Monday, September 20, 2010

They don't make music like they used to...




'The Hut of Baba Yaga' and 'The Great Gates of Kiev' from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

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'Adagio (3rd mvt)' and the finale from Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony






'Adagio (3rd mvt)' and the finale from Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony




Finale from Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony

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'Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia' from Khachaturian's Spartacus Suite

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'Adagietto (4th mvt)' from Mahler's 5th Symphony



Canadian gold. ;)

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'Andante comodo (1st mvt)' from Mahler's 9th Symphony

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'Allegro con fuoco (4th mvt)' from Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony

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'Allegro molto vivace (3rd mvt)' from Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony



Female conductors do it better! ;)

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Finale from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite



Stravinsky conducts his entire Firebird Suite



Disney does Stravinsky's Firebird

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Ravel's 'La Valse'

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Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe

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Arvo Part's 'Tabula Rasa'

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Arvo Part's 'Spiegel im Spiegel'

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e348n660zrA

Arvo Part's 'Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten'

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Finale from Dvorak's 9th Symphony

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Dvorak's Carnival Overture

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Leonard Bernstein's Overture from 'Candide'



Go go Eiji!

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Finale from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Suite

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B49N46I39Y&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B49N46I39Y

'Jupiter' from Holst's Planets Suite

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'Neptune' from Holst's Planets Suite

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Finale from Sibelius' 5th Symphony

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWa3YwAs5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXCIlktGsY&feature=related

Sibelius' 7th Symphony

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Sibelius' Finlandia

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Debussy's L'apres-midi d'un Faune

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Johann Strauss II's Thunder and Lightning Polka

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Johann Strauss II's In the Little Jelly Doughnut Woods Polka

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Finale from Shostakovich's 12th Symphony

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Finale from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

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Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Capriccio espagnol'

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Finale from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony

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Arturo Marquez's Danzon No. 2

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Pedro Elías Gutiérrez's Alma Llanera

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Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 1



Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oGn8AX1Xc

Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 6

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Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending

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Finale from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

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Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1/ 'Land of Hope and Glory

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Variation IX (Adagio) Nimrod from Elgar's 'Enigma Variations'

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'Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace (3rd mvt) + Adagio—Allegro molto e vivace (4th mvt)' from Beethoven's 1st Symphony

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First, Second and Finale of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

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My favourite bits of classical music (so far). :)

The really don't make music like the used to.

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