What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Caesar of Bread]

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies

Link to video.

I played that on the piano once, in front of my school. The next person played Giorno's Theme from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sue me…

Or listen to this;

Hey, I didn't mean it was a bad idea to bump it
In fact it was excellent imo.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Wow, this thread was started 14 years ago...

It was created the year before I became a moderator, and was one of the threads I moved here, so the arts-related threads would be all together in a forum dedicated to the arts.

Sad to see that some of the videos aren't available anymore, or are geoblocked (seriously, geoblocking Canadians from classical music videos?! ).

 

[Ajidica]

I'm sure Authentic Canadian Content is allowed.
Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've never been into that kind of "comedy". And their map shows Newfoundland connected to the mainland. It isn't. It's an island.

 

[thetrooper]

Learning the piano is easy peasy, amirite?

 

[thetrooper]

Ok, I posted this piece also in the ot thread but I guess we can have it here too;

Amazing performance again by Gert van Hoef. The climax here is otherwordly and I finally appreciate the phrase ‘pull out all the stops’.

 

[BOBAH1]

Pierro

 

[Elephantium]

Sibelius is one of my favorite composers:

 

[thetrooper]

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ok, I posted this piece also in the ot thread but I guess we can have it here too;

Amazing performance again by Gert van Hoef. The climax here is otherwordly and I finally appreciate the phrase ‘pull out all the stops’.

To do all that from memory - memorizing it in mind and muscle-memory - would have taken a lot of hours of practice. I speak from experience, from all those Bach pieces I crammed into my memory for the Western Board of Music exams I took. I would have been allowed to use the sheet music, but I didn't want to get used to having a crutch like that. If I'd lost my place and didn't know instinctively where to go from there, I'd have been screwed. So I memorized all of it - every scale, every piece I had to play for those exams. And as the video shows, it's not only what the hands and fingers do, it's the feet - heel and toe. There's a reason he's wearing shoes like that - it's to make that heel and toe playing faster and easier, to stay on track.

 

[thetrooper]

Next piece needs no further introduction;

 

[thetrooper]

Forth, friends of the Hardanger fiddle!

 

[thetrooper]

Okay friends. Do you recall Gigi D’agostino?

DJ doing Italian Disco some 20 years ago. So here is arguably his most important song (L’amour Toujours, roughly translated to eternal love?) done on organ.

Some would say that the original piece is somewhat shallow and should not be emulated in any other way. Hard disagree, this is catchy af;