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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Monday, January 30, 2023

Bohemian Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra and Solo Viola .


To Freddie, with much affection and admiration... NICHOLAS HERSH, arranger/conductor SARAH HARBALL, solo viola PATRICK HUNNINGHAKE, lead trumpet with THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDIO ORCHESTRA Filmed & recorded in Studio 5, Indiana University Radio-Television Building SAM SILVER, director KONRAD STRAUSS, sound director


The Best of Elgar


Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar's music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music continues to be played more in Britain than elsewhere. Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius. Edward Elgar

Elgar - Nimrod (from "Enigma Variations")


Daniel Barenboim with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, opening the 1997 season at Carnegie Hall in this gorgeously performed dedication to the recently deceased Sir Georg Solti. Solti was the previous music director of the CSO for many years.


Sunday, January 29, 2023

Love is in the Air - Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra


Gimnazija Kranj Great Spring Concert 2012 in Gallus Hall, Cankarjev dom. 20.th concert aniversary. Music, Rhytm and Dance. 10 years of Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra. Also celebration of 20th year of our lead sponsor: Hranilnica Lon bank. They performed disco legend: Love is in the Air. Arrangement: Nejc Bečan. Sold out concert and amazing performance.

There You'll Be




aubrey by bread lyrics



José Mari Chan's Greatest OPM Medley by Filipino-American Symphony Orchestra


Filipino-American Symphony Orchestra celebrates José Mari Chan's Music held at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA with Maestro Robert Shroder conducting. August 20, 2022.

Epilogue (Finale) - Les Miserables



Les Miserables: Do you hear the people sing: Sung by 17 Jean Valjeans from around the world


Do you hear the people sing?
 Singing a song of angry men?
 It is the music of a people
 Who will not be slaves again!
 When the beating of your heart
 Echoes the beating of the drums
 There is a life about to start
 When tomorrow comes! 

Will you join in our crusade?
 Who will be strong and stand with me?
 Somewhere beyond the barricade
 Is there a world you long to see? 

Then join in the fight
 That will give you the right to be free!! 

Do you hear the people sing?
 Singing a song of angry men?
 It is the music of a people
 
Who will not be slaves again!
 When the beating of your heart
 Echoes the beating of the drums
 There is a life about to start
 When tomorrow comes! 

Will you give all you can give
 So that our banner may advance
 Some will fall and some will live
 Will you stand up and take your chance?
 The blood of the martyrs
 Will water the meadows of France!


La Vie En Rose


La Vie En Rose · Wynton Marsalis · Richard Galliano · Louiguy · E. Plaf From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf: Live in Marciac

This Guy's In Love With You



This Guy's In Love With You · Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass The Beat Of The Brass ℗ 2015 Herb Alpert Presents

Libertango in Berlin Philharmonic (amazing!!!)