Wouldn’t it rot your socks?… Yesterday I thought I was logged in – it said I was - and was typing away about three fantastic items I found on Youtube, namely Claudio Arrau playing the two movements of Opus 111, about which I wrote my last little post, and also about Wilhelm Kempff playing the third mov’t of the Moonlight –which is a pretty good piece of music compared to the overly popular first mov’t- and what do you think happened to me when I clicked the submit button?
Your beast told me I was NOT logged in, and everything I had typed was completely lost! Grrrr… Not to be beaten by the machines however, I have typed this up in Word and copasted it into here to ensure that if the same thing happens, at least I will have a copy of the original to re-send another time.
I searched in this site for Youtube and Arrau and came up with nothing… This seems odd… There is lots of Beethoven being played and put on the internet in sites like Youtube. Much of it is simply of students who have recorded their playing – and you can tell when this is the case as there is usually no mention of a famous pianist - but sometimes people are uploading, for all to see, some classic performances they must have videotaped or even filmed years ago. Not sure how this is done (analogue to digital) but there must be a way, it seems. Don't have time to figure that out, but nevermind.
Here are the links which you may need to copaste into your address bar or alternatively, you could search in youtube or google directly. It’s easy.
Opus 111 Mov’t 1: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdkkGbT0tw
& Mov’t 2: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TSV1Wt4Lov4
Here is Kempff: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg
Oh and finally, someone recently sent me a link to another item on Youtube which was a series of pictures of our hero throughout his life and it was set to the Cavatina from Opus 130 ( I think..in B flat... no time to check it now….) and I found that the person who did the item was one Floristan… Hmmm. I thought it was the person using that name from this site but when I delved a little further, I found that not only was the spelling different but Flor – i – stan is only 19 years old.. Good to see such love of Beethoven in one so young, eh? I searched for that Youtube item here also but got no result. Odd…. I thought you people were up with the modern technology and that someone by now would have mentioned it. Maybe they have but it just doesn’t show up in the search engine. Anyway, here is the link for that item too:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LwzvMslu7e0
567 people have added it to their favourites. Over 110,000 people have viewed it!
Here, really finally, is something else I just noticed that you people might like: someone playing Alkan’s transcription of the said Cavatina, but don’t read the comments… You will wince to see someone thinks Alkan wrote the piece himself!! Lots of laughs! Still, it is quite beautiful and you can imagine that if someone new to Beethoven heard it, and were unaware of the Quartet, they would be impressed.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=opG8pn5Si-E
Hope you enjoy all this!
Your beast told me I was NOT logged in, and everything I had typed was completely lost! Grrrr… Not to be beaten by the machines however, I have typed this up in Word and copasted it into here to ensure that if the same thing happens, at least I will have a copy of the original to re-send another time.
I searched in this site for Youtube and Arrau and came up with nothing… This seems odd… There is lots of Beethoven being played and put on the internet in sites like Youtube. Much of it is simply of students who have recorded their playing – and you can tell when this is the case as there is usually no mention of a famous pianist - but sometimes people are uploading, for all to see, some classic performances they must have videotaped or even filmed years ago. Not sure how this is done (analogue to digital) but there must be a way, it seems. Don't have time to figure that out, but nevermind.
Here are the links which you may need to copaste into your address bar or alternatively, you could search in youtube or google directly. It’s easy.
Opus 111 Mov’t 1: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdkkGbT0tw
& Mov’t 2: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TSV1Wt4Lov4
Here is Kempff: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg
Oh and finally, someone recently sent me a link to another item on Youtube which was a series of pictures of our hero throughout his life and it was set to the Cavatina from Opus 130 ( I think..in B flat... no time to check it now….) and I found that the person who did the item was one Floristan… Hmmm. I thought it was the person using that name from this site but when I delved a little further, I found that not only was the spelling different but Flor – i – stan is only 19 years old.. Good to see such love of Beethoven in one so young, eh? I searched for that Youtube item here also but got no result. Odd…. I thought you people were up with the modern technology and that someone by now would have mentioned it. Maybe they have but it just doesn’t show up in the search engine. Anyway, here is the link for that item too:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LwzvMslu7e0
567 people have added it to their favourites. Over 110,000 people have viewed it!
Here, really finally, is something else I just noticed that you people might like: someone playing Alkan’s transcription of the said Cavatina, but don’t read the comments… You will wince to see someone thinks Alkan wrote the piece himself!! Lots of laughs! Still, it is quite beautiful and you can imagine that if someone new to Beethoven heard it, and were unaware of the Quartet, they would be impressed.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=opG8pn5Si-E
Hope you enjoy all this!
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