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I never saw the movie about them. I"m guessing by your reaction something bad happened. I was really just talking about musicians in general. Like does it get to be work and do they only do it during working hours? Or is it just pure fun whenever? And can an opera singer of Pavarotti status even sing in the shower, because what if he blew his voice and all the money that went with it? (I obviously think too much!)

But anyway, here's Jacqueline. Have to listen to this whole page tomorrow, didn't get to it today!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYmFWcHdB4[/youtube]

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I just realized by that picture of her above that she's a cellist, not a violinist. Duh!

You wouldn't know it, but I think I'm starting to get all this stuff straight from my reading. The Rimsky-Korsakov book is helping as it describes each instrument and how they work and what they are intended to be used for and their ranges. I'm wondering though, do principles of orchestration change over time, do they have anything to do with what is fashionable at the moment, or are they pretty much the same all the time?

Just realized somebody posted this already (my chart is half done).

THis version sounds so different. I like them both though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvwZ5xGVv4&index=22&list=WL[/youtube]

You may remember that I posted the first movement of Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major.

Now, here is the full quintet.

piano: Sviatoslav Richter
violin I: Mikhail Kopelman,
violin II: Andrei Abramenkov
viola: Dmitri Shebalin
cello: Valentin Berlinsky

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7VmoJ7_AQ[/youtube]

Here's one of my favorites from Rachmaninoff, I can't remember if I posted it or not.

Whole thing:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxQ_B3Wpzg[/youtube]

And a lovely rendition of my favorite movement from it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVKdE9ZEVE[/youtube]

I'm two pages behind you guys! Spent half the day at work today looking for something that a big boss wanted, only to be told 3 hours later the thing didn't exist after all. No classical music for me today!

This guy is weird, but I like him.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWa4eXg-Jdo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY2GRsBrdxI[/youtube]

I've been trying to find modern classical music. A lot of it seems to be ambient, which I enjoy sometimes, but it's not the same thing at all. Are the eras of truly great composers over? I hope not!

Check these out:

Top 10 Horrifyingly Difficult Opera Arias

Here is one of my favorite operatic duets:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAPuVDZ2a3I[/youtube]

I don't know if I've posted much Sibelius here, but he's definitely one of my favorite composers. Here are a couple good things he wrote:

Symphony 7 (but all of his symphonies are amazing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHHfvdAqvn8
Swan of Tuonela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXS2DabqBI8
Violin Concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4
Theme and variations for cello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-BIEutAWc

Reverie by Debussy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSglm9jJMt4[/youtube]

I've never heard anything from Debussy that I didn't adore. It's perfect backdrop music for my many fantasy worlds.

Classical music is wonderful for writing/ reading. I recommend it to all writers.

Since Debussy is your favorite, you might like to explore the works of Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, and Maurice Ravel.

William Herschel has not been mentioned yet.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BehLlyqYk8[/youtube]

OH MAN I found a new composer!! I only just discovered him so I haven't listened to a ton of his stuff yet, but what I've heard is very promising. I'm excited to listen to more, but it's hard to find good recordings without shelling out some money. Here's a few selections:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRbSSK8u9w[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjbzMVODDAI[/youtube]

And since you all were fawning over Faure:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jliWPm6hoU[/youtube]

Alessandro Marcello was an Italian Baroque composer who lived in the same time period as J.S. Bach, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Rameau, and Handel.

Tine Thing Helseth is an award-winning Norwegian trumpeter who you may remember from page 13.

Here she's playing the third movement of Marcello's Oboe Concerto in C minor.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdY8g0Li0Xw[/youtube]

I'm surprised that you posted the third movement rather than the second .

Here's a guitar transcription of a Bach harpsichord transcription of the oboe concerto's adagio:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvqRJ2i7uE[/youtube]

That is beautiful!

I wanted to post the Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Helseth's full performance, but Youtube user Riziez only uploaded the first and third movements.

Here's the first movement of the recording.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItgSHRgyks[/youtube]

Franz Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of Death) is a chilling piano piece from the same dark realm as works such as Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, and the first movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.

In a bizarre coincidence, it was first performed on April 15th, 1865, the same day that President Lincoln died.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLMFruHX-Q[/youtube]