Fuck Yeah Classical
For the love of all music that is classical. Remember, all music was once new.
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Audio post reblogged from topofobia
Christmas Eve
- Tchaikovsky: The Christmas Tree and Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker (1892): Cincinnati Pops; Greater Cincinnati Children’s Choir; Erich Kunzel, conductor
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (1912): Stephen Roberts, baritone; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus; Richard Hickox, conductor
Merry Christmas!
(Source: topofobia)
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Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (1888)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- IV. Finale (Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace - Molto vivace - Moderato assai e molto maestoso - Presto)
Valery Gergiev; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 7/1998. Live recording of a Salzburg Festival Concert.From another recording: the third movement from this symphony
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 10 playsSleeping Beauty, Op. 66 - Apotheose by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 - Apotheose - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Audio post reblogged from Zoltán Venéczi[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 570 playsSwan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: 2. Waltz (Tempo di valse) by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: 2. Waltz, Tempo di valse (1876)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
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Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (1888)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- III. Valse: Allegro moderato
Mariss Jansons; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Audio post reblogged from Zoltán Venéczi
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 581 playsThe Seasons, for piano, Op. 37: June: Barcarolle by Van CliburnPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): The Seasons for piano, Op. 37b (1876) - June: Barcarolle
Van Cliburn, piano (1975)
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Video reblogged from The Muse and the Fashion
Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein’s voices? TOO COOL.
From the info by transformingArt:
This Edison phonograph cylinder recording from 1890 was made by Julius Block, a Russian Businessman of German descent (The Old Man with the Umbrella in this video) who became fascinated with the phonograph (and even convinced Tchaikovsky to sign an endorsement).
The recording was kept by Block until his death in 1934. His family donated the cylinder (with other cylinders made by Block) in a German Archive after his death. The recording was re-discovered in the Pushkin archive of St.Petersburg, Russia in 1997, and was labelled with the names of the participants: Anton Rubinstein (composer), Elizaveta Lavrovskaya (singer), Peter Tchaikovsky (composer), Vassily Safonov (pianist and conductor), Alexandra Hubert (pianist), Julius Block (the host himself).
One can imagine the scene - a group of eminent musicians each standing around this new ‘wonderful invention’, being gently encouraged to say something. So there are a few words of banter, some musical scales, whistles, etc., much of which is only just audible.
Here is the translated contents of this recording:
A. Rubinstein: What a wonderful thing [the phonograph].
J. Block: Finally.
E. Lawrowskaja: A disgusting…how he dares slyly to name me.
W. Safonov : (Sings a scale incorrectly).
P. Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better.
E. Lawrowskaja: (sings).
P. Tchaikovsky: Block is good, but Edison is even better.
E. Lawrowskaja: (sings) A-o, a-o.
W. Safonow: (In German) Peter Jurgenson in Moskau.
P. Tchaikovsky: Who just spoke? It seems to have been Safonow. (Whistles)
A Real Treasure from the Past!
* Note: There is a recent CD issue released by Marston Records(the company owned by Ward Marston, the famous recording restorer.) with 90 excerpts of Julius Block cylinders. It is worth buying! -
Audio post reblogged from go gently[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 2,327 playsNocturne, Op 19, No 4 by Tchaikovsky
Nocturne, Op 19, No 4 - P. I. Tchaikovsky
Alexander Sokolov, piano
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Audio post reblogged from accidental charm
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker, III. Waltz of the Flowers
