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Sunday, July 12. 2009

Papa Haydn and his children

  Brief history of European Music, Part 3 - with some perfect morning music.


Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 07:28 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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That's very pedestrian artistry.

Try Sergei Nakariakov, for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNT_eF9lCBY
#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2009-07-12 08:25 (Reply)
Snob!
But that's OK....
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-07-12 13:02 (Reply)
Air on a G String, for a slow piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmkGiLLTl5A

which I mention because it was the theme of Sunday morning classical hour on WQXR ("Voice of the New York Times") in the 50s, if you're doing Sunday mornings.
#1.1.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2009-07-12 13:48 (Reply)
Ohhh, and a beautiful good morning to you too! For almost all the years of my life I attended service at the Episcopal Church on Sunday mornings--I have not done that now for five years! This beautiful music gives me a way to meditate at my desk!
#2 apple pie on 2009-07-12 08:31 (Reply)
Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Bird Dog! What a joy it was to hear this recording as we go into another 98 degree day. As apple pie says above, this gives me yet another way to worship here at home.

And let me also recommend another of my favorite classical recordings, which you may or may not have heard: Acis and Galatea by Handel -- a joyous work, both vocal and instrumental, described as "a pastoral" , which gives the same feeling of resolute joyousness that the Haydn piece does.

Things may not be perfect right now, but we can rejoice anyway.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2009-07-12 11:31 (Reply)
oh, 98 degrees, how balmy! It's 128 outside here, and so dusty that i picked up a hat off the gound the other day and there ws a guy under it. I asked him why he couldn't dig himself out and he said he could but his horse couldn't.

Anyhoo, for another pastoral, this one is to me simply the greatest piece of music anywhere anytime. it answers all sorts of questions for me, among them, why life, why the West, why bother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWMApWKQIY&feature=related

That's the first Movement of Beethoven's 6th, the Pastoral. The 65 seconds between 2:25 and 3:30 are what bowled me over one day when i wuz about six yrs old, and this opening up up upward swell, with its surprise and mystery in the key change at 3:18, is for me as transcedant and effable as earthly sound can be made to be.

And then the visuals, the old man, the conductor, bent to his task and working with serious purpose, indeed the whole orchestra, the adults of the children hauled to so many teachers in so many cities and towns by so many music and life loving moms and dads, here gathered together and working hard, physically working hard, at this common task of creating nothing more than some transitory come-and-gone sound waves that do little but uplift the human beings who hear them.

(here are the rest of this same performance, movements II, III & IV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITF0DWJyE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DmCI1EHQMg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir9797qNVk0&feature=related
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2009-07-12 16:07 (Reply)
For a totally different experience, contrast these two incredible versions of Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time"

(Bob Dylan in 1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC9b6SjVUtU&feature=related

(and this mind-blowing cover by Elvis Presley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u04Cg8rl604
#4 buddy larsen on 2009-07-12 17:08 (Reply)
Good taste in museek, BL.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2009-07-12 17:46 (Reply)
backatcha, BD --BTW if that Elvis cover grabbed ya, here it is with much better --in fact some really rffective --B&W 'art' shots. The 'saver' of the two, i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw-8HRjuLpk&feature=related
#4.1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-07-12 19:00 (Reply)

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