I love this performance - is Leif Segerstam a synthesis of Santa Claus, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Sir Patrick Moore?
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I really love the recordings of Wagner and Bruckner by Hans "KNA" Knappertsbusch but am absolutely left speechless by this performance of "O Namenlose Freude" from Beethoven's "Fidelio" with the heroic Sena Jurinac and Jan Peerce. It seems so ridiculous yet remains amazingly joyous: one can only say the score was KNA 1: Beethoven 9
Amateur51,
A propos the previous link to Leif Segerstam: yes the mannerisms of Noddy (when playing to the crowd) and the beer gut of Patrick Moore.Comment
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With no apologies, a link I've just placed on the Stormy Weather thread, for a wider audience :smiley
Cute or what??
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And you can tell which cat stole the cream!
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Two colleagues working out their interpretation before the orchestra arrives - Jorge Bolet and Paavo Berglund being very business-like in preparing Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no 2
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
Just gripping, Ams!! What a fantastic find! Bolet's EYES !!!!! Not to mention his fingers.... A master.
Thanks v much for this gem."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
Can't believe I missed this in July !!! Hilarious but also glorious !!!
Love the way he conducts the flutes with his left hand at 2:12 et seq. 
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Some sort of genius, innitOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
Can't believe I missed this in July !!! Hilarious but also glorious !!!
Love the way he conducts the flutes with his left hand at 2:12 et seq.
I read somewhere (on the Bolet/Berglund youtube responses?) that Bolet did not practice much physically - he could do it all in his head apparently!
Some sort of genius, as I say
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YouTube: the thread for interesting video links
Is there a youtube thread?
Anyway, Flash Mob Beethoven.
This will play/view as a full screen on your PC,
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Yup, it's the same one - but, hey, spread the joy! (It was all arranged by the local bank, by the way, but that's not as much of a problem for me as it was for some Forum members).Comment
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How did I miss that other thread? Well, anyway THIS thread can be about musical performance
And that performance deserves a
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Seconded
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That brought a tear to my eyes! How wonderful to see the younger people enjoying Beethoven!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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