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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Santana & Clapton - Jingo

Pianist in tears!!!. Most moving piano performance.

Julio Iglesias - Caruso

Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Joslin - Henri Mancini, Nino Rota

Very sad beautiful music! When angels cry! DJ Lava-Calling angel


Very sad beautiful music! When angels cry! DJ Lava-Calling angel
66,082,765 views  Jan 25, 2020  Looking at people, angels cry, because they are not available to what is available to us: a sense of the moment. Carlos Santana
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FROM the AUTHOR: Best Music Relax
I know that the world is complex and infinite... And when I get sad... anxiety creeps into my soul-I prefer beautiful sad music, because I know that when the heart cries, the soul is cleansed.
My friends, listen to this amazing melody from the composer DJ Lava - "Calling angel". This music is like an ocean that strikes us with its immense depth. At the hour of the rising sun, she sings an ode to the Earth, and at sunset-the sad music of separation. It is able to Wade into the most remote corners of our consciousness to awaken in it all the best, light and noble, thereby healing the wounded soul and dispelling all the pain and despair.

I WISH YOU ALL A WARM HEART,
ENJOY WATCHING AND RELAXING!

Friday, August 26, 2022

Pianists and Their Composers

Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas – Scaling the Pianistic Everest

Manuscript of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 110

Manuscript of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110

Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas are often referred to as the ‘New Testament’ of the pianist’s repertoire, and for many pianists they offer a remarkable, quasi-religious journey – physical, metaphorical and spiritual – through Beethoven’s creative life. This is truly “great” music, that which is endlessly fascinating and challenging, intriguing and enriching, and such is the popularity of this repertoire that you can guarantee that somewhere in the world right now there is a concert featuring these remarkable sonatas.

“There is something about the personality of Beethoven that is so overwhelming, and I think that the sonatas are the pieces that go the deepest, that show him at his most exploratory, his most inventive, and at his most spiritual.” –Jonathan Biss

Artur Schnabel

recordings of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas

Artur Schnabel listening to a playback at a recording session

The first pianist to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in the 1930s, just a few years after electrical recording was invented, Schnabel set the standard by which all subsequent recordings was set, and his playing is acclaimed for its intelligence and insight, emotional depth and spiritual understanding of this music. So fine were his recordings that one critic described him as ‘the man who invented Beethoven’.


Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim © Peter Adamik

“I’ve known these works for many years….but whenever I go back to this music I find something new.”

Beethoven’s piano sonatas have followed Daniel Barenboim throughout his career, and such is his affection for this music he has recorded the complete piano sonatas five times, most recently during lockdown when, during this period of enforced isolation, he decided to approach the sonatas anew. His first recording was made in 1950s when he was a young man. It is perhaps an indication of the reverence with which this music is held, and its distinctive challenges, that Barenboim has made so many recordings of the sonatas. For him, this is music which has an infinite appeal, to be taken up by other pianists who follow him. 

Annie Fischer

Annie Fischer

Annie Fischer

It is interesting to note that few women pianists have recorded the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, Annie Fischer being an exception. The music of Beethoven was central to Fischer’s career and her recordings are still much admired, nearly 30 years after her death. Her style is unaffected and self-effacing, letting the music, and composer, speak, and her playing displays great nobility, elegance and humanity. Her recording of the complete piano sonatas is regarded as her greatest legacy. 

Igor Levit

Igor Levit

Igor Levit

“Beethoven’s music kind of creates this link between the player, the music, the audience. This triangle is enormously intense.” –Igor Levit in an interview with Jon Wertheim

Igor Levit released his first recording of Beethoven piano sonatas when he was just 26, an album which received huge acclaim for its intense expressivity and Levit’s mature approach balanced with a youthful ardour. He released his recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas in 2019.

In his performances of Beethoven, Levit produces a clear, lively and well-balanced sound, but he’s not afraid to roughen the edges of the music to create a more visceral impact. His concerts can be intense, almost uncompromising, but his Beethoven playing is some of the most exhilarating and adventurous to be enjoyed today.

Jonathan Biss

Jonathan Biss

Jonathan Biss

For American pianist Jonathan Biss, Beethoven has been a close companion throughout most of his life, and during the past 10 years he has fully immersed himself in Beethoven: he has recorded the complete piano sonatas, performed complete cycles around the world, and also teaches an in-depth online course about the sonatas which has attracted over 150,000 students globally.

