Fuck Yeah Classical
For the love of all music that is classical. Remember, all music was once new.
Run by: macmankev and christielouwho
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Video reblogged from Danfrth is on Tumblr
This is fun. Try it in fullscreen. Extra points if you tilt your head. You’re only human.
Visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries in the shape of a rollercoaster.
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Audio post reblogged from The Muse and the Fashion[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 359 playsSerenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48; II. Valse: Moderato â Tempo di valse by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48; II. Valse: Moderato — Tempo di valse
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 620 playsCan You Feel the Love Tonight by Donald FraserCan You Feel the Love Tonight (in the style of Tchaikovsky) - Donald Fraser
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 930 playsPrelude in B Minor, Op.32, No.10 by Vladimir AshkenazyPrelude in B Minor, Op.32, No.10
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Video reblogged from REAL FAUSTUS
A Concert for New York
The fully edited PBS broadcast, hosted by NBC News special correspondent and author Tom Brokaw, is now streaming online at pbs.org. The concert, performed by the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, in Avery Fisher Hall, features Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, with soprano Dorothea Röschmann, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the New York Choral Artists.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 919 playsEnd of the World (Tristan and Isolde) by Richard WagnerRichard Wagner / Melancholia / End of the World (Tristan and Isolde)
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 457 playsMetropolis: III. Furioso: Der Aufstand der Arbeiter by Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraMetropolis: III. Furioso: Der Aufstand der Arbeiter by Gottfried Huppertz
The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frank Strobel
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Metropolis includes movie music that can stand on its own. Hear a new version of the classic score.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 461 playsGayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) by Aram KhachaturianAram Khachaturian / 2001: A Space Odyssey / Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio)
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Audio post reblogged from nothing more terrible, nothing more true[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 1,242 playsAllegro molto by Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich, “String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110, 2. Allegro Molto”
I think this performance is by the Emerson String Quartet, but I ripped it from a CD I owned ages and ages ago before reliable ripping and tagging programs. I also have a version of this by the Kronos Quartet, but I like this one better (I tend to have a bias towards versions heard first, because that’s what I get accustomed to and look for the little nuances in every version after…) But I legitimately like this one better, I think. It’s a little sharper and not as muted-sounding, a little more raw, a little crazier.
Shostakovich wrote the Eighth String Quartet in three days in 1960, after two awful things occurring in his life: his son was diagnosed with polio, and he was forced to join the Communist Party. He dedicated the piece to “the victims of fascism and war.” Lev Lebedinsky, a good friend of the composer’s, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time. It contains the DSCH motif that was his signature, and a number of bits and pieces from his other works.
I really love this whole piece, but the second movement stands out to me. After the slow, crushing sadness of the first movement, this sounds like some kind of crazy Victorian chase music. Or insanity. You can hear the anxiety, I think.
Some more Shostakovich tomorrow, I think.
