"Rain Has Fallen", Op. 10, No. 1

"Rain Has Fallen", Op. 10, No. 1 - Samuel Barber

Classical music composed by Samuel Barber Baritone Gerald Finley, accompanied by Julius Drake, performs Samuel Barber's "Rain Has Fallen", one of three poems by James Joyce that Barber set to music.

Frédéric Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude, Op 28, No. 15

Beginning in D-Flat Major, this piece focuses on inner confliction and the contemplation of the solitary self. The composition was born from the mind of Frédéric Chopin in 1858 during his stay at the Valldemossa monastery. Amantine Dupin once commented, "It casts the soul into a terrible dejection. Maurice and I had left [Chopin] in good health one morning to go shopping in Palma for things we needed at our "encampment." The rain came in overflowing torrents. We made three leagues in six hours, only to return in the middle of a flood. We got back in absolute dark, shoeless, having been abandoned by our driver to cross unheard of perils. We hurried, knowing how our sick one would worry. Indeed he had, but now was as though congealed in a kind of quiet desperation, and, weeping, he was playing his wonderful prelude. Seeing us come in, he got up with a cry, then said with a bewildered air and a strange tone, "Ah, I was sure that you were dead." When he recovered his spirits and saw the state we were in, he was ill, picturing the dangers we had been through, but he confessed to me that while waiting for us he had seen it all in a dream, and no longer distinguishing the dream from reality, he became calm and drowsy. While playing the piano, persuaded that he was dead himself, he saw himself drown in a lake. Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he ...

Chopin: "Raindrop" Prelude 雨滴前奏曲

Chopin Piano Playlist: www.youtube.com Soft and Beautiful Piano Music Playlist: www.youtube.com ABOUT THE ARTIST: The Sacramento Bee wrote: "Cory Hall played two works of towering artistic content and difficulty with a power and a finish that were startling. Hall was all over the keyboard but always conscious of the magic the notes were designed to evoke. It was an impressive performance." CORY HALL (b. 1963) is a retired concert artist, college professor, and church organist who currently devotes his time to making YouTube videos and composing. He wishes to inspire and offer advice to aspiring pianists and musicians worldwide via videos with his thought-provoking performances and tutorials. An independent scholar as well as performer, Hall holds graduate degrees in piano and historical musicology from The Eastman School of Music and The University of Kansas. BachScholar™ website: www.bachscholar.com. Please browse the selection of Dr. Hall's personal hand-picked recommendations related to music and this video! HALL'S COMPLETE RECORDINGS, CLASSICAL TO RAGTIME www.cdbaby.com EXCELLENT YAMAHA DIGITAL PIANO (88 KEYS): www.amazon.com EXCELLENT CASIO DIGITAL PIANO (88 KEYS): www.amazon.com GARRICK OHLSSON, CHOPIN COMPLETE WORKS (CD): www.amazon.com ARTUR RUBINSTEIN: THE CHOPIN COLLECTION (CD): www.amazon.com VALENTINA LISITSA PLAYS CHOPIN ETUDES (DVD): www.amazon.com MICHELANGELI PLAYS CHOPIN (DVD): www.amazon.com COMPLETE GUIDE FOR MASTERING THE PIANO (BOOK): www.amazon.com ...

Classical Music 101: Fast, Frenetic, Chase Scene Music

Thirty to Sixty second clips of the twelve most popular classical music pieces used in film for fast action sequences. Contents 1. William Tell Overture The overture to the opera William Tell, its high-energy finale Theme song for The Lone Ranger. Gioachino Antonio Rossini Italy 1792 - 1868 2. Flight of the Bumblebee "Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 18991900. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russia 1844 - 1908 3. Sabre Dance The Sabre Dance is a movement in the final act of the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane, completed in 1942. It evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Aram Khachaturian Soviet-Armenian 1903-1978 4. Hungarian Dance No. 5 Johannes Brahms Germany 1833 - 1897 5. The Rite of Spring Dances of the Young Girls The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky Russia 1882 1971 6. Egmont Egmont, opus 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ludwig van Beethoven 7. Dance of the Hours from La Giaconda Dance of the Hours is a ballet from the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (Used in Disneys Fantasia) Amilcare Ponchielli Italy 1834 1886 8. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 ...

