arty Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Look what I've found: Antal Szalai - never heard of him - plays Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. Brilliant! It starts here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alonso Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Not that I listen to music much anymore arty, I've come to enjoy silence too much, but if & when there's always Beethoven's pastoral (the 6th isit?) or some Delius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arty Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sure is. Here's my favourite recording with Toscanini wielding the baton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC-EPsvdi6E (showing my age, maybe? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrietta Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I agree ...... Beethoven's 6th, the " Pastoral ", is just wonderful. When travelling, driving , my wife and I just love those ABC compilations of " SWOON " music. So calming, so beautiful . Cheers J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arty Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 A complete, uninterrupted rendition by RAI, the Italian broadcaster, recorded in 2008. Sound quality a little scratchy in places, but played with energy and enthusiasm. Beethoven - sesta sinfonia - la "Pastorale": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6flntn-1GoE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arty Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 And for the newborn Royal Twins, a delightful piano lullaby (turn the volume down between about 5:00 and 6:30) Chaconne by Carl Nielsen: "Mary had a little girl, She also had a son, She played for them a lullaby: Carl Nielsen's Dansk Chaconne." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander C Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 My favourite Saint-Saens: Africa --- first time I heard this amazing piece was on a United Airlines flight in '09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=polPjzm225Q Piano Concerto No 5 - "Egyptian" --- the 1st movement grows on you after a while --- the 2nd movement beautifully Oriental --- the 3rd movement reminds me of the steamboat on Death on a Nile chugging up the nile with Hercules Poirot / Peter Ustinov and Angela Lansbury fluttering away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander C Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 My favourite Ravel Piano Concerto in G - 2nd movement adagio assai [slow] Martha Argerich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwLarIVXH4k...feature=related Belgian piano competition winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macduffy Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Thanks for that, Commander, "Africa" especially. Goes nicely with a couple of glasses of New Zealand pinot gris and, I'd imagine, even better at 30,000 ft odd in business class! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander C Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 Here's some Schumann for today Symphony No. 3 in E flat "Rhenish", conducted by Leonard Bernstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U8NCfDwbFk...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u98j5DBE8k...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGMzEUPc430...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2rOtbyRYRM...feature=related Symphony No. 4 in D minor, conducted by Leonard Bernstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia9yf-U6AFU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzS-n43Mzj8...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8iteWJb-hc...feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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