What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Look at the enthusiasm this man shows when speaking about the work:

[YouTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fMOflJMio[/YOUTUBE]

Is it not noticeable? Also, he does not use his right hand, which I think not every pianist does.

[AeolianHarp]

Moonlight Sonata! Beautiful version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuSaudKc68

I've seen a few metalheads do this online- but this guy really surpasses them. Excellent guitarist.

Here's another metalhead do the first movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl6-b_8L99o

What is striking is that if you had never heard Moonlight sonata before and didn't know Beethoven's music you'd think it was a new compostion- it translates to guitar, however, the beauty and atmopshere is lost.

[Rocco]

Handel's Messiah by Trevor Pinnock - Wonderful!!!

[Harvey]

Fidelio 1978 Bernstein DVD soundtrack.

[Chris]

Palestrina - Lamentations for Holy Saturday

The Tallis Scholars

This was the third Lesson for Holy Saturday, from the Book of Lamentations. Palenstina left nearly sixty verse settings from this book. His exquisite polyphony truly magnifies both the despair and the hope of the text.

[Harvey]

Handel's Messiah, conducted by Westenburg.

I am going on a Messiah binge and have put 3.5 Messiahs on my mp3 player. The other two are the Academic Orchestra and Choir, Copenhagen, and the Dunedin Consort's Dublin Messiah. The half is 21 tracks off the 1751 all male Messiah conducted by Higgenbottom. Other than that the player has lots and lots of Beethoven, and a Brahms German Requiem.