http://www.youtube.com/user/mightysmeagol


This person has a lot of great stuff up, much of it full length. I'm listening/watching Vladimir Ashkenazy play the Brahms 1 with Carlo Maria Guilini conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Thanks for posting. I'm listening to Michelangeli performing Chopin's Op. 35 Sonata.

Yeah, that is pretty clever. Might I also recommend the Arthur Rubinstein concerto DVD that this user uploaded.

BTW, like your username.

Hey, Horo--

Can we turn this into a thread where we post our favorite "classical music-related" YoutTube channels?

No problem on my side.

Ok. I am officially creeped out. Does anyone remember "madloveba3"? I cannot find him/shim/it on YouTube OR with a PW search, and yet, I have a PM asking him/shim/it for music. He did those beautiful scrolling score pieces! Did he/she/it get bagged for copyright infringement? What's the deal??? I KNOW I am not crazy!

Those two :

http://www.youtube.com/user/PhilippeLoTheEternal

http://www.youtube.com/user/gullivior

are amazing. So many great music.
There are many great YT channels, sometimes with rarities. I'm particularly fond of the ones dedicated to contemporary music.

Lots of fantastic historic material here, plus some more recent stuff -

http://www.youtube.com/user/Beckmesser2

The Miami Piano Festival channel has some interesting live performances -

http://www.youtube.com/user/miamipianofestival#g/u

As does the International Keyboard Institute & Festival -

http://www.youtube.com/user/ikifny#g/u

Who knew Dutch music was so interesting? -

http://www.youtube.com/user/nichtschleppen/videos

I think Dimitri Bashkirov is better known as an influential teacher these days, but here are some recordings that show that he really could play (along with some other goodies) -

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuysmansChannel/videos

This channel devoted to live videos of "serious" player piano music is fascinating. There's music from Stravinsky to M-A Hamelin, but Conlon Nancarrow's amazing and hugely influential music is the main focus -

http://www.youtube.com/user/playerpianoJH/videos

Well, that's enough for now, I may add more later.

I subscribe to his/her channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/madlovba3

Take out the "e". I'm good friends with the guy, and he is still uploading wonderful recordings. He has TWO channels: madlovba3 (noncommercial recordings) and madlovba03 (commercial recordings). Both are fantastic!

Of course, there's also "newFranzFerencLiszt" and "truecrypt"

Thank you moscheles! Thank you OSK! You have helped restore my equilibrium! I thought I had subscribed, too, and I couldn't find it listed in my stuff, but I spent several hours listening/watching through stuff he posted.

Well, since "madlovba3-no-e" is covered, here is one I like that has a lot of popular music from the early 20th century:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Aaron1912

I might have mentioned this in another thread, but I highly recommend Hexameron's channel. ( Hexameron Channel )

He exclusively posts obscure piano music, and there are a lot of gems to be found.

Now this really IS an awesome thread!

Funny I subscribe to most already listed.

Another gem: FirstPublicChannel

It's quite overwhelming really.
I can remember 4 to 5 years ago thinking "I'd listen to a lot more music if I didn't feel guilty about spending so much money on concerts and CDs." Then with Naxos in grad school, and now the ever-growing unimaginable volume of fantastic recordings on YouTube, I'm always in a situation of "which child do I rescue from the burning building?" I've always said professionally that I wish days were 28-hours instead of 24-hours, but I'm starting to think I should bump that to 32-hours - an extra four hours a day for music and reading would be greatly appreciated, especially with the volume of gems so readily available.

-Daniel

http://www.youtube.com/user/musicanth

This excellent channel has over 700 videos, many of them full-length. One of them is an entire symphony by Hans Rott, an Austrian composer I had never heard of before today. I'm trying to broaden my musical horizons...

Ooo, lots of stuff to look at. Some I've seen, but some of these channels are new to me.


This is just a video, but it is interesting nevertheless. It is in German.

This guy has a lot of live Russian videos, some from the Moscow Conservatory. Buried in there is Boris Bereskovsky doing chamber music, too -
http://www.youtube.com/user/VladArtamonov/videos


Here's a a wide variety of modern stuff (not videos, just sound) -
http://www.youtube.com/user/lendallpitts#g/u

And this is similar -
http://www.youtube.com/user/Epogdous#g/u

And another -
http://www.youtube.com/user/NewMusicXX#g/u

And yet another -
http://www.youtube.com/user/ViewerNotes#g/u

Here's a good one for less familiar stuff from many periods -
http://www.youtube.com/user/natangren/videos

And this person has a lot of amazing rare material both in terms of performances and repertoire -

http://www.youtube.com/user/1musikpensionaer#g/u

Here are a couple of record companies that offer generous samples of their product -

Mode
http://www.youtube.com/user/ModeRecords#g/u

Albany
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlbanyRecordsUSA#g/u

I think that's it for my bookmarked channels.

It was not a happy experience to find out, as I was clicking through my bookmarks, that YouTube had recently killed four or five channels I liked, because of copyright complaints. I don't know if the channel owners were given the chance to remove the offending material or not. FWIW, among the complainers were two I recognized - the Berlin Philharmonic and Hyperion records. So it goes...

I'm amazed at how those music students currently enrolled in university or conservatory can find time to practice with all this amazing stuff available......Though it's probably indicative of a flaw on my part, if I had access to something remotely like YouTube back when I was that age, I would probably have been glued (and on the verge of salivating, no doubt) to a device for days at a time - or hermitized in a dorm room........Even now, I impose strict time limits on my YouTube consumption.

They might call it practicing since they are in a practice room, but I often pass by practice rooms to find that people are on their computer instead of playing the piano.