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The Age of Discovery
 
Episode 1 of 6 of the 2013 BBC documentary series The Story of Music with Howard Goodall
 
 
Entire series (six episodes)

2. The Age of Invention
 

3. The Age of Elegance and Sensibility
 

4. The Age of Tragedy
 

5. The Age of Rebellion
 

6. The Popular Age
 
 
 
 
How Music Works
 
Four-part docunentary series with Howard Goodall
 
1. Melody
 
 
2. Rhythm
 
 
3. Harmony
 
 
4. Bass
 
 
 
 
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Sacred Music

2010 BBC documentary series with Simon Russell Beale

Episode 1. The Gothic Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQbWxYZhGA&list=PL64CD352D9DE63D02 

Episode 2. Palestrina and the Popes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vi_hwGBCGk

Episode 3. Byrd & Tallis: Singing the Lord's song in a Strange Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5-Q3igRqw

Episode 4. Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2ipOLOarU

Episode 5. Brahms and Bruckner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG0tRkFmHqY

Episode 6. Fauré and Poulenc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow966drzPdQ

Episode 7. Gorecki and Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURgt9I6D4E

Episode 8. Searching Out the Sacred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-vx0XolxI

 

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Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)

 

Miserere mei, Deus

The story of Allegri's Miserere

Episode from the BBC documentary series Sacred Music with Simon Russell Beale  

Harry Christophers  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yGNadg3dFY

Instrumental 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrIjIhHsW_Y

 

King's College Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9Wua_nMTs

 

Sistine Chapel Choir (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8fI72TFFKY

 

Tallis Scholars

1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKj1iK2WKS8 

 

Tenebræ

With sheet music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA8_oE-nS5c

 

 

 

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Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

Episode from the BBC documentary series Sacred Music with Simon Russell Beale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgK5AWtJDfU

 

Thomas Tallis

1505 - 1585

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Third Mode Melody

Psalm 2 in Archbishop Parker's Psalter

Cello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oKEx1-J1w

The Sixteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxDt2KIwpk

The King's Nois??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5TG8z3-SM

Nine songs from Archbishop Matthew Parkers's Psalter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwiThbJoOlo

 

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William Byrd

1539/43 - 1623

 

Ave verum corpus

The Sixteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ckGcpx6xI

 

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Henry Purcell

1659 - 1695

 

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Dido's Lament

Jessye Norman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R7BYSgz8xY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo

Janet Baker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

 

England, My England

1995 British movie with Simon Callow

Removed from You Tube

 

No stars again

The Tempest 

Duet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6QOCbPY-U

 

Hommage à Henry Purcell

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The Harp

BBC documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ImURf8KUE

 

1564

 

The Mystery of the Stradivarius

Documentary

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-lW6hPU9S0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUKL02XcdaA

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PYELeNbyg

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFh4_zqlh9U

 

Introduction to Stradivari

An introduction to Stradivari by violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved

Library of Congress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52pwDWGuV64

 

Solving the Stradivarius Secret

Boston Museum of Science 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-rOvWeV8k

 

Related image

 

Pablo Casals

Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch

(1923)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pXTIUGQZA

with London Philharmonic (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJss7GBagiw

Bach Cello Solo Nr.1, BWV 1007

France (1954)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1YtvFZOj0

 

Pablo Casals

BBC documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z20GwENK1-w

 

Pablo Casals with students

From Master Class Series

University of California, Berkeley

1960

Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major, Frst movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWuo1mweGkg

 

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Guitar

 

Andres Segovia

Image result for segovia guitar

 

Recuerdos de la Alhambra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdaPoUNk5R8

Capricho Arabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqzGgMnypw

 

Andres Segovia

Master Class in Spain

(ca. 1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDA1crTi9A

 

 

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The Piano

Episode 4 of the documentary series Howard Goodall's Big Bangs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRcBjWYbxw

 

From the Clavichord to the Modern Piano

Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uCCw_hmILA

Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IaE2i-DmA

 

Steinway & Sons

A World of Excellence

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMT4rfjeJko

 

The Making of a Steinway

A Steinway & Sons Factory Tour

Narrated by John Steinway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAInt7hIZlU

 

 

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Source: DG
 

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The Art of Conducting

Great Conductors of the Past

BBC documentary

 
 
The Art of Conducting

Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crfs0yJWC8s

 

Excerpt from a documentary uploaded as Young Karajan

 
 
Herbert von Karajan
 
Documentaire sur ARTE
 
 
 
Herbert von Karajan
 
Herbert von Karajan zeigt Die Kunst des Dirigierens
 
 
 
Karajan Herbert ZDJ
 
 
 

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Opera

Episode from the documentary series Howard Goodall's Big Bangs 

3 clips

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1rT0ZM8uk

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitmCP4WKhY

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMJXSXECCo

 

What Makes a Great Tenor?
 
2010 BBC documentary with tenor Rolando Villazon
 
 
 
 
Castrato
 
BBC documentary
 
(2 clips)
 
 
 
 
 
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Enrico Caruso
 
1873 - 1921
 
 
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Enrico Caruso
 
 
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Mario Lanza
 
1921 - 1959
 

Mario Lanza

The American Caruso

Documentary with Placido Domingo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jol5y_MVIU

 

The Mario Lanza Story

Episode from the documentary series Mysteries & Scandles by Alison Martino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwxo_PpyEM

 
 
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Luciano Pavarotti
 
1935 - 2007
 
 
Image result for pavarotti
 
 
 
The Greatest Hits
 
 
 
Yes, Giorgio
 
1981 movie starring Pavarotti
 
 
 
Interview
 
Larry King Live (2003)
 
 
 
 
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What Makes a Great Soprano?
 
