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.
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, Argerich HQ COMPLETE
High quality, full upload. Filmed on December 5th, 1982
The Next Two Pieces Come To Us Thanks To Former Mafioso SMC.
Wait For Me
Giving Thanks, in gratitude for the efforts by all contributors, to maintain this Sunday tradition on the platform. Appreciate ya.
Offering up 4:22 of pleasant visuals, with a decent enough audio track.
Escape for a while and enjoy.
Full screen recommended.
In particular, Avalon. This one’s for you.
…for the sunrises and sunsets on the horizon, and the ocean.
~Peaceful.
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya
Found this piece on a site that mentioned the Holodomor tragedy 80 years ago.
The visual appears to be UKR soldiers carrying one of their fallen brethren out of respect.
Without taking sides, war isn’t hell for the neocon westerners with an agenda.
War is hell for the men of a country who get thrown into a meatgrinder, and so many are lost.
Sad.
The melody and harmonies in this piece are hauntingly attractive and sung very well, IMHO.
Chilling.
The mood reminds me of Barber’s Adagio for Strings.
Hope you can take an appreciation for it.
The Next Four Come To Us Thanks To Ursel Doran.
Yuja Wang: Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124
A Sunday without the marvellous Yuja is like a Sunday without sunshine.
Two short encore pieces after this favourite work!
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43
Yuja Wang – Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in d minor, Op.15
This 50 minute performance by Yula is special. Outdoors in the square in Munich.
Peter,Paul & Mary – Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (1965)
There is classics and then then this is a bit off the reservation for classical memories for us geriatrics.
Anthony Aaron
For something different from my usual run of the mill meanderings, I offer a selections from the soundtrack of ‘Amadeus’ … a favorite movie of mine that also has exceptional music.
I hope you will enjoy …
Mozart – Symphony No. 25 In G Minor, K. 183, 1St Movement
Serenade For Winds, K. 361, 3rd Movement
I recall the dialogue for this piece because it was so strikingly beautiful … spoken by a man in total awe of what he was hearing …
Antonio Salieri: [reflecting upon a Mozart score] On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.
Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299; 2nd Movement
Mozart Concerto No. 10 for two pianos in E-flat, K.365. 3rd movement
Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 – I. Allegro moderato
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, 3rd movement
Mozart – The Magic Flute – Overture
Mozart – String Serenade No.13 “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” in G Major, KV525 – 1st Movement
Mozart – Requiem [Confutatis/Lacrimosa]
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 – II. Romance
At one point in the movie, Costanza (Mozart’s wife) has a meeting with Salieri during which she shows him some of her husband’s work … and Salieri’s reaction is remarkable …
Antonio Salieri: [reflecting upon Mozart’s scores] Astounding! It was actually, it was beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music, but they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head! Page after page of it as if he were just taking dictation. And music, finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall. It was clear to me that sound I had heard in the Archbishop’s palace had been no accident. Here again was the very Voice of God! I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink-strokes at an absolute beauty.
Constanze Mozart: Is it not good?
Antonio Salieri: It is miraculous
Steve C.
Waltzing Matilda | The Smothers Brothers | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, are one of the most iconic comedy duos in the history of television. Tom and Dick began performing as a duo in the late 1950s, playing in coffeehouses and clubs in San Francisco. Their act consisted of music, comedy, and witty banter, which quickly gained them a following.
The Smothers Brothers became a household name in the late 1960s with their variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The show was groundbreaking in its approach to comedy, pushing the boundaries with political satire and social commentary. The show also featured up-and-coming musical acts, including The Doors and The Who, and introduced the world to comedians like Steve Martin and George Carlin.
The Smothers Brothers’ irreverent style has made them a beloved and enduring force in American comedy.
They Call The Wind Maria | The Smothers Brothers | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, are one of the most iconic comedy duos in the history of television. Tom and Dick began performing as a duo in the late 1950s, playing in coffeehouses and clubs in San Francisco. Their act consisted of music, comedy, and witty banter, which quickly gained them a following.
The Smothers Brothers became a household name in the late 1960s with their variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The show was groundbreaking in its approach to comedy, pushing the boundaries with political satire and social commentary. The show also featured up-and-coming musical acts, including The Doors and The Who, and introduced the world to comedians like Steve Martin and George Carlin.
Draft Dodger Rag – Smothers Brothers and George Segal
From 1967, the Smothers Brothers stood virtually alone, among contemporary performers of that time, opposing the Vietnam War (Conflict, or whatever you want to call it). This was their version of a Phil Ochs’ song, “Draft Dodger Rag”, with guest star George Segal.
Smothers “Impossible Dream”
“THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR” (1988-89)
Smothers Brothers Concert In Salt Lake City
Growing up watching the Smothers Brother’s Comedy Hour on CBS was always fun with my father. He loved the Smothers and had all their LP’s (vinyl albums) So when the opportunity came to produced their Salt Lake Concert, I grabbed the chance. All the years working with Alan Osmond, certainly paid off in being able to put this fun filled comedy show together. When I shared, I was going to be working with the Smothers Brothers, my dad was so thrilled. I still have a copy of their contract for doing this show.
