A little Culture (heavy on the bandwidth)

[GeneW]

Youtube is a great resource.... Warning - Classical and Baroque music. If you dig it fine, if not, better run while you can!

These are recorded performances, video. Worth the look.

One of the best Oboe players in the world in a duo with a young lady. Adagio from a JS Bach concerto...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h_fZ7yDw4


Same oboist doing some Mozart. I don't like Mozart much but he makes it interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGzOJBeig_k


Adagio from Brandenburg Concerto #4... the lead Recorder player is doing some very good improvisation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s20qUN39OyI


Six part fugue from the "Musical Offering". If you have a copy of the book "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" this is one of the key pieces.

Very very very difficult to play..... I've tried it. I have many years of hard work before I'll ever be able to attempt this piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViCLYbtJ1bQ


Last piece, a legacy piece.... Dona Nobis Pacem from the Mass in b minor.. kind of like hearing "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare. Bach is that important.

Very very heavy piece. Set in the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach's own home church. Where he's buried today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpC0OvbpQJ0


Gene