What are you watching on YouTube now?

[Chris]

Yes that is the 1981 version of the Goldberg - compare with the 1955 version:

Yes, I actually have a CD that contains both versions, as well as outtakes from the recording sessions, etc. Why, do you find the 1955 superior?

[Sorrano]

Gould's humming is always distracting to me. I had a tape of the Goldberg Variations but didn't know about the humming before listening to it. I kept thinking, WTH?

[Peter]

Yes, I actually have a CD that contains both versions, as well as outtakes from the recording sessions, etc. Why, do you find the 1955 superior?

Not necessarily, there is an eccentricity in both! This version by Murray Perahia is far more to my taste, exquisite playing.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwEsrdClimk[/YOUTUBE]

[Chris]

I think my preferred version on piano is actually Charles Rosen. Overall, probably Trevor Pinnock on the harpsichord.

[Peter]

Son qual nave ch'agitata - Artaserse (1734) de Riccardo Broschi.

By way of comparison the fusion of the voices of countertenor Derek Lee Ragin and Ewa Godlewska used in the film about the famous castrato Carlo Broschi (brother of the composer) better known as Farinelli:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYvb6wtjZY&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]


And the same aria sung by Cecilia Bartoli

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yLsGL3J1VQ&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

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Son qual nave ch'agitata - Artaserse (1734) de Riccardo Broschi.

By way of comparison the fusion of the voices of countertenor Derek Lee Ragin and Ewa Godlewska used in the film about the famous castrato Carlo Broschi (brother of the composer) better known as Farinelli:

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Interesting. Is the vocal-conglomerate a scholarly researched conception of what a first-rank castrato in his prime might have sounded like?

Here's a fascinating, obviously tributary, video document on Otto Klemperer.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDSIJSgX9s[/YOUTUBE]

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[Peter]

Interesting. Is the vocal-conglomerate a scholarly researched conception of what a first-rank castrato in his prime might have sound like?

Well I think they probably took more trouble in creating that voice than paying attention to historical detail in the film! Actually I think the resulting voice is rather good, though I much prefer Bartoli's rendition of this rather fine and dramatic Broschi aria . There is a 1902 recording made of Moreschi (the last Castrato) but the quality is poor, he was old and apparently not a good singer anyway so little can we imagined of Farinelli from listening to that.

I'll watch your Klemperer video later when I have a bit more time!

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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamoOAaXcs8[/YOUTUBE]

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[Megan]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iYm2MQWPUA[/YOUTUBE]


The Willow Song, as quoted in Shakespeare's "Othello", is famous as Desdemona's lament. The willow, a symbol of forsaken love, was part of the imagery associated with Elizabethan melancholy, and the text to the song even describes in detail the typical posture of a melancholy lover.

[Megan]

ERNEST BLOCH, Sacred Service, 1931



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=cURBznHCm-Q

[Chris]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqPZ4llWMU[/YOUTUBE]

Wonderful voices the King's Singers have!

[Megan]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Ez91zGm4Y&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

[Megan]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxwHlOQvUd4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/YOUTUBE]

[Ludwign3bs]

Daniel Barenboim - the 32 piano sonatas

What a treasure! I'm listening/watching through the 32 piano sonatas, as performed by Daniel Barenboim in Berlin. Absolutely definitive!!

[Preston]

Listening to Nobuo Uematsu (he is a legendary video game composer). At this moment, I believe he as is close to a living Mozart as possible.

Anyway: I implore all members to take the time to listen to Nobuo's music. I find it serious, deep, playful, humorous, beautiful, etc. etc. etc. I think he is brilliant - the thing is I usually do not enjoy his music all that much, but am loving it now, truly.

Here it is (all orchestral - and well orchestrated, imo):

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexlgKjN8Z8&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]