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Music Archives
Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony - 5th Movement VIDEO HERE
Blue Tango VIDEO HERE
Lady of Spain VIDEO HERE
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No.
2) --- the 1st Movement VIDEO HERE
Enrico Caruso - 'O SOLE MIO VIDEO HERE
Yundi Li plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 VIDEO HERE
Yundi Li - Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66 VIDEO HERE
Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony - 5th Movement VIDEO HERE
Blue Tango VIDEO HERE
Lady of Spain VIDEO HERE
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No.
2) --- the 1st Movement VIDEO HERE
Enrico Caruso - 'O SOLE MIO VIDEO HERE
Yundi Li plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 VIDEO HERE
Yundi Li - Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66 VIDEO HERE
Music
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary
Quincy Jones claimed to drink of it every morning - his 'orange juice' VIDEO
So What - John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Miles Davis --- jazz trumpeter, icon, the music revolutionary with with clean minimalist
lines. Perhaps the most significant jazz musician of the 20th century. 'Cool jazz'. And
John Coltrane another genius. VIDEO
J.du Pré - Granados Intermezzo VIDEO
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White VIDEO
Mambo No.5 --- Perez Prado VIDEO
Folk Music
Ashokan Farewell --- Jay Ungar (1982) --- in the style of a Scottish lament
VIDEO
And here's Jay Ungar himself with Molly Mason
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Twilight
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
VIDEO 4
Rose and Gould play Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A: 1st movement
VIDEO
J.du Pré - Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A - II.Scherzo
VIDEO
M.Rostropovich - Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major, 3rd movement
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 Adagio
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré - Forellenquintett
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré - Elgar Cello Concerto 1st movement
VIDEO
Mozart 'killed by strep throat' FULL STORY
MUSIC:
April 19, 2019
Jan Chiapusso plays List "Wilde Jagd" Trascendental Etudes No. 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLgdeGj1i3I
Author of "Bach's World", teacher of Rosalyn Tureck, he became a
Professor at the University of Kansas after his concert career.
Rosalyn Tureck plays "Andante" from Italian Concerto (Bach BWV 971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBdqpuaHq4I
Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach - Six Little Pieces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSXIAIbJvI
February 10, 2019
Fusing Western and Arab Music
Layale Chaker's "Inner Rhyme" - Debut Album with Sarafand (In Circle
Records, 2019)
https://layalechaker.com/music
Violinist and composer Layale Chaker's debut album "Inner Rhyme" is
woven as a suite that explores aesthetics of Arabic poetry. Composed
between Beirut, Paris and London over the past two years and recorded
in New York over the summer of 2018, the album unveils musical
threads that are mapped through the rhythmical cycles of the twelve
classical Arabic poetic meters, the fluidity of oral and free forms, the
abstraction of language into the physical contour of verses and the
percussive potential of word
Layale Chaker violin - Jake Charkey, cello - Phillip Golub, piano - Nick
Dunston, bass - Adam Maalouf, percussion.
January 30, 2018
Swiss Yodeling --Angela Wiedl, Melanie Oesch, Herlinde Lindner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjNxV7qM90
Swiss Yodeling with Alpine Horn and a unique string instrument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFFb_oUvzY
Zorba the Greek dance (syrtaki) from the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QskFT7AaKH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWU8hy0McY
May 8, 2017
Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté, Graduation 2015, SOAS University of
London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKVin1doEEE
March 8, 2017
Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko
Kora Duo 1999 Recital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTDuahaXwg
Calypso Rose - Queen of Calypso
Woman Smarter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4GjEC0E2NU
Abatina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vNcGaYfa0o
Rivers of Babylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRmhKJShkQ
Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma -- Montserrat Caballe is technical
perfection. Hear the ending. Who else can do what she does?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfUsCP6d3U
Taking the cobwebs out of opera! Anna Netrebko singing
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so Heiss from Franz Lehar's "Giudetta"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiz_QWCEkU
"Sobre las olas" de Juventino Rosas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8Uk5ly-As
Blue Danube (Karajan version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBCyfHYJ_S4
Paco de Lucía Concierto Aranjuez - Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc
Albinoni's Adagio in G minor (Karajan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuh3WyfVL2M
Ombra mai fu - Handel's Xerxes -- Note Andreas Scholl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XH-58eB8c&list=PLq_-
DjnID5CLMV1RPPKr5TgLRshivAaIo
Schubert Double Cello Quintet in C Major op. 163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk
Christmas 2015
Vienna Boys Choir I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKG79EQM64
Vienna Boys Choir II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP5HADtHy70
GITANJALI RAI - a Punjabi singer of mostly religious music
Tu Mane Ya Mane -- Punjabi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydumUS8vnCk
Damadum Must Qalander -- Sindhi song of praise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQ8NNBLl8Y
Sriman Narayan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdsZy-h6xpc
Allah Hoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVoLdO_kTE
Bhajans etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NUxMDdqpQsM&list=PLcje5hcOJKJuI0rG51uJtadePSwZcV_jl
Aap Ki Yaad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkm-CpTc1fg
December 9, 2015
Scarlatti Sonata L23 K380 -- Horowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHMdDjNnZ8
December 5, 2015
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
"Bist du bei mir" - Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWDQfjbwcuQ
Che faro senza Euridice - Orfeo (Gluck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZSr07gd1fk
October 2015
Vladimir Putin sings Blueberry Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
Fats Domino who popularized the 1940 classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1P7GM33so