Eternal Flame - Hampshire Guitar Orchestra (hago) arr Derek Hasted

Hampshire Guitar Orchestra (HAGO) play all styles; Eternal Flame (performed by The Bangles, covered by Atomic Kitten) fits classical guitar like it was written for it... Eternal Flame is one of our most frequently viewed videos, and there aren't many guitar concerts where we don't get a sigh from the audience at the end of this lovely piece. In this arrangement of Eternal Flame, we play our 4 sizes of guitar - alto, prime, bass, and contra, to produce a sublime and deep sound and light accompaniment that's faithful to the original in its harmonies and countermelodies. Turn the volume up, close your eyes and lose yourself in this wonderful and powerful melody and beautifully shaped song that is Eternal Flame. The lyrics are sublime and moving - check them out :-) HAGO welcomes new guitarists at all intermediate and senior levels. Our repertoire is large, our audiences are massive and our enjoyment is ... well, come along and find out! HAGO - raising funds for charities - introducing new audiences to guitar ensemble. HAGO - Having A Good One.... This concert raised funds for West Sussex Guitar Club, at Bognor Regis in the South of England - check out their website at www.westsussexguitar.com and visit ours too at http A big thank you to Sasha Levtov for the video footage of HAGO playing Eternal Flame live in concert For our next concert visit www.hago.org.uk Visit our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com Composed by Steinberg, Kelly and ...

Josef Hassid - Jules Massenet - Meditation de Thais

Josef Hassid (Dec. 28/1923 - 1950) - Massenet - Meditation de Thais. Composer: Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) Gerald Moore (piano) Recording Date 11/29/1940 Arranged: Marsick For more inf.: www.violinist.com Many thanks to people whose pictures are used to make this video.

Josef Hassid - Achron - Hebrew Melody Op.33

Josef Hassid (Dec. 28/1923 - 1950) - Achron - Hebrew Melody Op.33 Composer: Joseph Archron (1886 - 1943) Gerald Moore (piano) Recording Date 11/29/1940 Hassid was noted for his intense vibrato and temperament, causing Fritz Kreisler to say "A Heifetz violinist comes around every 100 years, a Hassid every 200." His great legacy to music is in the form of 9 recordings among which Achron's Hebrew Melody is notable. For more inf. : www.violinist.com

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 - Samuel Barber

Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Orchestra in Adagio for Strings on September 15, 2001, in honor of those who lost their lives in the terror attack on September 11.

Allegretto from Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 - Beethoven

Beethoven's "Tempest Sonata", played by Wilhelm Kempff.

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata" - 3rd Movement

Allegro ma non troppo from Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor. Rehearsal run before recital in Musikverein, Vienna.

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata" - 2nd Movemen

Andante con moto from Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor. Rehearsal run before recital in Musikverein, Vienna.

Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Étude Op. 10, No. 3

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Classical Brit Awards 2010, part 3 of 8

This is part 3 of the Classical Brit Awards for 2010, performing in the gala for example Andre Rieu with the Johann Strauss Orchestra, Rhydian with Only Men Aloud, Rolando Villazon, Band of Coldstream Guards, Bryn Terfel and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. In this part, Angela Gheorghiou sings Un bel di vedremo from Madama Butterly by Puccini

Shostakovich- Symphony No. 10, Mvt. 2

The second movement, Allegro, of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy. His music was officially denounced twice, in 1936 and 1948, and was periodically banned. Yet he also received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Despite the official controversy, his works were popular and well received. After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Shostakovich developed a hybrid style, as exemplified by his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934). This single work juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influence of Stravinsky) and post-Romanticism (after Mahler). Sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque characterize much of his music. Shostakovich's orchestral works include 15 symphonies and six concerti. His music for chamber ensembles includes 15 string quartets, a piano quintet and two piano trios. For the piano he composed two solo sonatas, an early set of preludes, and a later set of 24 preludes and fugues. Other works include two operas, and a substantial quantity of film music. The Symphony No. 10 in E minor (Op ...