The concert was in 98, if I remember correctly, and you will hear a little bit of their political spin if you listen closely. This is just a short clip from the show. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did producing this concert.
To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before | The Smothers Brothers | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Tommy and Dick Smothers sing To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before on the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
The Smothers Brothers
The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, are one of the most iconic comedy duos in the history of television. Tom and Dick began performing as a duo in the late 1950s, playing in coffeehouses and clubs in San Francisco. Their act consisted of music, comedy, and witty banter, which quickly gained them a following.
The Smothers Brothers became a household name in the late 1960s with their variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The show was groundbreaking in its approach to comedy, pushing the boundaries with political satire and social commentary. The show also featured up-and-coming musical acts, including The Doors and The Who, and introduced the world to comedians like Steve Martin and George Carlin.
The Smothers Brothers’ irreverent style has made them a beloved and enduring force in American comedy.
The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.
Heaven help us…
THE most difficult “group” to record IS classical artists! NOT kidding! LOL! You think a Twisted Sister lead guitarist is a pain in the butt, in the studio? You ain’t SEEN NOTHING until you get tied up with those long hairs!!!! LOL!
In engineering, sound is insanely difficult compared to a SINGLE signal and connection for video.
Well … put 80 or so musicians together for a symphony orchestra and what do you expect — especially with all of the 1000-slider mixing consoles of today.
Go back to the heyday of early stereo — to labels such as RCA Living Stereo or Mercury Living Presence and a couple of others — when they got great sound out of orchestras by following the KISS principle … keeping things simple, for example, by using only 3 microphones.
The recordings from that era were excellent — plus, of course, we had great orchestras and great conductors playing great music by great composers.
Bronfman playing the long cadenza:
That is the best recording of it I have found so far.
Yuja played it similarly and even edged out a few improvements over it, when I heard her live at the SF Symphony in 2012.
Thank you so much Mafia – as I bask in the sunny dawn on the mountain in Murdoch Valley, Simons Town, looking over False Bay from my special home, I play your wonderful music and know that my Maker is nearby and sends His angels to hold me in their hands (Psalm 91).
Anthony: Well done, Sir,
with your descriptions, selections, and submittals for this edition.
~Thank You very much.
You are so very welcome … it’s easy, though, when the material I occasionally get to work with is so sublime … so brilliant …
Springsteen is one of the most prolific and worldwide known and traveled for his concerts.
When you write and produce a song that gets this sort of following you have done something bug.
A huge favorite of mine. “John Henry”
This Liszt concerto I have on occasion played over and over.
The venue and the conductor may have contributed to the performance of this piece.
Yuja is magnificent as usual. Yuja Wang does a favourite performance of a Liszt concerto!!
SMC … thanks for the Smothers Brothers selections … they were funny ‘back in the day’ … with gentle humor and good music and musical guests.
Steve Martin, as I recall, wasn’t only one of their guests, but he wrote for their show and, of course, was a banjo player in his own right.
Many thanks for the memories …
I believe that was Steve C, AA.
The Brothers were not my submission.
Typo on my part …
A few more from Boian Videnoff and the Mannheimer Philharmoniker: First, a Shostakowitsch piece
Next a Hans Zimmer piece…
And finally, Beethoven Symphony No. 5
I hope that you enjoyed..
Thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you.
sorry for the mix up
Steve C. Thanks for the Smothers Brothers.
Jamieson “Junior” Brown is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released nine studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown’s signature instrument is the “guit-steel” double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
Junior Brown performs Surf Medley, This instrumental guitar medley consists of the songs “Pipeline” (Chantays, 1962), “Walk, Don’t Run!” (Johnny Smith, 1954), and “Secret Agent Man” (The Challengers, 1965).
Junior Brown performs “Hang Up And Drive” Live on the Texas Music Scene
More About Junior Brown
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Brown was born in Kirksville, Indiana. He first learned to play piano from his father (Samuel Emmons Brown Jr) “before I could talk”. His music career began in the 1960s, and he worked through that decade and the next singing and playing pedal steel and guitar for groups such as The Last Mile Ramblers, Dusty Drapes and the Dusters and Asleep at the Wheel while developing his astonishing guitar skills. By the mid-1980s he was teaching guitar at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University, in Claremore, Oklahoma.
In 1985, Junior invented a double-neck guitar, with some assistance from Michael Stevens. Junior called the instrument his “guit-steel”. When performing, Junior plays the guitar by standing behind it, while it rests on a small podium/music stand. The top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional 6-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lap steel guitar for slide playing. Brown has two guit-steels for recording and live work. The original instrument, dubbed “Old Yeller”, has as its standard 6-string guitar portion the neck and pickups from Brown’s previous stage guitar, a Fender Bullet. The second guit-steel, named “Big Red”, has a neck laser-copied from the Bullet neck, but in addition to electric guitar pickups, both the standard and lap-steel necks use an identical Sho-Bud lap-steel pickup.
Thanks, Junior is absolutely one of the greatest of all time. And I appreciated the pieces by the Mannheimer Philharmoniker . . . several of the ladies are quite interesting too.
This might not be ‘classical’ in the ‘classic’ sense of ‘classical’ music … but it sure is funny …