i am sorry, i have a sneaking suspicion that the whole of december will be filled with christmas carols - which i adore! so i will start with a proper advent hymn!
yay! i love, adore etc christmas carols. and my spine starts to tingle, and i smell the cinnamon/cloves and oranges!
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i was debating between ballet - in celebration of SB’s ballet exam, or violin - in mourning for her giving up. SO i have chosen violin, in the hopes my spare strings will come soon, so that i get practicing!
of course, talent like this is extremely rare [perlman age 13!!!] though, to be fair, i prefer this version.
but that is starting near the end! lets have a bit of the beginning. its good isn’t it!
not the best recording quality, and a short clip, but my heart belongs to menuhin. she how he just flows with the violin, effortless!
a very old recording, i do prefer this more modern version though, the bowing suits me better! much more legato! but i think it doesn’t have the heart of menuhin. [hideous dress though hey!] this has been youtubed weirdly, so it starts with the rather fab first mvt cadenza. however, at about 5 mins is the start of the second mvt [the first and second mvts ‘run together’. this is prob my fav of the youtube offerings, a clear singing violin tone, rubato not overdone, but def emotional!
Enjoy!
i love the way the swirling water of the vltava river has been captured in this piece of music. this is just a snippet. i would recommend searching for a copy of the whole thing though!
well, after the previous desperate post i thought i should post a bit of ballet music. this comes with ballet video too!! enjoy!
i was actually looking for the credo of his harmonie messe as it has my favourite ‘in vitam venturi saeculi amen’ phrase. funny to like one phrase so much!! but i do. must keep searching.
gloria anyway! obviously, i sang this as part of Leeds Festival Chorus. this chap has put out all 3 sections of the gloria, but the bit i want is in the credo!
so, if we are really going for some good glorias!
this one by vivaldi - or faster!! [i think i have listed this before though, so doesn’t count!!
or perhaps a bit of bach?
or, i might have to agree with the youtube claims here
i should prob have listed these in musical ages shouldn’t i? a mozart gloria
and quite differently, a Poulenc gloria - haunting isn’t it.
in honour of SB who has now played this both in her GBDF and ACE piano book, and tune a day violin book. i also played it in my GBDF book more years ago than i cared to remember! i have also played it ‘for real’ and like his named symphonies a lot. i chose this version as my sister was taught piano by richard hickox’ mother, and i like the collegium musicm and their period instruments. Although not credited, this sounds like modern instruments for comparison.
here is the clock bit of the clock - again much played and much loved, fantastic first violins bit!!
and i like the idea of the farewell as well. humour and politics in music!!
and here it is. this is the music that IS my mother to me. i knew it was mozart, and thought it had a country name in it as well so i just searched piano and youtube! [since there is no singing facility] isn’t it absolutely fab. you can imagine it played to show sheer joy and fun. Thankyou mum for my wonderful musical childhood. love you.
we were talking yesterday and led to as a child spotting my mothers mood by the music she played. she loved playing this whilst i was a child. searching for her fav still
I wonder if my children will associate this and this with me? my mother also frequently played this suite, leading me to want to learn it.
i am sorry, i am feeling v stringy. nearly went for some ballet music, but… this time of year always reminds me of string residential courses, as the leaves turn and it starts to get nippy!
SO here it is, the piece of music we played on my fist residential string course, and loved ever since. the st paul’s suite. written for the similarly named girls school where holst was musical director. this is the second half
sorry, I am on a bit of a string roll! i just find this particular musical style to be particularly relaxing. i love it!! must meet up with em to release my baroque soul!! anyway, here are some alternatives!!
on a far cry fest. here they are with the serenade for strings. this has LOTS of musical memories for me from the Bucks county string orchestra - my first residential music course.
soul soothing music. if a far cry ever come to this side of the pond i want tickets btw
The pathetique. rather lovely all of it. the slow mvts always catch best…
holberg suite. i love this. i always think it sounds ‘very english’. i have a thing for all strings! here is some more.
i enjoy a lot of sibelius’s music, and was debating what to start with. but i have decided on the jollity of the opening of the karelia suite. hope you like it too. thinking as i hear it of the friends i had in the french horn section!
the thing with this is that this series got me through redundancy process at work. and hearing this theme still gives me that same sensation of being able to breathe again.
so here it is, battlestar galactica, a theme that i will always be thankful for though i don’t rank it in the music to love pantheon in quite the same way!
i fell in love with philip glass’s music when i went to see the making of the representative of planet 8 at the ENO as a student. it is really difficult to find any traces of that music! i love the rolling harmonies and the repetitions. it is an evolution in his style, and i certainly don’t like it all, but … so i am trying to find in utube clips what i mean. his violin concerto good!
i love this particular piano concerto. one day i need to practice enough to consider playing perhaps the slow mvt… ihave a lovely recording of barenboim playing them in one take, mistakes and musicality and totally brilliant. here is barenboim playing the ‘moonlight’ sonata which i do love playing, but obviously with less skill!
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