Youtube

[NLewis]

This is a thread for any interesting music related videos on Youtube, with special emphasis on those which are funny

[pml]

Cool idea Nick!

First up, a one-woman rendition of Steve Reich’s Clapping Music (1972)

Ta-ta-ta . ta-ta . ta . ta-ta . (12 pulses, gradually going out of phase and in again)

Cheers PML

[NLewis]

And now for something completely different. (It’s!)

First up, some serious stuff going down: the Sequentia, Dies iræ from György Ligeti’s Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo, Mixed Choir & Orchestra (1963/65, rev. 1998).

Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Virpi Räisänen-Midth (mezzo-soprano), Maîtrise de Radio France, Sofi Jeanin (direction maîtrise), Chœur de Radio France, Michel Tranchant (chef de chœur), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Recorded earlier this year.

And for the not serious at all: the amazing Barbara Hannigan again, this time with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in a short extract from Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, which is itself an excerpt from one of the strangest and absurdest operas of all time, Le Grand Macabre, in which the chief of the secret police or “Gepopo” is played by a dominatrix coloratura soprano. Need I say more?

Yes, I must say more. Sir Simon really gets into the histrionic spirit of it!

[NLewis]

I have some interesting stuff to post I suppose:

1. Here is a performance of Also Sprach Zarathustra by the Swedish Child Orchestra. I don't think anyone can comprehend how good this performance is until they hear it. It's like nothing else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umEUBDXfU0


A few other things are the typical musical "fails", such as when this gentleman's viola breaks during a performance. Not even quite sure how this can happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fINE8j ... re=related

Or in this Youtube video where the timpanist accidentally knows his music off the stand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arqvnp6y ... re=related




Oh, and how about good old Lenny? (Leonard Bernstein). One of my favorite conductors without a doubt, but it's typical Lenny when he knocks the music off the concert master's stand like in this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3eh5R-a_jI




Anyone else have any more? This is for the funny, interesting, unique, stupid, controversial, or anything else that comes to mind.

[sbeckmesser]

And for the not serious at all: the amazing Barbara Hannigan again, this time with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in a short extract from Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, which is itself an excerpt from one of the strangest and absurdest operas of all time, Le Grand Macabre, in which the chief of the secret police or “Gepopo” is played by a dominatrix coloratura soprano. Need I say more?

I was fortunate enough to see this artist perform the entire role during the NY Philharmonic's performances of the complete opera at the end of the previous season (2009-2010). To me not only was she the vocal highlight of the performances but she was among the bravest of the performers with the aplomb with which she handled her costumes, especially when "disguised" as a spider. Her over-the-top entrance aria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-p1utKFxCg

--Sixtus