Lift your spirits with music

[Kate Shaw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2AjW1_h1s&NR=1

My favourite arrangement of A Soalin!

[darn that lost EDIT button]

[Peter O'Donnell]

Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique is, by contrast to most music written in our lifetimes, not pathetic at all. An enjoyable slide show with these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNu7k5L ... re=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbF8tsN ... re=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aczxRZ ... re=channel

[Peter O'Donnell]

This is one of the better efforts to blend photography with classical music (in this case, part of Beethoven's fifth piano concerto)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45rmSAMo ... re=related

[styky]

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

[styky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvh4zEKG ... re=related

Camille Saint-Saëns - Swan From Carnival of the Animals

[styky]

Sleepy time music

Romantic Piano-Traumerei(R.Schumann)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRzvE-1P9xA

[styky]

[styky]

In keeping with the season

<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBjl-jPcVM&feature=channel>Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards In Winter (video)</a>

<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4Pme7TbLY&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-1r-45-HM>the carol of the bells - metallica & trans siberian orchestra (short version)</a>

[Peter O'Donnell]

Just until I get my head back into this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gqT6En2O78

[Peter O'Donnell]

Same as it ever was ...

same as it ever was ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-io-kZKl_BI

[Peter O'Donnell]

I think we may have had this already, but ...

... consider it an extra vegemite sandwich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McsWKczU6wc

[Peter O'Donnell]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) died on this date, not quite having reached the age of thirty-six. I consider this to be perhaps the single most amazing fact in human history. In that short life span, Mozart demonstrated a mastery equal to any other in all the main classical music forms -- opera, sacred music, symphonies, concertos, sonatas, choral -- and I think it is fair to say that in that versatility, he has no equal (even if one might wish to argue that one or another great composer outdid him in one particular form, for example, I would yield to Beethoven on the question of piano sonatas, but Mozart laid a grand foundation for him.)

Today, I suppose, there is no really appropriate piece besides this last work, the Requiem -- with its attendant mystery that we will probably never know which parts are actually the work of another composer. This youtube link gives you the option of listening to the entire Requiem in consecutive order without having to reload. The performance takes about an hour. Anyone not familiar with the Requiem might benefit from obtaining the English translation although basically what you have is the Latin mass in fourteen parts (twelve segments here). Whoever helped out must have risen to a high standard for them, because really it is very difficult to pick out anything "sub-Mozartian" and perhaps it is better not to try.

Remember, we got this entire musical legacy from a man who lived half his allotted life span. Who knows what we missed thereby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88xIIRD ... re=related

[Peter O'Donnell]

Well, first time I listened to the above, it did upload parts two and all the rest without prompting, today it isn't doing that, but if you have that problem, the second and subsequent portions are right next to the expired first segment.

[Peter O'Donnell]

Meanwhile, a delightful version of Vivaldi's "Gloria in excelsis Deo" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyd6Mku ... re=related

[Peter O'Donnell]

Slowly we will ease into Christmas sacred music, starting with this familiar Bach ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTGUurb ... re=related

and then, O Come All Ye Faithful, by the King's College Choir ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiqcjFQBukM

followed by O Holy Night by Celtic Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-8jYpa1-o

...............

more to come each day >>> please add your favourites

will be posting some Handel's Messiah segments as we go along