And here's Louis Armstrong in Berlin 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1qTynO1zg
POPULAR MUSIC HITS
Enrico Caruso
O Sole Mio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1QJwHWvgP8
Santa Lucia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebrnxY0FuwLady
Lady of Spain - Al Bowlly, Ray Noble Orchestra 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uf4qrtR_gs
Green Eyes - Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell with the Jimmy Dorsey
Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hMyVQaCUo
Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=CnHLKM8hQR8&list=RDCnHLKM8hQR8
Volare - Domenico Modugno - Nel blu dipinto di blu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF5zSczYEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg
Quando quando quando - Tony Renis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAs7U1dyesQ
BENIAMINO GIGLI ''LA PALOMA''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjB4iffMgMQ
Speedy Gonzalez - Pat Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4s2AMKPHnE
Pretty Woman -- Roy Orbison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
Rock around the clock -- Bill Haley and the Comets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju6KbP_1xY
Great balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY
Hound dog -- Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w
The Twist -- Chubby Checker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw
And the exception ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZMw5SM7Oc
"Sobre las olas" (Over the Waves) composed in 1888 by Juventino
Rosas Cadenas (b. 25 Jan 1868, d. 9 July 1894) became a frequently used
circus and Music Hall piece. Hollywood added lyrics and dubbed it
"Loveliest Night of the Year".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8Uk5ly-As
Anna Netrebko delights the audience at Last Night at the Proms
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heiss -- Franz Lehar's Giuditta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kaOYC_Fww
Verdi's Rigoletto -- the quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMy_rv-Ix8
Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Rolanda Villazon, Ramon Vargas ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-EGhLvkF1M
Maria Callas, Norma - Casta Diva - Bellini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9IvuEkreI
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
Miscellany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
list=PL4D221565FAFDDF49&v=ZoGQd1dsAlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Bm_AKMV0ME0&list=PL4D221565FAFDDF49&index=17
Vilja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jRkp6Ucho
Kathleen Ferrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_4Hie--UM&list=RDM1_4Hie--
UM#t=29
Bist du bei mir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWDQfjbwcuQ
Kirsten Flagstad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MUnB776lv8g&list=RDMUnB776lv8g#t=167
A lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Stoi8DAqU
Tristan and Isolde -- Love Duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3o0qV6TiA
cont'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrGhpKZN6o
Schubert's Ave Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCqD__nzKY
GRACIE FIELDS (1898 - 1979) English born, later Italian-based actress,
comedienne, music hall and movie star
What can you give a nudist for his birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUpDOcc7LfU
Isle of Capri (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnH7CSsUzs
Lilli Marlene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAq3EyRalA
Woodpecker Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHT1KL-pgBY
GYPSY FLAMENCO GUITARIST MANITAS DE PLATA DIED NOVEMBER 5,
2014 AGED 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eex1aqbfP08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GZxkrNGfbAA&list=RDEex1aqbfP08&index=2
GOLDEN OLDIES
Amelita Galli-Curci - "Silver Threads Among The Gold" (Danks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBi_6FvcAGA
John McCormack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc
Amelita Galli-Curci - "Love's Old Sweet Song -- Just a Song at Twilight"
(Molloy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gDnXHeL5E
Amelita Galli Curci - La Paloma (con testo spagnolo).wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124S5Ybfcv8
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INDIAN CLASSICAL VOCALS:
Main to piya se naina laga aayi re - Hazrat Amir Khusro - Ustad Shujaat
Hussain Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvtpXtv0Lg
Main To Piya Se Naina Laga Aayi Re - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDtianuIsk
Chhaap TilakSub Chheen - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sings Amir Khusro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFm7kXjtaRI
Ustad Rashid Khan - Raag Hansadwani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWNFY9vudg
ALBANIAN TANGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biijyr_g2gM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PEfz4V6XQ
Xavier Cougat
The Best of Xavier Cougat -- I hour plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mO3lv9sWks
The Peanut Vendor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFpB8UyzU5U
Tango Jalousie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ByUuF-_DA
Siboney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWAqSAmFYis
Amazing Nine-year old -- Amira Willighagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsNJmwH2WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnrLMvpQLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8KrpwqxE4g
Three young Divas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqCh3Ys4U0U
April 11, 2014 -- 200th anniversary of first performance in Vienna with
Beethoven playing piano
Piano Trio No. 7, Op. 97 (Archduke) -- Beaux Arts Trio( Piano: Menahem
Pressler; Violin: Daniel Guilet; Cello: Bernard Greenhouse -- all taught at
Indiana University).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kOw6l02Ua0
Savitri Grier, violin; Indira Grier, cello; and Francis Grier, piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mewrk4qi2yc
SPANISH EYES
Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FSK5AuuGU
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6C4v99XEA
QUANDO, QUANDO, QUANDO
Tony Renis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFsHR-f2wc
Paco de Lucia, celebrated Flamenco guitarist, died February 26, 2014
aged 66.
Entre dos Aguas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nux5LzzxT3o
Punya Srinivas on Veena VIDEO
There are two branches in Indian classical music: Carnatic(South Indian)
and Hindustani(North Indian). The Sitar is used in Hindustani music, and
is paired with the Tabla. The Veena is used to perform Carnatic
compositions, and is joined with the Mridangam and the Ghatam as in
this video. South Indian instruments are constructed with local wood,
different from that used for the Sitar.
