YouTube: the thread for interesting video links

[Nick Armstrong]

His rasgueados are impressive but I didn't like it, sorry.

Impressive without being enjoyable was sort of my reaction too....

(Had to look up 'rasgueado' - rapid finger-nail strumming, I think?)

[Padraig]

How about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

[Richard Tarleton]

How about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

They're both party tricks, but I prefer that one....Joseph, has that guitar got an unusually wide neck, for an electric guitar? It's basically the sort of noodling rock guitarists go in for.....

PS interesting posture for a rocker - guitar resting on left thigh, footstool - that and LH position makes me think she's classically trained.

[Joseph K]

They're both party tricks, but I prefer that one....Joseph, has that guitar got an unusually wide neck, for an electric guitar? It's basically the sort of noodling rock guitarists go in for.....

PS interesting posture for a rocker - guitar resting on left thigh, footstool - that and LH position makes me think she's classically trained.

Re - the neck, yes, though we can't see how deep it is...

Many 'shredders' prefer the classical position. I dislike guitar-shredders though, and the term itself makes me wince. Like the other video, I only made it to about half-way through. Oh well...

[seabright]

Purists will need to steer well clear of this but I enjoyed it! ... A lively Spanish performance of Elgar's orchestration of Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in C minor played by the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, conductor Jordi Frances ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1HqFVQAns

[seabright]

Does anyone remember "Music Magazine" and also when it finished? ... Here is Hans Keller paying tribute to Stokowski on the latter's 90th birthday in 1972 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxADxrUNiZQ&t=83s

[gradus]

Does anyone remember "Music Magazine" and also when it finished? ... Here is Hans Keller paying tribute to Stokowski on the latter's 90th birthday in 1972 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxADxrUNiZQ&t=83s

Thanks for posting this. It immediately reminded me of his analysis of Strawberry Fields listening through headphones and straight to camera- Monitor maybe? Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available on You tube. There is however an equally wonderful page of Kellerian analysis of Beatles songs Google-able.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The last ever edition of Music Magazine was broadcast on Sunday, 25th March, 1973, with articles on Bach's St John Passion, Richard Strauss, Cathy Berberian, and Ebeneezer Prout. The programme was replaced the following Sunday (April 1st!) with Music Weekly presented by Dominic Gill.

Music Magazine began its run as a fortnightly, 45-minute programme on the Home Service at 11:00 am on Sunday, 21st May, 1944, replacing the earlier 20-minute weekly feature, Music-Lover's Calendar, (which itself became a fortnightly feature, and later re-titled Music-Lovers' Diary - the apostrophe move in the original). The first edition of the new programme featured "articles" on Haydn in England, Gustav Holst, a Book Review (by Alec Robertson), and a "Musical Puzzle" set by Eric Blom. As Music-Lover's Calendar had been a twenty-minute programme devoted to one topic each week, we might say that the rot in standards started with Music-Magazine!

Both Music Magazine and the Music-Lovers' Diary stopped for a Summer break in 1948, and the former returned as a weekly programme on Sunday, 10th October, 1948. Alec Robertson presented, and Anna Instone (who had been editor ever since the programme began) was joined as editor by her husband, Julian Herbage for the first time. He would later first join Robertson as presenter, and then take over as sole presenter for the majority of the programme's "run" - he was already an editor at the BBC, and one of the Proms programmers from 1945-61. He died in 1976 - Anna Instone in 1978.

[Padraig]

This popped up on my youtube and I watched it. Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger et al, with a good yarn, a few laughs, Pete looking embarrassed, and a surprisingly successful song from the 'King of Folk'. That's Showbiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF89swJ9IU

edit: scrub 'surprisingly successful'

[seabright]

Actually, if you tap "Hans Keller" into the YouTube 'search' field you get a surprisingly wide variety of TV and radio broadcasts devoted to him, from Pink Floyd to Furtwangler ...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hans+Keller

[Petrushka]

The animated version of the Beethoven 5 first movement. Had me laughing out loud in places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDzZuW7OlB5rI&v=zZuW7OlB5rI

[LMcD]

The animated version of the Beethoven 5 first movement. Had me laughing out loud in places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=R...&v=zZuW7OlB5rI

Absolutely wonderful - thank you so much for the link!

[seabright]

The Beethoven animation was hilarious and must have taken ages to do. Thanks also for the link!

Back to normality and a rare 'live' performance from Italy of Respighi's "Church Windows" conducted by Vasily Petrenko. A question for those of you with long memories: when was it last given a London performance? The Petrenko performance is spoiled in the 'Papal Coronation' finale by the use of a tin-pot organ on the platform, whereas what it needs is the great Albert Hall organ to do it justice. Henry Wood gave the UK premiere of the work back in 1928, though not at a Prom where it's never been played in any case, but has there been a London performance in, say, the last 50 years? If not, I think one is well overdue! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKlGgJd-g8&t=1561s

Petrenko's performance gets some very mixed opinions in the comments underneath the video, ranging from "truly disappointing" to "stunning ... sublime."

[seabright]

A fascinating hour-long TV documentary about Sir Thomas Beecham has just popped up on You Tube. I don't know if it's taken from a commercially-issued DVD or not, as the opening and closing credits have been lopped off. At any rate, it's narrated by John Amis and includes lots of interview material with TB, as well as filmed rehearsal and concert footage. Also uncredited on the screen are the various participants, of whom I recognized only Jack Brymer, Geraint Evans, Norman del Mar, Eva Turner and Leopold Stokowski. However, maybe the other faces will be recognized by those more knowledgeable than me, though I did notice Graham Stark and Joan Sims popping up to act out some anecdote or other concerning TB. I wonder what the date is of this TV programme ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3WHz46gtg

[Edgy 2]

I’ve been listening to various renditions of Bach solo violin throughout the day and somehow stumbled upon this