“As individual works, each is endlessly compelling on its own merits; as a cycle, it moves from transcendence to transcendence, the basic concerns always the same, but the language impossibly varied”

Biss is a “thinking pianist”, with an acute intellectual curiosity and an ability to articulate the exigencies of learning, maintaining and performing this music. His Beethoven playing has long-spun melodic lines, well-balanced harmonies, taut, driving rhythms, rumbling tremolandos, dramatic fermatas, carefully-considered voicing, subito dynamic swerves, and colourful orchestration. It is not to everyone’s taste, but his performances can be vivid, edge-of-the-seat experiences which reveal how Beethoven took the genre to the furthest reaches of what was possible, compositionally and emotionally.

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Tchaikovsky:Waltz of the Flowers-Daniel Barenboim



This music can be listened to forever !!! The most Beautiful Music to tears


32,005,198 views .May 26, 2019  Music - the most wonderful creation of man, his eternal mystery and delight. It returns to man all the best that is in him and will remain on earth. It is indisputable that a person heard music before he learned to speak. There is a thought that at first there was a wind noise, a splash of waves, singing of birds, rustle of a grass and a ring of the falling foliage. And only taking over from nature the sound, the man resigned from his word.

My dear friends, welcome to my world! Today I want to present to your attention a wonderful composition from the repertoire of Yuri Dunchenko "Yakuro - Pink... The Color Of Love". In his musical creativity, Yuri very of well-describes its sense of to music, speaking about how that... Music is eternal. She was, is and will be. Always and everywhere. It just goes from one dimension/ time to another. All that we see around us, all that we call unreality or simply do not notice reflections of reflections (Mirrors of the mirrors) - this is music. 

About music 
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Artist: YAKURO;
Genres: music for meditation / relaxation, New age
Album: Colors Of The Worlds.Two thousand thirteen
Track: Yakuro-Pink... The Color Of Love

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

STRONG the Most Beautiful Music To tears! You can listen forever!


FOR ALL FANS OF THE MUSIC OF RAYMOND LEFEVRE
STRONG the Most Beautiful Music To tears! You can listen forever!
⏩ Raymond Lefevre - Ave Maria (Caccini) 

WIKIPEDIA: Raymond lefèvre (FR. Raymond Lefèvre; 20 November 1929 — 27 June 2008) was a French composer, arranger and conductor. He wrote light instrumental music, the author of soundtracks for films, acted as an accompanist on the records of a number of singers in France.

BIOGRAPHY: on 27 June, arranger, conductor and composer Raymond Lefebvre died in Paris after an illness at the age of 78. Since the early 1960s, he has been a colleague and friend of Paul Moria, when they worked together as arrangers and conductors at Eddie Barclay's Studio. Lefebvre accompanied various singers, of which the most Dalide since the beginning of her career. He recorded music for several film comedies with Louis de Funes. His music is heard in all series of the famous Comedy series about the adventures of the French gendarmes, which was filmed from 1964 to 1982. Thus Lefebvre went down in history as the only composer who worked on such a long project. 
Since the mid-1960s, he was a conductor in the popular song contest television and in 1966 took up his own musical career and becomes R. Lefevre shortening the name by one letter. From this moment on, and within 30 years he recorded popular tunes. Since the 1980s, his son Michel, also a conductor and composer, helped him in his work. After the Field Moriah in the same 1968, Lefebvre came to prominence in the US with his cover version of Michel Polnareff "Ame caline" (Soul coaxing). Since that time, it has come to international fame. In 1972. his orchestra was first invited to Japan, where he toured until recently. 
In 1995, as a flutist, Lefebvre took part in the recording of a Quartet with a unique composition, which in addition to himself were Paul Moria (piano), Frank Purcell (violin) and Francis Ley (accordion). The four of them recorded a melody-Requiem "Quartet for Kobe" in memory of the victims of a major earthquake in Japan

Information site dedicated to the memory and work of Maestro Raymond Lefevre
http://www.grandorchestras.com/lefevr...
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FROM AUTHOR: Best Music Relax 

How to learn to love the world...  The purpose of the channel is to learn to live in harmony with your inner world, to help keep the soul pure light, the original belief that the world is beautiful and that life is an invaluable gift! On my channel you can relax, get a charge of vivacity and a lot of positive emotions. Watch music videos; videos about the beauty of the soul, videos about the beauty of our world. You can always listen to good music, get acquainted with the musical works of famous artists and composers. 

