From the Kings College Chapel in Cambridge
Rogers Covey-Crump — tenor (Evangelist)
Michael George — bass (Jesus)
Emma Kirkby — soprano
Michael Chance — alto
Martyn Hill — tenor
David Thomas — bass
The Choir of Kings College Cambridge
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge (Soprano in ripieno)
The Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman — leader)
Stephen Cleobury — conductor
1:00 Part One
1. Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen – O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (Chorus I
Artist: Joanne Lunn
Artist: Wilke te Brummelstroete
Artist: Paul Agnew
Artist: Dietrich Henschel
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
“China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck, Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally at home at the harpsichord he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer).
The title is misleading: the English Suites are more ‘French’ in character than the French Suites, which are more characteristic of the Italian style. ‘By design the composer is here less learned than in his other suites,’ remarked one early biographer, ‘and has mostly used a pleasing, more predominant melody.’ Just so, and the same is true of the pair of suites BWV 818 and 819 which fall outside the collection but belong with it in terms of style. To all of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the mould of Tureck. To Bach at his most uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues of simplicity and clarity.
Again Yuan Sheng draws the listener into his highly intelligent musical discourse, vibrant and moving, speaking through the medium of a modern Steinway piano.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano)
Georg Friedrich Händel
Messiah. Oratorio en 3 partes
Margaret Marshall, soprano
Catherine Robbin, mezzosoprano
Charles Brett, contratenor
Anthony Rolfe Johson, tenor
Robert Hale, bajo
Saul Quirke, niño soprano
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloist
John Eliot Gardiner
The greatest movements of George Frederic Handels choruses.
(oratorios, anthems, etc)
01. Coronation anthem: Zadok the priest 00:00
02. Samson: Then round about the starry throne 05:24
03. Jephtha: Cherub and Seraphin 07:43
04. Jephtha: How dark oh Lord 11:04
05. Hercules: Jealosuy! Infernal pest 17:55
06. Israel in Egypt: He smote all the first-born 23:44
07. Israel in Egypt: He is my God — And I will exhalt him 26:12
08. Israel in Egypt: Sing ye to the Lord 29:59
09. Semele: Avert these omens, all ye powrs! (german) 33:40
10. Belshazzar: All empires upon God depend (german) 36:23
11. Belshazzar: Oh glorious prince (german) 39:29
12. Belshazzar: I will magnify Thee — Amen (german) 44:57
13. Judas Maccabeus: See the conquring hero comes 50:14
14. Judas Maccabeus: Sing unto God 53:04
15. Funeral anthem: The ways of Zion do mourn 56:08
16. Dixit Dominus: Opening chorus (latin) 01:02:41
17. Solomon: May no rash intruder (Nightingale-chorus) 01:08:42
18. Messiah: For unto us a child is born 01:12:17
19. Messiah: Hallelujah! 01:16:27
Live recording from Theatre des Champs-Elysees,Paris.
Viva Vivaldi! with Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartolis all-Vivaldi sell-out concert performances with the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, at Pariss Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, brought together the talents of todays most celebrated mezzo-soprano and an outstandingly creative group of musicians. Included are arias from Vivaldis operas and pasticcios LOlimpiade, Tito Manlio, Ottone in Villa, Gloria, Juditha Triumphans, Farnace, Bajazet and La Fida Ninfa. The repertoire displays Bartolis breathtaking virtuosity in arias demanding a phenomenal range of vocal expression.
Cecilia Bartoli (born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Bartolis coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility." --Wikipedia
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night one year before dying.
Chopin composed his popular Nocturne when he was about twenty.
it does not matter if you think that it is too late for you or that you still have a lot of time...you have to decide whether you are Chopin or van Gogh.
The idea behind these videos is coming from a research published by the Psychology Department of Berkeley University studying the relation between colors, emotions and how external stimuli are impacting decision making.
The study results demonstrate a strong correlation between faster music in minor tone and the choice from participants of colors from that were saturated, yellower and lighter whereas a slower and minor music produced the opposite pattern (choice of desaturated, darker and bluer colors).
Based on these findings, we wanted to create synesthesia in our videos and trigger more intense and long-lasting emotions in our viewers, get higher audience retention and interaction. We decided to do that by associating drawings from the major painters that were following the scientific findings of this research.
The choice of these paintings and the consecutive association with the music is also based on an accurate work that requires significant time and energy.
The analysis of the melodies returned to us a lot of information on how the painting should have been made. We needed a simple blue pattern but with an intrinsic meaning. Something that people could watch for a while without really understand it.
By creating this video I tried to do only one thing which turned to be the most difficult one: make you feel an emotional synesthesia.
When hearing the melody, dont you feel that everything is...blue? aren’t you lost in the sky? is your mind going over? It’s not for no reason.
it is not only an image, it is not only a melody. It is a trip.
You dont feel bored. Its your mind using the notes and the colors to create your own experience.
Most of the videos online with only one image are only music, but not this.
The research behind the perfect combination is the key for the unconscious.
The research:
«Music–color associations are mediated by emotion» www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8836
Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, Zoe Xu, and Lilia R. Prado-León
— This popular nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). Nocturne in E-flat major opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano, containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.