Chopin, Etude, op. 10 no. 10, A-flat major, Piano Solo (opus 10 #10)

Frederic Chopin's Etude, opus 10 #10 in A-flat major, performed by Stephen Malinowski,accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score. FAQ Q: You sure are playing slowly for a piece marked "Vivace assai." A: It's true. This piece can be played in a very flashy way, but I didn't feel like it. Q: What instrument are you playing? A: This is the Acoustica "Pianissimo" piano. Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself? A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here: www.musanim.com There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first: www.classicalarchives.com Q: Could you do a MAM video of ______? A: Please read this: www.musanim.com Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean? A: The colors indicate the "pitch class" of the notes; that is, every A-flat is a certain color (blue), every B-flat is a certain color (violet), etc. The piece is in the key of A-flat, so there's blue at the beginning and end. The choice of colors is based on the "circle of fifths," which you can read about here: en.wikipedia.org This method of coloring notes is described more here: www.musanim.com Because this form of coloring reflects tonality, the places where the piece moves into another key are easily visible; here's a picture of the whole piece: www.musanim.com .

Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Mayor Alla Hornpipe

Primer concierto de la Joven Orquesta del Club Argentino (J.O.C.A.) en el teatro municipal de la ciudad de BahÃa Blanca, Argentina.

Director: Mtro. Gustavo G. Gallo

George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
Water Music, Suite No. 2 en Re Mayor, HWV 349
Alla Hornpipe

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The J.O.C.A. student orchestra was formed on August 25th 2007 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
Here you can watch our first performance in our local theatre.

Director:Gustavo G. Gallo

George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Mayor, HWV 349
Alla Hornpipe

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Allegro Moderato - BWV 1048

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra plays J.S. Bach's Allegro Moderato from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.

Yo-Yo Ma plays Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1

Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 by Yo-Yo Ma.

Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 - J.S. Bach

Impromptu concert by Zuill Bailey at NPR Music's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Bailey doesn't play just any old cello. Yes, it is old - very old - but it's also special, built by the renowned Venetian maker Matteo Goffriller in 1693. That means Johann Sebastian Bach was all of 8 years old when Goffriller slapped on the final layer of shellac.

Jascha Heifetz plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1st mov

Jascha Heifetz plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: I. Allegro moderato

Americas Got Talent - Jackie Evancho 10 Opera Singer

The YouTube.com community picked their favorite Jackie Evancho. She is a young opera singer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and can be compared to Susan Boyle. Now she may look like an average kid, but this child has a set of pipes. The video entry gave an amazing performance that one person commented sounded like an Angel. Looking to be a very young contestant, there is no doubt she might steal the show.

Bio
Jackie Evancho - 10yrs old - Singer
Jackie has a style that is all her own. At ten years old, she possesses an ability that many older artists lack. Her talent and presence captivate all that hear her. Jackie performs with such style and grace that we forget that we are watching/listening to a child. She has been called by a many, a singing prodigy!

By Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY
When a 10-year-old singer belted out a Puccini aria with the polished voice of someone thrice her age on Tuesday night's episode of America's Got Talent, the "next Susan Boyle!" superlatives flowed across the mediascape. But so did the question: Is Jackie Evancho for real?
The precocious soprano, a Pittsburgh-area fourth-grader who auditioned for the NBC show with a YouTube video, wowed the panel with a live performance of O Mio Babbino Caro. But a video clip appears to show that her lips are ever-so-slightly out of sync with the audio.

