TimeTraveller
Not Enough Hours in Day
Any classical music fans here? I eat, drink and breathe fine music, which meshes superbly with my other interests such as geography, history, languages, science and travel. I actually enjoy a wide variety of music, from almost the beginning of time through this morning. However life is short so I must set priorities and therefore I concentrate on classical music of the past five — count 'em, 5 — centuries around the world...
from 16th- and 17th-Century early Baroque composers like:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): L'Orfeo (1607)
Filmed by director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in a Baroque setting at Zürich Opera House in 1978, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting period instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_m...728961F59&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1
to incredibly-long-lived 19th-, 20th- and 21st-Century modernist composers like:
Leo Ornstein (1893-2002): Cello Sonata No. 2
Eric Wilson, Cello; Patricia Hoy, Piano
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YKt0R3v4vc
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNiv882j60
Naturally most of this music comes from Europe and North America, but I've also found plenty of gems around the world such as Australia:
Roy Agnew (1891-1944): Sonata Ballade
Edward Neeman, Piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyvx1yfDHM
and Argentina:
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Tango Operita María de Buenos Aires
Scene 3b: "Yo soy María".
Julia Zenko, alto; Kremerata Musica; Gidon Kremer, Violin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPjL7IgsRc
(Note the Argentine accent, in which "yo" sounds almost like "zho". Well, I've heard that Argentina is a land of Italians who speak Spanish, live in French buildings and behave as if they're British?
)
And of course, today is Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday.
From Sickness to Health: Beethoven's Heiliger Dankgesang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-R544gF8s
A musical lecture in a medical school? Analysis and performance of: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart [Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode]. Magnificently transcendental music, composed as Beethoven recovered from a life-threatening illness in 1825.
As Gioacchino Rossini said, there are only two types of music, good and boring. I would add: so much music, so little time.
from 16th- and 17th-Century early Baroque composers like:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): L'Orfeo (1607)
Filmed by director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in a Baroque setting at Zürich Opera House in 1978, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting period instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_m...728961F59&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1
to incredibly-long-lived 19th-, 20th- and 21st-Century modernist composers like:
Leo Ornstein (1893-2002): Cello Sonata No. 2
Eric Wilson, Cello; Patricia Hoy, Piano
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YKt0R3v4vc
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNiv882j60
Naturally most of this music comes from Europe and North America, but I've also found plenty of gems around the world such as Australia:
Roy Agnew (1891-1944): Sonata Ballade
Edward Neeman, Piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyvx1yfDHM
and Argentina:
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Tango Operita María de Buenos Aires
Scene 3b: "Yo soy María".
Julia Zenko, alto; Kremerata Musica; Gidon Kremer, Violin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPjL7IgsRc
(Note the Argentine accent, in which "yo" sounds almost like "zho". Well, I've heard that Argentina is a land of Italians who speak Spanish, live in French buildings and behave as if they're British?
)And of course, today is Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday.
From Sickness to Health: Beethoven's Heiliger Dankgesang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-R544gF8s
A musical lecture in a medical school? Analysis and performance of: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart [Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode]. Magnificently transcendental music, composed as Beethoven recovered from a life-threatening illness in 1825.
As Gioacchino Rossini said, there are only two types of music, good and boring. I would add: so much music, so little time.