2110 BBC documentary with Kiri Te Kanawa
 

 

Bachiana Brasileira nº 5

Hector Villa-Lobos

Bidu Sayão, soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZD0XplYrI

 

 

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Flower Duet

Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanca

From the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes (1881 -1882)

Baden-Baden (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw

 

The Education of an Opera Singer

A year in the life of soprano Priti Gandhi with the San Diego Opera Ensemble and the Lyric Opera of Cleveland (1999)

Uploaded by University of California Television (UCTV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo2x1W5M-V8

 

Isola Jones

Interview with Linda White Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg66XM-0G_I 

 

 

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Monteverdi

1567 - 1643

 

L'Orfeo

John Savall conducting La Capella Reial de Catalunya  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ApwAKw5fc

 

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Pachelbel

1653 - 1706

 

Canon in D Major

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFfYGoVstgc

 

 

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Johann Sebastien Bach
 
1685 - 1750
 
 
Johann Sebastian Bach.jpg
 
 
Bach
 
Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers
 
 
 
 
Ronda Alla Turca
 
Piano
 
Lang Lang
 
 
 
St. Matthew's Passion
 
Erbarme Dich (Lord have mercy on me) 
 
Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Eula Beal, Contralto
 
 
Nathalie Stutzmann
 
 
 
 
Cantata BWV 147
 
Jesu, joy of man's desiring
 
 
 
 
Toccata in D Minor
 
 
 
 
Minuet in G major
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Vivaldi
 
1678 - 1741
 
 
The Four Seasons
 
 
 
 
 
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George Frederic Handel
 
1685 - 1759
 
 
George Frideric Handel by Balthasar Denner.jpg
 
 
 
Rodelinda
 
Pastorello d un povero armento
 
Villazon
 
 
 
Villazon zingt Handel
 
St. Paul's Cathedral, London (2009)
 
 
 
Ombra Mai Fu
 
Aria
 
From Serse (Xerxes)
 
Kathleen Battle
 
 
 
Where'er You Walk
 
Kathleen Battle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mozart
 
1756 - 1791
 
Related image
 
 
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers
 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON9mj7pxPZo

 

Wolfgang Mozart

Episode from the documentary series Biography with Jack Perkins
 
 
 
 
1791
 
Episode from the documentary series Howard Goodall's Great Dates
 
 
 
 
The Genius of Mozart
 
Three-part BBC documentary
 
Part 1. Miracle of Nature
 
 
Part 2. A Passion for the Stage
 
 
Part 3. The First Romantic
 
 
 
Serenade in G major, K. 525
 
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
 
I. Allegro
 
Gewandhaus Quartet
 
 

Magic Flute Overture
 
Riccardo Muti conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker
 
2006 Salzburg Festival
 

 
The Marriage of Figaro Overture
 
Daniel Barenboim conducting the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
 
London 2014
 
 
 
Un´aura amorosa
 
Placido Domingo
 
 
Jonas Kaufmann
 
 
Pavarotti
 
 
 
Requiem
 
Von Karajan
 
 
 
Coronation Mass
 
Agnus Dei
 
Von Karajan, Kathleen Battle (Vatican 1985)
 
 
 
Entire Mass
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Beethoven
 
1770   -   1827
 
 
Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven
by Hugo Hagen in Beethoven's
house in Bonn
 
 
 
Beethoven
 
Biography
 
3 clips
 
 
 
 
 
Beethoven
 
Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers 
 
 
 
Beethoven   -   The Sound and the Fury
 
Episode from the documentary series Biography with Jack Perkins
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
 
Fifth Symphony
 
Von Karajan and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra
 
 
 
The Genesis of Beethoven's 5th
 
Lecture by Leonard Bernstein on Omnibus
 
 
 
Ninth Symphony
 
Fourth Movement
 
Ode to Joy
 
 
 
Von Karajan
 
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Weiner Singverein

1989

 
 
Rehearsal
 
Von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker
 
 
 
Fidelio
 
Entire opera, performed in Zurich (2004)
 
 
Overture
 
 
Prisoners' Chorus
 
Berlin 1963
 
 
Finale
 
Berlin
 
 
Royal Opera House
 
 
 
Pathetique
 
Second Movement
 
Daniel Barenboim
 
 
 
Moonlight Sonata
 
 
 
Appassionata
 
Claudio Arrau
 
 
 
Beethoven
 
Discussion on the Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg
 
With guests Laura Tunbridge, John Deathridge and Erica Buurman
 
21 December 2017
 
 
 
Forever Beethoven!
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Young People's Concerts (1968)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Franz Schubert
 
1797 - 1825
 
 
Image result for schubert
 
 
Franz Schubert
 
Episode from the documentary series Famous Composers
 
 
 
The Double Life of Franz Schubert
 
Simon Russell Beale
 
 
 

Franz Schubert

Ein unvollendetes Leben

1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BpD6aUMhs 

 
Ave Maria
 
Maria Callas
 
 
Pavarotti
 
 
Kathleen Battle
 
 
Renée Fleming
 
 
 
 
 

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Rossini

1792 - 1868

 

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William Tell Overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz_H8cMjBQM

 

Figaro's Aria

The Barber of Seville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHZkkgowdY

 
 
 
 