Fremantle, the company that produces AGT and Fox's American Idol, makes contestants available only to local media. But "there was no lip-syncing," says producer Jason Raff.

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During rehearsals, "the whole crew was saying it looked like she's lip-syncing," he says. "And on the close-ups, her mouth is moving a different way than the sound coming out. It is weird, but it's just how she sings."

The voters embraced her happily: On Wednesday's results show, Evancho advanced to the semifinals.

Further testimony to her true talent comes from her track record: Her self-released EP, Prelude to a Dream, has sold around the world, and she has performed with David Foster, sung the national anthem at the Pittsburgh Pirates home opener and appeared on PBS.

"She is just truly blessed with a voice that's phenomenal," says classical-crossover composer/conductor Tim Janis, who is including Evancho in his American Christmas Carol show (Dec. 2) at Carnegie Hall.

A film producer had alerted Janis to Evancho two years ago, and he put her in one of his Celebrate America specials for the Pittsburgh public television station WQED. "Jackie just stood out and shined," he says. Her voice "totally captivated me and sent me to a place that was uplifting and inspiring."

Even if listeners don't know that it's a child singing, "the voice stands on its own. It's a big sound that fills the room."

The reaction recalls the Cinderella story of Boyle, who became an Internet sensation after her Britain's Got Talent appearance and went on to record an album that has sold 9 million copies worldwide.

Evancho trains with at least two vocal coaches, which is essential at her age "to make sure you don't abuse the gift," Janis says. "A young vocalist is in the process of developing those muscles, and you don't overdo it."

He won't speculate whether Evancho, who sings both pop and classical, will choose one specialty. "She has a rare gift to speak to many hearts. In my mind, the classical setting is a really nice match for her voice. But someone who doesn't follow that genre can still appreciate the beauty.

"Whatever she picks, she will do well."

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Chopin Mazurka op17 No 4 - Michel Mananes Live

Michel Mananes plays one of the most beautiful Chopin Mazurka No 4 op.17 A minor 13 .All this pieces are played in an "Antique Bosendorfer". With recitals for europa and suramerica specially. He won first prize in several young piano competitions. He is Piano Teacher in Madrid and continue to give concerts.Chopin Mazurca.classical concert pianist.
http://www.geocities.com/pianistmananes/index.html

Frederic Chopin - March 1, 1810[1] -- October 17, 1849) was a Polish[2][3] composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets.[4]

He was born in the village of Å»elazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad; following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830--31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration."

In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. A Polish patriot,[5][6] in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen.[7][8][9] After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he conducted a turbulent relationship with the French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). Always in frail health, in 1849 he died in Paris, at the age of 39, of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.[10][11]

Chopin's extant compositions were written primarily for the piano as a solo instrument. Though technically demanding, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than virtuosity. Chopin invented musical forms such as the ballade[12] and was responsible for major innovations in forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, Ã©tude, impromptu and prelude. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music.

Chopin composed 58 Mazurkas (there seem to be at least another 2 unfinished sketches) and many of his other works of different genres are either inspired by the Mazurka or have parts of Mazurkas within them. Chopin did, of course, not invent the Mazurka form. However, it was he alone who put the Mazurka on the public stage and refined it into the highest art of music. In his Mazurkas, you get to know the very soul of Poland and Chopin never forgot his home land or the poor farmers singing the Mazurkas during the time of harvest. Chopin started his composing with a Polonaise and ended with a Mazurka, thus closing the circle.

Argerich plays Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Part 1

Martha Argerich stunningly plays the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Beppu, Japan, April 22, 2001. Antonio Pappano conducts.

Sumi Jo - Verdi - La Traviata - Violetta - Sempre Libera

"Ah! Fors'e lui"
"Sempre Libera"

Sokcho Summer Festival,
Sokcho, South Korea, 2005.

