Today I say goodbye a bit unusual with Gandalf's fall, from The Lord of the Rings, with the Prague Orchestra.
https://nostr.download/715738aabfb0dc764ae451fb6ab4288847a1a600b628c0e5928c68e8a2afed29.mp4
A beautiful leap back in time, to 1975, with Shirley Verrett and Piero Cappuccilli singing “Fatal mia donna” from Verdi’s Macbeth.
https://nostr.download/0f8e394fce08323830b2a8245bbd3c008f0e20af73bdd3800a86171da82e8d20.mp4
I just tried it in Primal and Amethyst. It also has over 30 MB so maybe that's why. 🤷
Another Jazz moment: the John Coltrane Quartet playing "Impressions".
https://nostr.download/21c21cddd32a477e1c6e19a44265a3d15118d4fcffa61af1aa686a25579bcecb.mp4
Wishing you a wonderful 3rd Advent Sunday with ”Es wird schon glei dumpa“ (It will soon be dark), an Austrian carol from 1884, performed by the Philharmonic of Vienna together with the Vienna Girls Choir.
https://nostr.download/07a27de7fe7452c97012356074a531e1729b517eda17169238c499abf14c62d7.mp4
A group of actors from Ludovica Rambelli Teatro of Naples, Italy, recreated on stage pictures of Caravaggio.
https://nostr.download/c3a95a745aef45892b19979fb9fbe5858b6e5a6a79e2927069e9be34d651c571.mp4
The paintings in order:
The Entombment of Christ
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
Crucifixion of Saint Peter
The Beheading of St John the Baptist
Judith Beheading Holofernes
Flagellation of Christ
The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew
Annunciation
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Narcissus,
The Raising of Lazarus
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
Bacchus
Your infrequent moment of jazz is here with Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie. (1969)
https://nostr.download/3716b54c9019c66a83834ee7255269c7d342f257fa3d758840613163b90d22f8.mp4
Your infrequent moment of jazz is here with
Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie. (1969)
https://nostr.download/3716b54c9019c66a83834ee7255269c7d342f257fa3d758840613163b90d22f8.mp4
I just checked, and for the rest of the year, there are tickets available only for Strauss' Elektra.
Vienna State Opera from the Albertina Museum
Mood...
Händel's Passacaglia in G minor directed by Horst Sohm, with the French Chamber Orchestra of Paris.
https://nostr.download/197478c25239fa261c3c8fb822c85cc42dc87a343f5383ae7444dfeeccbad36c.mp4
I'm thinking about it, but if I can post only every other day or so, it's pointless. Nostr seems to work only in a short-term mode, meaning that posts older than a few hours, a day at best, are like dead and buried.
Sometimes I think about making a new npub for jazz. Until then, I'll bother you here with occasional detours.
Nina Simone, I Loves You Porgy, 1960
https://nostr.download/7c75e4fa8b3de96270c90cb330a021baf28b6c014adff0f5dabcc53fcf95b73c.mp4
I don't know if it's the last post for today or not but here's a classical guitar moment with Dragoș Ilie performing Jorge Cardoso's Milonga.
https://nostr.download/c9c2fd93ce2344e9cce5f37d13f435e03f1f961ee858c7d53b75b35e35b7f235.mp4
This morning, I took a detour from the usual path with "Je vous salue Marie" by Erga.
Have a great day!
https://nostr.download/1a6df6cc0d3d23ec905aed6f51153af09ccf1297cfc74577e48b271c1d50d78c.mp4
Tonight, I will say goodbye with the final part from Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, directed by Claudio Abbado, with Eteri Gvazava, Soprano, and Anna Larsson, Alto. So beautiful!
https://nostr.download/7a65c3e7a0171c444cc13906f2318c17a90ad524754aeddedf6802b1d191b7a0.mp4
One of the first pieces of classical music that I remember from my childhood, Herbert von Karajan and a 17-year-old Evgeny Kissin performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.
1988, Salzburg, Austria
https://nostr.download/4ec8a30e973f3d3e9996ba16369b1494b669a15cd0b26630ba9b714940f2081e.mp4
For this lunch break, I chose Arthur Rubinstein playing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22. This video is from 1975, when he was 88 years old, and while almost blind, this might have been one of his best performances.
https://nostr.download/f85b21f82ff7ff2d46eb1567ba21157a8c20f8c95cb65d9f740c0b70976ef762.mp4
As a side note, he played this Concerto since 1904, when it was in front of Saint-Saëns.
I added the YouTube link for the longer version.
A peaceful morning with Iva Kosić playing El Sueño de la Muñeca by Agustín Barrios Mangoré.
https://nostr.download/e9b59e68595224ea7db243edc5f2691783c514f5aff72f8dd27199c56656247f.mp4
I want to close the day with Yunchan Lim playing Chopin's Variations on “Là ci darem la mano”, Op. 2. And with this, I wish you all a beautiful evening!
https://nostr.download/d876b24ea9c40802b404645a8ac6cd00fa6a2964e7997652d02d15fb3468641c.mp4
She has some concerts these days in the area, so to speak. Today in Bern, Switzerland, and in Italy on Friday and Saturday, in Pescara & Florence.
My street is quiet right now, with dense fog, and Daniel Barenboim playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata feels just right. It still amazes me that it has over 200 years.
https://nostr.download/e3a484df6f7ce01c5d5a5dfa5a3b55fe9b74dfbe14ca47a7ba0c514b2e196620.mp4