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!)