tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76270212933992113452024-03-29T17:10:42.980+02:00MusicphileFrom the City of the Gods, to the Music Lovers of the World !Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-37521901909409598232024-03-29T17:10:00.000+02:002024-03-29T17:10:41.048+02:00Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A Major | Mendelssohn: Song Without Words in D MajorSol Gabetta, Cello <div>Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aWSXFUiDPDQ?si=bxLNJvT2UL0r_wAw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-57342314738399226982024-03-16T22:35:00.001+02:002024-03-16T22:35:49.853+02:00Richard Strauss: Elektra<div><div>Music: Richard Strauss</div><div>Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles</div><div><br /></div><div>Elektra: Irene heorin</div><div>Clytemntestra: Waltraud Meier</div><div>Chrysothemis: Eva-Maria Westbroek</div><div>Aegisth: Robert Gambill</div><div>Orestes: Rene Pape</div><div>Tutotor to Orestes: Oliver Zwarg</div><div><br /></div><div>Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus</div><div>Conductor: Daniele Gatti</div><div><br /></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-mEgeMG3e8?si=DSNGWqqTLtl1mO-u" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-70431954150358431402024-03-14T20:59:00.000+02:002024-03-14T20:59:35.983+02:00Tchaikovksy: Francesca da Rimini (Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32) | Santtu-Matias Rouvali<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3AhZDsY44pc?si=8PBm_sAeehMw1PT5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-32397867142178652872024-01-29T22:18:00.000+02:002024-01-29T22:18:13.869+02:00Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op 93 | Valery Gergiev<div>If one credits <b>Gustav Mahler</b> entirely to the 19th century in order to make room for subsequent important 20th-century composers, then <b>Dmitri Shostakovich</b> (1906 – 1975) must undoubtedly be regarded as the greatest symphonist of the latter century. His 10th Symphony (whose scherzo alludes to the barbarism of Stalinism) is the absolute masterpiece of the Soviet composer!</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1 Moderato</div><div>2 Allegro</div><div>3 Allegretto</div><div>4 Andante - Allegro</div><div><br /></div><div>National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America</div><div>Valery Gergiev, conductor</div><div><br /></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fSJwP5dvzPg" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-25847697003803160962024-01-15T19:35:00.001+02:002024-01-15T19:35:56.740+02:00Granville Bantock: Dante and Beatrice | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Vernon Handley<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L61ufBwK8xA?si=k-iYvl_xOGUZUu9X" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-60889564251574517792023-12-15T18:52:00.000+02:002023-12-15T18:52:36.115+02:00Pink Floyd "Lisztified": Fantasia Quasi Sonata | AyseDeniz Gokcin<div>i) Hey You</div><div>ii) Wish You Were Here</div><div>iii) Another Brick In The Wall</div><div><br /></div><div>Live from St. James's Piccadilly, London</div><div>Music by Pink Floyd, arranged and performed by AyseDeniz Gokcin</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jU4lyHTPxeM?si=wuE_9b1iE6v3PUxt" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-39626558360160339642023-12-07T14:18:00.000+02:002023-12-07T14:18:13.097+02:00Brief Encounter (1945) | Dir. David Lean | Mus. Sergei Rachmaninov (2nd Piano Conc.)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PGQ6xBMLfeQ?si=zLwKSe51cFFq4_ch" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-45560784664142125032023-12-06T18:03:00.001+02:002023-12-06T18:03:56.535+02:00Bruckner : Symphony No. 7 | Christoph Eschenbach<div>I. Allegro moderato</div><div>II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam</div><div>III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell </div><div>IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell </div><div><br /></div><div>Frankfurt Radio Symphony </div><div>Dir. Christoph Eschenbach</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uaV3eEJB55c?si=qc4V2lNk7bjhZyzW" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-84502783901746011762023-11-03T13:16:00.000+02:002023-11-03T13:16:14.778+02:00"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" | BYU Choirs and Orchestra<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TaZgBHFZV7I?si=And9pBKg0wBArcTp" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-42661464369837754962023-09-29T09:27:00.001+03:002023-09-29T09:27:19.586+03:00Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar) | Michigan State University Orchestra<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A2XgKban1-c?si=JOxSUQwxFloXHDEP" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-85628559746413979272023-09-27T18:03:00.000+03:002023-09-27T18:03:35.583+03:00Weinberg: Cello Concerto | Sol Gabetta, Cello<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jlljk2n4Oak?si=L4xSKFEWQ6nCqQnf" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-14266857316792841772023-09-16T17:20:00.001+03:002023-09-16T17:46:26.569+03:00Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 | UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, cond. Jeffrey Thomas<i>A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op. 45</i> (German: <i>Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift</i>) by <b>Johannes Brahms</b>, 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. (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_German_Requiem_(Brahms)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></i>)<div><br /><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MAnUk6MxXQ0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div></div>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-10823908141129586332023-08-19T08:19:00.001+03:002023-08-19T08:19:41.546+03:00Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 | Rafał Blechacz<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sSFwJip6hxg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-43324072375457081832023-08-12T18:32:00.000+03:002023-08-12T18:32:00.769+03:00Shostakovich: Cello Concertos No. 1 & 2<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afcimw6kujk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><div><br /></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WYVzEAKzvfs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-88243702265219366682023-08-02T21:32:00.001+03:002023-08-02T21:35:14.093+03:00Ryan Murphy: A Lullaby | The Tabernacle Choir<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zS4S5ihadvI" title="A Lullaby, by Ryan Murphy | The Tabernacle Choir" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-91183881263307823732023-08-01T07:38:00.000+03:002023-08-01T07:38:45.599+03:00J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 | Kavakos, Zukerman, Vengerov<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fMm2bShS2cY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos" target="_blank">Brandenburg Concertos</a></span></b></i>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-87950861312114514682023-07-24T18:01:00.000+03:002023-07-24T18:01:18.883+03:00Ernest Bloch: "Schelomo" (Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra) | Jan Vogler ∙ Eliahu Inbal<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RRGMPCXS_yM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-17838454410475810042023-07-09T21:34:00.001+03:002023-07-09T21:34:53.405+03:00Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Overture | Evgeny Svetlanov<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-n66F5xc4Uc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-29626452260092258962023-06-27T20:39:00.003+03:002023-06-27T20:39:54.516+03:00Arise, O God, and Shine | The Tabernacle Choir<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JKNy72zGheo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-67857381599764942722023-06-23T20:09:00.001+03:002023-06-23T20:09:40.826+03:00Reinhold Glière: "The Sirens", Symphonic Poem in F minor, Op. 33<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ExX_XtmDW6c" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-54026937698241931312023-06-07T23:11:00.002+03:002023-06-07T23:11:40.828+03:00Voyage of the Damned (1976)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9lokt_5CVyY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-75914703404276929672023-05-30T22:48:00.000+03:002023-05-30T22:48:33.800+03:00Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique' | Alan Gilbert<div><b>Tchaikovsky's</b> last symphony is not exactly a classical symphony in the usual sense of the word <i>"classical"</i>. 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.</div><div><br /></div><div>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).</div><div><br /></div><div>We note that <b>Gustav Mahler</b> has been quite unjust in his criticism for the symphony, calling it "shallow, superficial, distressingly homophonic - no better than salon music"! According to <b>Deryck Cooke</b>, Mahler attempted to "correct" the shortcomings of the <i>"Pathetique"</i> in his own <i>"Ninth"</i>, which owes much to Tchaikovsky's <i>"Sixth"</i>...</div><div><br /></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8YXFpAMbdl8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-73433144820437564352023-05-30T09:18:00.000+03:002023-05-30T09:18:38.853+03:00J. B. Priestley: "An Inspector Calls"<b><i>An Inspector Calls</i></b> is a modern morality play written by English dramatist <b>J. B. Priestley</b>, 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 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inspector_Calls" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></i>)<div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXT0FgfrQWM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-35993619706188935872023-05-03T18:05:00.001+03:002023-05-03T18:23:10.456+03:00Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod | Jaap van Zweden<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oG_MSFhiu1k" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627021293399211345.post-46038723570755937052023-03-08T01:18:00.000+02:002023-03-08T01:18:00.740+02:00TITANIC (1996, TV)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p7gg0CQF4zw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Costas Papachristouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142916507160334319noreply@blogger.com0