Your favorite classical tunes...

[Gaby]

Sergei Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" from the ballet Romeo and Juliet

I agree with the first comment:

Those crazy Russian composers. Where would we be without them. Thank you Sergey.

 

[Alix]

Sergei Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" from the ballet Romeo and Juliet

I agree with the first comment:

Russian composers are my favorite. They can be sweet as a butterfly in a meadow or so powerful that they can knock you right off a cliff.

 

[EmeraldR]

Florida" Suite for Orchestra - Frederick Delius​

 

[EmeraldR]

Ottorino Respighi - The Birds​

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[EmeraldR]

The trumpet shall sound - Handel's Messiah​

"Comfort ye and Ev'ry valley" from Handel's Messiah​

HANDEL I know that my Redeemer liveth​

 

[Gallo]

MARIN MARAIS - Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

 

[Gaby]

MARIN MARAIS - Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

That is one beautiful harpsichord.

 

[Gaby]

The trumpet shall sound - Handel's Messiah
"Comfort ye and Ev'ry valley" from Handel's Messiah
HANDEL I know that my Redeemer liveth

Continuing on this theme:

Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar

Elgar took the phrase "Pomp and Circumstance" from Act 3, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Othello:

Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war![1]

A: As in an opportunity to affect whole universe. Picture cosmic playing of "Pomp and Circumstance" AKA "Hope and Glory."

A: Exactly! We once said that it was a grand example of cosmic "Pomp and Circumstance". You simply do not have the full perspective!

 

[Cristal]

This week was the first time in my 20+ orchestra playing that I played " Francesca da Rimini" by Tchaikovski. I was exhausted by the end of it(and we had more music to play,one of them being Prokofiev's 5th Symphony which was a lot of fun). It's an extremely intense music.I found a great performance on YouTube

 

[EmeraldR]

Olivia Belli is an Italian pianist and composer known for her modern classical and neoclassical works. She composed "Sapias", a piece written specifically for Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen

 

[EmeraldR]

 

[Rhys]

A topical choice: The Epic of Khorramshahr by Majid Entezami

The Epic of Khorramshahr (Live)

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I was searching for Iranian orchestral music earlier today and came across this symphony split into 4 movements. It’s a musical story of the battle for Khorramshahr and its liberation from Iraqi occupation. The titles “The War” “Migration” “Preparation for War” and “Victory and Celebration” break it down nicely!

 

[Gaby]

Mozart : Requiem in D K. 626.

James Gaffigan conducts the Orchestre national de France and the Choeur de Radio France in the Requiem in D minor, K. 626, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with the soprano Marita Solberg, the mezzo Karine Deshayes, the tenor Joseph Kaiser and the bass Alexander Vinogradov. Live recording on june 29th 2017, from the Basilica of St Denis (France).

 

[aragorn]

For those of you who like classical piano music, here’s a real gem. The late ”giant” of piano playing, Sviatoslav Richter, plays Scubert’s Piano Sonata No 21 in B-flat major D960. This was one of Schubert’s last compositions, written only two months before his death. Some musicologists say that it is his ”testament” in which he contemplates the sorrows and the beauty of his life. The main melodic theme in the first movement is extraordinarily beautiful and makes you almost cry, especially in this played by Richter. Richter plays this much slower than almost all the rest of the recordings you can find, and at the time he was criticized for this by some. Richter’s counter argument was that listeners must have time to hear the emotional meaning. I fully support his decision, played this slow the piece is so much more!

Anyways, here’s the famous recording, enjoy: