[goldtuba]

Some more love for Russia. Make sure that you have time to listen to these before you start. Both are over an hour.

 

[Head1]

Glinka - Russlan and Ludmilla Overture - Yevgeny Mravinsky & Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

 

[Head1]

Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 2: III. Dance 1

Dmitry Yablonsky / Russian State Symphony Orchestra

 

[Head1]

Rachmaninov - Elegie - Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason

 

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Gabriel Yared - The English Patient ending theme

 

[Light - Man]

We are pretty much snowbound here in most of Ireland and the UK with much worse to come as "Storm Emma" joins "The Beast from the East" (Siberian winds and heavy snow)

It got me thinking of a few posts of mine back in September 2016 which have a few good videos (below but the gifs no longer work since the site upgrade)

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/popular-classical-music.808665/page-23#post-12853062

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/popular-classical-music.808665/page-23#post-12853102

 

[Head1]

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 18 - Geza Anda (Pianist & Conductor) and the Camerata Academica des Salzburgers Mozarteums



00:00 - Allegro vivace (Cadenza: Mozart/Anda)
12:13 - Andante un poco sostenuto
22:26 - Allegro vivace (Cadenza: Mozart)

 

[goldtuba]

Being a bit nostalgic and remembering my days in concert band. The first one is an orchestral arrangement, but this is a fantastic performance.

 

[Head1]

William Walton - Henry V: Touch her Soft Lips and Part - Barenboim / English Chamber Orch.

 

[Head1]

^ sounds similar to a catalan christmas song:

El noi de la mare - Tavi Jinariu

 

[Light - Man]

A random comment from me as usual..............................

Regularly I see some very nice content posted here and I hope that most people appreciate the effort made by those who participate (but somehow for some reason I doubt it - but such is life)...............

But, never-the-less why not join in with us and post whatever catches your ear or eye (as they say - variety is the spice of her life!).

 

[wskl]

 

[TJ Elite]

The middle one was composed by my cousin. Probably my favorite track from that particular album.

 

[Light - Man]

Good to see you again TJ

An unusual video worth posting (and two spiels that come with the video below to help make sense of it)

Playing a sad emotional piece when you are feeling emotional is only going to end a bit like this......... ......................................................


"Simone Lamsma (violin) - Davida Scheffers (cor anglais - woodwind instrument of the oboe family ) Watch til the end, emotion guaranteed... Davida Scheffers has lived her dream in winning a contest and the opportunity to play with the dutch Orchestra. Davida suffers from an extremely painful neuromuscular condition that derailed her career, and she thought she would never get to play in a professional orchestra again... The young blond lady is her daughter and was 18 years old that day."

and....

"The tears are because this orchestra is made up of highly-skilled amateur musicians most of whom went to conservatory and had plans to be professionals, but somehow never made it; Davida suffers from an extremely painful neuromuscular condition that derailed her career, and she thought she would never get to play in a professional orchestra again. That, combined with this particular piece of music, elicited the emotional response we all saw here. (The also-emotional blonde woman they kept panning to in the audience is Davida’s daughter)"

 

[Head1]

Eduardo di Capua - O sole mio ( My sun ) - Pavarotti