Someone mentioned this the other day so I decided we SHOULD make a thread about it!

Here you can post links to your favourite youtube clips of musicians (famous or non famous) for everyone to share.

I'll start with mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6VxVmt6UOA - Rubinstein - Chopin Ballade No. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwc-nmyPm4I - Lisitsa - Paganini/Liszt La Campanella

I posted this in a thread ages ago, but I think this guy is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WphLTOvD0GE


and

Friedrich Gulda - Mozart Piano Concerto #20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF17mzCPq5A

I find Gulda to be an immensely interesting character. Might have to see if I can find a biography or something. Two of my favourite pianists have to be Friedrich Gulda and Ronald Brautigam.

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

Nicholas Daniel playing the Mozart Oboe Conerto - amazing! Being a live performance there are some mistakes, but very minimal! Skip forward to 5:49 to see the cadenza, it's incredible.

Jean-Pierre Rampal plays Poulenc Flute Sonata, second movement, with Francis Poulenc at the piano. This is my inspiration and I will be satisfied with my progress only when I can play it like this!

Flute playing at its best.

If you go to http://www.nicholasdaniel.com and select media, you will get links to various youtube videos including the Elliott Carter concerto and (joy oh joy) Britten's 6 Metamorphoses. Sublime stuff.

I was lucky enough to see him perform at the IDRS conference in Birmingham this year (well luck doesn't enter into it, I paid good money). He IS superb.

He is amazing - I get too jealous every time I watch him

My grade 8 accompanist accompanied him for one of his concerts

Yes i think I would have the recordings of the Metamorphoses as my favourites! But here is another solo oboe performance

Piazzolla Etude No 3 - solo oboe

I've only recently discovered Piazzolla after buying the piano grade 8 book to play through and then found that there were solo flute etudes....and that you could play them on the oboe too! (bit beyond me on both instruments at the moment but something to aspire to!)

Yes, indeed - Piazzolla on the oboe! A popular party piece with oboists here (Costa Rica) is the Primavera Porteña (Spring) from his Four Seasons, in various quintet combinations. Yummy!

There is a very interesting DVD about Gulda's life [entitled "So What!"] but so far as I know there is no conventional biography about him. There is almost nothing in English. In German there are two books by him, both out of print and hard to find:

1. Worte zur Musik (written by the man himself)
2. Friedrich Gulda. Aus Gesprächen Mit Kurt Hofmann (written by Hofmann from convesations with Gulda)

There is even less available about Brautigam - although he is such a great genius in so many directions that someone must write his biography before very long.

Martha Argerich playing Brahms' Rhapsody In G Minor-it's gorgeous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2q8-Sr__A...feature=related

This flautist is brilliant! Bouriakov - and he's a another fine example of someone who has to play through the side of his mouth : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1surdCTKB9A

and am I allowed to mention a little movie that I made about a goose learning flute which I posted on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-yXgLhE_54

Anything with Victor Borge in it.............

Well, I have always been impressed by Horowitz playing his own Carmen Variations

yet the not-very-well known Dinoru Varsi manages to play more beautifully than any other pianist I've ever heard, as in this famous: Scriabine Etude Op. 8 No. 12


... but this is my all time favourite piece of music (and this arrangement of it): Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swan

It goes without saying that Valentina Lisitsa's channel is the first port of call - I think she's probably unique in being one of the few genuinely world-class pianists who posts extensively on YouTube in high quality.

Absent Ms L, my favourite YouTube clip is Joel Hastings performing J. S. Bach's Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29, "Wir danken dir, Gott" ("We Thank Thee, God"), arranged by Camille Saint-Saens.

PS - Thank you, Mad Tom, for the wonderful Scriabin link.

Emma Johnson plays Mozart

Yes. Dinorah Varsi. What a wonderful pianist.

Unfortunately I can find only four albums featuring her:

An album of Brahms piano music where she is one of three featured pianists. Some of the piano parts in an album of Brahms and Vieuxtemps Violin sonatas (Gyorgy Sebok is the other pianist), and album of French Violin sonatas (again sharing piano honours with Sebok) and piano in an album of early Mendelsohhn Violin and Piano sonatas (with Alex Sitkovetsky on Violin).

If she ever records a solo album I'll be first in the queue to buy it.

Bonjour, (I am French but I'll try...)

Is there anybody to tell me the name of a piece I have heard on utube. The person who is playing just say it is Mozart, allegro moderato, ABRSM grade five around 2003-2004-2005. That does'nt say much for me ( here in Québec, we dont have the ABRSM syllabus) and I just dont find it. I am not even sure this is Mozart. You can hear the piece if you write "Mozart allegro moderato ABRSM" on utube brooser. The name of the player is "mustela13". I would be very pleased if someone can give me the answer.
Thank's a lot

What I like about youtube is the really rare footage that comes up for all to share

My favourite is Sarasate playing Sarasate

sarasate plays sarasate

you can then compare it to all other violin greats like Heifetz or Perlamn playing the same piece

And a rare video of Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff

And Prokofiev playing the piano
Prokofiev

Shostakovich playing his piano concerto
Shostakovich

And Stravinsky conductin Firebird

Stravinsky

He plays that at some speed - he'd certainly give Argerich a run for her money, tempo-wise!

Hi Suzysue - and welcome.

I have the syllabuses (syllabi?) for the years you mention, and there is no Mozart piece listed at grade 5 piano for those years.

When I have a few minutes I will listen to the clip and also widen the search - if the syllabus was for outside the UK it's possible the 'years' covered would have been different.

I'll also keep open the possibility that it's not Mozart! there is a Haydn piece listed for 2003 -2004.

It is by Leopold Mozart and it is actually called Allegro Moderato in F. I played this for my Grade 5 in 1987.

I had an evil witch of a piano teacher who used to swear at me for playing it badly.

And here is the music for it: http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/l.m...nnerl-NB-36.pdf

(linked off from http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/L.Mozart.php)

Thank's a lot Corenfa
Now I'll try to play it !

You are welcome. I hope you do better with it than I did.