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^ Nice!

I need to start listening to more Mendelssohn or, perhaps, playing Mendelssohn.

^ From the St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244.

Some say the Otto Klemperer 1960/1961 performance is plodding and too slow - I think it adds a really moving gravitas the thing requires, plus it features some of the greatest soloists ever known.



(it's 3 hours, 43 minutes long...)

Here's Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott from it, for comparison -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc3bS2E7GME&t=7215s

Second to that I'll take the John Eliot Gardiner performance - a more modern reading (not least because of the period instrumentation he uses) and kinda "sprightly", but not too much.

Ooh, ooh - check out Lieder Ohne Worte (Songs Without Words) -

I've yet to find something matching the warmth of the complete set by Lívia Rév, alas not on YouTube - but this is very nice -

Well, while I'm here...

This is excellent - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
A complete performance from Gardiner, with a selectable index of the parts -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKypt3T ... GQr04OVJFk

The first Gloria features some uh, glorious Bach trumpets - a real blast of sunny yellow/gold.
Play it loud...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41btCAh ... Fk&index=5

Likewise the closing Agnus Dei - Dona nobis pacem -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEtf_d ... k&index=27

Something from it to rival Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott is Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egg8JL8 ... k&index=11
With countertenor Michael Chance.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely listen to them.

I have listened to Bach's Mass in B Minor but not that recording. I enjoyed it a lot.

"Gaspard de la nuit" is one of my favorite pieces of music of any genre.

One of the things I love about Ravel is his expressive use of silence, everything both there and not there seems like it belongs, Pavane for a Dead Princess is also a favorite for that reason.

His music seems to breath or, perhaps, expand in the silences, like Debussy in a way. I have no idea what I mean by that. I find his work full of surprises and beautiful moments. It's fantastic.

I like "La valse" quite a bit, too, but I already posted it in this thread - the piano version which I prefer. Bernstein is highly entertaining to watch in this piece, though.

Something I get a laugh out of and enjoy listening to when I'm in a good mood, it's sort of a 'happy dance' kind of thing where Joker / Bizzy-B mashed up Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik with breaks, baked/saturated and reesed 808's, Philly stabs, and occasional hip hop battle-record snippet. I know at least in the 90's it was popular for a while to mash up classical in hip hop beats and this seems like a really tasteful application of that style.

This is probably the most off-topic thing I'll post here but I think it's still enjoyable enough to be worth the risk.