Excellent.
Here’s another Slavic song. This one is in English, unfortunately. Should have been in Polish.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFvkHaB0yfA[/youtube]
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La musique Francais… I don’t listen to French music enough anymore… it’s an easy
way to re-learn the language, I’d say… I’ve been enamoured with and listening to
Korean and Eastern-European rap, of late instead…
I’m only just realising… after decades of hiatus, that French music is very romantique,
positif, patriotique… abstinence breeds awareness and insight, it seems.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGbGbzHLpz8[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzViYkZAz4[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWtL6nfV5HM[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaU9KYrHOFs[/youtube]
Italian is like the blood (quick and passionate), and Greek is like the heart (mysterious and profound).
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. Here the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the University Chorus and Alumni Chorus, and the Pacific Boychoir perform at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM[/youtube]
If I may translate the lyrics roughly:
‘There is a small fishing boat on the wave filled Lake Balaton , he throws out his net for fish but he has no luck, and hiw sweetheart left the poor boy as well’
This is one of the most important folk songs of the country.
Here in three versions, the last one a bar versions.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1FzSC8DBs[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3h9TQ312c[/youtube]
I was on a train from Austria to Germany…
I had the delight of listening to (amongst others) these two death songs.
YouTube is horrible for classical piano, so for the first I chose a lesser version from Glenn Gould for Beethoven’s Funeral March here:
Now! This best version of Totentanz (which means dance of death in Hungarian) was based off a melody thousands of years old. This actually is the best player ever of this song:
I can go on for days about these two songs…
I’ll just leave a very interesting fact about Liszts piano transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies…
The funeral march has a passage where the thumb on the right hand plays in 3/4 time and the rest of the the fingers in ordinary march time. It’s extremely hard to play, and sublimime.
You know what’s ironic?
All the most beautiful songs in music history have been composed about death. The devil.
The best ever Liszt / Beethoven transcription of the funeral march (2nd movement of the seventh symphony) was by an Australian pianist named Leslie Howard… good luck finding that! Even better luck finding the ossai version!!
Point-counterpoint:
And then; how about this:
send this:
The link didn’t work; the title is :
Richard Strauss" Death and Transfiguration. Complex but real. Ec; give it a try.
Thanks for the above Ec. On Liszt ; also an ironic twist :
‘Les Preludes’ a short tone poem , was favored and used by Hitler as his program piece .
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeegWrkxkY[/youtube]
Better than the Ukranian song. For obvious reasons, I suppose.
Wrong thread.