Lullaby • Johann Brahms

What, you thought this was a simple nursery rhyme? Did you not realize this was a classical composition by one of the greatest Romantic Period composers [and I quote from Wikipedia]?

This is my dare: listen twice and don't catch yourself whistling or humming the tune for the rest of the day.

Dvorak, Symphony no. 9, 4. • Gustavo Dudamel and his hair

Fyodor Shiryaev - Tarantella, Franz Liszt

Click here for the reeeest of the story. Awesome.

Napoleon's March - Chabad Centennial Concert

The other part of the theme song of JEM's Living Torah series... It's pretty solid at full length with full sound.



I remember opining then--and my opinion hasn't changed--that Yisroel Lamm has one grab-bag of arrangements into which he dips at random. He then spreads a generous helping of whatever comes up over a few Miami Experiences, some HASCs and the occasional Chabad Centennial Concert.

Nyet, Nyet from the same concert

Flowering Jasmine - Gidon Kremer

Allow me to begin from the end: We were listening to the local classical station at 5or 6 AM when this piece came on. We scribbled the name that the DJ said, then Googled it as soon as we got to work. There we all found that we'd all found the same thing: That we'd heard this piece on the local classical station--mine is 105.9--in the very early morning, and felt compelled to Google it and share it.

Here I share "Flowering Jasmine" played on Vibrapahone. Perhaps "Ahh!" misses the feeling, so feel free to comment.



Today is Erev Rosh Chodesh July, which is in turn Erev Rosh Chodesh Alef d'Chodesh Tammuz. July is the month of my birth and other such things. Happy It :)

Happy, happy, It. :)

Kah Echsof - Andy Statman

Mhmmm. Dass right. Dass completely correc. Love the bass-plucking-progresh from 1:48 and variations following.



MYSTAKE: I uploaded Amudai Sheish - Bilvovi instead of what I said I was uploading. Grr. Grrrrr.

Is it okay if I just place the correct one right...

here? Tx!

Andy's Ride - Itzhak Perlman

Hipdiddy Hipdiddy Hipdiddy Hip! Happy Tuesday!

Bond/Andre Rieu - Victory

Even more than the music, the energy! Because, you see, the energy is what you see most in this clip.

Enjoy.

L'Chu Neraneno - Itzhak Perlman - Fiddler's House

Or as you may recognize the melody: "Shim'u, shim'u rabbotai..." BEEEautiful clarinet then french horn then accordion then frenzied-everything. With the vocal intro by our Klezmaniac friend Sklamberg.

Good Shabbos!

"Nigun" - Itzhak Perlman - Fiddler's House

With vocals by Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics.

Cyber Conductor - Aleksey Igudesman/Sebastian Gürtler

Very cute.



HT: Ber Bom

TED Performance - Gustavo Dudamel

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement.
Then Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2. You will remember this from the time previous, and it is as stunning but more so. It is longer and softer at the long and soft spots (11:10) and harsher and crisper at the crispy harsh parts. And more fun where there is more fun being had.



(But I'm also kinda tired of this particular piece. Nu. Nu. Nu. L'artzei. Nu.)

Yngwie Malmsteen with the New Japan Philharmonic - Icarus Dream Fanfare

Long story short, read wiki-p about the man. So, he played one of the pieces off of his "Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E flat minor"—a set written by him, scored by a friend (Rosenthal, a Jew), conducted by a different friend (Levi, a Jew), and performed by the Czech Philharmonic (once full of Jews)—with the New Japan Philharmonic. And that is this.



UPDATE: Peretz noted in the comments that I posted the "wrong" clip. So here is the "correct" one. Special Moments: "Violin" at :37 and teeth-playing at 7:00.

Andre Rieu - Hava Nagila

With a tiny little nod to DeePee who introduced me to [the performances of] Andre Rieu.

Czardash - Miri Ben Ari

Violinist. Extraordinary.

Shostakovitch Second Waltz - Andre Rieu

Simchas Beis Hasho'eiva

HT:DP

Dvorak - New World Symphony - 4th Movement

Itzhak Perlman - Greatest Hits

אן דרשות: Great violin and very very very fast. Faster than I play + he plays for real. Not sure what the piece is. Noider?

Mahler's 5th Symphony (Part I)

Gustavo Dudamel at the Proms - Arturo Márquez - Danzón Nº 2

Gustavo the Dude, conducting. Arturo Márquez = 58-year-old Mexican composer. Rocking piece! Something of a latin-jazz-orchestral-marching-band or a variation thereof. :) Symphony is the Venezualan High-school thingamajigger that The Dude is into.