Radio KAOM: Ludwig van Beethoven "Ode to Joy"

JOYFUL CELEBRATION!!!

 

Ludwig van Beethoven 

"Ode to Joy"

(4th movement from his 9th symphony)

scene from the movie

Copying Beethoven

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/0SVaUbbXifI

Radio KAOM: Mozart "Laudate Dominum" performed by Cai Thomas

GLORIOUS BEAUTY!

Mozart

"Laudate Dominum"

performed by

Cai Thomas 

with the

London Mozart Players

and

Pegasus Chamber Choir

conducted by

Robert Lewis

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/V-77sjOWCkQ

Radio KAOM: Rossini/Solti/Chicago "Semiramide Overture"

EXQUISITELY THRILLING SOLTI!!!!!!!!!!!

A Rossini Overture!

Same guy who wrote the Lone Ranger theme : )

 This performance is so tight and precise

Starts out slow and builds to an exciting celebration

Artistically and emotionally moving and exciting

I grew up on Solti's conducting

He was one of the world's greatest conductors

Sir Geoge Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Perhaps one of symphonic music's greatest

Conductor / Orchestra collaborations in history

They were exquisite

If you find recordings of them together

You cannot go wrong in purchasing those recordings

That brass section was one of the world's finest of that time

Enjoy the great opening chorale of the French horns, song of the oboes, the flight of the piccolo and woodwinds, the Pizzicato (plucking) of the strings - so together (tight), and the trombone's bombast WOOF! Notice how perfectly they strike and release those loud full orchestra chords. This is a supremely glorious performance

from the one who uploaded this video:

"Rossini's Semiramide played by the Chicago Symphony under the baton of Sir Georg Solti during the mid '70s. This comes from an amazing 4 DVD set called Solti - The Maestro - go out and buy it if you love the Chicago Symphony and Solti."

Gioachino Rossini

"Semiramide Overture"

from Rossini's opera, Semiramide

the great, Sir Geoge Solti

Conducting the

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/TykxDneuywg

Radio KAOM: 'Dance of the Comedians' by Bedrich Smetana

FUN ENTERTAINING!!!

 'Dance of the Comedians'

from the opera

The Bartered Bride

composed by

Bedrich Smetana

performed by

Philharmonia Orchestra at Garsington Opera

"The Bartered Bride (he Sold Bride) is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the development of Czech music. It was composed during the period 1863 to 1866, and first performed at the Provisional Theatre, Prague, on 30 May 1866 in a two-act format with spoken dialogue. Set in a country village and with realistic characters, it tells the story of how, after a late surprise revelation, true love prevails over the combined efforts of ambitious parents and a scheming marriage broker." (Wikipedia)

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/vZpQ_mEFPpI

Radio KAOM: Dudamel conducts "Bacchanale" by Camille Saint Saens

GREAT PERFORMANCE!

Camille Saint Saens

"Bacchanale" 

from Samson and Delilah

Gustavo Dudamel 

conducts

Berlin Philharmonic

Silvesterkonzert 2010

This is the music to the dance in the next post

I wanted us to listen to it first before watching the dance

It is well worth your time

Dudamel and the Berlin do a phenomenal job!

WHEW!

I was tired after this frenzied performance

WOW!

The only flaw is in the beginning when the camera man can't find the 1st Oboe player who is playing the opening solo while holding the camera on the English Horn player who isn't playing at that time. Whoa! 

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/QbkCfxnoY4A

AOM TV: "Bacchanale" performed at The Met

Art by DDiArte

ORGY-ASTIC ECSTATIC!!!

WOW! WOW! WOW!

Wooo Weeee

Now this is the party I want to go to

Y'all cum along

This is a dance scene from an opera

A Wild and Crazy Party

Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll!

: )

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, 

the Greco-Roman god of 

wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. 

We commonly think of them as frenzied, 

wild and crazy, uninhibited, drunken orgies.

That is what this music and dance express.

It builds and builds and builds into a orgiastic frenzy!

"Bacchanale"

from the opera 

Samson et Dalila Act III

by 

Camille Saint-Saëns

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Conductor: James Levine

Met Centennial 1983

*-Recommend Watching This Full Screen-*

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/FdpmTuxzs3Q

Radio KAOM: Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte" Seiji Ozawa and the BSO

 GLORIOUSLY LUSH BEAUTY!!!

Maurice Ravel 

"Pavane pour une infante défunte"

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by

Seiji Ozawa

This music opens with a Gorgeous French Horn solo. 

