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pim_derks
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« Reply #15 on: 22:21:45, 16-05-2007 »
Percy Faith conducts the theme from A Summer Place by Max Steiner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6X2RF607M

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« Reply #16 on: 22:14:48, 19-05-2007 »
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« Reply #17 on: 22:27:11, 19-05-2007 »
I liked it too. Thank you pim.
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« Reply #18 on: 23:38:38, 19-05-2007 »
Quote from: trained-pianist on 22:27:11, 19-05-2007
Thank you pim.

You're welcome, trained-pianist. Wink

Internet is wonderful place. Please take a loot at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3BRFYc9LOw&mode=related&search=

Hindemith conducts Hindemith. What a sound!

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« Reply #19 on: 06:42:56, 20-05-2007 »
Thank you again, pim.
I like Hindemith. I played viola sonata I think. I kind of forgot it now. I usually like his music. People say that he is academic, but I respond to his music well.
I never saw a  picture of him. It was interesting to see him conduct. I did not know this music before, but I liked it (like usual). Is sounded austire at times. The orchestra is good too. Strings and winds play really well. Thank you again.
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« Reply #20 on: 14:50:37, 20-05-2007 »
Quote from: trained-pianist on 06:42:56, 20-05-2007
Thank you again, pim.
I like Hindemith. I played viola sonata I think. I kind of forgot it now. I usually like his music. People say that he is academic, but I respond to his music well.
I never saw a  picture of him. It was interesting to see him conduct. I did not know this music before, but I liked it (like usual). Is sounded austire at times. The orchestra is good too. Strings and winds play really well. Thank you again.


Hindemith's Concert Music for Strings and Brass was a favourite piece of Leonard Bernstein. He made a recording of it and he conducted it once in an episode of his Young People's Concerts series. That television performance was my introduction to this piece. I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Sad

A little Bernstein by Bernstein then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422-yb8TXj8

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« Reply #21 on: 15:00:11, 20-05-2007 »
Thank you again, pim.
It helps a lot to see Bernstein conduct. I also enjoyed watching the orchestra play and to see who is playing (what instrument). I am a pianist and tone deaf person (not really, but I don't know some times what instrument is playing).
I find his conducting extraordinare. I it is so vivid and lucid to see what he wants from musicians. No wonder the orchestra is playing so well.
This overtures is my favourite piece from his opera.
I could hear Shostakovich influence (in orchestration) and even Smetana (in slow dialogue passages between winds).
Thank you again for taking time and posting.
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« Reply #22 on: 17:09:12, 07-06-2007 »
Leonard Bernstein in Paris during the German occupation Wink :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayPxRa2UrPo&mode=related&search=

One of the funniest movies ever. What a pity that I can't find the scene in which he takes the wig off.
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« Reply #23 on: 20:27:20, 07-06-2007 »
I don't know this movie. What is it called?
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« Reply #24 on: 20:47:38, 07-06-2007 »
Quote from: trained-pianist on 20:27:20, 07-06-2007
I don't know this movie. What is it called?

This movie is called La Grande Vadrouille.

It's a story about a conductor who works at the Paris opera during the Second World War. He gets involved in a secret plot to hide two RAF pilots. Really a very funny movie from the 1960s when big movies were still being made in France.

Here's some more information about the international cast:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060474/

The notorious Tea for Two-scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLrtkFJ-6-w&mode=related&search=

I wonder if Jeremy Lloyd en David Croft had seen this film when they started to work on 'Allo! 'Allo! Smiley

Another funny scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ3brZ5vplU&NR=1

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« Reply #25 on: 20:44:59, 24-06-2007 »
I’ve had an enjoyable time this afternoon compiling this, I hope you will have an enjoyable time checking it out.  It’s a compilation of some of the finest singing available on YouTube, IMO.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx3I00YVi2A
Von Otter sings Offenbach: ‘Je suis veuve d’un colonel’ from ‘La vie Parisienne’’. I defy everyone not to be seduced by La Von Otter here between 4.52 – 5.29  Cool

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuS337uc-4Y
Von Otter with Barbara Bonney – Strauss’ Rosenkavalier: Presentation of the Rose.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3uCuYNA9B0
Von Otter – Urlicht – Mahler 2 – Rattle, CBSO.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAvamSUGAi4
Victoria de los Angeles singing a zany Spanish folksong. Great fun  Smiley

