It’s only 5 minutes long! These folk classics will lift your spirits and bring a smile to your face. Performed live with gusto by Zoltán Kocsis (piano) and Barnabás Kelemen (violin), as good as it gets! Bravo.
Category Archives: music
Dread Zeppelin cover “Your Time Is Gonna Come”
For the uninitiated (from Wikipedia): Dread Zeppelin is an American Band best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a 300-pound Las Vegas Elvis impersonator. I can’t decide whether I like this version or the original version better.
Maurizio Pollini wins the 1960 Chopin Competition
A young Maurizio Pollini (age 18) takes home 1st prize in the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition held every 5 years in Warsaw, Poland. The competition is devoted to the works of a single composer, Frédéric Chopin (duh). The great Arthur Rubinstein, who led the jury, declared Pollini the winner of the competition, allegedly saying: “that boy can play the piano better than any of us”.
Beck performs “Wave” on SNL
In a melancholy mood? Feast your ears (& eyes) on Beck performing the haunting “Wave” (from the “Morning Phase” album).
J. Sebastian Bach played on piano
Piano vs Harpsichord ? I am definitely one who prefers hearing Bach on a modern piano. Here, the great Argentinian Pianist Martha Argerich performs the final dance (“Capriccio”) from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C minor:
Here is the same work performed on Harpsichord:
Twelve Tones by Vi Hart
Self proclaimed “Recreational Mathemusician” Vi Hart has created a wonderful video Twelve Tones, ostensibly “about” twelve tone music, randomness, creativity, pattern recognition and much much more. This beautiful work will amaze and elucidate, and yet will leave you filled with awe at the Mystery of Creation.
Argerich plays Lizst
From 1966: the great Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich plays Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 by Franz Liszt (Hungarian 1811-1886). It is sometimes argued that Liszt was the greatest pianist to ever live. He was most certainly a great and charismatic showman and his piano music, no doubt, reflects his attributes as a virtuoso.
Liszt in 1886, about 2 months before his death
Crazy Clown Time by David Lynch
This is a music video directed by David Lynch (!) featuring a song from an album of new music from David Lynch (!), sung by David Lynch (!). It features fleeting glimpses of Lynch, but I can’t take my eyes off the other participants including Paulie in a red shirt and Susie who ripped her shirt off completely.
Lang Lang tackles Prokofiev’s 3rd
This is an excerpt from a film Music From The Inside Out with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Close up footage of an irrepressible Lang Lang rehearsing the final movement of Prokofiev’s much loved 3rd Piano Concerto.
Captain Beefheart: Ice Cream For Crow
Lest he be forgotten, Don Van Vliet (1941-2010).
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