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Beethoven Symphony No.9
« on: April 11, 2011, 08:32:53 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2011, 08:34:39 pm »
I heard this on Sunday late morning.....it made me stop in my tracks.

What a mind!  What a period to live in.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2011, 08:56:51 pm »

Vivaldi - Ouvertures - L'Incoronazione di Dario RV 719

Vivaldi is credited for being an inspiration to the GREATS!   J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart!

edit: 4/23/11 ------  LOL!  I've been humming this all day!  Gave me a helluva ear worm last night!


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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2011, 09:05:23 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2011, 09:20:31 pm »

Yundi Li - Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66

This is wonderful, IMO.  

NOTE:  If you add &emt=18 to the YouTube url link in the top window, and hit 'enter', you'll always hear it in "stereo"  Personally, it seems they just add a little reverb

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Of course no video collection would be complete without the cliche Yundi Li video of him playing Chopin's "Fantasie" Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 No. 4 This is one of my favorite pieces.

did you know: Chopin hated this piece? He composed it when he was just 24 and regretted it ever after.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2011, 09:45:35 pm »
love that too...
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2011, 09:59:06 pm »
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I would say this is probably my favorite piece of music.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2011, 10:15:10 pm »
Quote from: Sabre86 on April 11, 2011, 09:59:06 pm
I would say this is probably my favorite piece of music.

Same here, Sabre!  Glad you enjoyed it!
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2011, 10:21:48 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on April 11, 2011, 10:15:10 pm
Same here, Sabre!  Glad you enjoyed it!

I was always the nerd as the kid.  Loved classical music while everyone else followed whichever trend was the most popular at the time.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2011, 10:35:24 pm »
Quote from: Sabre86 on April 11, 2011, 10:21:48 pm
I was always the nerd as the kid.  Loved classical music while everyone else followed whichever trend was the most popular at the time.

That doesn't surprise me....just getting to "know" you over the years.

I wish I had been exposed to it at an earlier age.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 10:39:16 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 11:04:24 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2011, 11:33:00 pm »

Vivaldi - Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor RV522

Understandable that Vivaldi inspired the greats!  Third movement!  Wow! (Starts at 6:13)

This has to be the GREATEST piece of music I've ever heard!  All 3 movements!

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ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Concerto for two violins, strings, and basso continuo in A minor RV522 Op. 3 No. 8 "L'estro Armonico"

1. Allegro

2. Larghetto e spiritoso

3. Allegro

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Featuring Jeanne Lamon and Genevieve Gilardeau, violins
Conducted by Jeanne Lamon

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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2011, 12:11:23 am »

Vivaldi - Concerto for Piccolo and Strings in C Major RV 443 (2/3)

I see where Serge Leone got his music for his Spaghetti Westerns.... you can see Clint Eastwood walking to the middle of the street...cigar and poncho...squinting those eyes.





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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2011, 12:16:02 am »

Vivaldi - Four Seasons (Winter)

A standing ovation for this one!   blij26

Turn those speakers up!

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Goose bumps....eyes water!  Excellent piece!

And the painter at 4:02......what he was painting!  And where Picasso may have gotten his inspiration...at 5:01
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2011, 12:28:19 am »
 Beethoven was a genius..... pure and simple.  I always marvel where artistic genius eminates from..... musical and otherwise.  My husband used to say it flows out the fingertips, you don't think about it, it just happens, can't explain it.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2011, 07:23:18 pm »
Quote from: Rapunzel on April 12, 2011, 12:28:19 am
Beethoven was a genius..... pure and simple.  I always marvel where artistic genius eminates from..... musical and otherwise.  My husband used to say it flows out the fingertips, you don't think about it, it just happens, can't explain it.


Beethoven's 5th Symphony
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2011, 07:25:28 pm »
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The interesting aspect about Beethoven was that single women were banned from his concerts,
It was believed to be so passionate that it would drive them into a state of uncontrollable lust.


