Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No. 3
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

https://youtu.be/i_a2pfwKjIY

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This difficult music.
For a difficult time.

Krystof Penderecki
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit, Conductor

https://youtu.be/Dp3BlFZWJNA

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Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has passed. 🕯️

https://culture.pl/en/artist/krzysztof-penderecki

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Do you like Beethoven? Especially when he combines choir and solo singers with orchestra, like the last movement of the 9th symphony? Then you'll love this.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis in D major, op.123
Edda Moser, soprano
Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano
René Kollo, tenor
Kurt Moll, bass
Grosser Rundfunkchor Hilversum N.O.S. Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam Leonard Bernstein

https://youtu.be/06PPhF2tX1g

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Fugue for string quartet in B flat major ("Grosse Fuge"), Op. 133, written in 1825.
Talich Quartet

https://youtu.be/XAgdd2VqLVc

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano sonata no 31, op.110
Sviatoslav Richter

https://youtu.be/LyrY3oBWaiA

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I need to get something off my chest.

Would all of these "inspirational" videos of musicians COMING TOGETHER IN HARMONY through the POWER OF MUSIC do it with something besides BEETHOVEN'S ODE TO FUCKING JOY?!?!??!

I have nothing against Beethoven's 9th, but there is SO MUCH amazing music out there. Recycling the same few "hits" reduces "classical" music to predictable memes. It dumbs things down for the audience instead, of expanding their knowledge and experience.

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I posted some of these before, but there are now more organizations doing this.

Coronavirus quarantine: the best live-streamed classical music concerts available... - Classic FM
https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/live-streamed-classical-music-concerts-coronavirus/

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Henry Purcell - Hear My Prayer, O Lord
VOCES8

https://youtu.be/74Q33UL7ugc

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#cosochoral

William Harris - Bring Us, O Lord God
VOCES8

https://youtu.be/skwx_n8DNXc

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Besides the Metropolitan Opera, a few other #cosoclassical organizations are making their online streaming available for free!

Berlin Philharmonic
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home

Metropolitan Opera
https://www.metopera.org/about/press-releases/met-to-launch-nightly-met-opera-streams-a-free-series-of-encore-live-in-hd-presentations-streamed-on-the-company-website-during-the-coronavirus-closure/

Vienna State Opera
https://www.staatsoperlive.com/
(Click on Free, then create an account)
https://www.culturall.com/ticket/ists/performance_schedule.mc?language=2

Netherlands Bach Society - All of Bach
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach

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It's not often something people forward me makes me _literally_ LOL, but this did it.

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My choir is performing this in a few days on a concert that will benefit the homeless living in the inner city.

It was first written for the victims of the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia, originally a vocal duet and now a popular choral arrangement.

Its beauty is in its simplicity and pure emotion.

Requiem - Eliza Gilkyson, arr. Craig Hella Johnson
Conspirare
https://youtu.be/EnuHRUUEhhA

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#cosochoral

Thinking about all of our friends in Italy right now. I know of no better piece of music to pay tribute; their "unofficial" national anthem.

🇮🇹 🕯️

Verdi - Nabucco - Và Pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
https://invidio.us/watch?v=6982BsQS_6Q&iv_load_policy=1

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#cosoclassical hand washing humor.
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If you are not familiar with the choral music of Elaine Hagenburg, you owe it to yourself to listen. I just helped out at a choral festival where this absolutely stunning work was performed.

"Music of Stillness" by Elaine Hagenberg
Poem by Sara Teasdale
Performed by Oxford Singers
Conducted by Bob Chilcott

https://youtu.be/XrGKj5Zw2WQ

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#cosochoral

Enjoy this moment of pure beauty from Handel's first oratorio.

George Friedrich Handel - "Tu del Ciel ministro eletto" (You, elected minister of Heaven)
from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and of Dissolution)

https://youtu.be/WDpXhlo0jK0

Julia Lezhneva, Dmitry Sinkovsky
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

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Another concert today. This is a beautiful acoustic for a chamber choir, a pleasure to sing in.
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I don't know how I missed this. Peter Serkin passed a few days ago.
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From NPR News
Remembering Peter Serkin, The Searching Pianist https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/02/03/802265527/remembering-peter-serkin-the-searching-pianist?sc=18&f=1001

Concert night. Come to me, my pretty.

I may just be accompanying student orchestras for this one, but any opportunity to play this magnificent instrument is worth it.

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