Pentatonix -- surprising a capella VIDEO
A lovely Kathak Dance Performance VIDEO
DESIGNING SOUND
In Japan, the sounds of nature-the pitter-patter of rain, the trickling of a
stream, blowing wind, chirping birds-are often associated with the
changing seasons. Japanese in past ages would listen to these subtle
sounds as they observed their surroundings with great sensitivity --
they created a distinctly Japanese world of sound. Hiroaki Ide is a
sound space composer who is continually exploring the possibilities of
sound VIDEO
Hawaiian Guitars:
Slack String VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Lap Steel -- VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTbtvbzBs00
Tahitian Hula Dancers
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Cook Islands -- Rakahanga
VIDEO
Another Mali -- Toumani Diabate plays the Kora VIDEO
Sitars
Ustad Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Khan and Zakir Hussain VIDEO
Sarod
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ustad Zakir Hussain VIDEO
Sitar
Ustad Rais Khan VIDEO
Merry Christmas
King's College Choir Cambridge
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
A Mexican Fiesta for Thanksgiving -- Andre Rieu with his butter-fed
blondes for good cheer VIDEO
Vienna Philharmonic -- New Year Concert 2012 VIDEO
Indian / Pakistani Classical Music
The simplest of instruments in the hands of a master ...
The Indian bamboo flute -- bansuri (pronounced with a French 'n' and
the 'u' nearly silent)
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Sitar and Tabla
Ustaad Rais Khan and Ustaad Zakir Hussain Khan
VIDEO
Anoushka Shankar plays 'Pancham Se Gara' by Ravi Shankar (who
passed away recently)
VIDEO
Ghazal -- love poems set to music
Mehdi Hassan -- mohabat karnewale kam na honge
VIDEO
Farida Khanum -- aaj jaane ki zid na karo
VIDEO
Richa Sharma -- aaj jaane ki zid na karo
VIDEO
Mehdi Hassan -- mujhe tum nazar se giraa to rahe ho
VIDEO
Mehdi Hassan -- ranjish he sahi
VIDEO
Malika Pukhraj -- mere qatil mere dildar mere paas raho
VIDEO
Tina Sani -- Faiz Ahmed Faiz centenary concert
VIDEO
VIDEO 2
Qawwali -- hymns of praise to the prophet and saints
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
VIDEO
Kalaam -- a song in praise of God
Richa Sharma -- Chaap tilak sab cheeni -- Amir Khusro
VIDEO
Lal Meri Pat ... Dama Dum Must Qalander -- Runa Laila VIDEO
Iqbal Bano sings two Ghazals
Dasht-e-tanhai mein -- Faiz
VIDEO
Muddat hui yaar ko -- Ghalib
VIDEO
Harshdeep Kaur sings Heer Ranjah the Punjabi Romeo Juliet story
VIDEO
MARIA CALLAS -- Thirty-five years since she passed away September 16,
1977
Bellini's "Norma" -- Casta Diva VIDEO
Puccini's "Gianni Schicci" -- O Mio Babbino Caro VIDEO
Verdi's "La Traviata" -- Sempre Libera VIDEO
Young Violinists
Massenet -- Meditation de Thais -- Sarah Chang VIDEO
Mendelssohn -- Violin Concerto Mvt 1 First part -- Sarah Chang VIDEO
Beethoven -- Violin Concerto -- Arabella Steinbacher VIDEO
Tchaikovsky -- Violin First Mvt -- Janine Jansen VIDEO
Mozart -- Violin Concerto #3 -- Hilary Hahn
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
Amalia Rodrigues, Queen of Fado (1920-1999)
Coimbra -- April in Portugal
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Lagrima VIDEO
La Casa in via del Campo VIDEO
Fadinho da Tia Maria Benta VIDEO
Top Tracks (73) for Amalia Rodrigues -- a Tribute VIDEO
Handel Largo from the opera Xerxes VIDEO
Ombra Mai Fu VIDEO
Kathleen Ferrier - Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice - Che Faro 1946 VIDEO
Cecilia Bartolli - "Voi che sapete" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro VIDEO
It's not Christmas but why not ...
O Holy Night - Caruso and Björling VIDEO
Persian Classical Music:
Mohammad Reza Lotfi - Niavaran Concert
Improvization
Daf and Tombak
Setar and Tombak
Setar and Voice
Persian Percussion:
Daf Duel
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi plays the Tombak
And Belly Dancers
Didem from Turkey
Sadie from ... guess where?