I've always thought this was music for a funeral but upon further thought I think I was wrong. A Pavane  is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). Perhaps similar to a bridal procession. In fact, I think this music might be a wonderful choice for a wedding procession. The dance may have had its origins in Northern Italy around the area where Call Me By Your Name was filmed. Because it is a dance, I think we get the meaning of the title wrong - "Pavane pour une infante défunte" or "Pavane for a dead princess". I now don't think it is music for a funeral but rather music that evokes the memory of princesses of far away times - perhaps like the princesses we might see in old paintings. So this music seems to me to be more reminiscing of the past than sorrow for the dead. Regardless of its title or its meaning, this is a masterpiece of gloriously luscious beauty.

YouTube Direct LInk https://youtu.be/XEiUZ-MU4rQ

Radio KAOM: Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2"

 WARNING!!!

MULTIPLE EARGASMS AHEAD!

I highly recommend watching 

Gerard Schwarz's analysis first

In today's AOM TV above

To help give you a greater appreciation of this piece

This video is Suite 1 and Suite 2 of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe

if you have time, I encourage you to listen to it all

But I especially want us to listen to Suite 2

To do that click the progress bar to 42:14

And begin listening from there

One of the things I like about this performance

Is that that have added the choir

Most performances you find do not

The choir really adds to the orchestration

This is one of the most beautiful 

pieces of music ever written in my  opinion

LUSH - EMOTIONAL - ORGASMIC

It also has within it the greatest flute solo in all of music

Maurice Ravel

"Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2"

The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Great Broadcasting Choir

conducted by 

David Robertson

Suite 2 starts around 42:14

So skip on over thar and start listenin'

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/R8RjYT5CLe8

Radio KAOM: Gustav Mahler Brass excerpt from Symphony 2

 MAJESTICALLY SOARING!!!

Gustav Mahler

Brass excerpt from Symphony 2

New York Philharmonic

As I've mentioned before

This is the music I listened to

When I first opened my eyes on the Grand Canyon

This was the perfect music for that

I averted my eyes from the canyon

While listening to the first part

Then about halfway through

The music explodes into soaring

It was then I opened my eyes to scan the canyon

I think you can tell the part where I opened my eyes

1:21 minute mark with the cymbal crash

And soaring French Horns

It was a very emotional experience

I highly recommend it

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/jpngMjN6fmQ

Radio KAOM: Robert Schumann "Concerto for Four Horns and Orchstra op. 86"

Robert Schumann

"Concerto for Four Horns and Orchstra op. 86"

Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

James Judd, director

Soloists:

Radovan Vlatkovic

José Vicente Castelló

Miguel Angel Garza

Manuel Moya

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/9ThfCLhUHOQ

Radio KAOM: Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Morning Mood"

 BEAUTIFUL!!!

Edward Grieg

"Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Morning Mood" 

Zubin Mehta

conduction the

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

(Summer Night Concert 2015)

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/7lKo6TYDXCQ

Radio KAOM: Lang Lang performs "Clair de lune"

 So Very Beautifully Expressive

Lang Lang

performs

"Suite bergamasque, L.75: III. 

Clair de lune"

composed by 

Claude Debussy

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/fZrm9h3JRGs

Radio KAOM: Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor" Movements 2 & 3

 EXQUISITE BEAUTY AND GLORIOUS!!!
My favorite conductor
My favorite pianist

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor" 

Movement I: Allegro 

Leonard Bernstein

Pianist : Krystian Zimerman.

Orchestra : Vienna Philharmonic

Today I wanted us to truly listen to 

the 2nd and 3rd movements of this Beethoven Piano Concerto

Please click over to the 21: 25 minute mark of this video

So you can begin listening to the 2nd and 3rd movements

Just sit back and listen in amazement
As Krystian Zimerman's divine hands flow over the keyboard
As Leonard Bernstein's divine heart conducts the Vienna

This is Beethoven at his best (In my humble opinion)

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/uj8w0Sm7l-M

Radio KAOM: Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor" Movement One

 GLORIOUS GORGEOSITY

My favorite conductor

My favorite pianist

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No 5 "Emperor" 

Movement I: Allegro 

Leonard Bernstein

Pianist : Krystian Zimerman.