In one of the remarks on the YouTube link
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2011, 07:36:40 pm »
There is a fine line between madness and genius, he was a genius. 
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2011, 08:27:45 pm »
Quote from: Rapunzel on April 13, 2011, 07:36:40 pm
There is a fine line between madness and genius, he was a genius. 

There's so may shades in between, though.

My best friend as a teenager was...believe it or not....my barber.

There's a connection....so I hope I'm not boring the hell out of you.

He worked in a shop with 4 chairs.  There were enough chairs in the waiting area to seat maybe 10-12 people.  On a Saturday afternoon, you couldn't even find a place to stand....let alone sit.  And two of the barbers were sitting in their own chairs.....watching Gino.  All were waiting for Gino....who was always 2 hours behind.

He did all the news and sports announcers.....all the Buffalo Bills.  Jack Kemp used to go to him.  Until he threw him out of the shop one day.

One day, he saw a woman waiting for a bus with a short, beautiful Vidal Sassoon geometric cut.  Now remember.....he was already 'famous' in the area.

Even though he looked like a very young Michael Landon....and now an older Brad Pitt....and could literally charms your pants off...when he had the scissors is his hand, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.

When he found out who had cut her hair, he went to the haircutter and it changed his life.

He immediately began to advertise to cut women's hair.  He went to London and San Fransisco to the Sassoon Academy.  He slowly weeded out all the men customers by raising the prices.  And he's booked at least a month in advance.

I recall back in the 70's he'd have women crying in the chair.  If his 2nd or 3rd attempt to console her didn't work....he'd threaten to put the scissors down and make her leave....half done and wet.  And with little or no tact.

Didn't bother him whatsoever.  Most of them ended up sending him roses, bottles of wine and an apology begging forgiveness.

Back then...his sound system was records.  GOD FORBID should his assistant forget to turn down the volume while selecting certain songs on the album.  It was that simple thing that could completely unhinge him.

He refused to speak to his client once he picked up the scissors.  No small talk....no phone calls.....no interruptions.  He was .....composing?

Summary......he was a genius at his craft....but as charming as he was....you had a better chance of seeing an a$$hole in the shop on any given busy afternoon.

He went through assistants and hired help like no other.  But he loved women and it showed in his work everyday.

Wonder if Beethoven was an bleep to his circle of influence.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2011, 09:06:11 pm »

Great story, no it did not bore me.  I will only tell you whether a musical genius, artistic genius or other form of genius, they do not like being told what to do or how to do it, so yes.... from what I have read he was capricious like most geniuses.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2011, 10:43:10 pm »

Vivaldi - Violin Concerto Op.3, No. 12 in E Major, RV 265 (3/3)

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http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxvivaldi.html  - bio of "The Red Priest"


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Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678. Though ordained a priest in 1703, according to his own account, within a year of being ordained Vivaldi no longer wished to celebrate mass because of physical complaints ("tightness of the chest") which pointed to angina pectoris, asthmatic bronchitis, or a nervous disorder. It is also possible that Vivaldi was simulating illness - there is a story that he sometimes left the altar in order to quickly jot down a musical idea in the sacristy.... In any event he had become a priest against his own will, perhaps because in his day training for the priesthood was often the only possible way for a poor family to obtain free schooling.

Though he wrote many fine and memorable concertos, such as the Four Seasons and the Opus 3 for example, he also wrote many works which sound like five-finger exercises for students. And this is precisely what they were.

The reputation of baroque Venice as a musical centre was one of the highest in Europe, due largely to its four conservatories of music. Beginning as charitable foundations they developed gradually as seats of musical learning, and by the early 1700s their excellence was unrivalled. This was confirmed by Charles de Brosses, French Magistrate and President of the Parlement de Dijon, who visited Italy in 1739, reporting in his Lettres familières écrites d'Italie and published posthumously in 1799, that "the Ospedali have the best music here. There are four of them, all for illegitimate or orphaned girls whose parents cannot support them. These are brought up at the State's expense and trained exclusively in music. Indeed they sing like angels, play the violin, flute, organ, oboe, cello, bassoon... The performances are entirely their own and each concert is composed of about forty girls."

