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De heerlijke flamenco-grooves en prachtige dans… een verslavend filmpje! 🙂
Unterwegs mit Bach(‘s Toccata and Fugue in D minor)
The mighty flamenco voice of Sandra Carrasco
People with a musical heartbeat can’t afford to skip the mighty flamenco voice of Sandra Carrasco. Here’s two videos with some of her great singing.
Shankar Tucker conquers a world audience via YouTube
I’ve been tracking down his uploads ever since I noticed his presence on YouTube early this year. Shankar Tucker is quite a phenomenal guy who has conquered a world audience by storm via his YouTubechannel in less than a year.
One of Shankar Tucker’s videos: Sapnon se Bhare Naina, with singer Rohini Ravada
Shankar Tucker plays the clarinet and a handful of other instruments and is interested in Indian Classical music and Indian folk music traditions. He incorporates these different styles with elements of Jazz, Electronic, Classical and Pop in his compositions. He spends a lot of time in India, where he studies Hindustani music on clarinet with flute-bansuri player Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. So far Shankar Tucker’s channel has featured collaborations with a bunch of great singers, such as Mahesh Vinayakram, Aditya Rao, Rohan Kymal, Vidya and Vandana Iyer and Nirali Kartik.
Here’s a link to the Hindustan Times writing about him in September 2011, a.o. things saying: “(..) a student of flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia at the Brindaban Gurukul in Mumbai, he has picked the clarinet over flute”. And then, so funny what follows: “(..) he disclosed in an interview to an Indian Express that his guru doesn’t even know about his fusion experiments.” :))
R.I.P. David Bedford (composer of Canterbury stuff and much, much more)
I remember buying this lp in my teens and this is one of its great tracks with David Bedford on church organ and Mike Oldfield soloing on guitar. The album Instructions for Angels was one of those very nice additions to the Canterbury stuff – mostly lp’s – I gathered as a teenager. I share this clip because of the news earlier this month that David Bedford died at the age of 74. May he rest in peace.
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Murnau’s classic ‘Nosferatu’ with fabulous church organ accompaniment by Mathias Rehfeldt
Wow, fabulous… veery impressive! The awesome organ playing here works perfect as an addition to the events in Murnau’s classic ‘Nosferatu’. Hats off to Mathias Rehfeldt’s brilliant achievement! A must-watch!
Rachmaninoff #3 on a beautiful Sunday afternoon
Valentina Lisitsa, filmed by me on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in December 2009, Abbey Road Studios, London. Valentina plays a segment from the 1st Movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3. (Play in HD).
The beauty of Barbara Bonney’s singing
An example of the captivating beauty of Barbara Bonney’s voice, here interpreting this gem of Richard Strauss in a phenomenal way, with great accompaniment by Geoffrey Parsons on piano.
Valja’s ‘wake up’-call! :)
Deep commitment and musical depth during Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninoff Project, but there was also lots of funny moments… here’s just one of them. Filmed by me in London, December 2009, Abbey Road Studios.
Light of Asia – rarely seen Indian epic, screens October 7th 2011 in Amsterdam with a new live score
Prem Sanyas/Light of Asia (1925, dir. by Franz Osten & Himansu Rai), a spectacular and rarely shown epic silent film, will be presented by the Amsterdam Tropentheater on Friday 7 October 2011. The film will be screened in the Mauritszaal of the Institute of The Tropics at the Mauritskade and starts at 20:30. Not to be missed!
“Two and a half thousand years ago there lived in North India a prince, Siddharta, who renounced his worldly wealth and a position and wandered the land in search of understanding and the secret of sorrow. After many experiences, as he sat one day in meditation, illumination came to him and he became The Buddha, the Enlightened One. Thereafter, through out his life, he taught the law of righteousness, the Middle Way.” (from the book ‘The Light of Asia’ [1879] by Sir Edward Arnold)
The celebrated Rajasthani gypsy ensemble Divana provides live musical accompaniment. The silent film tells the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), who achieved spiritual enlightenment by rejecting all material wealth.