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Gaetano Donizetti
 
1797 - 1848
 
 
Image result for gaetano donizetti
 
 
Una Furtiva Lagrima
 
L'Elisir d'Amore
 
Enrico Caruso
 
 
Mario Lanza
 
 
Pavarotti
 
 
 
Villazón
 
 
 
Ah! Mes Amis
 
La Fille du Régiment
 
Juan Diego Flórez

 

 

 

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Frédéric Chopin

 

1810 - 1849

 

 

Photograph of Chopin (1849)

 

 

Documentary

 

With Byron Janis

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCE6jxQbys8

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idCmB6aaQZg&feature=relmfu

 

 

The Women Behind the Music

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOOLm3n6GY&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

 

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George Bizet

1838 - 1875

 

Image result for george bizet
 
 
 
Pearl Fishers
 
Au fond du temple saint
 
Enrico Caruso & Mario Ancona (1911) (Italian)
 
Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill (1950
 
 
Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov (1976)
 

Placido Domingo & Sherrill Milnes (1983)
 
Hvorostovsky & Kaufmann duet (recent)
 
 
Carmen Overture
 
Zubin Mehta conducting the Royal Opera
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Giuseppi Verdi
 
1813 - 1901
 
 
Image result for Verdi

 

Homage to Verdi

Documentary with Sherrill Milnes

 
 
The Best of Verdi
 
 
 
La Vida de Verdi

 

Requiem

Herbert von Karajan, La Scala Orchestra, Chorus of Milan, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nikolai Ghiaurov (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl59Gn602hg

 

Song of the Hebrew Slaves (Chorus)

From Nabucco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4G5H_TTvU

 

La Forza del Destino

St. Petersburg, Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtkXtQSP6A

 

Bella Figlia Dell'Amore

Rigoletto

Pavarotti, Jones, Nucci and Sutherland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NEOh-XhyA

Domingo, Jones (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grK-mzR05B8

 

Brindisi

La Traviata

Enrico Caruso and Alma Gluck (1914)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zdC5nBlIk

Mario Lanzo (1950)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWI9787jkVo

Pavarotti and friends (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHgg8xo13Y

 

 
 
 

 

 

Wagner

 

1813   -  1883

 

 

 

Photo of Richard Wagner taken in

Munich in 1871

 

 

 

Wagner

 

Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJ3r0OqItw

 

 

 

1874

 

Episode from Howard Goodall's Great Dates

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGODSPL6LfY

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ka2-FGnFb4

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWZ0ctbjZg

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxoeMhNPOII

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWxV5ovB3w4

 

 

 

 

                       Rienzi

 

 

Overture

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URIwWtwn6qA

 

 

 

                   Tannhäuser

 

Tannhäuser Overture

Wilhelm Furtwängler   -   Wiener Philharmoniker 1952
 
 
Herbert von Karajan   -   Wiener Philharmoniker   -   Wien 1988
 

Klaus Tennstedt and the London Philharmonic

Tokyo, Oct 18 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQpBQSOOups

 

Pilgrims' Chorus

German lyrics

San Diego Opera Roundtable

Discussion about the San Diego Opera's production of Wagner's Tannhäuser

UCSD-TV and San Diego Opera 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsWpOvTEkug

 

 

 

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              Der Ring des Nibelungen

                     (The Ring of the Nibelung)

Das Rheingold

Prelude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zsSaLiD7Q

 

 

Walkyrie

 

Prelude

 

Daniel Barenboim   -   Berliner Philharmoniker

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73Z6291Pt8

 

 

Siegfried

 

Prelude

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdwh1Jepgk

 

 

Götterdämmerung

 

Twilight of the Gods

 

Prelude

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0PpTPvbr-4

 

 

 

In the Eye of the Ring

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHgg8xo13Y

 

 

Wagner's Ring Cycle Leitmotifs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvA54D2Gz3E

 

 

Comedic summary of Wagner's Ring Cycle

Anna Russell

 

1953

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69aPAo1rXE

 

1984

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5dAQLYYrs

 

 

Die Nibelungen

 

Movie by Fritz Lang (1924)

 

Excerpts

 

Siegfried slays the Fafnir the dragon

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-J9ewSDrc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg7g1bF094w

 

Teil 1. Siegfried

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNa74OevW_c

 

Teil 2. Kriemhild's Rache

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jhb2mjjx-E

 

Der Schatz der Nibelungen

Teil 1. Auf den Spuren Siegfrieds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqn_8uSZlKE

 

Teil 2. Auf den Spuren des Goldes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgvHdX1qXTY

 

 

Die Nibelungen

Ein Film von Harald Reinl

Teil 1. Siegfried (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s57u2Uzb-NA

Teil 2. Kriemhilds Rache (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fi9xqfG69M

 

The Golden Ring

 

Documentary about a 1964 recording session

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGKkkuo9Hk

 

 

Wagner's Dream

 

The Making of Der Ring des Nibelungen

 

Documentary (2012)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tAmnnz4FQ

 

 

 

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Wagner

 

Four-part 1983 movie with Richard Burton as Wagner

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oWZq_s_Sk

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ul4LA3l5I

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecivp8t3MdY

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT1zdTL-3SM

 

 

 

Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914

 

Hans Jurgen Syberberg   -   Doku 1975

 

Teil 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iewDxOkrQQo

 

Teil 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppjmzIWpVTM 

 

 

Hitler and the Wagner Clan

 

Twilight of the Gods in Bayreuth

 

2002 BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFTPSVZIHLA

 

 

