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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Regine Velasquez-Alcasid sings "Araw-Gabi" LIVE on Wish 107.5 Bus (Power...



Voilà - Emma Kok & André Rieu - Lyrics


Emma Kok sings Voilà & André Rieu. André Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. He was born on October 1, 1949, in Maastricht, Netherlands. Rieu comes from a musical family; his father was a conductor. He began playing the violin at the age of five. He studied violin at the Conservatoire Royal in Liège and at the Conservatorium Maastricht, from 1968 to 1973. Later, he attended the Music Academy in Brussels. Rieu formed the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987. The orchestra started with just 12 members but now performs with between 50 and 60 musicians. He gained international fame for reviving waltz music and bringing it to broader audiences. André Rieu is known for his charismatic stage presence and entertaining concerts, often performed in stunning settings like Vienna's Schönbrunn Palace. He has sold over 40 million CDs and DVDs and has earned more than 30 platinum and gold awards. His concerts have drawn millions of fans from around the world, and he continues to tour extensively. Rieu's work is often featured on classical music television channels, and he has a significant following on social media platforms. Lyrics: Écoutez moi Moi la chanteuse à demi Parlez de moi À vos amours, à vos amis Parlez-leur de cette fille aux yeux noirs Et de son rêve fou Moi c'que j'veux c'est écrire des histoires Qui arrivent jusqu'à vous C'est tout Voilà, voilà, voilà, voilà qui je suis Me voilà même si mise à nue j'ai peur, oui Me voilà dans le bruit et dans le silence Regardez moi Ou du moins ce qu'il en reste Regardez moi Avant que je me déteste Quoi vous dire, que les lèvres d'une autre Ne vous diront pas C'est peu de chose mais moi tout ce que j'ai Je le dépose là, voilà Voilà, voilà, voilà, voilà qui je suis Me voilà même si mise à nue c'est fini C'est ma gueule c'est mon cri, me voilà tant pis Voilà, voilà, voilà Voilà juste ici Moi mon rêve, mon envie Comme j'en crève comme j'en ris Me voilà dans le bruit Et dans le silence Ne partez pas J'vous en supplie, restez longtemps Ça m'sauvera p't'être pas, non Mais faire sans vous j'sais pas comment Aimez-moi comme on aime un ami Qui s'en va pour toujours J'veux qu'on m'aime parce que moi je sais pas Bien aimer mes contours Voilà, voilà, voilà, voilà qui je suis Me voilà même si mise à nue c'est fini Me voilà dans le bruit et dans la fureur aussi Regardez moi enfin et mes yeux et mes mains Tout c'que j'ai est ici, c'est ma gueule c'est mon cri Me voilà, me voilà, me voilà Voilà, voilà Voilà, voilà Voilà!

Richard Clayderman - La Mer (Beyond The Sea) @TatianaBlue


Somewhere beyond the sea, Somewhere waiting for me, My lover stands on golden sands And watches the ships that go sailing. Somewhere beyond the sea She's there watching for me. If I could fly like birds on high Then straight to her arms I'd go sailing.'' http://www.clayderman.co.uk Select the optimal resolution 720p Thank you all for viewing and comments! All the best!

Monday, May 13, 2024

Elsa Esnoult - Souviens-toi [CLIP OFFICIEL]


Qui n’a jamais connu un amour de vacances… c’est le thème du nouveau titre d’Elsa Esnoult, « Souviens-toi » extrait de son album « 5 ». Avec beaucoup de sensibilité et de sensualité, Elsa nous chante les regrets d’une histoire d’amour trop courte. Tourné sur les plages de Love Island, ce clip nous ramène en vacances pour notre plus grand plaisir…

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Great Pianists DESTROY Piano for 14 Minutes Straight (Volume up!)

I'm excited to share some of the most climactic powerful and thrilling moments from the repertoire of the world's finest pianists. Denis Matsuev, Lang Lang, Khatia Buniatishvili, Grigory Sokolov, Alexei Grynyuk, Yuja Wang, Giorgy Cziffra and Vladimir Horowitz deliver performances of nothing but sheer intensity and passion as they masterfully command the instrument. NOTE: The video may be challenging to view (to listen) due to its apocalyptic mood. Original videos:    • Denis Matsuev - Grieg / Ginzburg: Pee...      • Lang Lang Plays Rach 3 Ossia Cadenza      • Khatia Buniatishvili - Liszt/Horowitz...      • S. Prokofiev : Sonata no. 7 op. 83 in...      • Alexei Grynyuk - liszt Hungarian Rhap...      • i've got goosebumps all over my body..      • Yuja Wang - Turkish March Mozart (Enc...      • Cziffra plays Liszt's Étude d’exécuti...      • VLADIMIR HOROWITZ PLAYS SCRIABIN "Ver...      • Vladimir Horowitz - Variation on a th...  

Symphony guide: Webern's op 21

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In this luminous, miniature symphony, time goes backwards as well as forwards. It's an extraordinary work.

