Let's say our goodbyes today with Raphael Attila Vogl playing Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Cyclopes". Recorded in the magnificent Liebfrauenmünster, Ingolstadt.
I wish you all a beautiful evening!
It seems that somehow I (inexcusably) skipped Wagner, so here I am fixing it.
Herbert Von Karajan conducting Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture with the Berlin Philharmonic. Divine!
(Re-uploaded the correct video.🤦)
Although, at least for the first time I should write its complete name, "Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg".
I start the New Year with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which are probably the biggest reasons for the existence of this npub, and wish you a great year.
Gustav Mahler's Adagietto from the Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor. (1973)
I wish you all a great New Year with Händel/Halvorsen "Passacaglia" performed by Renaud Capuçon (violin) and Gautier Capuçon (cello).
I have the pleasure of closing the day with a page of jazz history, with Miles Davis' first European TV appearance, this being the oldest known footage with him performing.
It was filmed on December 7, 1957, for the French show “Au clair de la lune” and broadcast later on Christmas Day.
He's performing along with Barney Wilen (tenor saxophone), René Urtreger (piano), Pierre Michelot (double bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums).
I wish you all a beautiful evening and, just in case I won't be able to post tomorrow, a happy New Year!
Ivry Gitlis performing the Rondo finale of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, "La Campanella".
While most people know it because of Liszt's piano transcription, this is how it was intended, written to sound like a small silver handbell. (When Liszt heard Paganini performing it in Paris, in 1832, he enjoyed it so much that he decided to transcribe it for keyboard.)
Evgeny Kissin plays Franz Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3 on Liszt's personal piano at the Liszt House in Weimar, which was his summer residence.
A beautiful moment in the history of jazz with Count Basie and Oscar Peterson playing Jumpin' At The Woodside.
It's part of a BBC4 special, from 1980 (link with the full show attached), where they perform together with Joe Pass (guitar), Niels Pedersen (bass) and Martin Drew (drums).
And with this, I wish you all a fine evening! 🥂