P. S. All video materials presented on the channel are exclusively entertaining (introductory) nature, video editing made by me personally on the selected music, which I love, in order to convey to the viewer the image inherent in it.
I WISH YOU ALL PEACE, KINDNESS, LOVE, ENJOY AND REST!



Frederic Chopin - Waltz Rain

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Second Waltz - His music and his life





Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was a Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
Life and Music 
Despite Shostakovich's exceptional talent, it was not until he was nine that he received his first formal piano lessons from his mother, a professional pianist. 

In 1919, composer Alexander Glazunov considered the young Shostakovich ready to begin his studies at the Petrograd Conservatory, where he was director. 

The 19-year-old Shostakovich produced a First Symphony that is an astonishing act of creative prodigy. 

In 1936, Stalin attended a performance of Shostakovich's operatic grotesquerie, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District. Dismayed by its lack of positivist flag-saving, the state newspaper, Pravda, slated this "bedlam of noise". 

With the gun of the Soviet regime pointed at his head - and Stalin's finger effectively on the trigger - Shostakovich knew he had to produce a surefire winner. 

The Fifth Symphony, with its universal message of triumph achieved out of adversity, was exactly what the State wanted, and it made him a public hero. 

In 1948, several composers, including Shostakovich and Prokofiev, were hauled over the coals by Pravda for "decadent formalism". 

In 1953 Shostakovich also composed his masterly Tenth Symphony, written - although no one was aware of it at the time - as a reaction against the Stalinist regime, and in the case of the vitriolic Scherzo, a sardonic portrait of Stalin. 

The constant psychological torture had taken its toll, and it seems that in 1960, following the completion of his Eighth String Quartet, Shostakovich contemplated suicide. In 1966 he suffered a heart attack from which he never fully recovered, and which hastened a preoccupation with death which is tangibly realised in his angst-ridden Fourteenth Symphony. 

Shostakovich died a broken man. 

Did you know? 
One of Shostakovich's songs was sung by the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin over the radio from his spacecraft to Mission Control down on earth.

WE HAD TODAY (from the Movie "One Day")


2,852 views  Jun 28, 2022  My version of " WE HAVE TODAY" by Rachel Portman. From the Movie "One Day"

arranged and played by Giorgio "Jorjo" Radaelli

Frank Sinatra - My Way (Live At Madison Square Garden, New York City / 1...



HIT-STORY: ‘My Way’ by Frank Sinatra
Published August 24, 2022, 2:22 PM

by Robert Requintina, Manila Bulletin



Released in March 1969, singer Paul Anka wrote the hit ballad “My Way” with crooner Frank Sinatra on his mind.

In 1968, Frank hinted to Paul that he was ready to bid showbiz goodbye.


“Kid, I’m fed up. I’m gonna do one more album, and then I’m out of here. You never wrote me that song you always promised. Don’t take too long,” said Frank, 51, to Paul, then 25, in a book entitled “The Life of A Song.”



One sleepless night, Paul sat down at a piano and sensed himself becoming Frank.

“That’s how I got the first line: ‘And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain’ I thought of him leaving the stage, the lights going out, and started typing like a madman, writing it just the way he talked: “Ate it up…spit it out.”

Paul finished writing the song at 5 a.m. He immediately called Frank to inform him about the song. “When I played the song for him, he said: “That’s kooky, kid. We’re going in.”

These days, “My Way” is still also one of the favorite karaoke songs around the world.

In the Philippines, at least 12 people were shot dead following altercations over the song from 2002 and 2012, according to the book.

In 2016, the UK’s Co-op funeral company revealed that “My Way” is now UK’s most popular choice of funeral song.

Frank passed away on May 14, 1998. He was 82. But “My Way” was never played at his funeral.


The complete lyrics to the song “My Way”:

“My Way”

And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I’ll say it clear
I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain
I’ve lived a life that’s full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried
I’ve had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows
I took the blows
And did it my way

Yes, it was my way.

(Courtesy of azlyrics.com)