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**Chris** · 09-11-2008, 01:13 AM

Links would be a good addition to this thread.

Here's David Oistrakh playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto:

1st Movement (Part 1)
1st Movement (Part 2)
2nd Movement
3rd Movement

**Hofrat** · 09-11-2008, 07:14 AM

Put the name Heifetz in the YouTube search box!! Most interesting amongst the many things he plays is Beethoven's quartet opus 18/5! Heifetz never recorded commercially any of the Beethoven quartets!!

**Peter** · 09-11-2008, 08:26 AM

Excellent thread that has the potential to run and run! I'd like to encourage all members to post their choices here. I posted this link last year of the incredibly inspirational Simon Bolivar youth orchestra under Gustav Dudamel at the BBC proms playing Bernstein's mambo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6q7R...eature=related

**Preston** · 09-13-2008, 07:01 AM

Milstein: Kreutzer

Here are the links for the 1st and 3rd movements of Milstein playing Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. I would post the 2nd movement but it is not on there, which is a shame, because it is such a long and pleasant movement. Interesting to note that Tolstoy wrote a novella after he heard a performance of Beethoven's Kreutzer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixnMzHUYxA (1st movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sklCKCE7zLc (3rd movement)

Many more links to come!

**Decrepit Poster** · 09-14-2008, 01:28 AM

Greetings!

Below are links to favorite YouTube (as well as several MySpace) music clips. These are works I enjoy very much, in good or better performances and satisfactory sound. Sadly, a clip of an elderly and somewhat infirm Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting a Japanese orchestra in an excellent rendition of the Finale to Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 has disappeared. Likewise a fine account of the final movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 88 with Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic, in which as encore Bernstein repeats the work, kicking it off then confining himself to facial gestures.

1) Mahler: Symphony No 2 ("Resurrection") finale, closing minutes (Simon Rattle, conductor). I've long been a Mahler freak, and own several performances of this work. This one, at least in the passage presented, is as good as any of them. I wish the organ had more presence, as it does on Rattle's commercial recording with the City of Birmingham Symphony. A key bass-drum roll could be louder, but that might be the fault of my playback system (4.0 speakers, no sub-woofer) rather than the recording. I like how Rattle brings out the tam-tams (gongs), which are usually more subdued.

2) Rossini: Barber of Seville, "Largo al factotum" (Hermann Prey, baritone). This is from a film version of Barber (I own it on DVD) rather than a live performance taping. Some don't like this approach, finding it too "phony". I myself am a fan of such productions when properly executed, as here.

3) I have for several years kept an eye and ear (via the internet) on what looks to be a rather promising pianist, Valentina Lisitsa. She is technically quite impressive. In fact if I had to nit-pick, I'd say she sometimes lets raw virtuosity override musicality. She and her husband maintain a web-site promoting her career and recordings, post many video clips on YouTube, and have a presence at MySpace.

a) Rachmaninoff, prelude. (MySpace)
b) Liszt, la Campanella (MySpace).
c) Chopin, 24 Etudes Op. 10 No. 4 (YouTube).

4) Mozart: Magic Flute, "Queen of the Night" aria (Diana Damrau, soprano). I am a great admirer of Mozart's mature operas, this and Don Giovanni in particular. There are quite a few decent performances of QotN on YouTube. This, to me, seems the best combination of singing and dramatic presentation. Unlike "Largo...", it is from a live opera taping.

5) Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat, opus 130, Cavatina. The draw here is not so much the interpretation (which is satisfactory) but rather its accompanying video, a more-or-less chronological pictorial journey through Beethoven's life. I find it quite touching.

6) Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, "Liebestod".

a) Nina Stemme.
b) Kirsten Flagstad (Live 1936 Fritz Reiner conducts).

7) Berlioz: Requiem, "Dies irae/Tuba mirum" (Colin Davis, conductor). Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" cemented my love-affair with classical music. I have long since transferred allegiance to other composers, but that reflects expanding awareness rather than loss of interest in Berlioz better works. YouTube hosts several versions of individual "Fantastique" movements worth linking. I chose this requiem excerpt instead because it is as good as any of the three in my collection, certainly better than Colin Davis' commercial DVD with Bavarian forces. So far as I know, there is no commercial release of this performance.

8) Franz Schubert: "Der Erlkönig" (a very young Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau).

9) Richard Strauss: Salome, final scene, part 1... part 2... part 3... (Teresa Stratas, soprano). Salome is one of my favorite works in any musical genre. This particular version (another film rather than live taping) is the best known to me (I own it on an old LaserDisc). I consider it a high-point of my collection. Stratas singing and acting (in a role she never performed on stage) is, imo, a tour-de-force. The clips are subtitled in English. The gist of what has gone before, told briefly, is that Jokanaan (John the Baptist) is held captive by Salome's step-father Herodias. Salome lusts for Jokanaan, who spurns her advances. Herodias lusts for Salome, promising her anything if she will dance for him. She then performs the famous (or infamous) "Dance of the Seven Veils". At its conclusion, a greatly pleased Herodias tells Salome to name her reward. She demands the head of Jokanaan. A lengthy argument between father and daughter ensues. Part 1 (above) picks up at the tail-end of that argument. No one lives happily ever after in this one, except maybe Strauss who made a mint off it.

10) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, finale. An encore of sorts. This thread started with a link to the Chicago/Barenboim clip. I like it too. As an alternative, here's Gennady Rozdestvensky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic from a live 1971 Proms concert. Rozdestvensky (as well as the timpanist) puts on quite a show.

**Decrepit Poster** · 09-14-2008, 01:39 AM

Favorite YouTube music clips

Yikes! What was supposed to be an edit of my initial post ending up as a duplicate. Sorry.

-Decrepit

**susanwen** · 09-15-2008, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by Hofrat View Post

Put the name Heifetz in the YouTube search box!! Most interesting amongst the many things he plays is Beethoven's quartet opus 18/5! Heifetz never recorded commercially any of the Beethoven quartets!!

This is amazing! Thank you for posting it. How did such a thing get onto YouTube if Heifetz never recorded it? Is it an unauthorized taping of a rehearsal or something like that?

**Hofrat** · 09-15-2008, 01:32 PM

Susan;

I said that Heifetz never recorded the Beethoven string quartets commercially. That YouTube recording was a masters' class which was recorded apparently. Still, it is interesting to see Heifetz perform a string quartet by Beethoven. BTW, Heifetz did record commercially Beethoven's string trios which are absolutely fantastic recordings!

**Decrepit Poster** · 09-17-2008, 03:36 AM

Two clips mentioned at the beginning of my initial contribution as having been removed ... Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the finale of Beethoven's seventh and Bernstein leading the Vienna Philharmonic in the finale of Haydn's 88th ... have reappeared. (One some months ago. Don't know how I missed it.) Additionally, here's a second rendition of the Beethoven I rather enjoy.

1) Beethoven: Symphony No 7, Finale (Sawallisch, NHK)
2) Beethoven: Symphony No 7, Finale (Rattle, BPO)
3) Haydn: Symphony 88, Finale (Bernstein, VPO)

-Decrepit

**Peter** · 09-17-2008, 08:04 AM

Many thanks Decrepit for your many contributions to the thread!

Here's a charming clip of a very ill Paderewski playing his own Menuet à l'Antique in the 1936 film 'Moonlight Sonata'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKj4LB0jyk

**Tony John Hearne** · 09-27-2008, 07:50 PM

This is the link for the studio recording by Glenn Gould of the Bach Italian concerto

I love the atmosphere of the studio with the unpretentious comments of the very down to earth producer "Watch your head on the mike" "So far we're covered " " OK Bob, knock it off; wrap it up Fred"

Hope you enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb4A5D6u_KY

**Tony John Hearne** · 09-27-2008, 10:42 PM

Thank you DP Watching the Rattle clip has just made my day worthwhile

Originally posted by Decrepit Poster View Post

Two clips mentioned at the beginning of my initial contribution as having been removed ... Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the finale of Beethoven's seventh and Bernstein leading the Vienna Philharmonic in the finale of Haydn's 88th ... have reappeared. (One some months ago. Don't know how I missed it.) Additionally, here's a second rendition of the Beethoven I rather enjoy.

1) Beethoven: Symphony No 7, Finale (Sawallisch, NHK)
2) Beethoven: Symphony No 7, Finale (Rattle, BPO)
3) Haydn: Symphony 88, Finale (Bernstein, VPO)

-Decrepit

**Ateach Asc** · 09-28-2008, 11:14 AM

Classic Classics on Youtube

Put in Beethoven on the search line and watch the results...

One of the most interesting youtube offerings wrt LVB can be found by searching either on google videos or youtube for 'Toscanini Missa Solemnis'...

truly worth the effort.... in fact... this was brought to our attention a little while ago.

**Peter** · 10-02-2008, 01:41 PM

Originally posted by Tony John Hearne View Post

This is the link for the studio recording by Glenn Gould of the Bach Italian concerto

I love the atmosphere of the studio with the unpretentious comments of the very down to earth producer "Watch your head on the mike" "So far we're covered " " OK Bob, knock it off; wrap it up Fred"

Hope you enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb4A5D6u_KY

I did enjoy Tony, thanks for that - not seen this clip before.

Some clips on the great Russian conductor Evgeny Mravinsky conducting Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky - I have his version of the last 3 Tchaikovsky symphonies on LP with the Lenigrad Philharmonic and wondered if you can get this on CD? The best recordings ever I think of those works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gqXLiYZ9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6znXfeGSck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhzfTwwMlU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17A6vtttOg

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