Pink Floyd "Lisztified": Fantasia Quasi Sonata | AyseDeniz Gokcin

i) Hey You

ii) Wish You Were Here

iii) Another Brick In The Wall

Live from St. James's Piccadilly, London

Music by Pink Floyd, arranged and performed by AyseDeniz Gokcin

Brief Encounter (1945) | Dir. David Lean | Mus. Sergei Rachmaninov (2nd Piano Conc.)

Bruckner : Symphony No. 7 | Christoph Eschenbach

I. Allegro moderato

II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell 

IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell 

Frankfurt Radio Symphony 

Dir. Christoph Eschenbach

"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" | BYU Choirs and Orchestra

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar) | Michigan State University Orchestra

Weinberg: Cello Concerto | Sol Gabetta, Cello

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 | UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, cond. Jeffrey Thomas

A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45 (German: Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift) by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, and soprano and baritone soloists, composed between 1865 and 1868. It comprises seven movements. As its title states, it is a Requiem in the German language. Brahms assembled the libretto himself. In contrast to the traditional Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, which employs a standardized text in Latin, the text is derived from the German Luther Bible. (Wikipedia)

    Note: It is unfortunate that the percussion in the 2nd movement (with the exception of the ff passages) is not heard as clearly as it should, in any video recording of the work I have been able to check on the Internet.

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 | Rafał Blechacz

Shostakovich: Cello Concertos No. 1 & 2

Ryan Murphy: A Lullaby | The Tabernacle Choir

J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 | Kavakos, Zukerman, Vengerov

Brandenburg Concertos

Ernest Bloch: "Schelomo" (Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra) | Jan Vogler ∙ Eliahu Inbal

Arise, O God, and Shine | The Tabernacle Choir

Reinhold Glière: "The Sirens", Symphonic Poem in F minor, Op. 33

Voyage of the Damned (1976)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique' | Alan Gilbert

Tchaikovsky's last symphony is not exactly a classical symphony in the usual sense of the word "classical". Let us look at its first and most important movement where one expects to hear something that is more or less in sonata form. The exposition contains, of course, two main themes, the second (and most beautiful) of which, however, is totally absent from the development section - and even from the recapitulation! It is only heard as a kind of coda at the end of the movement.

The second movement is in ABA form, the tone of the middle section foretelling the tragic tone of the finale (fourth movement) of the symphony. Finally, the energetic third movement is a standard Scherzo (albeit not in 3/4).

We note that Gustav Mahler has been quite unjust in his criticism for the symphony, calling it "shallow, superficial, distressingly homophonic - no better than salon music"! According to Deryck Cooke, Mahler attempted to "correct" the shortcomings of the "Pathetique" in his own "Ninth", which owes much to Tchaikovsky's "Sixth"...

J. B. Priestley: "An Inspector Calls"

An Inspector Calls is a modern morality play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the "New Theatre" in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theater. The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night on 5 April 1912. The play focuses on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley. The family is visited by a man calling himself "Inspector Goole", who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties. Long considered part of the repertory of classic drawing-room theater, the play has also been hailed as a scathing criticism of the hypocrisies of Victorian and Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's socialist political principles. (From Wikipedia)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod | Jaap van Zweden

TITANIC (1996, TV)

Music in Nazi Germany: The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz

William Alwyn: Sinfonietta for Strings

London Symphony Orchestra

Dir. Richard Hickox

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake | The Kirov Ballet

Granville Bantock: In the Far West (Serenade for Strings)