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Classic blue-eyed soul from the Righteous Brothers. This is live and incredible.

 

 

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Fell in love with Japanese classical music many years ago, especially the Koto.

 

 

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Third Mote Melody by Thomas Tallis.

 

 

And Lamentation from the same composer. One of England's finest.

 

 

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Russian sacred music has such a wonderful depth to it. Rachmaninoff's Vespers - The Night Vigil - is a fine example.

 

 

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Mum's favourite singer from a bygone age.

 

 

And one of mine...

 

 

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18-year-old Yehudi Menhuin plays Paganini's first violin concerto. The recording is from 1934. The Paris Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Monteux.

 

 

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Rudolf Serkin plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5,  (Emperor). NY Phil conducted by the great Leonard Bernstein.

 

 

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Red Army 1968.

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Perhaps Menhuin's greatest recording of Betthoven's violin concerto. Only Furtwangler could have coaxed this from him though I think their 1947 collaboration had the edge. Menhuin was the first Jewish musician of note to play in post-war Germany.

 

 

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[Post A Poem Thread]

Uesugi Kenshin
1530-1578
 
Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake;
A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream;
I know not what life is, nor death.
Year in year out-all but a dream.
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
I stand in the moonlit dawn,
Free from clouds of attachment.   Not my translation but I've always been fascinated by Samurai "death poems" morbid as they are.