What Are You Listening To?

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Gustav Mahler - Adagietto (my favourite one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Les39aIKbzE

The introduction to this youtube clip claims "Karajan's Mahler is unsurpassed” I’ll take Bernstien or Bruno Walter anytime over Karajan. 

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Skip to 1.30


Shame about the audio quality and camera work but can you imagine what it feels like at age 12 unleashing a monster of an instrument like that?

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Virtuoso Strings Octet (Wellington) - Peoples Choice and Gold Award Winner
Craig Utting | Goodnight Kiwi

This is an odd one. I can see the cleverness and originality but the atonalism puts my teeth on edge. I can’t stop thinking “I wish they’d tuned their instruments properly”. I also keep thinking “ Wish they’d turn the lights up"

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Here’s another one played in the dark. Earlier than the one above and just prior to atonalism tearing apart most classical music.

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Impossible to be certain which section these should be posted on. Lisa Fischer crosses so many bounderies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZzSaKaEEjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAEiaz5WxI
Skip to 7.14
Lisa Fischer takes a 17th Century lament and by combining
both classical and Jazz vocal techniques makes this something else.
Why this woman hasn't released any CD's/DVD's/downloads is a mystery.

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^She has - but just the one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Intense

If you haven't seen 20 Feet From Stardom, you might want to watch it at some point - she's one of the heavily featured singers. 

It seems to be the performance dynamic she prefers (in a nutshell) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Feet_from_Stardom