A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
Anthony Aaron, and Steve C.
Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.
We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.
Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.
We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.
A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.
We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.
Steve C.
Schubert: Symphony in C major ‘The Great’ | Marek Janowski & the Dresdner Philharmonie
Franz Schubert’s “Great” symphony (D 944) could also be called the “Long” symphony – since for many years it was considered the longest orchestral work of all time. The Austrian composer himself, however, never got to hear this Symphony in C major. It was not premiered until eleven years after his death by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Robert Schumann had discovered it in Schubert’s musical estate and immediately recognized its artistic value. In this video, Schubert’s “Great” symphony is performed by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marek Janowski. The renowned German orchestra celebrated its 150th anniversary with this concert in 2020.
(00:00) I. Andante. Allegro ma non troppo
(17:20) II. Andante con moto
(31:35) III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio
(45:20) IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
This Next Piece Comes To Us From Former Mafioso SMC.
Led Zeppelin – Going To California
Such a simple melody, played masterfully by that lutest.
Instrument looks far more challenging to play than a 6-string guitar.
Regards the talented guitarist using electronics overlaying in the Zeppelin tune, any fans of the work of that creative British quartet are advised to seek out and attend the concert of a talented 6-man tribute band called Get The Led Out, if they tour through your area.
They nail it, on every tune they play.
Edit/Add: another fave by LZ.
Salud, Jimmy Page.
This One Comes From Current Mafioso Anthony Aaron.
Heart – Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors)
Heart also did a great job on Led Zeppelin’s anthem, ‘Stairway to Heaven’ at the Kennedy Center Honors performance …
The Next Five Come To Us Thanks To Ursel Doran.
Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Narciso Yepes
Thanks very much to you gentlemen for your diligent work to provide us with this venue every Sunday to worship the music. The most anticipated happening for the week.
A couple of worthwhile submittals.
Ten string guitar!
NANA MOUSKOURI “RECUERDOS DE LA ALHAMBRA”
Famous vocalist!!
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy for piano, voices, chorus and orchestra, Op. 80
I am quite convinced that the most marvellous concoction over to be conceived on the planet is the symphony orchestra. Huge expense for all the instruments, enabled by the huge efforts of all the musicians, to be performed in the fabulous palaces of the worlds concert halls.
Here is a prime example.
The concert hall is something to behold! Piano artistry is superb, and the conductor is great also!
Yuja Wang/Through the Years: Ages 8~36
A Sunday with some Yuja Wang is of course always a good Sunday. This tracing of her career as a GENIUS child prodigy to become a world famous performer is a demonstration of her marvellous skills.
Peter,Paul & Mary – Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (1965)
Peter Paul and Mary had a 20 year plus career as one of the leaders of the “folk music” groups, along with the original Kingston Trio and a few others. This old black and white video of their vocal skills I really love.
Lots of their other works on the menu bar.
These Next Three Pieces Come To Us Thanks To Anonymous.
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
Serenade to Music (Arr. for Orchestra)
Reverie, L. 68
These Last Two Come To Us Thanks To Leah.
Colin Stetson – The love it took to leave you
Happy Sunday. Thank you for the variety. Happened across this and thought I’d share.
Hope you enjoy.
Colin Stetson – “Funeral”
And a spooky soundtrack.
Anthony Aaron
Turning to another favorite violinist … Hilary Hahn
Tschaikowsky: Violinkonzert
Violinkonzert D-Dur op. 35 ∙
I. Allegro moderato
II. Canzonetta. Andante
III. Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Hilary Hahn, Violine ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent
Once again … revisiting my favorite violinist … Mari Samuelson (and her brother Hakon – cellist)
Mari & Hakon Samuelsen – Einaudi Divenire
Jan Garbarek, Mari Boine: Evening Land
I have previously chosen musical performances by Jan Garbarek … solo, with Keith Jarrett, etc. Mari Boine is a singer and musician from Sapmi, Norway … and she infuses her music with her Sami roots in combination with jazz, rock and electronic sounds.
This is her biography:
IMAGINE the ice and snow of the Arctic landscape, the bitter cold of the Northern wind, the hint of compelling blue under a crystallized lake.
Close your eyes.
Then listen.
Really listen.
You’ll feel a voice before you even hear it.
It’s like none other.
It’s a voice that brings the landscape alive with a mesmerizing purity, representing a thousand years of ancestral connection to an unyielding frozen space.
THIS IS MARI BOINE.
Mari Boine and Liu Sola ”Maze”
Music – Lyrics – Singing: Mari Boine
Voice yoik: Liu Sola
Album: ”A week or two in the real world” (1994)
Steve C.
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 | Claudio Abbado & the Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049, at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy (2007). This Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 has a very special line-up: principal violin (Giuliano Carmignola), two recorders (Michala Petri and Nikolaj Tarasov) and a string orchestra. Bach described the recorders as “Fiauti d’echo”, or “echo flutes”, although it’s not quite clear what he meant by that.
