YouTube: the thread for interesting video links

[Sydney Grew]

Friday Concert no. 69

Friday Concert no. 69

David del Puerto: symphony no. 4 (2014)

James MacMillan: piano concerto no. 2 (2003)

Iain Hamilton: symphony no. 2, opus 10 (1951)

Theodor Adorno: string quartet (1921)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUnjwAcsbmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCWOQuXNSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phq3vwHecig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Tc4mXodrI

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[Edgy 2]

If only you were a Radio 3 playlist putter togetherer SG

[Bryn]

If only you were a Radio 3 playlist putter togetherer SG

Surely you mean not "putter togetherer" but "curator".

[Sydney Grew]

Friday Concert no. 70

Friday Concert no. 70

Alan Bush: symphony no. 1 opus 21 (1940)

Alexander Mossoloff: piano concerto no. 1 opus 14 (1927)

Pierre-Octave Ferroud: symphony in A major (1930)

Postlude - Sir Hamilton Harty: piano quintet in F major opus 12 (circa 1904)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmHRA6nMjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5msfCKCL2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9Tj2By4ZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGRyyf4xEE

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[cloughie]

Surely you mean not "putter togetherer" but "curator".

I think edge has the correct term!

[Bryn]

I'm not sure how long this will be available but it's well worth catching, and not just for the performances. There's an interval interview with Ilan Volkov which is in English.

The programme is:

Zemlinsly: Sinfonietta
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

Czech RSO, Ilan Volkov.

[seabright]

This video has probably been posted here somewhere already but I only just came across it. It's a sequence entitled "The BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80" and consists of film clips of its first twelve Chief Conductors, starting with Boult and followed by Sargent, Schwarz, Dorati, Colin Davis, Boulez, Kempe, Rozhdestvensky, Pritchard, Andrew Davis, Slatkin and Belohlavek. Its just this kind of archived material that should have been shown in lieu of last year's Proms. Why wasn't it? ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsWL6jb_fro

[Sir Velo]

This interview with Andras Schiff discussing his approach to the Brahms piano concertos has to be worth 40 minutes of anyone's time.

[Bryn]

This interview with Andras Schiff discussing his approach to the Brahms piano concertos has to be worth 40 minutes of anyone's time.

As linked to earlier by Alison.

[Sir Velo]

As linked to earlier by Alison.

[Bryn]

Well worth watching, indeed. As is the masterclass on Beethoven's last three sonatas which Youtube tends to follow it with.

[seabright]

Simon Rattle and the LSO recently performed Stokowski's 40-minute purely orchestral 'Symphonic Synthesis' of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde." Here is Rattle enthusing about the arrangement which he went on to conduct entirely from memory ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSDwnPf48I

[eighthobstruction]

....just putting this out there - just stumbled across it....FENDER RHODES....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzO4yFWVzE

[Bryn]

Afferbeck Lauder takes on Zardoz:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10729510/the-wizard-of-oz-alphabetical-order

[seabright]

This excerpt from a 1972 Stokowski / LSO concert, complete with Richard Baker's introduction, reminds us just how much better TV presentation was in those days, as compared to what we get now ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArORmjt4ltY&t=3s