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Jan 15, 2020 at 11:52 PM Post #3,881 of 8,715
Ashley Bathgate from Bang on a Can playing Cello Counterpoint for Cello and Multi-Track CD by Steve Reich (... have to remember this one for whenever someone gets snooty about popstars that perform with backing tracks :expressionless:)

 
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Jan 16, 2020 at 12:29 AM Post #3,882 of 8,715


That was like the acapella mash-ups they do in those Perfect Pitch movies but with just one song lol... all the switch-ups almost reminiscent of this variation from Ben Johnston.

 
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Jan 16, 2020 at 2:56 AM Post #3,885 of 8,715
Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony

Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Vasily Petrenko, conductor



00:23 - I. Lento lugubre - Moderato con moto
16:22 - II. Vivace con spirito
26:10 - III. Andante con moto
38:52 - IV. Allegro con fuoco

Written between the fourth and fifth symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s programmatic Manfred Symphony, inspired by Byron’s dramatic poem of the same name, contains some of the composer’s most thrillingly orchestrated music and best tunes. For Tchaikovsky, as for Byron, Manfred represented the figure of the outsider, an outcast from society. The first movement depicts Manfred at midnight in a Gothic gallery in his Alpine castle, seeking self-oblivion and haunted by memories of lost love. The second movement evokes the spirit of the Witch of the Alps, appearing in a rainbow through the spray of a waterfall, while in the third movement a chamois hunter offers Manfred what little comfort he can. In the final movement, set in a subterranean hall of Evil, in the form of a globe of fire, Manfred welcomes his coming death as the end of his suffering.
 

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