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

"Violin Concerto Op.3, No. 12 in E Major", RV 265

Mov III. - Allegro

Performed by Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
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« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2011, 10:55:27 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2011, 12:06:12 am »

Concerto pour deux mandolines - Antonio Vivaldi

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I have double wide-screen monitors so that you can do a full screen on them while the other screen is for your work.  Some of the videos that were made to them are incredible.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2011, 12:29:33 am »

La Campanella by Yundi Li

Franz Liszt must have been a masochist.  Incredible speed necessary and Li nails it.
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« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2011, 12:46:19 am »

Argument to Beethoven's 5th

Talk about genius.

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« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2011, 01:00:27 am »

Moonlight Sonata

So haunting.....enchanting....exhilarating....draining....this is the song that will truly last an eternity.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2011, 01:08:34 am »

Handel - Sarabande



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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2011, 08:16:06 pm »

Vivaldi : Concerto per mandolini RV558 (allegro molto)

This is a wonderful 'live' performance...you can see they're having a lot of fun.  How could you not with that melody?

Only critique is that since it's supposed to be "for mandolins".....they should have been wired so that they were more prominent on the audio.

...enjoy...you'll see what I mean.  It's fantastic!

If this doesn't get your feet tapping....you're probably dead!  LOL!
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #29 on: April 14, 2011, 08:29:20 pm »
A. Vivaldi: Op. 3 n. 10 - Concerto for violins, violoncello, strings & b.c. in B minor (RV 580)

Don't pay any attention to me......... : whistle   I'm on a ROLL!!  

This is the most beautiful string concerto I've ever heard!    Add &fmt=18 to the link stereo!

edit 5/1/11 - After less than a year at the monastery, Vivaldi, a priest, got himself a medical...a note for the doctor, which allowed him to skip saying daily Mass.  He said when a run of melody came into his head, he'd have to run into the sanctuary and write it down....it got to be a PIA.  Listening to this arrangement, it's totally understandable.


VENETIAN BAROQUE

Antonio Vivaldi
L'ESTRO ARMONICO: OP. 3 N. 10 - LIBRO II (AMSTERDAM, ROGER, 1711) FOR FERDINAND III, PRINCE OF TUSCANY
Concerto for 4 violins, violoncello, strings and basso continuo in B minor (RV 580) = BWV 1065

I. Allegro
II. Largo e spiccato
III. Allegro

Marco Bianchi (violin I)
Viktoria Mullova (violin II)
Stefano Barneschi (violin III)
Riccardo Minasi (violin IV)

Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini (director)
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #30 on: April 15, 2011, 10:41:48 pm »

Antonio Vivaldi - Violin concerto Op.4 No.11 RV204 "La Stravaganza"

The 2nd movement at about 2:46......it's heartbreaking!  

Turn those speakers up! :03:

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
Concerto, in D major, for violin, strings and continuo Op.4 No.11 RV204 "La Stravaganza" - I. Allegro (two violins solos) - II. Lago - III. Allegro assai -
Monica Huggett (violin), The Academy Of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #31 on: April 15, 2011, 10:55:35 pm »

Air. J.S. Bach Bobby Mcferrin

As much as I would love to see this in person....it would be hard not be blubbering like an idiot!

GADS!  I've turned into my father!   :pondering:

He used to weep watching the ice-skating performances during the Olympics. 
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #32 on: April 15, 2011, 10:57:48 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #33 on: April 15, 2011, 11:01:29 pm »
Oh wow...I haven't listened to Moonlight Sonata for years....just beautiful.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2011, 11:10:16 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #35 on: April 16, 2011, 12:23:27 am »

(J.S Bach) Air on a G-string - Sungha Jung

Someday this young man will play his instrument like Yundi Li plays the keyboard. 

