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Classical Music, post it up

I am going to see Verdi's Rigoletto tomorrow, does that count?

 
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Right on. Opera is a bit fringe and may be considered different from pure orchestral performances by many purists.

Siegfried's Death and Funeral March always gets me.


This has actually spent a lot of time as my Ringtone.


I'm also a sucker for theatrical classics.



And of course my Lovely, Lovely, Ludwig Van. The 4th Movement in the 9th is the last place of refuge for me if I simply cannot sleep. The genius of this man's providing both resonant personal elevation coupled with a sweeping relaxation in the same movement is really a masterstroke.

 
Rigoletto was a brilliant performance. Sorry kids, last night was the grand finale.

The Monkey King seems interesting, but the music of Peking Opera is not really to my tastes. I intend to learn more before considering.
 

tl/dr: it’s like 19 seconds.

the music is either Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. maybe one of our classical music eagles can say which …? I don’t recognize it as Mr Vivaldi, but that’s not saying much. :dunno
 
support for the proposition that opera can stand on its own as wonderful classical music:


tl/dr: a link to an orchestral performance YouTube clip with English subtitles—“Beethoven's Prisoners' Chorus is frequently referred to as one of the most chilling and poignant scenes in the history of musical theater.”
 
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Our violin needs to be played, darnit. I need to hear its voice. Emanuela Nikiforov, who plays in a number of orchestras and ensembles in the Bay Area has kindly and most generously offered to play it for us. That is all.
 
Alright, so I dug out my recorder, an Ariel Soprano C (Prestige, mind you), made in Israel. I bought this donkey's years ago. I played recorder briefly in school in England as a kid before we immigrated. I could probably muddle through "Peas Pudding Hot"; can anyone recommend a music school in or around San Jose in case I want to get serious? Are there any Fools On The Hill these days besides me?
 
we just watched the enchanting Ms Hawes on PBS’s Great Performances dance the pas de deux as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Mr Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker … highly recommended—the English National Ballet's production is delightful:



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five minutes of Mr Bach’s “Saint Matthew Passion” (a two hour and forty five minute piece of music) for this holiday season:


for those of us paying attention, Saint Matthew was the tax-collector:

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Caravaggio's The Calling of Saint Matthew (c. 1599-1600), a Baroque masterpiece in the Contarelli Chapel, Rome.

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My father is performing the clarinet on this recording, which is a featured part. It's not a pure classical piece, it has a jazz element to it, which is why my father performed the part and not the principle clarinetist with the CPO, he couldnt swing.
 
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