Slow lunch break with Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, "Adagio assai". Martha Argerich, Paris 2017

According to the weather, I will begin a little dark with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique", where you can almost feel him watching the Grim Reaper in the eyes. (He died nine days after the premiere, and it's rumoured to be of unnatural causes.) Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert Von Karajan

After a long day, I'll share with you a peaceful moment by Vera Danilina playing Bach's Prelude from Lute Suite, BWV 1006a. Have a beautiful evening!

Good morning! I will start the week without music, but with a silent footage of Giacomo Puccini playing the piano and composing at his home.

It was a long week! Let's "chill" with a leap back in time and watch Luciana Serra singing “Non piangete, o sventurati” from Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira.

I'm in the mood for Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, so here we go. This is footage from Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland, from 2015. Gauthier Broutin (cello), Violaine Despeyroux (viola), Malgorzata Wasiucionek and Elin Kolev (violins)

Nathan Milstein performing Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006

Hilary Hahn playing Bach's Adagio from Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin As a small side note, Bach wrote it shortly after his first wife, Maria Barbara, died unexpectedly while he was away, and this tragedy shaped the Adagio’s tone, making it sound more like a prayer.

The only footage with Ginette Neveu, Paris 1946, playing Chausson's Poème. (3 years later, when she was 29, her plane crashed)

Kristīne Balanas, violin, and Margarita Balanas, cello, playing Vivaldi's Summer.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to @Odie 40HPW. Since @Richard Greaser of the @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 has encouraged him to share some of his music on Nostr, we can help with that too. The best is to quote Odie directly. "I work as a producer and singer in a vocal ensemble, and this is a recording of Våren by Edvard Grieg, arranged for 16 voices. Recorded at our latest concert in Stavanger Concert Hall. My ensemble is called Valen Vokalensemble (8 singers), and we did this concert in cooperation with Edvard Grieg Vokalensemble from Bergen (also 8 singers). In former years of my career, I also used to play keys in a band, I might dig up some history in a later note. After retiring from pop music in 2017, my main focus has been classical music and for the last five years, to build a professional vocal ensemble in my hometown."

Sol Gabetta, Cello, and Polina Leschenko, Piano, playing Frédéric Chopin's Étude, Op. 25, No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor. Have a beautiful evening!

Sabine Devieilhe as Lakmé and Ambroisine Bré as Mallika in "Duo des fleurs" from Delibes's Lakmé. Q: Would anyone be interested if I added in the posts, at least once in a while, the songs as text in the original version (when in French, Italian or German) with the English translation?

When we talk about opera, I truly enjoy more theatrical presentations. In that spirit, Elīna Garanča with "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Carmen. (2010)

Mabel Millán playing Alfonsina y el Mar by Ariel Ramírez. "Nostr shorts"

I will say my goodbye today with Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim singing Verdi's La Traviata, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", alongside the Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera.

During his life, Luciano Pavarotti held quite a few charitable concerns. This footage is from a 2001 event when he sang, together with Tom Jones, "Delilah". This specific event was dedicated to raising funds for the Palestinian kids.

Vivaldi's Concerto in B minor for 4 Violins and Orchestra, Op. 3 No. 10 RV 580, The Huberman Festival, 1983. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime concert, with four of the greatest violinists on one stage. Ivry Gitlis, Isaac Stern, Ida Haendel, and Shlomo Mintz, with Zubin Mehta as Conductor. As a side note, Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman also played that day, on the same stage.

Let's start the weekend with Nikolai Lugansky performing Sergei Rachmaninov's Musical Moment No. 4 in E minor. This footage is from a concert recorded in La Roque d'Anthéron, France, in 2002.

In the mood for Jonas Kaufmann performing Canio’s aria, “Vesti la giubba,” from Pagliacci at the Vienna State Opera. Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, January 2025.