Kagemu -- a meticulously choreographed projection of motion graphics
onto dance VIDEO
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) the Indonesian President composes
pop songs ... VIDEO
... and sings occasionally ... VIDEO
Mozart b. Jan 27, 1756
And composed in 1771 -- Mozart - Symphony No. 14 in A, K.114 - I. Allegro
moderato (period instruments) VIDEO
MOZART: Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370. 1. ALLEGRO VIDEO
Giuseppe Verdi d. Jan 27, 1901
VERDI'S Il Trovatore -- MARIO LANZA sings "Di quella pira" VIDEO
Uzbek Pop VIDEO
Macedonian Zurla -- a double reed instrument -- can be seen on right
VIDEO
Turkish Pop VIDEO
Polyphonic Chants of the Aka Pygmies VIDEO
VIDEO 2
The Brazilian Friction Drum, Cuica - Basics
VIDEO
Carlinhos da Cuica VIDEO
Holiday Music:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer around the World:
Rodolfo El Reno VIDEO
rudolph mit der roten nase VIDEO
Rudolph le petit renne au nez rouge VIDEO
Turkish Music:
Mustafa Yıldızdoğan - ölürüm Türkiyem VIDEO
Ottoman Music 18th Century - Bir Vefa Bir Çeşm-i Bidad by H. I. Dede
Efendi VIDEO
Old Turkish Classical Music TSM - Kalamış - by M. N.Selçuk VIDEO
Tarkan- Sorma Kalbim (Don't Ask, My Heart) VIDEO
Ebru Gündeş VIDEO
Franz Liszt was born 200 years ago today on Oct 22, 1811. The original
pop star, women were known to swoon at his concerts -- the
phenomenon even given the name Lisztomania. He was an
extraordinary composer, extraordinarily generous to many greats (like
Beethoven) whose works he popularized by transcribing them for piano
and performing them. A formidable pianist, his compositions are
notoriously difficult to play -- in his time only he could!
Martha Argerich plays Liszt's Sonata in B minor VIDEO
Berezovsky plays Liszt's Transcendental Etude No 10, Appassionata
VIDEO
Liebestraum VIDEO
Composed by Norbert Schulze in 1938 to the lyrics from a poem by Hans
Leip written during the First World War, Lili Marleen rendered in Lale
Andersen's husky voice from German Armed Forces Radio in Belgrade
soon became a huge hit among WWII soldiers from both sides in North
Africa -- the German Afrika Korps and the British 8th Army. It's popularity
was universal (partial list of translations below). Schulze died on Oct 14,
2003.
Lale Andersen -- Lili Marleen VIDEO
Vera Lynn -- Lili Marlene -- British version -- Tommy Connor's lyrics
VIDEO
Edith Piaf sings Lili Marlene VIDEO
Lili Marleen-Russian Version ( Natalja Shmidt ) VIDEO
Lili Marleen in Japanese VIDEO
Lili Marleen -- Italian version VIDEO
Mexican Mariachi Music:
mariachi vargas - la bamba VIDEO
TRÍO LOS PANCHOS - La Malagueña (Homenaje a Sarita Montiel)
VIDEO
Franz Schubert - Notturno - Rubinstein Trio VIDEO
Afro-Peruvian Music STORY
Eva Ayllón y Perú Negrito
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Ani Choying Dolma, the Buddhist singing nun from Nepal uses proceeds
to run an education foundation (https://theanifoundation.org/) VIDEO
Om Mani Padme Hu by Ani Choying Dolma VIDEO
Ani Choying teaching the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra VIDEO
Phoolko Akhama - Ani Choying Drolma VIDEO
Pakistan orchestra reinvents jazz classics VIDEO
Mongolian music
And Mongolian Throat Singing
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Female Mongolian Throat Singer VIDEO
Urna Chahar Tugchi-Hodoo VIDEO
Mongolian singer Urna - White camel VIDEO
Norovbanzad - Goolingoo (Mongolian long song) VIDEO
Zurhnii Erel VIDEO
Shahriar on the Iranian Santoor VIDEO
Begum Parveen Sultana on Millennium Stage VIDEO
The Kora and Valiha VIDEO
The Indonesian Sasando VIDEO
Sasandu & Shamisen in Tokyo VIDEO
The Madagascar Valiha
M'Ray Doné valiha VIDEO
Valiha Described VIDEO
Luigi Boccherini: Minuetto VIDEO
Haydn: Andante cantabile (Serenade) VIDEO
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante VIDEO
Edvard Grieg's Solveig's Song -- the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
music
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi VIDEO
Renée Fleming - Ave Maria (Schubert) VIDEO
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Richard Strauss:
Beim Schlafengehen VIDEO
Ustad Iqbal Ahmad Khan- Ghazal (poem set to music) in Raga Kedar
VIDEO
Cher, Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
Help me make it through the night - Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
Me and Bobby Mcgee - Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
A glorious end ... Beethoven's Ninth
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
The Iranian Classical Singer Ostad Mohammad Reza Shajarian ...
Hafez, "Sarv e chamaan e man chera..."
VIDEO
Tasnif Neyzan
VIDEO
Orpheus and Euridice now at the Salzburg Festival
Here is an older sampling of the famous aria ...
Tito Schipa - "Che farò senza Euridice?" VIDEO
Of course at Salzburg how can we forget Mozart ...
Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major K. 216 - 2nd Movement - Adagio
VIDEO
Mauritanian Music:
Dimi Mint Abba -
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
Mali Music:
Djembe
Ensemble
Brief Kora Intro
Mamadou Diabate on Kora
Toumani Diabate on Kora
In this the 200th anniversary year of Chopin's birth (March 1, 1810), here
are a few pieces played by Chinese pianist Yundi Li a former winner of
the prestigious Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition.
