You Tube, the world is a concerthall.

[pjme]

You Tube brims with music, from all over the world.

Here are a few examples: forgotten composers, unknown music, strange or weird works of art...

http://www.youtube.com/v/JCNtA8Uqaic

France / Jean -Louis Martinet:  Symphonie In memoriam, en hommage à Jean-Philippe Rameau

http://www.youtube.com/v/8sn9bmVJu0Y

Azerbaidjan / Ayaz Gambarli - Concerto for piano and orchestra (1st mov.)

http://youtube.com/v/SWCbH0Fr1Ec

China: Peng Peng Gong: Death of the honeybees - suite nr. 1

Colombia: Hector Gonzalez: Homenaje a Ginastera for piano and orchestra.

http://youtube.com/v/8s-qZ9yPBPs

Greece/ Georgos Sisilianos: pianoquintet

http://youtube.com/v/B3qIa8JLeNI

[Florestan]

Fpr a cheapskater like me, Youtube is an endless treasure trove. It makes up for more than 90% of my listening sessions this year.

[Alvis]

It's also a great way to self-promote or promote talented loved ones!

https://www.youtube.com/user/TatiaChikovani

http://www.youtube.com/v/tkncE_qxODs

-Alvis

[pjme]

I'm sorry..but Tatia frightens me a little bit... lovely performance though!

I discovered Ohana's 'Cantigas' on You Tube. I cherish my old ERATO-recording ( with Isabel Garcisanz). But it is great to see the work performed!

http://youtube.com/v/tJfjAT7BQsc

Peter

[Alvis]

I'm sorry..but Tatia frightens me a little bit...

Lol, nobody mentioned anything like this before...

Check out the channel, it has Bach and Haydn as well.

-Alvis

[pjme]

On the menu today: Albania!

https://www.youtube.com/v/Uih1IBdkK-Q

https://www.youtube.com/v/Ksjd5ltLris?list=PL4B36646E42C29D5D

https://www.youtube.com/v/tF0GQAeQz2A

P.

[pjme]

Today: a forgotten composer who wrote 8 symphonies.

Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987).

Symphonie n° 1 en ré (1931/32)
Symphonie n° 2 (1937) orchestre à cordes
Symphonie n° 3 en sol (1938), orchestre à cordes
Symphonie n° 4 (1941), orchestre à cordes
Symphonie n° 5 (1950), orchestre
Symphonie n° 6 (1958), orchestre
Symphonie n° 7 (1961), orchestre
Symphonie n° 8, Symphonie d'archets (1978),
orchestre à cordes


https://www.youtube.com/v/6WR05JMsKKg

https://www.youtube.com/v/Mqj9xVl1JcA

https://www.youtube.com/v/CgS1ye_iedg

https://www.youtube.com/v/4T2Q5g8cS2w

https://www.youtube.com/v/cBuHAn4o1_U

https://www.youtube.com/v/gNxnyQ9Yk2k

Some outstanding (American) orchestras and conductors. 

What do you think?

P.

[Cato]

An example I just used elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/v/H1GX6gAmom8&t=659s

[lisa needs braces]

Youtube is a godsend to classical music fans. A friend of mine swears by score videos. 

Even the New York Times has a weekly "youtube classical music finds" digital column!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/arts/music/surprise-fireworks-this-weeks-8-best-classical-music-moments-on-youtube.html

[pjme]

Nice. And thanks for the NYT -tip.

Peter

[some guy]

Does anyone else read this as "You Tube, the world is a neanderthal"?

No?

OK.

Thread duty, then, I guess. I've been at a place in Zagreb that has a wide-screen tv. And as listening to music on headphones is fatiguing, I've been seduced into turning on the set and living with the tiny (tinny) sounds of the tv speakers.

Youtube.

It's interesting to see what the youtube programmers know and what they don't know. How they choose the items in the left column is interesting. On a Prokofiev roll awhile back, I chose Yugi Wang playing the 3rd. And now whatever else I choose--Simon Steen-Andersen, Bruno Maderna, Andrea Neumann, Martin Tetreault, whatever, there's Yuja Wang playing Prokofiev's third. There's one other thing that's as ubiquitous, Mvravinsky conducting the 6th symphony. Why those two among all the other things I've listened to, I don't know. But it's interesting.

Also, I just remembered. Whenever I get too far afield, into turntablism or other live electronics, it doesn't take too long for Novak's Slovak Suite to show up. It's as if Youtube is telling me, enough of this noisy, grating, crackly electronic stuff. Don't you want to listen to some nice Novak, huh? Don't you?

Well, no. No I don't. I like the Slovak Suite alright, but it doesn't wear well. One listen every five or six years is more than sufficient. If I want late Romantic Czech music, then Suk is my guy.

Still, it's nice to know that auntie Youtube is looking out for her favorite nephew, eh?

[lisa needs braces]

I think youtube's "suggested videos" on the left column (surely you mean right?) uses deep neural networks to find recommendations based on your activity. Heady stuff...deep neural networks are at the core of current AI research...

[some guy]

Haha, of course I mean "right." (My other left.)

So the deep neural networks think I should give Bill Schuman's 10th a listen. No matter what else I call up, it keeps throwing that one into the right (RIGHT) column. Nothing else by Schuman. Just the 10th.

And I've never called up any pieces by Schuman to listen to. Maybe the previous tenant of this apartment was a big Schuman and Yuja Wang fan. Hah. That must be it.

Never mind my insistence on listening to Otomo Yoshihide, it's gonna keep putting the 10th in the column until I click on it. Which, be fair, I will do some day.

[pjme]

Today: Peru!

https://www.youtube.com/v/cVOtX6O0DHI

and Chile

https://www.youtube.com/v/b9MliCbTqyc

https://www.youtube.com/v/HI3-jAuTBoo

P.

[some guy]

Chile, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnx_LIKkgQ&list=PLMsZ2yEBGjkq-PlRQ4C9b_17UPK3XZoDI&index=3

And don't forget that the world's a stage, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NH8tOVmnxw

[pjme]

Thanks for the reaction. Good to see and hear contemporary music.

I'll add this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/lVPLIuBy9CY

and a Belgian classic:

https://www.youtube.com/v/0n2qWeMLqKc

P.

[some guy]

Oh yeah. I've seen that table music thing live. That was fun.

2009 was a good year for me. Over 300 concerts that year, including this one.

Thanks for the lovely memory.

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/QgOxVhAqs04

A fascinating composer from former Yugoslavia (1896 born in Croatia, 1955 died in Belgrade/Serbia)

https://www.youtube.com/v/pn9bZH4uzh0

https://www.youtube.com/v/VyVI-bWsICg

[pjme]

From the former DDR:

Günter Kochan

https://www.youtube.com/v/Uo095SV93E4

Siegfried Köhler

https://www.youtube.com/v/86Wbaiq3mdg

Johannes Paul Thilman

https://www.youtube.com/v/tZLTzvxlVD0

P.