Anybody Like Classical Music?

[BohemianArtist]

They're out there!

Samuel Barber - essays for orchestra
Philip Glass - violin concerto
Alan Hovhaness - Mysterious Mountain
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhRQDwTDJE), Lollapalooza
John Estacio - Frenergy

Just a few examples.

I feel obliged to point out that Samuel Barber died in 1981, and most of what he wrote when he was alive could easily have been written 100 years earlier. Everybody else on that list is still alive as far as I know.

Krzysztof Penderecki, arguably the world's greatest living composer was actually in town a couple of weeks ago. Didn't exactly make the cover of the Sun though. Or the Star. Did anybody hear about it other than me?

 

[BohemianArtist]

This is Penderecki's best known work:

Bitter and underappreciated composers like myself often snicker about the fact that the work was mostly ignored under its original title, 8'37" (Eight Minutes Thirty-Seven Seconds). When he changed the title to Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, it became a 20th Century classic.

 

[Yoga Face]

Neil Boyd from America Got talent

Amazing for a self taught opera singer

 

[Yoga Face]

Barbara Padilla sings Ava Maria on America Got Talent. She came in second but should have won

Ave Maria by Schubert
The words to Ave Maria song were taken from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake

Hail Mary,
full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

 

[Don Draper]

Boyd and Padilla make great Drama. Amost as compelling as 'Tosca's Kiss'!

 

[Insidious Von]

Paul Robeson, this thread has reached heights unknown.

 

[Yoga Face]

No one has mentioned the great Kathleen Battle

Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin' for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin' for to carry me home.

I looked over Jordan,
And WHAT did I see,
Comin' for to carry me home,
A band of angels comin' after me,
Comin' for to carry me home.

 

[BohemianArtist]

Let's try and keep this thread about classical music, okay? There are plenty of threads about everything else.

 

[asiastudios]

Kaori Muraji plays Satie's Gnossienne No.1

 

[asiastudios]

Kaori Muraji - Concerto De Aranjuez Adagio

 

[asiastudios]

Akiko Suwanai - Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1st mv

 

[asiastudios]

Lu Si-Qing Butterfly Lovers

 

[asiastudios]

Yang Xuefei - Butterfly Lovers

 

[Don Draper]

I posted this earlier because I have formally requested to be 'put to rest' with Concierto de Aranjuez by Maestro Rodrigo.

Kaori Muraji - Concerto De Aranjuez Adagio

I was not aware of this particular selection so you have totally made my day. Arrigato!

 

[Insidious Von]

J Rodrigo: Concierto Madrigal for two guitars.

Fandango

 

[Insidious Von]

Zapateado

 

[Insidious Von]

A distant branch of my family tree

Haitor Villa-Lobos: Prelude No.2

 

[Insidious Von]

Leo Brouwer: Concierto de Toronto

Who are the great composers of today, Leo Brouwer is one of them. This is one of the most extraordinary and under appreciated works of the guitar repertoire. The entire opus is 40 minutes long - this is just a taste.

 

[Yoga Face]

Compare Pavarotti version of Puccini's Nessun Dorma to America Got Talent Neil Boyd

Nobody shall sleep!...
Nobody shall sleep!
Even you, o Princess,
in your cold room,
watch the stars,
that tremble with love and with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me,
my name no one shall know...
No!...No!...
On your mouth I will tell it when the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!...
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!

 

[GotGusto]

Neil Boyd from America Got talent

Amazing for a self taught opera singer

Didn't Paul Pott do the same song on the same show a year or more earlier?