Chopin nocturne op. 9 no. 2
VIDEO
Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66
VIDEO
And here's Yundi Li (at age 18 the youngest winner) at the Chopin Piano
Competition
VIDEO
February 14
For Valentine's Day we go down memory lane ... Judy Collins brings to
life Joni Mitchell's beautiful encapsulating lyrics VIDEO
And here's an encore VIDEO
Luigi Boccherini: Minuet
VIDEO
Pachelbel Canon in D Major
VIDEO
Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca
VIDEO
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary
Quincy Jones claimed to drink of it every morning - his 'orange juice'
VIDEO
So What - John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Miles Davis --- jazz trumpeter, icon, the music revolutionary with with
clean minimalist lines. Perhaps the most significant jazz musician of the
20th century. 'Cool jazz'. And John Coltrane another genius. VIDEO
J.du Pré - Granados Intermezzo VIDEO
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White VIDEO
Mambo No.5 --- Perez Prado VIDEO
Folk Music
Ashokan Farewell --- Jay Ungar (1982) --- in the style of a Scottish lament
VIDEO
And here's Jay Ungar himself with Molly Mason
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Twilight
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
VIDEO 4
Rose and Gould play Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A: 1st movement
VIDEO
J.du Pré - Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A - II.Scherzo
VIDEO
M.Rostropovich - Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major, 3rd movement
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 Adagio
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré - Forellenquintett
VIDEO
Jacqueline du Pré - Elgar Cello Concerto 1st movement
VIDEO
Mozart 'killed by strep throat' FULL STORY
April 19, 2019
Jan Chiapusso plays List "Wilde Jagd" Trascendental Etudes No. 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLgdeGj1i3I
Author of "Bach's World", teacher of Rosalyn Tureck, he became a
Professor at the University of Kansas after his concert career.
Rosalyn Tureck plays "Andante" from Italian Concerto (Bach BWV 971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBdqpuaHq4I
Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach - Six Little Pieces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSXIAIbJvI
February 10, 2019
Fusing Western and Arab Music
Layale Chaker's "Inner Rhyme" - Debut Album with Sarafand (In Circle
Records, 2019)
https://layalechaker.com/music
Violinist and composer Layale Chaker's debut album "Inner Rhyme" is
woven as a suite that explores aesthetics of Arabic poetry. Composed
between Beirut, Paris and London over the past two years and recorded
in New York over the summer of 2018, the album unveils musical
threads that are mapped through the rhythmical cycles of the twelve
classical Arabic poetic meters, the fluidity of oral and free forms, the
abstraction of language into the physical contour of verses and the
percussive potential of word
Layale Chaker violin - Jake Charkey, cello - Phillip Golub, piano - Nick
Dunston, bass - Adam Maalouf, percussion.
January 30, 2018
Swiss Yodeling --Angela Wiedl, Melanie Oesch, Herlinde Lindner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjNxV7qM90
Swiss Yodeling with Alpine Horn and a unique string instrument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFFb_oUvzY
Zorba the Greek dance (syrtaki) from the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QskFT7AaKH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWU8hy0McY
May 8, 2017
Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté, Graduation 2015, SOAS University of
London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKVin1doEEE
March 8, 2017
Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko
Kora Duo 1999 Recital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTDuahaXwg
Calypso Rose - Queen of Calypso
Woman Smarter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4GjEC0E2NU
Abatina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vNcGaYfa0o
Rivers of Babylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRmhKJShkQ
Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma -- Montserrat Caballe is technical
perfection. Hear the ending. Who else can do what she does?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfUsCP6d3U
Taking the cobwebs out of opera! Anna Netrebko singing
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so Heiss from Franz Lehar's "Giudetta"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiz_QWCEkU
"Sobre las olas" de Juventino Rosas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8Uk5ly-As
Blue Danube (Karajan version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBCyfHYJ_S4
Paco de Lucía Concierto Aranjuez - Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc
Albinoni's Adagio in G minor (Karajan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuh3WyfVL2M
Ombra mai fu - Handel's Xerxes -- Note Andreas Scholl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XH-58eB8c&list=PLq_-
DjnID5CLMV1RPPKr5TgLRshivAaIo
Schubert Double Cello Quintet in C Major op. 163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk
Christmas 2015
Vienna Boys Choir I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKG79EQM64
Vienna Boys Choir II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP5HADtHy70
GITANJALI RAI - a Punjabi singer of mostly religious music
Tu Mane Ya Mane -- Punjabi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydumUS8vnCk
Damadum Must Qalander -- Sindhi song of praise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQ8NNBLl8Y
Sriman Narayan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdsZy-h6xpc
Allah Hoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVoLdO_kTE
Bhajans etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NUxMDdqpQsM&list=PLcje5hcOJKJuI0rG51uJtadePSwZcV_jl
Aap Ki Yaad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkm-CpTc1fg
December 9, 2015
Scarlatti Sonata L23 K380 -- Horowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHMdDjNnZ8
December 5, 2015
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
"Bist du bei mir" - Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWDQfjbwcuQ
Che faro senza Euridice - Orfeo (Gluck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZSr07gd1fk
October 2015
Vladimir Putin sings Blueberry Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
Fats Domino who popularized the 1940 classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1P7GM33so
And here's Louis Armstrong in Berlin 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1qTynO1zg
POPULAR MUSIC HITS
Enrico Caruso
O Sole Mio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1QJwHWvgP8
Santa Lucia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebrnxY0FuwLady
Lady of Spain - Al Bowlly, Ray Noble Orchestra 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uf4qrtR_gs
Green Eyes - Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell with the Jimmy Dorsey
Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hMyVQaCUo
Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=CnHLKM8hQR8&list=RDCnHLKM8hQR8
Volare - Domenico Modugno - Nel blu dipinto di blu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF5zSczYEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg
Quando quando quando - Tony Renis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAs7U1dyesQ
BENIAMINO GIGLI ''LA PALOMA''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjB4iffMgMQ
