Bach: Cello Suite #3, Bourree

I used to play this one in the violin.

Bach: Cello Suite #3 BWV 1009: Bourree I

Performer: Mtislav Rostropovich
Album: Rostropovich - Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6

Beethoven - Appasionata Sonata

Sorry for the delay between posts, I've been awfully busy.

More Beethoven! I like this historic performance of the last movement of the Appasionata:

Beethoven : Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor "Appassionata" - III. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo - Presto
Interpreter: Ernst Levy
Album: Ernst Levy, Vol. 3 - Beethoven, Schumann, And Brahms

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 25 - Adagio

Beethoven : Piano Sonata No.25 in G, Op.79 - Adagio

Interpreter: Emil Gilels
Album: Emil Gilels: Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Adagio

This post is for a very special monkey :)

Brahms : Piano Concerto No. 1 - Second Movement - Adagio

Interpreter: Emil Gilels (piano), Eugen Jochum (conductor)
Album: Concertos for Piano No. 1 & 2, Fantasia Op. 116

Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata - Adagio Cantabile

I post this song for somebody very special to me :)

Beethoven : Piano Sonata No.8 in c, Op.13 Pathetique sonata - 2 Adagio Cantabile

Interpreter: Emil Gilels
Album: Emil Gilels: Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Bach: Cello Suite #1 BWV 1007 : Prelude

Bach: Cello Suite #1 BWV 1007: 1. Prelude

Performer: Mtislav Rostropovich
Album: Rostropovich - Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6

Vivaldi: Winter - Largo

Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" II. Largo

Orchestra: Berliner Philarmoniker
Conductor: Nigel Kennedy
Album: Nigel Kennedy: Vivaldi

Busoni/Bach: Chaconne

Busoni's piano transcription on Bach's Chaconne, from Partita II In D Minor For Vn, BWV1004.

Brahm's also wrote a left-hand piano transcription of this piece. In a letter to Clara Schumann, he wrote:

On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.

Interpreter: John Ogdon
Album: Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Fantasia after Bach; Toccata

Beethoven - Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia "Moonlight"

I like very much Kissin's interpretation. I hope you enjoy it!

Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonata #14 'Quasi una Fantasia' Op. 27 No. 2: Andante sostenuto
Interpreter: Evgeny Kissin
Album: Evgeny Kissin: Beethoven, Franck, Brahms


I recommend reading this interesting study of the famous "Moonlight" sonata and its different interpretations.

Beethoven: Triple Concerto. Largo

Because we can't have enough Beethoven :)

Ludwig van Beethoven : Beethoven Triple Concerto Op. 56 in C: 2. Largo

Interpreters: Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Berliner Philarmoniker, Barenboim.
Album: Beethoven - Triple Concerto ~ Choral Fantasy

Schubert: Notturno. Adagio.

Schubert : Notturno. Flat major D 897 op. 148. Adagio

Interpreter: András Schiff; Yuuko Shiokawa; Miklós Perényi
Album:
Schubert: Piano Trios

Beethoven - Violin Sonata #10

Ludwig van Beethoven : Violin Sonata #10 In G, Op. 96, "The Cockcrow" - 2. Adagio Espressivo

Interpreter: Ann-Sophie Mutter
Album: Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas

Beethoven - God save the King - Variations

Let us continue the streak of Beethoven pieces :)

Ludwig van Beethoven : God Save the King

Interpreter: Unknown
Album: Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 6 - Piano Works

Beethoven - Canzona di Ringraziamento

This is one of the last compositions of Beethoven. He wrote this slow movement of his 15^th quartet as thanksviging for having survived a near-fatal illness. It's a deeply moving piece and widely regarded as one of his greatest masterpieces (as the rest of the late quartets). I recommend listening to this piece (and preferably the entire quartet, of course) in complete silence; if one listens carefully, one cannot help but to share the existential experience felt as communicated by the master.

This is a legendary recording by the Julliard Quartet.



Ludwig van Beethoven : Quartet #15 Molto Adagio (Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart).
Interpreter: Julliard Quartet
Album: Beethoven : Complete String Quartets.

Beethoven - Rage Over a Lost Penny

Although this work is not one of Beethoven's great masterpieces, it has personal value since it reminds me of some happy moments of my childhood. I hope you enjoy it!


Ludwig van Beethoven : Rondo: Rage Over a Lost Penny
(wikipedia)
Interpreter: Gianluca Cascioli
Album: Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 6 - Piano Works

Beethoven - String Quartet # 13, Cavatina

This is one of Beethoven's most intimate confessions. He said himself that never did music move him so much. There is here sorrow without hope, sorrow for what is irrevocable, and for a longing for what has not been and never can be. -- J.W.N. Sullivan



Ludwig van Beethoven : Quartet 13 Op 130 in Bb - 5th movement. Cavatina: Adagio Molto Espressivo.

Interpreter: Julliard Quartet
Album: Beethoven : Complete String Quartets.

Puccini - Vissi d'Arte

Puccini : Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)

Interpreter: Kiri Te Kanawa
Album: Kiri Te Kanawa - Verdi & Puccini

Primrose: viola transcriptions

Primrose : Viola transcription/arrangement on Liszt's La Campanella and Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2
Performer: Robert Koenig, Roberto Diaz
Album: William Primrose: Viola Transcriptions

Bach-Stokowsky : Little Fugue

Stokowsky : Orchestral transcription of Bach's Little Fugue
Conductor: José Serebrier
Album: Stokowski: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions

Bach : Jesu, bleibet meine freude

Bach / David Qualey : Variation on Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Album: A Winter's Solstice