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20/01/2014
Very sad to hear the passing of Claudio Abbado.
Here he is rehearsing with the Berlin Philharmonic back in 1996.
Claudio Abbado in rehearsal with the Berliner Philharmoniker (1996) Full-length video available at http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/74/ The documentary "Claudio Abbado -- The silence that follows the music" from the ...
12/01/2014
This is worth watching!
Bobby McFerrin: Watch me play ... the audience! | Video on TED.com In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
23/12/2013
An interview with the great András Schiff who turned 60 a few days ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25450716
Andras Schiff: Why I don't set foot in Hungary Pianist Andras Schiff tells the BBC's Tim Franks why he gave his 60th birthday performance in London, and not in his homeland, Hungary
21/12/2013
Oscar Peterson plays Jingle Bells Oscar Peterson (piano) plays 'Jingle Bells' from his Christmas album.
16/12/2013
Happy birthday Beethoven!
Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music
27/11/2013
How many of these composers have you listened to?
Top Classical Composers - For how many of these composers have you heard music? Find your score on this list by clicking each item that you have completed. This is a list of important classical composers from the Medieval period through the 20th Century.
23/11/2013
This is pretty funny.
Dudley Moore Beethoven Sonata Parody In this clip from the 1950's-60s British comedy group "Beyond the Fringe," Dudley Moore plays a very funny but also very musically well-done parody of a Beet...
22/11/2013
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was born a hundred years ago today. He's best known today for works like the opera Peter Grimes, the War Requiem and Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which you can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM
If you'd like to find out more about Britten, you can watch a documentary about him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvhhZG4IBA
Full length - Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the orchestra Kölner Philharmonie - WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln Benjamin Britten: The young people's guide to the orchestra conducted by: Jukka Pekka Saraste (Chefdirigent)
14/11/2013
Today would have been F***y Mendelssohn's birthday. Like her brother Felix, she showed prodigious musical ability as a child but sadly, being a woman in the 19th century, she wasn't encouraged in the same way Felix was. She still managed to compose around 460 pieces of music and here is two of them. (I couldn't decide which to pick.)
Enjoy!
Notturno in G minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1eZ2B63Ro
Piano Trio in D minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMxPMXODpU
(Interesting to note today is also the birthdays of Leopold Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Aaron Copland!)
F***y Mendelssohn - Notturno in G minor F***y Mendelssohn - Hensel Piano: Heather Schmidt
12/11/2013
RIP John Tavener.
(Read about his music here: http://tinyurl.com/o2buwhg)
John Tavener The Lamb Revision aid for AS Music Developing Musical Understanding John Tavener The Lamb
07/11/2013
Wow!
Yuja Wang plays the Flight of the Bumble-Bee (Vol du Bourdon) Watch another great Yuja Wang concert here: http://www.medici.tv/ #!/yuja-wang-schumann-scriabin-prokofiev Watch all our concerts from the Verbier Festival he...
Our very own Stephanie Abe (Piano) is performing tomorrow at the Thursday's Lunch Time Concert hosted by NUI Maynooth Music Department.
Stephanie will be performing with Eoin Kenny (Cello).
The programme will include works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Ben McHugh.
Pop along to Riverstown, South Campus, NUI Maynooth at 1:10pm for a treat on a Thursday afternoon.