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Probably my favorite symphony

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Susanna Mälkki conductor
 
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TThree Renaissance Songs I love ...
This one is a bit scary (! makes me want mend my ways ...):



And this one is so beautiful that it's almost impossible for me to doubt in God when I hear it:



This is one is very melancholic but beautiful - as a point of interest, it was performed at the funeral of Princess Diana - redeeming the abominable Elton John business:

 
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Erik Satie [1888] - Gymnopedies #1 ~ Gnossiennes #1,3,4,5



Album: Works for Piano Solo and Piano Duet
Pianist: Anne Queffelec
Artwork: Edouard Leon Cortes

Tracks:
0:00 Gymnopedies #1
3:32 Gnossiennes #1
6:52 Gnossiennes #3
9:33 Gnossiennes #4
11:52 Gnossiennes #5

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. He also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (someone who measures sounds), preferring this description rather than musician.
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this is an unrealistically cool selection. A few years ago, I just couldn't tear myself away from these compositions. Thank you for reminding me of these wonderful melodies
 


"I need hardly remind the reader that the orchestral piece universally known as 'Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain' is an orchestral composition by Rimsky-Korsakov based on the later version of the Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair."



— Gerald Abraham, musicologist and an authority on Mussorgsky, 1945"

Who'd have thunk that creativity came from one, true source?!? ( there is a distinction between inspiration and plagiarism that has been fought over for aeons):unsure:
 
Niccolò Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A-minor Sergej Krylov

Franco Gulli, violin
Luciano Rosada, conductor
Orchestra da camera dell'Angelicum

 
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Oddly enough I almost exclusively listen to what people call "classical music". I am a bit of a composer, even professionally (film) on a few occasions.

Here is a nice wagner transcription. Liszt was a bit of a hack of a composer (being not a true polyphonic writer, though we are both hacks in that regard) but his transcriptions are incredible. Here is one.

 
Orlando di Lasso [1581] - O occhi manza mia, cigli dorati :



Tomas de Santa Maria [1565] - Fantasia Secundi Toni :

 
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Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto D-minor, Op. 47
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Ray Chen, violin
Conductoe: Kent Nagano

I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio di molto
III. Allegro, ma non tanto
 
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mr peabody said:
Evgeny Kissin - 2010



01. Chopin, Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (00:00)
02. Chopin, Nocturne in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 (05:30)
03. Chopin, Nocturne in in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 (11:12)
04. Chopin, Mazurka in E major, Op. 6 No. 3 (17:43)
05. Chopin, Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7 No. 2 (19:55)
06. Chopin, Mazurka in C major, Op. 68 No. 1 (22:56)
07. Chopin, Mazurka in F minor, Op. 7 No. 3 (24:19)
08. Chopin, Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 41 No. 1 (26:58)
09. Chopin, Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 50 No. 2 (31:14)
10. Chopin, Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 (34:15)
11. Schumann, Fantasia in C major for piano Op.17 - I (36:44)
12. op. cit. II (50:20)
13. op. cit. III (57:39)
14. Schumann, Toccata in C major, Op. 7 (1:10:45)
15. Schumann, Widmung (Liebeslied), S. 566 (1:19:21)
16. Chopin, Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 34 No. 1 (1:25:12)
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Well, there is a commitment I now have to get my ear upon! :)
 
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