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Haffner

Quote from: Israfel the Black on April 29, 2007, 12:05:15 AM
A classic recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor with Jacqueline du Pre and Daniel Barenboim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns






YAY! Thanks, Israfel!


Maciek

Fantastic! Thanks, Drasko! It's really brilliant! :D 8)


not edward

A good Lutoslawski Paganini Variations with Igor Roma and Enrico Pace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J856VKlltvA

Glenn Gould's unusual reading of the Webern Variations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GTeIMmkxw0
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Sean

Scarlatti- Harpsichord sonata No.435: he wrote 555 and I used to have them complete on 34 CDs: some devastating brilliance in these works, manic and ecstatic and based on juxtaposition and play of related ideas (like the Messiaen below, two centuries later); the harpsichordist shows some great poise and feel for the rhythms, really in the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgeTIe19p_c

Messiaen- Vingt regards No.6 is very virtuosic piano writing in a semi-dissonant modern idiom: I used to play five of the 20 movements myself, though hardly at the right tempos, and it was one of the works included in my bit of lecturing a few years ago, one of the greatest for piano of the century: the pianist is really into it and knows the idiom...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMAIag5IPDg&mode=related&search

Bach- a suite or partita, I can't remember which it is- Glen Gould the Canadian pianist who perhaps explores the boundary between genius and madness, quite possessed: I like the bit where he gets up for a moment when he's not happy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ&mode=related&search=

orbital

Quote from: Sean on May 08, 2007, 09:37:43 AM

Bach- a suite or partita, I can't remember which it is- Glen Gould the Canadian pianist who perhaps explores the boundary between genius and madness, quite possessed: I like the bit where he gets up for a moment when he's not happy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ&mode=related&search=

That is the 2nd partita, I think was taken from 32 films about Glenn Gould.

Here is Gould at a surprisingly romantic moment  ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3atJSmgTM


Joe_Campbell

Drasko, who is that frequently in your avatar? She's so pretty!

Greta

Yes, YouTube has become a veritable "den of iniquity" for me, my Favorites now number 172!  :o And that's not even counting opera for the most part or pianists. It's astounding and so heartening to see the offerings continue to increase.

Lately I've been loading some Mahler there I had around, to spread the goodness.


Black Knight

Quote from: Mozart on April 19, 2007, 09:14:08 AM
Mozart requiem Solti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zDH_ekIUg

I watch that often.

Wow! Just.. wow! Was that performance ever recorded on CD?

Black Knight


dtwilbanks


Mozart

Quote from: Black Knight on May 15, 2007, 06:08:49 AM
Wow! Just.. wow! Was that performance ever recorded on CD?

Im pretty sure it was. Masterful conducting!

Guido

Probably my favourite video on Youtube is Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould playing the third Beethoven cello Sonata.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2hXJ3qx34

Tim Janof on the partnership:
QuoteOne of Leonard Rose's frequent sonata partners was pianist Glenn Gould. Rose loved Gould's playing. "I still think his piano sound is one of the most beautiful piano sounds I've ever heard in my life!" One can watch them play together in a video of the Beethoven A Major Sonata. Watching them play together, one is struck by the electricity of their partnership, despite the fact that they were very different as performers. While Rose played with minimal excess motion and perfect poise -- the straight man -- Gould swayed, conducted, and muttered throughout the entire performance, but the combination is magical.

During the filming of that sonata, the producers asked Rose if he had memorized the music. The music stand was difficult to film around and they were hoping to get rid of it. Rose did have the piece memorized, but he thought that Gould would probably need to play from music. Gould said, "Oh, Leonard, do you want to play the piece from memory? I'll have it from memory tomorrow." And sure enough he did. Rose asked Gould how he did it, and Gould told him that he would lie in bed with the music and memorize it from there. "Glenn definitely is a kind of genius...."

To say that Glenn Gould was eccentric is an understatement, but apparently there is a likely medical explanation for some of his quirks. According to Rose's daughter, Barbara, who works in the medical field:

"Glenn Gould was deranged, but he had fibromyalgia, which couldn't be diagnosed at the time. He couldn't tell whether it was hot or cold, so he'd walk around in the summer with his great big coat on. My father would suggest that he take it off, and Glenn would say, 'But it's cold.' My father would reply, 'It's 95 degrees, Glenn.' Glenn couldn't feel it, which was very frustrating for him."

Robert Battey on the subject:
QuoteTwo filmed performances of Rose have been available recently: the Beethoven A major sonata with Glenn Gould (Sony) and the Beethoven C minor and Brahms C major trios (VAI). The Gould collaboration is truly amazing, one of the great sonata performances ever captured on film. Rose's posture and approach to the instrument were emulated by countless others, not just his students, and here we can study his playing in its prime. We can also see the reserve and formality he always exhibited, and the complete focus on producing the highest-quality music possible, with no extraneous showmanship. The combination of the two titanic artistic personalities strikes sparks; the youthful genius playing (by memory) at the piano, singing, conducting, and generally acting bizarre, and the mature cello master, seated behind and above, looking down on his colleague with avuncular dignity. Somehow the performance clicks on every level.
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

12tone.

I'm watching that video of that Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition (Salonen).  Is that a double orchestra or something because, despite the extra forces that I now know the piece calls for, the orchestra itself sure seemed bigger than normal.


greg

Xenakis- Synaphai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBMxp8EJFA

the Japanese kick butt!!!!!

look at 5:22 it looks like twins, lol

sweet music, too  0:)

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

greg

there's also videos of Varese's Ionisation and Offrandes. And Xenakis' Metastasis with the full draft score

Bonehelm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8fK7PV_c0&mode=related&search=

anyone know what event this was? it was so INTENSE. I actually like this more than the instrumental version.