Reportage über den Doku Wagner Clan und Hitler

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPafp3nMutk

 

 

 

Wieland Wagner Portrait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9E_3RDe9s

 

Abschied von Wolfgang Wagner

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DynAaziWnbw

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bmvgracb8

 

100th Anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival

2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWPYpce9nJg

 

Wagner

Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg (June 29, 2002)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548gv

 

 

 

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Franz Liszt
 
1811 - 1886
 
Image result for franz liszt
 
 

Lebenstraum

Piano by Lang Lang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7OLV9nuk0

 

Hungarian Rhapsody

Piano by Lang Lang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su2lLZRMQ9w

Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNi-_0kqpdE 

 

La Campanella

Piano by Kissin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbQZCsYXVg

 

 

 

 

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

1840 - 1893

 

 

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Tchaikovsky

 

Episode from the documentary series Great Composers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXflPKeYpsQ

 

 

Discovering Tchaikovsky

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA5enI0J82I  . . .

 

 

Stories Behind the Classics

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oInnBl7iX4I

 

 

Who killed Tchaikovsky?

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5uG6MfL54

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FnonVwV0PA4&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtOhiXtlsg&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zYH3Zy6C24

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gn5mcLAkPg&feature=relmfu

 

 

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAWJHITdhg (Removed from You Tube)

 

Perlman

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTE08SS8fNk

 

Ostrakh

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds4XPlhgq_k

 

 

1812 Overture

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

 

 

Swan Lake

 

Kirov Ballet, Leningrad

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs

 

 

Waltz of the Flowers

 

From The Nutcracker

 

Mariinsky Ballet

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZD_ZzubDxs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsikov

 

1844 - 1908

 

 

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Flight of the Bumblebee

Zubin Mehta conducting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE

Canadian Brass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZO5KTJTwhE

Harry James

Early 1940s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxS7llr8x_4

 

Song of India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZK93C5WUaQ

Dimitrij Smirnov (1911)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BLjAdBKmyU

Paul Whiteman (c. 1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDv3vx-tjTQ

Jussi Björling (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1S1iHcnYFY

Tommy Dorsey (1938)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDWIg4FGJs

Mario Lanza (1953)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kpBge6lCu4

(Date?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCB0qIopGI

 

Scheherazade

Vienna Philharmonic

Gergiev

Salzburg Festival 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y

 

The Best of Rimsky-Korsikov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOEX-8GhicU

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
---------------
 
 
 
 
Gustav Mahler
 
1860 - 1911
 
 
Image result for gustav mahler
 
 
Gustav Mahler
 
Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers
 
 
 
Sur les pas de Mahler
 
Documentaire
 
 
 
The Rusurrection Symphony
 
Symphony No. 2 in C minor
 
New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter
 
 
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
 
The Proms (2011)
 
 
 
The Third Symphony
 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein (1973)
 
 
 
The Symphony of a Thousand
 
Symphony No. 8
 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
 
 
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
 
Uploaded 2011
 
 
 
Das Lied von der Erde (1909)
 
Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado
 
Jonas Kaufmann and Anne Sofie von Otter
 
 
 
Who was Gustav Mahler?
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Young People's Concerts
 
1960
 
 
 
Leonard Bernstein rehearses Gustav Mahler
 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1975)
 
 
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Excerpt from The 20th Century Crisis, the fifth of six lectures at Harvard in 1973
 
 
 
 
 
------------------
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Richard Strauss
 
1864 - 1949
 
Image result for Richard Strauss
 
 
Ein Heldenleben
 
Symphonie-Orchestrer des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Conductor Mariss Jansons
 
 
 
 
Don Juan
 
Conducted by Hebert von Karajan (1984)  
 
 
 
 
 
------------------
 
 
 
 
 

 
Giacomo Puccini
 
1858 - 1924
 
 
Image result for puccini
 
 
Puccini
 
Episode from the BBC documentary series Great Composers
 
 
 
The Triumph of Puccini
 
Episode 3 of three-part 2010 BBC documentary series Opera Italia with Antonio Pappano
 
 
2. - 7. N. A.
 
 
Nessun Dorma
 
From Turandot by Puccini
 
Luciano Pavarotti
 
From the 1982 Hollywood movie Yes, Giorgio
 
 
Central Park, NYC, 1983
 
 
 
Recital, Metropolitan Opera, NYC, 1988
 
 
Three Tenors    -   Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
 
Los Angeles 1994
 
 
 
 
Image result for puccini
 
 
Turandot

Puccini

Verona 2010
 
 
 
O Mio Babbino Caro
 
Victoria de Los Angeles
 
 
and
 
 
 
Kathleen Battle
 
 
 
 
Recondita Armonia
 
Tosca
 
Enrico Caruso (1904)
 
 
 
Pavarotti (1990)
 
 
or
 
 
(1991)
 
 
 
 
La Donna e Mobile 
 
From Rigoletto
 
Enrico Caruso
 
 
 
Pavarotti
 
Moscow (1964)
 
 
 
Andrea Bocelli
 
 
 
E lucevan le stelle 
 
Aria from the opera Tosca
 
Enrico Caruso
 
 
 
Mario Lanza
 
 
 
Pavarotti
 
 
 
Rolando Villazón
 
 
 
 

Pavarotti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxO5hVaLvg

Plácido Domingo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AF1T4OehM




La Boheme

Mimi: Mirella Freni.

Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan

Conducted by H. Von Karajan

Director and set designer: Franco Zeffirelli

1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuL4u3bOpg


La Boheme

Freni, Pavarotti

Turin

1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1OtRt0_ho


La Boheme

Pavarotti

Orchestra and Chorus of the Municipal Opera Theatre of Genoa

Acts I and II

1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-AkOjdR7Ds


Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón

2007 / 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXrb1bXOZMI


Che Gelida Manina

Luciano Pavarotti

Paris

3 / 3 / 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEptCT9rf-o


La Scala

1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9268sIt5mk


Torino

January 2, 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG9xGaTcIw


London Philharmonic Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coyA7f-sauU


La Bohème

Transcription for Orchestra

Andre Kostelanetz, 1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPC67dW3mo


Symphonic Suite

Arr: Christiaan Janssen

Banda Municipal de A Coruña

Palacio da Opera

director: David Fiuza Souto

18/01/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbfMwHkS56k


Introduction to La Boheme by Puccini

Mel Cooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-EGvr_8c8


An introduction to La bohème

The Royal Opera

2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtTaaeAOHM

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOIBsX8m0ro


La bohème

Mark Elder

Royal Opera House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCPZiKYDK68


Antonio Pappano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuLWUuzHs4



Tosca

Salazar, Pavarotti, Pons, Bou

P Domingo, F Zeffirelli

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell Opera di Roma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGBlIaiaoXM


Tosca

Kabaivanska, Domingo, Milnes - Bartoletti

London New Philharmonia Orchestra; Ambrosian Singers;
Bruno Bartolettti, conductor

1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQ2X7xVcHU


Pappano's Essential Tosca

2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9frwaMzFjU


Suite de Tosca

Concierto de Cierre Taller Lectura de Obras

Bogota, Bolivia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cjv_2bBXw


PIANO FANTASY

ROBERTO CORLIANO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-XttELUZ4


Tosca

E lucevan le stelle

Pavarotti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQdEyz6b6w


Recondita armonia

Pavarotti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dfNLXXMDME


Vissi d'arte

Maria Callas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLR3lSrqlww





Madama Butterfly


1956

RAI Milano orchestra and chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztP9K2T1Ow


Pacido Donigo, Herbert Karajan

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Vienna State Opera chorus

1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPEIAjSFck


1985 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stgof-xyN0


Instrumental

Sir John Barbirolli

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgB4abdeVc


Intermezzo sinfonico

Director, conductor: Herbert Von Karajan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCP_zXyJx4


Act III: Orchestral Prelude

1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YBw18DvjM


Piano

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8DbrPKmNQ


Antonio Pappano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYm9aphKusU


Antonio Pappano

The Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjYmGZgGJ0




Turandot

Franco Corelli

RAI Milano orchestra and chorus

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8lYZTDHCi4


Turandot

José Carreras (tenor)
Chor de Wiener
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Harold Prince, Stage director
Sep. 1983, Wiener Staatsoper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCj8kEXYCY


Nessun dorma

Luciano Pavarotti

Lincoln Center, NYC, 1979


An introduction to Turandot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WgoOx4W74


A listener's guide to TURANDOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-MKDpIvbU


Turandot

Symphonic Suite

Arreglo: Christiaan Janssen

Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra

Director: José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana

Alfredo Kraus

18 de Noviembre de 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dskY0VpLM


Philips Symphonic Windband

conductor: Matty Cilissen

Philips Hall, Eindhoven

Philips Harmonie tijdens 100-jubileum concert

Muziekgebouw Frits Philips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJYb2t9xskY


Nessum Dorma

Piano

Philip Sharp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Pcd79qY0U





Il trittico / The Triptych

Three one-act operas

1. Il tabarro / The Cloak

2. Suor Angelica / Sister Angelica

3. Gianni Schicchi





Il tabarro / The Cloak


Milano

Orquestra e Coro: RAI Milano

Regência: Oliviero de Fabritiis

23 January 1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuphRDe_WPE


Alberto Mastromarino, Amarilli Nizza, Rubens Pelizzari, AnnaMaria Chiuri

Performed at Teatro Comunale di Moderna

8 February 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyB0So5FBj0


Antonio Pappano introduces Il tabarro

The Royal Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rge6GaAizm4





SUOR ANGELICA / SISTER ANGELICA


Antonio Pappano introduces Suor Angelica

The Royal Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTgX01FRSBg


Amarilli Nizza, Annamaria Chiuri, Elisa Fortunati

Orchestra Della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini

Teatro Comunale di Moderna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSITaX6exU


Piano

Opera Accompaniment

Matthew Toogood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kstRlwsoCg


Senza mamma

Maria CallaS

1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ap0hPvRM8

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuH9hXXxMXE




GIANNI SCHICCHI

1917 - 1918


Gianni Schicchi

Gabriele Santini

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma orchestra & chorus

Tito Gobbi, Victoria de los Angeles and Carlo Del Monte

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T7HDdLkers


Gianni Schicchi

Vladimir Jurowski

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPEDb1GdFw


Teatro alla Scala orchestra & chorus

Riccardo Chailly

Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Vittorio Grigolo

2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ERSq_EqDZ4


GIANNI SCHICCHI

Piano

Full Opera Accompaniment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3lDr6U6Xc


Gianni Schicchi

Selections from the Opera

arr. Eiji Suzuki

Performed by Meisei Gakuin High School Wind Orchestra, Okayama, Japan

Takeshi Inou, conductor

2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y25ifg1qKM


Synopsis of the opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGV7T5_iYrg


