You Tube - recommendations

[Peter]

I just love this Bream and Williams rendition of de falla's Spanish dance no.1 - that's the way to perform music outdoors and I'm so envious being stuck indoors with a piano!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYpdUo__dM8

[Tony John Hearne]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClDFmFmr0k

The accompanying notes to this awesome clip state......

"If there is a piece that would represent the agony of a man on the verge of sanity, this is most likely be the piece. Extremely Poetic and hard to execute considering... More» that you need to stretch a 11th on a piano (D# to G#) and the rapid chords played by the left hand throughout the piece with no rest"

……to which I don't think I can reasonably add

[DavidO]

Some excellent music documentaries:

Some from The Klassix-13 Series with Anthony Quayle which is not available in Europe.

Beethoven documentary / Balint Vazsonyi / Anthony Quayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSzF4...eature=related

Mozart documentary / Balint Vazsonyi / Anthony Quayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqjfxih9prY

I really enjoy those films with Quayle, shot decades ago. Vazsonyi has many interesting things to say about Lord Ludwig, including his childhood spent along the Rhine & how that broad, majestic river might have sparked his imagination -- & Quayle plays the intelligent but somewhat befuddled foil, like Watson to Vazsonyi's Holmes.

Last month, I found a lecture on Beethoven & Illness by Robert Kapilow on YouTube, but it's gone now. Did any of you see it, too?

[Peter]

Elgar - Ken Russell 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_A3c...eature=related