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How about a little jazz. This piece performed by Yusef Lateef helped lift up my spirits this afternoon! Enjoy!

I can see you shaking your brace to that, Carl!

This is filling my spare time presently (actually the whole Selmasongs album).



Fizikisto, we're going to have to introduce you to the [video] tags!

Fizikisto, thanks for introducing me to Dream Theater. I enjoyed it.

Richard, a beautiful selection. It made me feel nostalgic for our Sunday classical music program!

Hmmm! Since I can't practice this week, maybe I'll share a few classical postings tomorrow for old time sake.

Richard

:p to the video tag crack, but I'll try it. Really enjoyed the piece at the royal opera house.

Carl
I'm always up for a little jazz. The the name, Morocco reminds me of something that happened to my friend many years ago. It was back when pakistan and india surprised the world by conducting their first nuclear weapon tests.

My friend who has rather avant guard musical tastes was listening to a radio station in morocco that was being streamed over the internet. A news report cut into middle of one of the songs. My friend doesn't speak arabic, so the news report sounded like gibberish to him, with one exception. To his ears he basically heard in this breaking news report diba-diba-diba *thermonuclear explosion* diba-diba-diba

Needless to say, he freaked out a little bit.

Anyway, here's a little something that I hope will go down smoothly.

I loved the Chopin piece performed by Chet Atkins. What a gifted musician! Thanks!

Here is something I was listening to earlier by composer Michael Haydn, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in C-Major II.Allegro molto.

I love the internet so much...one can find brilliant stuff like this:

Wow, Recaredo isn't going to recognise this place!

While we're on a trumpet theme, I learnt this first on trumpet, maybe fifty years ago, and it's still one of my all time favourite tunes. It's one of the first tunes I pick out when I come across an unfamiliar instrument.

Richard,
yes, that's really beautiful thanks! I've always loved the trumpet. Such a beautiful instrument. I wish I had enough time and talent to learn to play all the instruments that I love.

Absolutely wonderful music being played here today! I'm going to share one more piece that I posted on a Sunday morning shortly after this thread was first started by Rossy. It's yet another reminder of the gifts of Wynton Marsalis to the world of music. In this case it's classical music.

Enjoy!

Heavy Metal, 18th century style! (pretty fun)

This guy apparently has a pretty big youtube following. Amazing what he can do with just his voice, a looper, and vocal effects station.

It looks like we have a new contender for thread stalwart while our senior scholar is chasing girls grades away from home.

Really enjoyed the Thunderstruck video!

I hope we get a weekend like the last one over the next couple of days. And the weekend starts with Friday Night...

From my favorite scene of Titanic. Hope you enjoy this from "Gaelic Storm"

I love Irish jigs and reels but can't find many written for piano.

Nice! particularly liked the 10,000 maniacs one. Natalie Merchant is awesome!

Here's the full concert that the coors did for MTV's unplugged. It's long (an hour and some change), but it really is wonderful start to finish. Really nice to have on in the background.

[video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ov6USLXwGA[/video]

Greetings everyone! I'm pleased to see we're back to music sharing. Here's my first offering for the weekend. Here is vocalist Cassandra Wilson and her band performing St. James Infirmary at the Monterrey Jazz Festival. I'll be back later with some more things to share.

This piece is vastly different from my last posting. Right now I'm listening to various kinds of music suggested for relaxation to release tension in the body. These are some of the things I'm considering for the problem with my hand. There are a couple of interesting threads on the Pianist Corner discussing this if you're interested.

Here is one unexpected suggestion I found on a medical website. I happen to have it in my own collection, but would have never thought of it for relaxation. Here is Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.

I wanted to offer something with a bit of energy after a good iron workout with my boys but your Miserere stopped me short, Carl.

But in the end I decided after good dinner and a time lag I'd offer two pieces instead.
Life in the Fast Lane for energy...



...and Tavener for relaxing to.



Take your pick or try both!

What's happening tomorrow, I wonder?

I've been spending a good bit of time on Dvorak recently and am hoping to present some of his piano music at the next ABF recital. The "New World" was the only symphony of his that I was familiar with - I knew the Cello Concerto, of course, some chamber music (some of which I've posted here as part of Sunday Classicals) and his piano Humoreskes.

His seventh symphony is a recent revelation and I've posted it in full. It's a magnificent piece of work. I'll be working through all nine of his symphonies over the next while and see how he compares to Tchaikovsky, whose first three symphonies take a while to get into and don't really compare, musically, with the last three. Typically, any of the major composers after Beethoven who can match his count of large scale symphonies, nine, is usually rather good at the medium (Mahler, Bruckner) so I'm surprised I haven't investigated Dvorak before.

On a whim, and reminiscing about our absent Sunday Classical postings after last weekend, I've spread a sample from over four hundred years of music in Sunday mood.

I wangled all the other dates around the Dvorak but can't confirm the date of the Palestrina Mass though I'm sure it's pretty close. I could have used his "Tu es Pastor" Mass that was lately used to inaugurate Pope Francis - that was composed in 1585 - but there were no good performances of it that I could find on YT. The same was found with "Tu es Petrus", used at the last public mass by Benedict. The Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary is more likely earlier than later but I can't confirm the date but at over four hundred years I don't think the timing is critical.

I also picked only Roman Catholic composers (not difficult before the Romantic period) but I'm unsure about John Rutter though his Requiem was set to the RC Funeral Mass so that should be sufficient anyway. It's as difficult to separate the history of classical music from the church as it is to separate the history of rock from race.

Palestrina: Mass of The Blessed Virgin Mary 16th Century (c. 1585?)



Corelli: Trio Sonata Op. 2, No 12, Ciacona (1685)



Mozart - "Dissonance" String Quartet, K. 465, Andante Cantabile (1785)



Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 (1885)



Rutter: Requiem - Pie Jesu (1985)




Have a great Sunday, everyone.

Here's a short one. I wonder if anyone here is old enough to remember this show?



Very talented guy!