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGzHNONpFw
Victoria de los Angeles – de Falla – La Vida Breve – ‘Vivan los que rien’.  ‘Long live those who laugh, death to those who cry’ – absolutely disturbing.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6dNrM1c00
Teresa Berganza at the festival d’Aix-en-Provence singing a Spanish folksong about going for the cheaper whore  Shocked

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp-474EhDNQ
From the same concert, a ‘Lullaby for a little black boy’  Undecided

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7moPpoXdL8
Fritz Wunderlich singing ‘Granada’ – This was featured in the Radio 3 Wunderlich special a couple of months ago.  I break out in a sweat every time I hear this – it’s so enjoyable and so tacky at the same time.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D60uHhOCLu0
Kathleen Battle in one of the most beautiful renditions of ‘Ach, ich fühl’s’ I’ve heard – it’s a pity Tamino is acting so intensely...  Roll Eyes

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DSZpYISf-o
Kathleen Battle in an astonishingly beautiful medley of spirituals. ‘Over my head’, as it says.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4ombfbESg
Kathleen Battle singing an absolute perfect and controlled ‘Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit’ von Brahms’ Requiem, sending von Karajan to sensual heights.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7VFT81axE
A young Nina Simone sings the folksong ‘When I was in my prime’.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJzES_LAUc
As a follow-up: Nina Simone: ‘Zungo’

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYRQWYlDbM
Natalie Dessay before her operation.  This is something I just can’t get my head around – how is it humanly possible?  Delibes, ‘Bell song’ from Lakmé.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFtKpO0eKIg
Natalie Dessay after her operation, singing Bellini: ‘Ah non credea mirarti’ – different, but equally beautiful.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4XJGjxJUD4
Natalie Dessay singing ‘Pâle et blonde’ from Ophélie’s mad scene in Thomas’ Hamlet.  I had the pleasure of hearing her singing this live recently, and even though she had a bit of a cold, or so it seemed, it was absolutely and disturbingly moving.  I have this principle not to be amazed by high notes, because they’re just result of good ‘material’ and good technique and there’s nothing truly artistic about them.  But when she pulls out one of them high F#’s, when you’re only sitting a couple of feet away from her, I can tell you: it does weird things to you.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN-zyCPtXOE
Natalie Dessay (I have a thing for her) ‘getting it on’ with a giant fly in an extremely musical way.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBx0QnUl8xE
Speaking of high notes, here’s a very beautiful one on 4.22.  The rest is gorgeous too.  Thanks to Stanley Stewart for his shared enthusiasm.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQX2XqAE8c
The beautiful Philippe Jaroussky singing a beautiful Vivaldi aria.  Wait for the music – the French presenter has to crack a some kind of joke first.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nriIwK40_xw
Jessye Norman in an intimate and extremely sincere moment.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaFhfYRWDps
A chubby Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing one of the most beautiful melodies out there IMO, Schubert’s ‘Im Frühling’.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtRombx5DM
Fischer-Dieskau – ‘Kindertotenlieder’ – these go on and off YouTube at irregular intervals.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvllEPjuRE
‘Sur les lagunes’:Berlioz – Les nuits d’éte - Janet Baker.  I love her.

Anyone else interested in sharing his or her preferred singing on YouTube?

(BTW: Thanks to TimR-J for his collection of contemporary music on YouTube – it’s a most useful introduction.  I’ve especially enjoyed the Messiaen.)
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« Reply #26 on: 23:48:52, 24-06-2007 »
Wow! I've not really properly looked at this thread before.

Thanks Mr. Yorick for that surfeit of riches! I just had a look at Kathleen Battle singing 'Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit'. It's wonderful! Karajan looks almost blinded by it!

Thanks also to TimR-J, that's another list I will look forward to working through. The Xenakis Connexities Synaphai I have just listened to is really amazing. There is an incredible power in the music. Quite frightening really.
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« Reply #27 on: 20:54:07, 25-06-2007 »
something a little different...
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« Reply #28 on: 10:00:36, 09-07-2007 »
some nice stuff here!
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« Reply #29 on: 12:17:44, 13-07-2007 »
A Beethoven Piano Sonata Parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw&mode=related&search=

No, not by Gerald Moore but by Dudley Moore.
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