Opera Preview: Gianni Schicchi

Behind-the-scenes

History, story, and music of Gianni Schicchi

Rehearsal pianist and vocal coach Nicolò Sbuelz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHvVLe9ZSbc


O mio babbino caro

Maria Callas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1C8NFDdFYg

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pxWVjlbNo

Anna Netrebko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-4TSWg2h3w

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcwMGBFxxaE

Aida Garifullina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWAr-VSPocI


O mio babbino caro (Instrumental)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUENWpkPcQo


O mio babbino caro piano solo Jose M. Armenta)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-nYmXjZhNE


Piano (Anon,)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_zJ-xbyYo






Il trittico / The Triptych

Three one-act operas

1. Il tabarro / The Cloak

2. Suor Angelica / Sister Angelica

3. Gianni Schicchi

Conductor - Ivo Lipanovi
Chorus master - Ivan Josip Skender
Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
March 7, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63EU886inhI




Ch'ella mi creda

From La fanciulla del west


Corelli

1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGki6hAcXFQ


Placido Domingo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AY_AK3MF-g


Pavarotti

1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGVRUGqwox0

1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUdXiGNafU





The Triumph of Puccini

Episode 3 of three-part 2010 BBC documentary series Opera Italia with Antonio Pappano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JF3it_UXnc



Giacomo Puccini

Musical Maestro

Andrea Colombini

Perspective

The city of Lucca, Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztM3vOC4Byw



Visiting Lucca, Torre del Lago

Vivien Alexandra Hewitt

Interview by John Amis

In Tuscany

Torre del Lago, Puccini's final home and resting place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv8MuqkPZc



 
 
 
 
 
----------------
 
 
 
Gabriel Fauré 
 
1845 - 1924
 
 
Image result for gabriel faure

 
Pie Jesu
 
Requiem
 
 

Victoria de los Ángeles

 
 
Requiem
 
Coro y Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
 
Víctor Pablo Pérez
 
 
 
 
 
----------------
 
 
 
 
Claude Debussy
 
1862 - 1918
 
 
Image result for claude debussy
 
 
 
Reverie (1880)
 
Piano solo
 
 
 
Peggy Mann with Larry Clinton (1938)
 
 
 
Beatrice Wain with Larry Clinton (1938)
 
 
 
Ray Eberle with Glann Miller (1938)
 
 
 
Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw
 
 
 
The Larks (1951)
 
 
 
Sonny Rollins (1956)
 
 
and
 
 
and
 
 
 
Claire de Lune (1890)
 
Piano solo
 
 
 
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894)
 
 
 
La Mer (1903)
 
 
 
Pelleas et Melisande
 
Pierre Boulez
 
 
 
 
 
 
-----------------
 
 
 
 
Erik Satie
 
1865 - 1925
 
 
Image result for erik satie
 
 
 
Gymnopédie No. 1
 
Piano solo
 
 
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
 
 
 
Trois Gymnopédies
 
 
 
 
 
 
---------------
 
 
 
 
 
Maurice Ravel
 
1875 - 1937
 
 
Image result for maurice ravel
 
 
 
Miroirs (1906)
 
Piano
 
 
 
Gaspard de la nuit (1908)
 
Three movements
 
Ondine
Le Gibet
Scarbo
 
Piano solo by Ivo Pogorelich (22:35)
 
 
 
Daphnis et Chloé (1912)
 
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting the WDR Symphony Orchestra
 
 
 
Ravel's Version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1922)
 
London Symphony Orchestra
 
 
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
 
 
 
Balero (1928)
 
London Symphony Orchestra
 
 
 
Wiener Philharmoniker
 
 
 
George Raft and Carol Lombard dancing in the 1934 Hollywood movie Bolero
 
 
 
Ravel, piano
 
 
 
 
 
------------------
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Gustav Holst
 
1874 – 1934
 
 
Related image
 
 
The Planets (1914 - 1916)
 
1. Mars, the Bringer of War
2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
6. Uranus, the Magician
7. Neptune, the Mystic
 
 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 
Conducted by Andrè Previn
 
 
 
Coro y Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (2014)
 
 
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Young People's Concerts (1972)
 
 
 
Saturn
 
Seiji Ozawa conducting in Japan
 
 
 
Listening Guide to Holst's The Planets
 
Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
 
 
 
 

-----------------


 
 
 
Sergei Rachmaninoff
 
1873 - 1943
 
Image result for rachmaninoff
 
 
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1901)
 
Sergei Rachmaninoff with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowsky in 1924 or 1929 (there were two recording dates)   
 
 
Denis Matsuev with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia conducted by Leonard Slatkin in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, April 2, 2013
 
 
 
Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor (1909)
 
Denis Matsuev with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia conducted by Leonard Slatkin in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, April 2, 2013
 
 
 
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1934)
 
Sergei Rachmaninoff with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1934
 
 
Denis Matsuev with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia conducted by Leonard Slatkin in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, April 2, 2013
 
 
 
Symphonic Dances (1940)
 
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conduted by Yuri Temirkanov 
 
Annecy (2013)
 
 
 
 
 
 
------------
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Igor Stravinsky
 
1882 - 1971
 
 
Image result for Igor Stravinsky
 
 
 
The Firebird (1910)
 
Vienna Philarmonic
 
Gergiev
 
Salzburg Festival 2000
 
 
Ballet
 
 
 
Listening Guide to Stravinsky's Firebird
 
 
 
Petrushka (1911)
 