Maria Callas - La Traviata

Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La traviata
E strano! E strano!...Ah, fors'Ã¨ lui che l'anima...Follie! Follie!...Sempre libera
Orchestra sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Conducted by Gabriele Santini
1953

VIOLETTA (sola)
Ãˆ strano! Ãˆ strano! In core
scolpiti ho quegli accenti!
Saria per me sventura un serio amore?
Che risolvi, o turbata anima mia?
Null'uomo ancora t'accendeva -- O gioia
ch'io non conobbi, esser amata amando!
E sdegnarla poss'io
per l'aride follie del viver mio?
Ah, fors'Ã¨ lui che l'anima
solinga ne' tumulti
godea sovente pingere
de' suoi colori occulti!
Lui che modesto e vigile
all'egre soglie ascese,
e nuova febbre accese,
destandomi all'amor.
A quell'amor ch'Ã¨ palpito
dell'universo intero,
misterioso, altero,
croce e delizia al cor!
Follie! follie! Delirio vano Ã¨ questo!
Povera donna, sola,
abbandonata in questo
popoloso deserto
che appellano Parigi.
Che spero or piÃ¹?
Che far degg'io? Gioire,
di voluttÃ ne' vortici perir.
Gioir, gioir!
Sempre libera degg'io
folleggiare di gioia in gioia,
vo' che scorra il viver mio
pei sentieri del piacer.
Nasca il giorno, o il giorno muoia,
sempre lieta ne' ritrovi,
a diletti sempre nuovi
dee volare il mio pensier.
ALFREDO (sotto al balcone)
Amore, amor Ã¨ palpito...
VIOLETTA
Oh!
ALFREDO
...dell'universo intero --
VIOLETTA
Oh amore.
ALFREDO
Misterioso, misterioso, altero,
croce, croce e delizia,
croce e delizia, delizia al cor.
VIOLETTA
Follie! follie! Ah sÃ¬! Gioir, gioir!
Sempre libera degg'io
folleggiare di gioia in gioia,
vo' che scorra il viver mio
pei sentieri del piacer.
Nasca il giorno, o il giorno muoia,
sempre lieta ne' ritrovi,
a diletti sempre nuovi,
dee volare il mio pensier.
ALFREDO
Amor Ã¨ palpito
dell'universo --
VIOLETTA
Ah! Dee volar il mio pensier.
Ah! il mio pensier. Il mio pensier.

Luciano Pavarotti - La Donna è Mobile Rigoletto

The "king" Luciano Pavarotti as Il Duca di Mantova in the screen movie "Rigoletto" (1983) based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera with the same name (1851).

La Donna è Mobile - Giuseppe Verdi

La donna è mobile
Qual piuma al vento
Muta d'accento
E di pensiero

Sempre un'amabile
Leggiadro viso
In pianto o in riso
Ãˆ menzognero

La donna è mobil
Qual piuma al vento
Muta d'accento
E di pensier
E di pensier
E di pensier

è sempre misero
Chi a lei s'affida
Chi le confida
Mal cauto il core

Pur mai non sentesi
Felice appieno
Chi su quel seno
Non liba amore

La donna è mobil
Qual piuma al vento
Muta d'accento
E di pensier
E di pensier
E di pensier...

Gracia - William Tell Overture

Rossini's classical piece performed by three talented violin player ladies from Hungary

First Movement from Piano Sonata in E-flat minor - Samuel Barber

Visual score with Vladimir Horowitz' recording of the first movement from Samuel Barber's Piano Sonata in E-flat minor.

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Audio only - Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

"Pas de Deux" from Souvenirs, Op. 28 - Samuel Barber

The Anderson & Roe Piano Duo perform Samuel Barber's "Pas de Deux" from Souvenirs, Op. 28.

Rossini - The Barber of Seville - Figaros Aria

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto (based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Seville) by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous instance of Rossini's characteristic Italian style.

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