The music in our lives

[kristina]

Jean-Philippe Rameau, (1683, Dijon — 1764, Paris), French composer of the late Baroque period, best known today for his harpsichord music, operas, and works in other theatrical genres but in his lifetime also famous as a music theorist.
Another fun-version of Les Arts Florissants jouent Rameau, "Forêts paisibles" extrait des Indes Galantes,
Soprano Sandrine Piau, Bass Lisandro Abadie and the Choir of des Arts Florissants, Conductor William Christie of the Philharmonie de Paris...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNmyYgkG2z8

Jean Rondeau (born 23 April 1991) is a French harpsichordist and pianist. He was taught by Blandine Verlet from an early age and he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris & the Guildhall School of Music in London. He won the Young Soloist award in the 2014 Prix des Radios Francophones Publiques and has released several solo albums. Here Jean Rondeau plays on the very special Harpsichord (after the Ruckers school) a most fascinating version of Jean-Philippe Rameau's composition - Les Sauvages -  at the Salle Bourgie du Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpQD4de-EI

[Hirano]

I test link envy anyone who gets to see these guys in concert. Jeff Lynne is a genius, the group is so very talented. Wow, wow, wow!! Love them more now than I did as a kid. Funny how we take some of the most important pleasures (music) in life for granted. This is definitely fun feel good music that should be enjoyed and enjoyed often.

ELO "Twilight"

https://youtu.be/XGWR0U-Q73E

[kristina]

... These days there is so much talk (again) about war and it is so very sad... and ... there are impressions, photos and many films about what the reality of war really seems to stand for like the terrible losses and horrific unforgettable impressions and how much it always traumatizes and hurts innocent people. And ... there is one particular film which seems to "sum it all up" and that is the following unforgettable clip of "Riders on the Storm" and, as the provider of this film writes: " Dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died during the Vietnam War. Brave young man who served their country, which many of them never received a "welcome home" or a "thank you" from its country".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1KHHre-8g

P.S. After posting it all here, quite suddenly there came up a "Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users" ... and so it seems impossible to watch ... which in itself is very sad, but I tried and found another "version", perhaps not as "good" (in tonality & filming) as the first to convey the message, but nevertheless ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMDv7xhpoU

And here are two European "versions" about the same sad theme with English subtitles :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WukbQ9ldsdc

and:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbkUEPWJkqc

... and hopefully  ...  please ... perhaps ... one day ... people could be trained in the art of diplomacy and conflicts could be avoided from then on ... how about it ?
 

[kristina]

The great Russian pianist Emil Gilels (19 October 1916, Odessa, Ukraine - 14 October 1985, Moscow, Russia) plays Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1st April 1873 Starorussky Uyezd  -  28th March 1943 Beverly Hills California United States) Vocalise op.34 no.14

From the recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IiC1kAdzM

[MooseMom]

kristina, we are having our first proper snowfall of the winter today, and this piece is perfect for the day!

[kristina]

kristina, we are having our first proper snowfall of the winter today, and this piece is perfect for the day!

Many thanks MooseMom, I am so glad that this piece of music was perfect for your day.
Take care and best wishes from Kristina.

[kristina]

Lotte Lenya (THE Lotte Lenya 1898 - 1981) sings a song composed by her husband Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950) with texts by Bertold Brecht (1898 - 1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJKkqC8JVXk

... and here Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971) sings his very special version of the song by Kurt Weill "Mack the Knife" ... and very kindly mentions Lotte Lenya 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-lHrDPjGfQ

[kristina]

Beethoven - Overture to "Egmont", Op. 84 (Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcrZX2rZ1M

From the Church of St. Nicolai, Leipzig, Germany (Starts at 1:30)
20 Years Peaceful Revolution - Leipzig commemorates the 9th of October 1989

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Conductor: Kurt Masur

On 9 October 1989, 70,000 people staged a non-violent demonstration calling for more freedom and democracy in the GDR. Thanks to the claim “Peaceful Revolution”, initiated by Kurt Masur as one of six prominent citizens of Leipzig, everything proceeded peacefully. That evening, the Gewandhausorchester played under his baton Brahms’ Second Symphony at the St. Nicolas Church. The following regular "Monday Demonstrations", which came to be described as the “Peaceful Revolution”, became a major milestone on the way to open the Berlin Wall one month later on November the 9th in 1989 and paving the foundations for the reunification of the two German states.

Exactly 20 years later, the Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur commemorate the beginning of the German reunification by presenting the same symphony at the same location.

[kristina]

Alexandra (Doris Nefedov née Treitz, May 19, 1942 – July 31, 1969), better known by her stage name Alexandra, was a German singer. "Grau zieht der Nebel - Tombe la Neige"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAZ9WNToR3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guE3ig4zTbc&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=xHskeo9ceL4

Translation:
On a tree in the park of the big city
hung a leaf among thousands of leaves.
When the night wind sang in the trees the leaf swayed in dreams about the wide glorious world.
"If I could just once, like the wind fly with the clouds over the sea,
oh I would give my life if I could fly, if I only could fly ..."

Autumn came soon and gave the leaves their most beautiful colours and again the leaf complained of its sorrow:
 "I have to stay and fade away if I only could go with the swans where the summer never ends..."
Then the autumn wind cried: "You shall fly! Fly!"
And he tore the leaf from the tree, drove it into the great city, let it fly, let it fly.
Happiness was brief ... The leaf fell wearily on the street, into its rain-soaked grave
Already at the end of its life the little leaf cried in vain up to the silent houses:
"If only I could once more fly in the wind! I'd fly back to my tree and the dream would be forgotten about flying ...  forgotten ... ...from flying ... from flying ...

[kristina]

Emil Gilels  (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) plays the Prelude in B minor (Johann Sebastian Bach / Alexander Siloti)
From the legendary recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY

[MooseMom]

Emil Gilels  (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) plays the Prelude in B minor (Johann Sebastian Bach / Alexander Siloti)
From the legendary recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY

It is gently snowing outside today; it's beautiful and calm, and this music is perfect for the day.  Thank you for posting this.  It's lovely.