It's terrific nonetheless.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #36 on: April 16, 2011, 12:34:48 am »

Chopin Nocturne C Sharp minor op 27 #1 Valentina Lisitsa

I don't see images , I see whole movies - high definition on a big screen - in my head :-) And with Rachmaninoff Sonata it was in 3D beofre the format became popular.... For memory purposes I see music score - even where page turns are. I also HEAR sound - and there is a simple muscle memory . All of those - plus knowing a general structure of a piece -combine to make playing by hear easier.Try to work on vsualising the score - 1 time before you fall asleep try to see every measure.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #37 on: April 16, 2011, 08:41:06 am »
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Sid Caesar ....with??  That's not Imogene Coca
Is it Nanette Fabray?
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2011, 10:45:35 am »
Excellent, mountaineer.....thanks.  Just confirmed it on Google.  LOL!
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« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2011, 09:42:51 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2011, 10:37:12 pm »

Antonio Vivaldi - Wiosna

Saw a very funny wav file video discussing the 4-letter F word. 

As a verb:  Johnny ***** Sally!

As a noun:  I don't give a ****!

Actually, it's quite hilarious.

It starts out with this beginning music and now I can't get it out of my head when I hear it.  ROFL!

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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #41 on: April 16, 2011, 10:48:03 pm »
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #42 on: April 17, 2011, 11:13:29 am »

Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni)

Highly recommended if you find yourself angry or upset.

And the slideshow is awesome too!

read the Cellist of Sarajevo its based on a true story of during the war in Serbia a man would walk out into the street and play this song on the cello every day each day for the amount of people who were killed in a mortar shelling this is the song he plays.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #43 on: April 20, 2011, 11:52:03 pm »

Vivaldi Opera Andromeda liberata Aria ''Sovente il sole Perseo'' by Philippe Jaroussky

This blew me away!

Would never have guessed it was a male voice.



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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #44 on: April 21, 2011, 12:13:54 am »

Antonio Vivaldi- opera no.7 Concerto no.7 in D minor

something nice to play in the background......keeps the blood pressure down.   
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #45 on: April 21, 2011, 12:20:03 am »

RACHMANINOV "Piano Concerto n. 2" Mov. 3 (Wild/Horenstein)


SERGEJ VASIL'EVIČ RACHMANINOV

Piano Concerto n. 2 in C minor Op. 18
Mov. III -- Allegro Scherzando

Piano: Earl Wild
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Jascha Horenstein

Recorded in 1965
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #46 on: April 21, 2011, 01:06:29 am »
DC this has been an interesting thread, thank you for it.
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #47 on: April 21, 2011, 01:23:32 am »
Quote from: Rapunzel on April 21, 2011, 01:06:29 am
DC this has been an interesting thread, thank you for it.

You're welcome Rap.....funny thing I was thinking of you when I made the remark about the blood pressure!   :beer: {yours...not mine}

Isn't Vivaldi Opera Andromeda liberata Aria ''Sovente il sole Perseo'' by Philippe Jaroussky  hauntingly beautiful?
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #48 on: April 21, 2011, 02:08:24 am »

Philippe Jaroussky . Cantata "Amor, hai vinto" by A. Vivaldi.

How many people would be surprised?  I was.

He's amazing!   
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Re: Beethoven Symphony No.9
« Reply #49 on: April 21, 2011, 02:17:10 am »
Quote from: DCPatriot on April 21, 2011, 01:23:32 am
You're welcome Rap.....funny thing I was thinking of you when I made the remark about the blood pressure!   :beer:

Isn't Vivaldi Opera Andromeda liberata Aria ''Sovente il sole Perseo'' by Philippe Jaroussky  hauntingly beautiful?

Yes...... it is.
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