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest o.l.v. Andris Nelsons
 
 
Ballet
 
L'Opera de Paris
 
 
 
The Rite of Spring (1913)
 
The Proms (2013)
 
 
Ballet
 
 
Listening Guide to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
 
Paul Rissmann
 
 
 
The Search for Nijinski's Rite of Spring
 
BBC ddocumentary
 
 
 
A Conversation with Igor Stravinsky
 
NBC TV (1957)
 
 
 
Stravinsky's Journeys
 
Documentary
 
 
 
Happy Birthday, Igor Stravinsky
 
Young People's Concerts
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
1962 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
----------------------
 
 
 
 
Dmitri Shostakovich
 
1906 - 1975
 
 
Image result for dmitri shostakovich
 
 
 
The Life and Times of Dmitri Shostakovich
 
Documentary by Oliver Becker on Close Up (58:26)
 
 
 
Song of My Country (1949)
 
Sung by Georgy Pavlovich Vinogradov with the B. A. Alexandrov Ensemble in Moscow 1951.
 
Shostakovich wrote the song for the 1949 movie Link-Up on the Elbe.
 
 
 
Waltz # 2
 
 
 
A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
The Young People's Concerts (1966)
 
Ninth Symphony (1945)
 
Four clips:
 
Start here, clip # 1:
 
 
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Discusses the Ninth Symphony
 
 
Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic playing the Ninth Symphony (1987)
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
-------------------
 
 
 
 
 
Sergei Prokofiev
 
1891 - 1951
 
 
Image result for Prokofiev
 
 
Peter and the Wolf
 
Walt Disney (1946)
 
Animation with narration
 
 
 
Peter and the Wolf
 
Mexico Symphony
 
With narration and puppets
 
 
 
Peter and the Wolf
 
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
 
With narration
 
 
 
Peter and the Wolf (1936)
 
Orchestral Suite
 
 
 
Listener's Guide to Prokoviev's Lieutenant Kijé
 
 
 
Romeo and Julliet (1935)
 
Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter
 
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conducted by Myung-Whun Chung at the Maison de la Radio - Auditorium
 
 
 
Myung-Whun Chung and the London Symphony Orchestra (1995)
 
 
or
 
 
 
Romeo and Juliet, Opus No. 64
 
No. 13, Dance of the Knights
 
Valery Gergiev conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (2008)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Romeo and Juliet

Montagues and Capulets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOMXgfflRI



Alexander Nevsky, Op.78 / 1938 - 39

1. Russia under the Mongolian Yoke
2. Song about Alexander Nevsky
3. The Crusaders in Pskov
4. Arise, Men of Russia
5. The Battle on Ice
6. The Field of the Dead
7. Alexander's Entry into Pskov

Ketevan Kemoklidze, Mezzo-soprano

Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Choir of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

Eglise de Sainte-Bernadette, Annecy, France
Annecy Classic Festival 2012

30.08.2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGqVogrLEE4


Alexander Nevsky: The Field of the Dead

Elena Obraztsova / mezzo-soprano

Claudio Abbado / London Symphony Orchestra

1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJ5Rcke1LY

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exAARQ75dLg


Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78: VI. The Field of the Dead ·

Larisa Avdeyeva, Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Released on 2020-09-22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw0Zc5p5fvY


Alexander Nevsky

Movie by Sergei Eisenstein

1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4PaJfod4w

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpVtoUFKZ7w

Film score

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycw7jGqU2_4

 
 
 
------------------
 
 
 
 
 
Hector Villa-Lobos
 
1887 - 1959
 
 
Image result for villa lobos
 
 
The Little Train of the Caipira (1930)
 
 
 
 
 
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
 
1938 - 1945
 
Bidu Sayão, soprano
 
 
 

 
 
 
--------------
 
 
 
 
 
 
Franz Lehar
 
1870 - 1948
 
 
Image result for Franz Lehar
 
 

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (1929)
 
Richard Tauber (1929)
 
 
Jussi Björling
 
 
Fritz Wunderlich
 

Placido Domingo
 

Rolando Villazón (2004)
 
 
Domingo, Villazon and Netrebko (2008)
 
 
Jonas Kaufmann (2011)
 
 
 
In English
 
You Are My Heart's Delight
 
Richard Crooks (1931)
 
 
Richard Tauber (1929, 1934, 1941)
 
 
Bing Crosby (1940)
 
 
Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (1940)
 
 
Glenn Miller (1940)
 
 
 
In Italian
 
Tu che m'hai preso il cuor
 
Giuseppi Di Stefano
 
 
 
 
 
Vilja
 
From The Merry Widow
 
Kathleen Battle
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

 
 
 
----------------------
 
 
 
 
 
Ralph Vaughan Williams
 
1872 - 1958
 
Image result for vaughan williams
 
 
Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
 
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis at Gloucester Cathedral
 
Uploaded 2013
 
 
 
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
 
Koerner Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 12, 2014 
 
 
 
Fantasia on Greensleeves
 
La Sierra University Orchestra
 
 
 
The Lark Ascending
 
The Proms (1995)
 
 
 
 
 
 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

DOCUMENTARY

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHMIqVY123s


 
 
 
-----------------------------------
 
 
 
 
 
William Walton
 
1902 - 1983
 
Image result for william walton
 
 
The First of the Few
 
Spitfire Prelude
 
 
 
 
Henry V
 
Excerpts from the score composed for the 1944 film of Shakespeare's play with Laurence Olivier 
 
 
 
 
Belshazzar's Feast
 
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis in 1994
 
 
 