Anton Webern's Symphony, Op 21 for strings (without double-basses), harp, clarinet, bass clarinet, and two horns is a piece that takes the idea of symphonic self-referentiality to an intensely concentrated extreme, and it's so focused in its choice of notes and precise disposition of rhythm and texture, that the result is a distilled expression and extension of symphonic logic into every dimension of music that's pretty well unparalleled in the story of the symphony. The paradox is that this apparently tiny, pocket-sized piece (its full score is written on just 16 pages), does things with the most important elements of all, our old friends musical space and time, that much grander symphonies take ten times as long to achieve. And Webern's Symphony manages something even more remarkable: the whole academic discourse of score-based musical analysis is (or was) based on proving how "organic" and "logical" symphonic structures can be, supposedly endowing Beethoven's music, say, with the objective power and glory of natural phenomena. But Webern's little symphony is probably the most genuinely "organic" symphony ever composed, in the sense of creating networks of connections between its smallest scales and its largest dimensions, so that there's a symbiotic relationship between the way every fragment of motive and melody sounds and the shape of the whole symphony. That all-pervasive connectivity, this "striving for unity", as Webern put it, was inspired by his love of nature (Webern was a keen alpinist); as he said, referring to Goethe's idea of the "Urpflanze" - the ur-plant: "the root is really nothing other than the stalk, the stalk nothing other than the leaf, the leaf again nothing other than the blossom: variations of the same idea." 

Benjamin's description beautifully captures the sense of stasis in this first movement of the Symphony, the uncanny feeling that time is not moving like an unstoppable arrow, but rather softly expanding and exploding in all directions, like the growth of a crystal - or, since it's nearly Christmas, a snowflake. The limpid clarity of the music, the spaces and silences around the musical material in the orchestration, the fact that Webern makes it impossible for you to miss a single note, and that each pitch has its own definite meaning and expression - it's all part of the articulation of the structure of the music. Every line you're hearing is a usually symmetrical fragment of the grander design of the 12-note row - itself symmetrically constructed - that the whole piece is based on. You literally hear time going backwards as well as forwards in this music, since Webern's canons play with the fact that the second six notes of the row are a transposed version of the first six, played backwards, and there are also bigger symmetries at work, to do with the shapes of both halves of the movement.

Keeping up? Not sure I am, but that's not the point! Rather, the thing is that all of this structural unity creates a symphonic form that sounds neither completely predictable nor totally random. When you listen to the Symphony, you're taken in by the centripetal concentration of the music, and you're set out on a meditative journey in the first movement into a vortex of almost infinite musical connectivity. This is an emotionally moving experience, too, in the range of expression Webern conjures, which includes heightened, violent lyricism as well as pointillist brilliance.

The connections continue in the Variations movement, in which the second half of each tiny variation - from a march to a moto perpetuo, from a lyrical reflection to an enigmatic coda - contains the same notes as the first half, played backwards, and in which the whole movement pivots around its exact middle point, the 4th variation. Webern himself was pretty thrilled with what he'd discovered in this piece: "Greater coherence cannot be achieved. Not even the Netherlanders [the Renaissance polyphonists like Ockeghem, whose music Webern had intensely studied] have managed this … The entire movement thus represents in itself a double canon with retrograde motion … What you see here (retrograde, canon, etc. - it is always the same) is not to be thought os as 'Kunststückerln' [artistic tricks] - that would be ridiculous! As many connections as possible should be created, and you will have to admit that there are many connections here!"

But I think George Benjamin again gets closer to what it's like to listen to this Symphony: "Paradoxically, this product of hermetic constructivism seems infused with intense emotion, that emotion evenly diffused across the whole surface of the music. Gone is the mono-directional thrust of Classical and Romantic music; in its place a world of rotations and reflections, opening myriad paths for the listener to trace through textures of luminous clarity yet beguiling ambiguity." 

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

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Friday, May 10, 2024

Erik SATIE - Gymnopedies 1, 2, 3 (60 min)


The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnop%... Soundtrack : -- At First Sight -- Corrina, Corrina (1994, Jessie Nelson) -- My Dinner With André (1981, Louis Malle) -- The Royal Tenenbaums -- Valentine's Day -- What Lies Beneath -- Mr Nobody (2009, Jaco Van Dormael) -- An Other Woman (1988, Woody Allen) The three Gymnopédies are part of the soundtrack for the anime feature film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. An interpolation of Gymnopédie No. 1 is looped throughout the chorus of Janet Jackson's song "Someone to Call My Lover". Gymnopédie No. 1 is played near the end of the 2015 film Love by Gaspar Noe. A remixed version of Gymnopédie No. 1 composed by Masafumi Takada is part of the soundtrack for the Grasshopper Manufacture 2001 video game Flower, Sun, and Rain. An adaptation of Gymnopédie No. 1 to the Game Boy Advance's hardware by Shogo Sakai is used as background music in the 2006 Japanese video game Mother 3 under the title "Leder's Gymnopédie". A version of Gymnopédie No. 1 plays in the JRPG Persona 2, when the player visits the 'Velvet Room' and stays there until after the Velvet Room's main theme finishes. Gymnopédie No. 1 is played by Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) in the 2015 film, Mississippi Grind.