Classical music videos online

Started by Joe_Campbell, April 08, 2007, 11:57:25 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 9
User actions

Bogey

#60
July 02, 2007, 09:07:33 AM
What Fidelio dvd would you folks reccomend?
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

bhodges

#61
July 02, 2007, 09:22:40 AM
Quote from: Bogey on July 02, 2007, 09:07:33 AM
What Fidelio dvd would you folks reccomend?

I've only seen the one with James Levine conducting, which I've seen in person, too, and I think it's great.  I was not a fan of the opera until seeing this production, a modern one by Jürgen Flimm, which works very well to tell the story.  The cast is pretty great, too: Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, René Pape, Falk Struckmann, Robert Lloyd, Matthew Polenzani and Jennifer Welch-Babidge. 

The opening prison scene is grim: tall gray walls, with cellblocks that evoke some third-world dictator.  The second act is even darker, when they descend to find Florestan, but all this serves to make the third act hit you like a burst of sunlight -- it's a brilliant bit of theater work, IMHO.

--Bruce

Bogey

#62
July 02, 2007, 09:24:31 AM
Quote from: bhodges on July 02, 2007, 09:22:40 AM
I've only seen the one with James Levine conducting, which I've seen in person, too, and I think it's great.  I was not a fan of the opera until seeing this production, a modern one by Jürgen Flimm, which works very well to tell the story.  The cast is pretty great, too: Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, René Pape, Falk Struckmann, Robert Lloyd, Matthew Polenzani and Jennifer Welch-Babidge. 

The opening prison scene is grim: tall gray walls, with cellblocks that evoke some third-world dictator.  The second act is even darker, when they descend to find Florestan, but all this serves to make the third act hit you like a burst of sunlight -- it's a brilliant bit of theater work, IMHO.

--Bruce


Thank you Bruce....I am considering looking into opera and purchasing some recordings, but I though that I might stick to DVD's for this genre....at least at first.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

bhodges

#63
July 02, 2007, 09:34:30 AM
Quote from: Bogey on July 02, 2007, 09:24:31 AM
Thank you Bruce....I am considering looking into opera and purchasing some recordings, but I though that I might stick to DVD's for this genre....at least at first.

I have said it before (so pardon if this is a repeat) but I think watching opera was revolutionized by the DVD medium: it really is much, much better watching one than just hearing it (IMHO), and DVDs offer you the option of subtitles or not (usually in 3 or 4 languages) and then you have the luxury of immediately replaying something that you want to hear over, just because you can!  :D  And of course, VHS tape was OK, but they can't match the sound and picture quality of DVDs, which make the experience much more immediate. 

And if you have a large TV screen, coupled with surround-sound, it's an even better experience.  I had a few operas on VHS, but when DVDs came around I found myself buying many more of them. 

--Bruce

Bogey

#64
July 02, 2007, 09:42:42 AM Last Edit: July 02, 2007, 09:48:47 AM by Bogey
Quote from: bhodges on July 02, 2007, 09:34:30 AM
I have said it before (so pardon if this is a repeat) but I think watching opera was revolutionized by the DVD medium: it really is much, much better watching one than just hearing it (IMHO), and DVDs offer you the option of subtitles or not (usually in 3 or 4 languages) and then you have the luxury of immediately replaying something that you want to hear over, just because you can!  :D  And of course, VHS tape was OK, but they can't match the sound and picture quality of DVDs, which make the experience much more immediate. 

And if you have a large TV screen, coupled with surround-sound, it's an even better experience.  I had a few operas on VHS, but when DVDs came around I found myself buying many more of them. 

--Bruce

DVD's it is....is there already a thread about opera on dvd's in the Opera section of the forum.

Update: Found it Bruce.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Sergeant Rock

#65
July 02, 2007, 12:16:22 PM
Quote from: Bonehelm on June 15, 2007, 11:54:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm_T41MR3HU

Karajan had such an unpleasant, weak voice...

It reminds me of the voices I hear in German films of the 30s and 40s.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Bonehelm

#67
July 02, 2007, 08:11:54 PM
Quote from: Drasko on July 02, 2007, 02:12:00 PM
Liszt - La Campanella - Kemal Gekic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtS8Yrw12QQ

Meh, mediocre performance. Yundi/Arrau's version is better.

Joe_Campbell

#68
July 02, 2007, 08:39:38 PM
Quote from: Bonehelm on July 02, 2007, 08:11:54 PM
Meh, mediocre performance. Yundi/Arrau's version is better.
He seems to be taking a few liberties with the score. There's a few things in there I've never heard before.

Bonehelm

#69
July 02, 2007, 09:58:48 PM
Quote from: JCampbell on July 02, 2007, 08:39:38 PM
He seems to be taking a few liberties with the score. There's a few things in there I've never heard before.

Exactly.  :D

Joe_Campbell

#70
July 02, 2007, 10:54:02 PM
Quote from: Bonehelm on July 02, 2007, 09:58:48 PM
Exactly.  :D
I'm actually quite fond of Hamelin's arrangement. Ludicrous difficulity, polyphonic & polyrhythmic. Oh what fun!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sedOE02me24

Bonehelm

#71
July 02, 2007, 11:59:15 PM
Holy sweet mother...would love to see Liszt himself trying to play it.

m_gigena

#72
July 04, 2007, 05:43:22 AM
Jorge Bolet gives a masterclass on Rach's 3rd ! ! ! !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAHvLhKlCW0&mode=related&search=

bwv 1080

#73
July 04, 2007, 07:03:16 AM
Here is Piazzolla's quartet playing Milonga del Angel

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

George

#74
July 04, 2007, 08:55:45 AM

Just posting so that I am notified of new stuff!

Drasko, that Gekic is stupendous! Thanks. :)

greg

#76
July 04, 2007, 12:22:13 PM
Here's two new works for me that I really like: (by composers who I haven't heard anything i've liked until now)


Dutilleux- Sonatine for Flute and Piano
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x10Zrpo-vUY

Gubaidulina- Viola Concerto
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nvD2FUwZjD4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvYRYHgYaNI

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s49JmZG5rz8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fuLE3TzU5vo

greg

#77
July 04, 2007, 12:23:29 PM
Takemitsu- Equinox for guitar

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sviToDyH8dQ

very nice, i wish i had the score so i could play along  8)

greg

#78
July 04, 2007, 12:31:36 PM
Anyone listen to the 3 Schnittke Piano Sonatas on YouTube? They're all performed by the same guy and they are AWFUL!
I have the score to the 3rd, and I thought it would help me appreciate it better. Usually scores do, but the music just sucks. Strangely enough, it's music that I completely understand and even "feel", but the way it was written sounds like me trying to write in a modern style with no ideas at all.

The funniest part, though, is at the end of the second sonata, the guy literally acts like he's falling asleep on the lowest register of the piano, which sounds a low cluster as the last chord. It's like he dies or something. I like the idea, but the whole style doesn't work for me. Unrelenting dissonance with no flavor.
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 9
User actions