Speedy Gonzalez - Pat Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4s2AMKPHnE
Pretty Woman -- Roy Orbison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
Rock around the clock -- Bill Haley and the Comets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju6KbP_1xY
Great balls of Fire -- Jerry Lee Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY
Hound dog -- Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w
The Twist -- Chubby Checker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw
And the exception ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZMw5SM7Oc
"Sobre las olas" (Over the Waves) composed in 1888 by Juventino
Rosas Cadenas (b. 25 Jan 1868, d. 9 July 1894) became a frequently used
circus and Music Hall piece. Hollywood added lyrics and dubbed it
"Loveliest Night of the Year".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8Uk5ly-As
Anna Netrebko delights the audience at Last Night at the Proms
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heiss -- Franz Lehar's Giuditta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kaOYC_Fww
Verdi's Rigoletto -- the quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMy_rv-Ix8
Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Rolanda Villazon, Ramon Vargas ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-EGhLvkF1M
Maria Callas, Norma - Casta Diva - Bellini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9IvuEkreI
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
Miscellany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
list=PL4D221565FAFDDF49&v=ZoGQd1dsAlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Bm_AKMV0ME0&list=PL4D221565FAFDDF49&index=17
Vilja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jRkp6Ucho
Kathleen Ferrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_4Hie--UM&list=RDM1_4Hie--
UM#t=29
Bist du bei mir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWDQfjbwcuQ
Kirsten Flagstad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MUnB776lv8g&list=RDMUnB776lv8g#t=167
A lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Stoi8DAqU
Tristan and Isolde -- Love Duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3o0qV6TiA
cont'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrGhpKZN6o
Schubert's Ave Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCqD__nzKY
GRACIE FIELDS (1898 - 1979) English born, later Italian-based actress,
comedienne, music hall and movie star
What can you give a nudist for his birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUpDOcc7LfU
Isle of Capri (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnH7CSsUzs
Lilli Marlene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAq3EyRalA
Woodpecker Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHT1KL-pgBY
GYPSY FLAMENCO GUITARIST MANITAS DE PLATA DIED NOVEMBER 5,
2014 AGED 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eex1aqbfP08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GZxkrNGfbAA&list=RDEex1aqbfP08&index=2
GOLDEN OLDIES
Amelita Galli-Curci - "Silver Threads Among The Gold" (Danks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBi_6FvcAGA
John McCormack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc
Amelita Galli-Curci - "Love's Old Sweet Song -- Just a Song at Twilight"
(Molloy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gDnXHeL5E
Amelita Galli Curci - La Paloma (con testo spagnolo).wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124S5Ybfcv8
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INDIAN CLASSICAL VOCALS:
Main to piya se naina laga aayi re - Hazrat Amir Khusro - Ustad Shujaat
Hussain Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvtpXtv0Lg
Main To Piya Se Naina Laga Aayi Re - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDtianuIsk
Chhaap TilakSub Chheen - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sings Amir Khusro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFm7kXjtaRI
Ustad Rashid Khan - Raag Hansadwani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWNFY9vudg
ALBANIAN TANGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biijyr_g2gM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PEfz4V6XQ
Xavier Cougat
The Best of Xavier Cougat -- I hour plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mO3lv9sWks
The Peanut Vendor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFpB8UyzU5U
Tango Jalousie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ByUuF-_DA
Siboney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWAqSAmFYis
Amazing Nine-year old -- Amira Willighagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsNJmwH2WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnrLMvpQLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8KrpwqxE4g
Three young Divas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqCh3Ys4U0U
April 11, 2014 -- 200th anniversary of first performance in Vienna with
Beethoven playing piano
Piano Trio No. 7, Op. 97 (Archduke) -- Beaux Arts Trio( Piano: Menahem
Pressler; Violin: Daniel Guilet; Cello: Bernard Greenhouse -- all taught at
Indiana University).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kOw6l02Ua0
Savitri Grier, violin; Indira Grier, cello; and Francis Grier, piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mewrk4qi2yc
SPANISH EYES
Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FSK5AuuGU
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD6C4v99XEA
QUANDO, QUANDO, QUANDO
Tony Renis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFsHR-f2wc
Paco de Lucia, celebrated Flamenco guitarist, died February 26, 2014
aged 66.
Entre dos Aguas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nux5LzzxT3o
Punya Srinivas on Veena VIDEO
There are two branches in Indian classical music: Carnatic(South Indian)
and Hindustani(North Indian). The Sitar is used in Hindustani music, and
is paired with the Tabla. The Veena is used to perform Carnatic
compositions, and is joined with the Mridangam and the Ghatam as in
this video. South Indian instruments are constructed with local wood,
different from that used for the Sitar.
Pentatonix -- surprising a capella VIDEO
A lovely Kathak Dance Performance VIDEO
DESIGNING SOUND
In Japan, the sounds of nature-the pitter-patter of rain, the trickling of a
stream, blowing wind, chirping birds-are often associated with the
changing seasons. Japanese in past ages would listen to these subtle
sounds as they observed their surroundings with great sensitivity --
they created a distinctly Japanese world of sound. Hiroaki Ide is a
sound space composer who is continually exploring the possibilities of
sound VIDEO
Hawaiian Guitars:
Slack String VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Lap Steel -- VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTbtvbzBs00
Tahitian Hula Dancers
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Cook Islands -- Rakahanga
VIDEO
Another Mali -- Toumani Diabate plays the Kora VIDEO
Sitars
Ustad Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Khan and Zakir Hussain VIDEO
Sarod
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ustad Zakir Hussain VIDEO
Sitar
Ustad Rais Khan VIDEO
Merry Christmas
King's College Choir Cambridge
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
A Mexican Fiesta for Thanksgiving -- Andre Rieu with his butter-fed
blondes for good cheer VIDEO
Vienna Philharmonic -- New Year Concert 2012 VIDEO
Indian / Pakistani Classical Music
The simplest of instruments in the hands of a master ...
