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Isn't this *brilliant*?

youtube.com/watch?v=HuFiqKQ4mvM&

Ahh, baroque. What a hole in my life there'd be without my favourite Catholic priest of all time: Monsignor Vivaldi

In reply to Tim Chappell:

<<shrugs>> s'ok.

In reply to Toby S:

What I love about it is the way it educates your emotions. Instead of just affirming what you feel anyway, it teaches you to feel something you would never have felt all on your own. It takes you into a space of precision, clarity, and lyrical movement that you could never have attained your own.

Bloody brilliant.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Brilliant?... It's never made X-Factor ya pseud.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Agreed. I also clicked on Jaroussky singing J.C.Bach's 'La Dolce Fiamma', on the same YouTube page - awesomely beautiful.

In reply to Clauso:



Darren--let's get one thing straight from the off-- OF COURSE I'm a pseud.

OK? Good. Now we can proceed

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Not sure about that. If it's got to be baroque, it has to be Bach:
youtube.com/watch?v=X_Nos_-Zj38&
Or perhaps Weiss:
youtube.com/watch?v=0_7zPGdJKRE&

But I'll raise you some English Renaissance with John Sheppherd - Media Vita:
youtube.com/watch?v=4R2TidP-UwU&

Suck it and see!!!

In reply to Tim Chappell:
s'pose.

Does Tulisa sing wiv 'em?

In reply to Jimbo and Gordon:

Many thanks-- will have a lis to both, once my children let me on a computer with decent speakers...

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


Wonderful.

In reply to Jimbo W:


Certainly more challenging than the Vivaldi piece, but another recording of the same piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=RG7rx3BO6JY&NR=1 on the same youtube page for me blew it out of the water, possibly due in part at least to more modern recording techniques.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

I've always enjoyed the Miserere
youtube.com/watch?v=yDRoL7ziDP4&

Interesting story too, it was only performed in the Vatican and a 14 year Mozart heard it once and went home and wrote it all down note for note, this was something that was punishable with excommunication!

J

In reply to Tim Chappell: All too recent for me, I prefer; http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IIcrgNtyX0U

In reply to john arran:


I have to say she wasn't my favourite. For me, it is an over the top emotional interpretation, especially pronounced when the subject is repeated up the octave at 0:53, which should sound like two independent musical lines, and when each has their own integrity, sound like two violins in duet. The acoustic (or possibly even additional electronic sustain) dominates over the immediate tone of the violin, and its so bad the video looks mimed!!

The Heifetz isn't my favourite, but its the first one I found on youtube. My favourite recording of this is with Oscar Shumsky playing, but its not on youtube. Indeed, I stole my dad's recording of it when I came to uni, which was a very old CD. Unfortunately, the box was a bit knackered, and unbeknownst to me the CD had slipped half out, so when I put something onto the CD shelf next to it, the box clamped over the CD and scratched the foil. I went to try and find a replacement and the only one I could find was for >£3000 .... ....ouch.... ...that wasn't the best confession to have to make!

In reply to Tim Chappell: This is sublime

youtube.com/watch?v=dLa61qc26Hs&

In reply to stroppygob:

I'm with you with Tallis:
youtube.com/watch?v=lXpA_0QsXgs&

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Back to baroque, if you know it and sing it, it can get a bit hackneyed, but it is pretty unique nonetheless, and makes a strong impression on the first hearing with suspension after suspension.. ..enjoy:
youtube.com/watch?v=WpPJWFONvaE&