The fourth of the Brandenburg concerts is the only work that uses “echo flutes” as far as we know today. The Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 was probably written in 1720 as one of the last or even the last of the six Brandenburg Concertos.
00:00 I. Allegro
07:11 II. Andante
10:54 III. Presto
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 | Claudio Abbado & the Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy (2007).
Bach’s fifth Brandenburg Concerto is special in two respects: It includes a ‘concertino’ with harpsichord, transverse flute and violin, in which the three solo instruments confront the string orchestra as if in a kind of dialogue. And the slow middle movement is played by the three soloists without any string orchestra at all. This second movement is a restrained lament in which violin, flute and harpsichord enter into a canonic dialogue with each other.
What is also special about the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto is that Bach gave the harpsichord a prominent role. In the first movement, this tradition-steeped keyboard instrument has a three-minute solo passage that is brilliantly handled by Ottavio Dantone
(05:56). Because of this harpsichord solo, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is considered perhaps the earliest example of a solo concerto for a keyboard instrument.
00:00 I. Allegro
09:00 II. Affettuoso
14:03 III. Allegro
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 | Claudio Abbado & the Orchestra Mozart
The Orchestra Mozart performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051, at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy (2007).
What makes Johann Sebastian Bach’s 6th Brandenburg Concerto special is its darker, almost mysterious sound. This comes from the special instrumentation, which does entirely without high strings and wind instruments. Instead, violas, viols, cellos, double bass and harpsichord alone fill this sixth of the Brandenburg Concertos.
00:00 I. Allegro
06:00 II. Adagio ma non tanto
10:47 III. Allegro
The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.
Heaven help us…
The Sunday Crew tradition continues,thanks folks!
As always,I try and slip(cheat) a piece of rock with classical tones into the posters play list.
Todays piece is King Henry The 8th’s Madrigal,or,Good Times With Past Company,performed by,well…..,Jethro Tull of course!I saw this 79 tour 8 times as a young lad,good times!
Hope all enjoy and have a good Sunday all.
Steve,
Thanks again for your coordination efforts and consistency. It’s appreciated by many; sure.
On this day, a visual YT vid, with a recommendation to view on a PC vs. a smartphone, and take it to full screen.
For the audio submission, it’s a hymn by some kiddos with angelic voices. It is Sunday, after all.
IF you want to get creative, start the Angelis tune for audio, then watch the Flying video with the audio muted, for an alternate of listening to it’s own soundtrack.
Seize the day today, and try to find some good. If you can’t find some, then create some.
For others, and the benefit will come back to you, certainly.
Peace be with You, and God Bless.
“This is Why We Fly”
and
Angelis – Requiem Pie Jesu
Angelis has a beautiful sound. Thank you SMC.
Thank you for the BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy!
A Paul Simon Classic toe-tapper is most entertaining!
Always have liked the up tempo pace in that song, UD.
Toe-tapper, indeed. A feel-good tune.
If I’m not mistaken, that was recorded down in Rick Hall’s studio in Muscle Shoals, AL, using his house band, The Swampers, who Lynard Skynard sang about in S.H.Alabama.
Love the percussion beat and the piano, especially.
thought this was kind of cute, & wasn’t sure where to put it, so here we are.
You just inspired me, Suds.
Violinkonzert is excellent.
Thank you, k31 …
A different version of this Morricone piece. “Once Upon a Time in the West” performed by the Mannheimer Philharmoniker conducted by Boian Videnoff.
Steve I really enjoyed some of the classical selections today. The young man on the piano forte was outstanding.
Thank you for sharing Colin’s work, and thanks for another week of music.
Love to see the fun they are having while playing this.
~Can you ID the various orchestral instruments? Visually AND audibly?
Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Kettle Drum, Cymbals, Gong, Tambourine, and Xylophone.
I can identify music I enjoy. Thank you. Can you enjoy the composition of every food molecule your pie hole enjoys?
Edited to ask could you identify the composition of every food molecule you enjoy?
That wasn’t meant to be critical, nor directed specifically to you, but anyone who views & listens to it. If it came across as uppity, ’twasn’t the intent. Mea culpa.
I upvoted the piece and enjoyed it, because of all the different instruments. . . just find it interesting, and part of getting to know musician’s instruments, that’s all.
No offense was intended, so none should be taken.
I don’t take offense.
And a hat tip to Suds
Interesting reveal here, Leah. Thx!
So, looking down the sidebar list, here are a few more I’ve bookmarked…
~hey…to each their own, on musical likes, right?
What Is Love?
The Real Slim Shady
Hey Ya
and
I Want It That Way
You’re welcome and thank you for digging deeper. I found the 1 hr version. It seemed much to share but I will be listening. The comments are great. Peace ro you.