The Indian bamboo flute -- bansuri (pronounced with a French 'n' and
the 'u' nearly silent)
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Sitar and Tabla
Ustaad Rais Khan and Ustaad Zakir Hussain Khan
VIDEO
Anoushka Shankar plays 'Pancham Se Gara' by Ravi Shankar (who
passed away recently)
VIDEO
Ghazal -- love poems set to music
Mehdi Hassan -- mohabat karnewale kam na honge
VIDEO
Farida Khanum -- aaj jaane ki zid na karo
VIDEO
Richa Sharma -- aaj jaane ki zid na karo
VIDEO
Mehdi Hassan -- mujhe tum nazar se giraa to rahe ho
VIDEO
Mehdi Hassan -- ranjish he sahi
VIDEO
Malika Pukhraj -- mere qatil mere dildar mere paas raho
VIDEO
Tina Sani -- Faiz Ahmed Faiz centenary concert
VIDEO
VIDEO 2
Qawwali -- hymns of praise to the prophet and saints
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
VIDEO
Kalaam -- a song in praise of God
Richa Sharma -- Chaap tilak sab cheeni -- Amir Khusro
VIDEO
Lal Meri Pat ... Dama Dum Must Qalander -- Runa Laila VIDEO
Iqbal Bano sings two Ghazals
Dasht-e-tanhai mein -- Faiz
VIDEO
Muddat hui yaar ko -- Ghalib
VIDEO
Harshdeep Kaur sings Heer Ranjah the Punjabi Romeo Juliet story
VIDEO
MARIA CALLAS -- Thirty-five years since she passed away September 16,
1977
Bellini's "Norma" -- Casta Diva VIDEO
Puccini's "Gianni Schicci" -- O Mio Babbino Caro VIDEO
Verdi's "La Traviata" -- Sempre Libera VIDEO
Young Violinists
Massenet -- Meditation de Thais -- Sarah Chang VIDEO
Mendelssohn -- Violin Concerto Mvt 1 First part -- Sarah Chang VIDEO
Beethoven -- Violin Concerto -- Arabella Steinbacher VIDEO
Tchaikovsky -- Violin First Mvt -- Janine Jansen VIDEO
Mozart -- Violin Concerto #3 -- Hilary Hahn
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
Amalia Rodrigues, Queen of Fado (1920-1999)
Coimbra -- April in Portugal
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Lagrima VIDEO
La Casa in via del Campo VIDEO
Fadinho da Tia Maria Benta VIDEO
Top Tracks (73) for Amalia Rodrigues -- a Tribute VIDEO
Handel Largo from the opera Xerxes VIDEO
Ombra Mai Fu VIDEO
Kathleen Ferrier - Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice - Che Faro 1946 VIDEO
Cecilia Bartolli - "Voi che sapete" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro VIDEO
It's not Christmas but why not ...
O Holy Night - Caruso and Björling VIDEO
Persian Classical Music:
Mohammad Reza Lotfi - Niavaran Concert
Improvization
Daf and Tombak
Setar and Tombak
Setar and Voice
Persian Percussion:
Daf Duel
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi plays the Tombak
And Belly Dancers
Didem from Turkey
Sadie from ... guess where?
Kagemu -- a meticulously choreographed projection of motion graphics
onto dance VIDEO
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) the Indonesian President composes
pop songs ... VIDEO
... and sings occasionally ... VIDEO
Mozart b. Jan 27, 1756
And composed in 1771 -- Mozart - Symphony No. 14 in A, K.114 - I. Allegro
moderato (period instruments) VIDEO
MOZART: Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370. 1. ALLEGRO VIDEO
Giuseppe Verdi d. Jan 27, 1901
VERDI'S Il Trovatore -- MARIO LANZA sings "Di quella pira" VIDEO
Uzbek Pop VIDEO
Macedonian Zurla -- a double reed instrument -- can be seen on right
VIDEO
Turkish Pop VIDEO
Polyphonic Chants of the Aka Pygmies VIDEO
VIDEO 2
The Brazilian Friction Drum, Cuica - Basics
VIDEO
Carlinhos da Cuica VIDEO
Holiday Music:
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer around the World:
Rodolfo El Reno VIDEO
rudolph mit der roten nase VIDEO
Rudolph le petit renne au nez rouge VIDEO
Turkish Music:
Mustafa Yıldızdoğan - ölürüm Türkiyem VIDEO
Ottoman Music 18th Century - Bir Vefa Bir Çeşm-i Bidad by H. I. Dede
Efendi VIDEO
Old Turkish Classical Music TSM - Kalamış - by M. N.Selçuk VIDEO
Tarkan- Sorma Kalbim (Don't Ask, My Heart) VIDEO
Ebru Gündeş VIDEO
Franz Liszt was born 200 years ago today on Oct 22, 1811. The original
pop star, women were known to swoon at his concerts -- the
phenomenon even given the name Lisztomania. He was an
extraordinary composer, extraordinarily generous to many greats (like
Beethoven) whose works he popularized by transcribing them for piano
and performing them. A formidable pianist, his compositions are
notoriously difficult to play -- in his time only he could!