Orchestra : Vienna Philharmonic

This video is of the entire piano concerto

Today I wanted us to only listen to the 1st movement 

It ends at the 21:25 minute mark

Under NO CirCUMstances

ARe you to listen to the rest of this concerto today

You will be punished if you do

I will spank you

: )

Naw - if you have time I recommend listening to all of it

But I really wanted you to truly listen to the first movement today

I think I will play the 2nd movement tomorrow

Just sit back and listen in amazement

As Krystian Zimerman's divine hands flow over the keyboard

As Leonard Bernstein's divine heart conducts the Vienna

This is Beethoven at his best (In my humble opinion)

So many moments of beauty in this piece

I especially love the Piano and French Horn at the 19:12

"Beethoven began composing his ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto in 1809, while Vienna was under invasion from Napoleon’s forces for the second time. Napoleon's bombardment and occupation of Vienna caused Beethoven a great deal of anxiety and anger in the midst of all the turmoil. 

Beethoven wrote at the time, “The whole course of events has affected my body and soul,” he wrote. “What a disturbing, wild life around me; nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.”

Beethoven began his work on this piece in 1808, about the time that he completed his fifth and sixth symphonies and fourth piano concerto. Despite difficult living conditions the composer finished it promptly."

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/uj8w0Sm7l-M

MUSIC: Fasch's "Sonata in G Minor Mvt. 2"

Beautiful

A Lovely Spring Dance

Johann Friedrich Fasch

Sonata in G Minor for 

Two Oboes, Bassoon and Basso Continuo

Movenent 2. Allegro

oboist:

Burkhard Glaetzner

Ingo Goritzki

bassoonist:

Thomas Reinhardt

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/MsH5TWB50H4

MUSIC: 2nd Movement from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

BEETHOVEN & BERNSTEIN

Here's the 2nd Movement

From Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Many of you know the opening

As this music opened the The Huntley-Brinkley Report

on NBC News years ago

WHAT A WORKOUT!!!!

WHEW!!!

I really LOVE Lenny's expressions and dance

As he conducts this highly energetic music

He is soooo into it!

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, THE BERLIN CELEBRATION CONCERT is an historic performance marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Performed on Christmas Day 1989 in the former East Berlin, the concert unites an international cast of celebrated musicians and vocalists for a moving performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 

Musicians from: Symphonieorchester des Bayerisches Rundfunks and members of Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra of the Leningrad Kirov Theatre, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris.

Ludwig van Beethoven 

"Symphony No. 9, 2nd movement"

conducted by 

Leonard Bernstein

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/dvPMXuU35QI

~*~

If you have the time

Here is the entire performance of the Ninth

 THE BERLIN CELEBRATION FULL CONCERT

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/IInG5nY_wrU

MUSIC: Chopin's "Nocturne in E flat major Op. 9 No. 2" by Dmitry Shishkin

Beautiful

Frédéric Chopin

"Nocturne in E flat major Op. 9 No. 2"

performed by

Dmitry Shishkin

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/JVBzE0mUlSs

MUSIC: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" performed by Elina Garanca

Ruggedly Raw

Sultry Sensual

Provocatively Powerful

One of my favorite mezzo-sopranos

Elina Garanca

performing

"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"

from

Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Production: Richard Eyre

The Metropolitan Opera, 2010

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/K2snTkaD64U

MUSIC: Beethoven Symphony No. 7: Fishcher and the RCO

GLORIOUS WOW!!!!

Innovative Interpretation

Powerful Performance

Exquisite Recording

Comments from YouTube:

"Soaring, sublime mystical music! 

"Superb maestro Iván Fische."

"As a conductor myself, I can fully appreciate the genius of Ivan Fischer. He brings out the various voices and nuances in a very unique way. The orchestra responds to his every expression...watching this performance should be worth college credits in a conducting class."

"the most beautiful interpretation of the 7th symphony!, it's like listening to it for the first time."

"I hear a few instruments I've never heard on other recordings."

"Have heard dozens of performances of the 7th. This is one of the best, IMO. A lot is attributable to the recordists, invisible, yet how they place microphones and mix the sound is crucial to the impact."

"Credit to the sound engineers for bringing out all the nuances of this magnificent orchestra - The audio quality is superb!"

~*~

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Symphony No. 7"

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Iván Fischer, conductor

Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 9 & 10 January 2014

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/-4788Tmz9Zo

MUSIC: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major

GLORIOUSLY GORGEOUS

This is exquisite!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Clarinet Concerto in A major:

- Allegro (0:27)

- Adagio (12:58)

- Rondo (Allegro) (20:07)

Arngunnur Árnadóttir, clarinet

Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Cornelius Meister, conductor

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/YT_63UntRJE