What are you listening to right now?

[birba]

I discovered this on reddit about 30 minutes ago and haven't been able to stop listening to it since.

It's lang lang in drag!
Both incredible pianists, the ensemble is impeccable, she's a camp to watch, etc. but the music is boring, at least to me.  I wonder how much of it was improvised and how much and exactly what was practised together.  They make the labeque twins look like amateurs!

[j_menz]

It's astonishing how, whilst still being unmistakably Beethoven, this sounds so Bach-like.

[chopin2015]

It's astonishing how, whilst still being unmistakably Beethoven, this sounds so Bach-like.

That was beautiful! Way less busy than Bach would make. Lol

Mmmm Beetheaven

[unholeee]

a whole bunch of tool piano covers. their gig coming up next month. been a while since ive listened to them, figured why dont i combine the both and find some decent covers.

[unholeee]

[Bob]

There was no autotune back then.     Still amusing.

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[rachmaninoff_forever]

I don't usually rage when someone incorporates classical music into something else, but...

Someone please shoot me in the face.

[birba]

There was no autotune back then.     Still amusing.

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Love them.  Or rather loved them.  Or, no, love them then.  Or whatever...

[Bob]

Singing bowls?  *Bob spells carefully.*

Cool.

I have not seen these before.  Very cool.  These a whole series of videos on singing bowls on that channel.

Those bowls have got to be expensive.  Uber expensive.

[Bob]

Haha. The Beach Boys video up there got removed?  Probably from the video?  Or did some computer software find it based on the audio?  Haha.

[patrickd]

Detours

[m1469]

[birba]

There was no autotune back then.     Still amusing.

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what the...!?

[Bob]

There's another copy out there.  I listened to this fake one a few times.  Then the real one.  Haha.  I can hear this version in the real one.  Strange effect.

[m1469]

[thalbergmad]

Are you going to have a go at that Foxy???

[m1469]

I might!  I think I could do something with it.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I WENT to a Yuja Wang concert yesterday.

Her Prokofiev 3 was soo badass.

[perprocrastinate]

I WENT to a Yuja Wang concert yesterday.

Her Prokofiev 3 was soo badass.

Speaking of Prokofiev..

I was listening to the fourth movement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 at quite a high volume (computer speakers), and 9:40 (a little after that) scared the [censored] out of me. Talk about unexpected volume changes!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Speaking of Prokofiev..

I was listening to the fourth movement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 at quite a high volume (computer speakers), and 9:40 (a little after that) scared the [censored] out of me. Talk about unexpected volume changes!

Horacio Guiterrez has my favorite Prokofiev 2.

[ted]

I am listening to Edward Elgar improvising. In 1929 he recorded about twenty minutes of improvisation at a studio. The recordings gathered dust until 1975 and haven't appeared in too many places since. I found them  tucked away in an Elgar CD on iTunes; three of them are also on youtube. Suffice it to say that they make nonsense of the notion that Elgar hated the piano and was a poor pianist. My teacher, as a little boy, had informal lessons from Elgar at Llandaff Cathedral. When the composer used to take the choir he was taken by the child's improvising and spent time with him. I don't know why I haven't heard these before. They exhibit that same wonderful soaring and intense surges that only Elgar could produce. This is the sort of playing I can really learn from.  It is characteristic of the disregard the music world has for improvisation that the first transcription of these beautiful pieces was in 2004.

[Bob]

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[h_chopin148]

 

[unholeee]

whilst i blow hopelessly on this reed and/or oboe

[j_menz]

A Fugue. By Chopin. Yes, Freddy, not some other Chopin.

A TWO VOICE fugue. 

[birba]

Interesting.  Never heard it.  Not something i would include on my ny debut programme, but it shows the genuine traditional skills he posessed.   If i played it, i would make more a chopin style rather then bach.

[lloyd_cdb]

[austinarg]

[patrickd]

[doryanne]

I listen the music from the ballet "La Bayadere" by Ludwig Minkus and, when I have time, I greatly enjoy the great dancing of Svetlana Zakharova:

Enjoy!

[Bob]

[patrickd]

[pianoplayjl]

[unholeee]

=11m36s

[patrickd]

Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts for a homework assignment.

[zezhyrule]

Kapustin's Violin Sonata Op. 70. Wow  

[patrickd]

[unholeee]

[perprocrastinate]

So I got hooked on Bach today. I needed that impeccable flow of music.

[j_menz]

Domenico Scarlatti. Not a sonata! Not for Keyboard!

Sublime. A bridge between Vittorio and Mozart.

[birba]

I know. The beauty of this music goes beyond words.
I know i'm going to regret this, but...vittorio who?

[j_menz]

I know i'm going to regret this, but...vittorio who?

Not as much as me: Tomás Luis de Victoria    I did know that!

[birba]

I had a feeling...

[j_menz]

I had a feeling...

In my defence, I note that he sometimes goes by the Italian rendition Da Vittoria. I could have pleaded a typo!  EDIT - or a misapplication of the -a -o gender rule.

[dima_76557]

Vladimir Pasjukov - Do not reject me in my old age (Chesnokov).
What an incredibly deep and beautiful bass voice did that man have! Besides, without a microphone, he could hold against a whole choir:

[m1469]

I'm about to start listening to/watching Hansel und Gretel again, with the score.  Last time I fell asleep during the prolonged parts of Hansel und Gretel in the woods ...  :-

[j_menz]

Last time I fell asleep during the prolonged parts of Hansel und Gretel in the woods ...  

You mean the bits you're not in? 

[patrickd]

I find this piece soothing.

[Bob]

Wow.... Lots of drugs back then.

That good.  The link won't work....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71RCAyLS1M&NR=1&


How... One day... He just picked up a mandolin and... started singing?  



Once upon a time...  on a New York subway... a guy looking like that appears.... middle of the night.... opens his trench coat revealing... a mandolin.... Yes.  Your ears are about to get raped.  

[austinarg]

Someday...