[Head1]

Michel Legrand - Windmills of Your Mind (Thomas Crown Affair) - Amy Dickson

 

[Head1]

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3 - Olga Kern

This is the original ossia cadenza version which Rachmaninov later rewrote to make simpler.



I. Allegro ma non tanto.....0:37
II. Intermezzo: Adagio....17:40
III. Finale: Alla breve.......28:09

 

[wskl]

Chloe Chua, 11-year-old violinist from Singapore.

 

[Light - Man]

I think that I might have posted this one a year or so back - but it is a cracking piece and well worth a second airing



Head1, another cracking one that is right up the wind swept allies (alley) of my mind (caused by the downdraft of the windmill - of course!)



Oops wrong gif!

....more like this

 

[Head1]

Ennio Morricone - The Untouchables Theme - The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

 

[Head1]

Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, "Trout"

Martin Helmchen (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Alois Posch (double bass)



00:00 - I. Allegro vivace
13:28 - II. Andante
20:19 - III. Scherzo. Presto
24:29 - IV. Theme and Variations (on the song "Die Forelle"). Andantino
31:58 - V. Finale. Allegro giusto

 

[Head1]

Schubert - Ave Maria - Barbara Bonney

 

[Head1]

Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale - Josef Sakonov, London Festival Orchestra

 

[wskl]

Different arrangements of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6, 1st movement

 

[Light - Man]

 

[Light - Man]

A little hint of what is to come

 

[Light - Man]

And another tiny hint of what is about to come...............

BTW, I went to a concert last Friday of music composed by John Williams - but its Jaws version was absolutely nothing like the above!

 

[wskl]

Metal

 

[Head1]

Chopin - Waltz Op. 69 No. 1 (l'adieu / farewell waltz) - Arthur Rubinstein

 

[Head1]

Ravel - La Valse

Myung-Whun Chung / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

"Whether or not it was intended as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great War, its one-movement design plots the birth, decay and destruction of a musical genre: the waltz." (George Benjamin)