Classical Music at its Best

[Tuxfriend]

When you listen to all the junk that is played on the radio today, you might easily forget how beautiful and touching music can be. Maurice Ravel is one of my most favorite composers in Classical Music and Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) the piece I like most.

Further info regarding Maurice Ravel and Ma Mère l'Oye.

When browsing through youtube, I found several renditions of the work, but some of them are abbreviated, some interpreted quite poorly and/or have bad audio. This version by Ramon Tebar and Orquesta de RTVE (Spanish Radio Television Orchestra) works best for me, also bandwidth-wise.

Le jardin féerique is the gem of the piece, with the violins playing easily the most touching music ever written. Please give it a try:

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 1/5 (Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant - Pavane of Sleeping Beauty), Ramon Tebar, Orquesta de RTVE:

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 1/5 (Pavane) Ramon Tebar

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye 2/5 (Petit Poucet - Tom Thumb), Ramon Tebar, Orquesta de RTVE:
Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye 2/5 (Petit Poucet) Ramon Tebar (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 3/5 (Laideronnette, Impératrice des pagodes - Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas), Ramon Tebar, Orquesta de RTVE:
Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 3/5 (Laideronnette) Ramon Tebar (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye 4/5 (Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête - Conversation of Beauty and the Beast), Ramon Tebar, Orquesta de RTVE:
Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye 4/5 (Les entretiens...) Ramon Tebar (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 5/5 (Le jardin féerique - The Fairy Garden), Ramon Tebar, Orquesta de RTVE:
Ravel - Ma mere l'Oye, 5/5 (Le jardin féerique) Ramon Tebar (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Ravel isn't all about Boléro, you know ...  

Feel free to post your favorite Classical tunes!  

[Agust]

No comment just listen.

Adagio in G minor by Albinoni

Dedicated to my father.

It's just fantastic, I'm very sentimental.

Thanks tuxfriend , good idea  .

Greetings:
Agust

[Lone Stranger]

Evgeny Kissin - The Turkish March

[Neal ManBear]

  Thank you!

[Tuxfriend]

Here's another one:

Darius Milhaud - Suite Française (4) Alsace-Lorraine

[grnich]

Ottorino Respighi  -- Pines of the Appian Way

Respighi - Herbert von Karajan -Pines of Rome 3/3

[T6]

classical music, i only like to hear it when i want to sleep

junk music?!  my music! 

anyway, long life to Mozart and Beethoven!!! 

[Tuxfriend]

Wake up, T6, the universe explodes!

Gustav Holst-Mars the bringer of war

[Tuxfriend]

Anatoly Liadov has good stuff to offer:

Liadov Musical Snuff-Box Op.32

A Liadov Polonaise op 49 C dur (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
Liadov - About Olden Times, op. 21b {Svetlanov} (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
Scherzo No. 1, Op. 16, is my favorite, but not available on youtube ...

[Meemaw]

Thanks, everyone!!!!

Great stuff!!!!

 

[gandy]

Just for fun.

Foot Piano ~ Toccata & Fugue in D minor ~ Bach

[Tuxfriend]

To those of you who still think Classical Music is for bores only:

Mahler: Symphony 5. Movement 2 (1/2). Rattle/BPO

Rest of Mahler's 5th here.
Rattle's face is priceless ...  

Gustav Holst's The Planets - we had Mars before, this is Jupiter:
The Planets; Jupiter - Rattle/BPO (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain:
Modest Moussorgsky - A Night On Bald Mountain / Eine Nacht Auf Dem Kahlen Berge (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

You know, for composers there were no E-guitars back then, 'only' large orchestras ...  

[Tuxfriend]

Slow, but not boring (Aquarium):

Saint-Saëns: Aquarium and Final from Le carnaval des animaux - Katia & Marielle Labèque

[Tuxfriend]

Normally played with a cello, but the theremin sounds interesting:

Theremin - Clara Rockmore play "The Swan" (Saint-Saëns)

[T6]

"To those of you who still think Classical Music is for bores only:"

just say T6!!!

i said it helps me sleep, not that it is boring