Martha Argerich plays Liszt's Sonata in B minor VIDEO
Berezovsky plays Liszt's Transcendental Etude No 10, Appassionata
VIDEO
Liebestraum VIDEO
Composed by Norbert Schulze in 1938 to the lyrics from a poem by Hans
Leip written during the First World War, Lili Marleen rendered in Lale
Andersen's husky voice from German Armed Forces Radio in Belgrade
soon became a huge hit among WWII soldiers from both sides in North
Africa -- the German Afrika Korps and the British 8th Army. It's popularity
was universal (partial list of translations below). Schulze died on Oct 14,
2003.
Lale Andersen -- Lili Marleen VIDEO
Vera Lynn -- Lili Marlene -- British version -- Tommy Connor's lyrics
VIDEO
Edith Piaf sings Lili Marlene VIDEO
Lili Marleen-Russian Version ( Natalja Shmidt ) VIDEO
Lili Marleen in Japanese VIDEO
Lili Marleen -- Italian version VIDEO
Mexican Mariachi Music:
mariachi vargas - la bamba VIDEO
TRÍO LOS PANCHOS - La Malagueña (Homenaje a Sarita Montiel)
VIDEO
Franz Schubert - Notturno - Rubinstein Trio VIDEO
Afro-Peruvian Music STORY
Eva Ayllón y Perú Negrito
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Ani Choying Dolma, the Buddhist singing nun from Nepal uses proceeds
to run an education foundation (https://theanifoundation.org/) VIDEO
Om Mani Padme Hu by Ani Choying Dolma VIDEO
Ani Choying teaching the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra VIDEO
Phoolko Akhama - Ani Choying Drolma VIDEO
Pakistan orchestra reinvents jazz classics VIDEO
Mongolian music
And Mongolian Throat Singing
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Female Mongolian Throat Singer VIDEO
Urna Chahar Tugchi-Hodoo VIDEO
Mongolian singer Urna - White camel VIDEO
Norovbanzad - Goolingoo (Mongolian long song) VIDEO
Zurhnii Erel VIDEO
Shahriar on the Iranian Santoor VIDEO
Begum Parveen Sultana on Millennium Stage VIDEO
The Kora and Valiha VIDEO
The Indonesian Sasando VIDEO
Sasandu & Shamisen in Tokyo VIDEO
The Madagascar Valiha
M'Ray Doné valiha VIDEO
Valiha Described VIDEO
Luigi Boccherini: Minuetto VIDEO
Haydn: Andante cantabile (Serenade) VIDEO
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante VIDEO
Edvard Grieg's Solveig's Song -- the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
music
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi VIDEO
Renée Fleming - Ave Maria (Schubert) VIDEO
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Richard Strauss:
Beim Schlafengehen VIDEO
Ustad Iqbal Ahmad Khan- Ghazal (poem set to music) in Raga Kedar
VIDEO
Cher, Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
Help me make it through the night - Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
Me and Bobby Mcgee - Kris Kristofferson VIDEO
A glorious end ... Beethoven's Ninth
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
The Iranian Classical Singer Ostad Mohammad Reza Shajarian ...
Hafez, "Sarv e chamaan e man chera..."
VIDEO
Tasnif Neyzan
VIDEO
Orpheus and Euridice now at the Salzburg Festival
Here is an older sampling of the famous aria ...
Tito Schipa - "Che farò senza Euridice?" VIDEO
Of course at Salzburg how can we forget Mozart ...
Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major K. 216 - 2nd Movement - Adagio
VIDEO
Mauritanian Music:
Dimi Mint Abba -
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
Mali Music:
Djembe
Ensemble
Brief Kora Intro
Mamadou Diabate on Kora
Toumani Diabate on Kora
In this the 200th anniversary year of Chopin's birth (March 1, 1810), here
are a few pieces played by Chinese pianist Yundi Li a former winner of
the prestigious Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition.
Chopin nocturne op. 9 no. 2
VIDEO
Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66
VIDEO
And here's Yundi Li (at age 18 the youngest winner) at the Chopin Piano
Competition
VIDEO
February 14
For Valentine's Day we go down memory lane ... Judy Collins brings to
life Joni Mitchell's beautiful encapsulating lyrics VIDEO
And here's an encore VIDEO
Luigi Boccherini: Minuet
VIDEO
Pachelbel Canon in D Major
VIDEO
Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca
VIDEO
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary
Quincy Jones claimed to drink of it every morning - his 'orange juice'
VIDEO
So What - John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Miles Davis --- jazz trumpeter, icon, the music revolutionary with with
clean minimalist lines. Perhaps the most significant jazz musician of the
20th century. 'Cool jazz'. And John Coltrane another genius. VIDEO
J.du Pré - Granados Intermezzo VIDEO
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White VIDEO
Mambo No.5 --- Perez Prado VIDEO
Folk Music
Ashokan Farewell --- Jay Ungar (1982) --- in the style of a Scottish lament
VIDEO
And here's Jay Ungar himself with Molly Mason
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
Twilight
VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
VIDEO 4
Rose and Gould play Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A: 1st movement
VIDEO
J.du Pré - Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A - II.Scherzo
VIDEO
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