Music Thread ~ CLASSICAL ~

**Sophocles** · 11th April 2019 17:48

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7v8zxoEoA_Q

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=136M93bmmyA

**Them** · 15th April 2019 15:42

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iS4l37PTuZU

**Kryztian** · 11th May 2019 18:21

A boat on the ocean.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wkAnau-XU80

**Ivanhoe** · 27th July 2019 05:16

I like Martha a lot....and Scarlatti.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjghYFgt8Zk

and a unique view of Paul Barton playing a piece.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U_3pM-nW17M

**Kryztian** · 27th July 2019 12:39

Thanks Ivanhoe. Martha is incredible, especially when you plays those super fast repeated notes. You have to have incredible fingers and an incredible piano to do that.

One thing I love about Scarlatti is how many people have transcribed them for other instruments. They were written for 8 fingers (they didn't use their thumbs back then), so they don't all work well for 4 mallets, but this marimba transcription works magically well:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X4Xm9He1uaY

If I had access to a Cavaillé-Coll organ, I would want to pull out all the stops and play Scarlatti thunderously loud, however, this arrangements works well with the organ's many flute-y sounds.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eOEZEfjRnwA

I would have never thought that Scarlatti could sound so beautiful and sensuous played by a .... saxaphone quartet?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bGldBskB6RY

While Scarlatti is most likely heard on piano, it was originally written for harpsichord. This is probably one of the most dramatic sonatas he wrote and Jean Rondeau's performance turns it into early 18th century Spanish punk rock!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZF3p4pGd838

We could probably do a whole thread on Scarlatti sonatas. There are 555 of them!

**Franny** · 28th July 2019 07:47

Most have not heard of Marjan Mozetich so here is an introduction. I love this music. Enjoy.

Marjan Mozetich

Marjan Mozetich is a Canadian composer. Born in Gorizia, Italy to Slovenian parents, Mozetich moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1952, where his father found work as a machinist.

He began studying piano, which started his musical training, and later studied composition with Lothar Klein and John Weinzweig at the University of Toronto, from which he received an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto Diploma in 1971 and a Bachelor of Music degree in 1972 in composition and piano.

With the help of the Canada Council he then continued his musical studies in composition privately in Rome, Siena and London with Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, and David Bedford. Mozetich has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces.

He has also written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition and the 1995 Montreal International Music Competition.

Affairs of the Heart

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wWc62xO2O2c

Postcards from the Sky: I. Unfolding Sky

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iiqkFkO_Os0

Postcards from the Sky: II. Weeping Clouds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QHDjcpmeXxI

**Ivanhoe** · 31st July 2019 22:57

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JMrm9jEo_Pk

**Constance** · 1st August 2019 00:21

I was so inspired by Franny's share here, I wanted to share a piece of music that has a beauty and a lightness to it, evoking images of a lark soaring and dipping through through the forests glades on a warm summers day...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending

**Franny** · 1st August 2019 03:16

Thank you Constance, I love everything by Vaughn Williams, lovely evocative music. I've set up a Pandora channel of VW, and as Pandora does it includes composers from the era. Very nice to play in the morning

**Kryztian** · 2nd August 2019 02:02

Also a lover of Vaughan Williams music. One of my favorite works is "Flos Campi" (Flowers of the Field) for orchestra, wordless chorus and viola soloist. With movement titles all from the Songs of Solomon.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bK1dSoBQTWg

**Ivanhoe** · 6th August 2019 14:32

I love this, makes me feel vibrant!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=awSdzWRPcJo

**Peter UK** · 10th August 2019 05:52

Schubert: Fantasy for Violin and Piano

It's a delightful piece. The first time I heard this I got the distinct impression that the two instruments were talking to each other.

There are some wonderful performances of this and I could have linked to several.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5j0vbLc8c

**Cara** · 20th August 2019 06:24

Some rousing music from Adam Katchaturian.... his Masquerade Suite.

Born and raised in Tbilisi, the multicultural capital of Georgia, Khachaturian moved to Moscow in 1921 following the Sovietization of the Caucasus. Without prior music training, he enrolled in the Gnessin Musical Institute, subsequently studying at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Nikolai Myaskovsky, among others. His first major work, the Piano Concerto (1936), popularized his name within and outside the Soviet Union. It was followed by the Violin Concerto (1940) and the Cello Concerto (1946). His other significant compositions include the Masquerade Suite (1941), the Anthem of the Armenian SSR (1944), three symphonies (1935, 1943, 1947), and around 25 film scores. Khachaturian is best known for his ballet music—Gayane (1942) and Spartacus (1954). His most popular piece, the "Sabre Dance" from Gayane, has been used extensively in popular culture and has been covered by a number of musicians worldwide.[8] His style is "characterized by colorful harmonies, captivating rhythms, virtuosity, improvisations, and sensuous melodies".[9]

From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Khachaturian