947 to 23 August 1947.
The narration depicts the story of a survivor from the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War, from his time in a concentration camp.
The narrator does not remember how he ended up living in the Warsaw sewers. One day, in the camp, the Nazi authorities held a roll call of a group of Jews. The group tried to assemble, but there was confusion, and the guards beat the old and ailing Jews who could not line up quickly enough.
Those Jews left on the ground were presumed to be dead, and the guards asked for another count, to see how many would be deported to the death camps. The guards ask for a faster and faster head count, and the work culminates as the Jews begin to sing the prayer Shema Yisroel.
_____________________________________________________________
Narrator: Hermann Prey,
performed by Bamberger Symphoniker,
conducted by Horst Stein
_________________ "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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Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject:
A celebrated performance conducted by Leopold Stokowski with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 June 1972.
"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" by Claude Debussy.
Performed on the double occassion of Stokowski's 90th birthday, and 60th anniversary of his LSO debut. Though he conducted the entire program from that 1912 concert, it was this Debussy performance folks recall most memorably.
"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" was a specialty of Stokowski over the years, but he and his soloists surpassed themselves on this night, as you will see!
Christopher Palmer wrote in "The Musical Times" that "My most treasured memory of the evening is undoubtedly 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune', which received a reading of exceptional refinement with all the tensions and relaxations effortlessly and beautifully graded, and unerringly poetic solo work from all the woodwind. A flawless performance."
in "The Daily Telegraph" Peter Stadlen wrote "Stokowski's legendary hands, though batonless, are put to the strictest functional use. His angular, almost ungainly movements are the simple tools for some of he most masterly conducting the century has witnessed....by what seemingly incongruous flicks of the wrist did he promote the fabulously sensitve solos in 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'? Never has lifelong global fame rested on more solid foundations."
adapted from the liner notes by Edward Johnson
Debussy: Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" (less)
_________________ 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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