 
Viola Concerto
 
Artosphere Festival Orchestra conducted by Corrado Rovaris with Roberto Diaz on viola
 
 
 
 
First Symphony
 
First movement
 
WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln
Semyon Bychkov, Conductor
(2009)
 
 
 
 
 
 
------------------------------
 
 
 





Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber

1936

Stjepan Hauser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc8gYoXkLZ4




----------------------



 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephen Foster
 
1826 - 1864
 
The Father of American Music
 
Related image
Stephen Collins Foster
 
 
Nat Shilkret Salon Group
 
 
 
Al Jolson
 
 
 
Roger Wagner Chorale
 
 
 
 
Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
 
Nelson Eddy
 
 
1948
 
 
Leslie Guinn
 
 
Richard Crooks
 
 
 
My Old Kentucky Home (1853)
 
Paul Robeson (1958)
 
 
 
I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair (1854)
 
Robert Wilson
 
 
 
Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) (1851)
 
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1918)
 
 
Paul Robeson (1958)
 
 
 
Oh, Susanna! (1848)
 
Dan Hornsby (1927)
 
 
 
Camptown Races (1850)
 
Al Jolson
 
 
 
Ol' Black Joe
 
Paul Robeson
 
 
 
 
Albert Ammons plays Swanee River Boogie
 
 
 
 
Harmony Lane
 
1935 Hollywood movie
 
 
 

Swanee River

 

1939 Hollywood movie

 

 

I Dream of Jeannie

 

1952 Hollywood movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K4toIXreY

 

 

 

Controversy over Statue of Stephen Foster in Pittsburgh
 
Uploaded 17 August 2017
 
 
Uploaded 27 August 2017
 
 
City Hall considers criticism of Statue
 
Uploaded 4 October 2017
 
 
Statue of Stephen Foster in Pittburgh removed
 
Uploaded 26 April 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
-----------------------
 
 
 
 
Spirituals
 
Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle
 
1980
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
 
 
-----------------------
 
 
 
 
The Gershwin Brothers 
 
George and Ira
 
 
George and Ira Gershwin
 
 
George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
 
 
George Gershwin Remembered 
 
Episode from the documentary series Biography on the History Channel
 
(87 min.)
 
 
 
Gershwin in Focus
 
Documentary with Ben Kingsley
 
(103 min.)
 
 
 
The Legend of George Gershwin
 
Documentary
 
 
Ira Gershwin talks about George Gershwin
 
 
 
 
Rhapsody in Blue
 
Gershwin plays Rhapsody in Blue solo on piano
 
 
or
 
 
Original first recording by Gershwin on piano, with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1924)
 
 
Paul Whiteman talks about Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue
 
 
Toscanini and Benny Goodman (1942)
 
 
 
 
The Man I Love (1924)
 
George Gershwin (1924 piano roll)
 
 
Janet Hall & Ken Christie (1924)
 
 
Vaughn De Leath with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1928)
 
 
 
Lena Horne (1939)
 
Somebody Loves Me (1924)
 
Bing Crosby (1939)
 
 
Helen Forrest (1944)
 
 
Piano roll
 
 
Fletcher Henderson (1930)
 
 
Benny Goodman
 
 
Benny Carter
 
 
Coleman Hawkins (1944)
 
With Jack Teagarden
 
 
Lester Young (1945)
 
With Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich
 
 
or
 
 
Tex Beneke
 
 
Bud Powell 
 
 
Erroll Garner
 
 
 
An American in Paris (1928)
 
First recoring (1929)
 
 
Andre Previn
 
 
 
 
Image result for george gershwin
 
Summertime
 
From Porgy and Bess (1935) 
 
 
Billie Holiday
 
 
John Coltrane
 
 
Sung by Harolyn Blackwell for Paula Blackwell

Simon Rattel conducting the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-Qa92Rzbk

Kathleen Battle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYlIHI35oak 

 

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It Ain't Necessarely So

From Porgy and Bess (1935)

Sung by Paul Robeson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sZaxEC1Vho

 

Bess, You Is My Woman Now
 
From Porgy and Bess (1935)
 
 
 
I Got Rhythm
 
George Gershwin on piano (1931)
 
 
 
So Am I
 
Gershwin on piano (1925)
 
 
 
Swanee
 
Gershwin on piano 
 
 
Al Jolson (1920)
 
 
 
George Gershwin plays four songs
 
Gershwin on the piano (piano rolls?)
 
1. Make Believe by Nathaniel Shilkret
2. Grieving for You by Joe Gibson, Joe Ribaud and Joe Gold
3. Land Where the Good Songs Go by Jerome Kern
4. Some Sunday Morning by Richard A. Whiting
 
 
 
Rhapsody in Blue
 
Hollywood movie about George Gershwin (1946)
 
Advertisement
 
 
 
 
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Cole Porter
 
 
Cole Albert Porter, born in Peru, Indiana in 1891; died in Santa Monica, California in 1964

 

Cole Porter

Episode 4 of of the BBC documentary series Howard Goodall's Twentieth Century Greats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2htSTN1crU

 

The Cole Porter Story

Episode from the documentary series American Masters

In two clips:

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX8BwkZWXFY

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S-QpZYNUDM

or in four clips

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSekUuCYBE

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRIMEJ1BNY

Part 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrgCcAkFLI

Part 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqofOSfyaY

 

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Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) (1928)
 
Bing Crosby with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (1928)
 
 
Rudy Vallee (1928)
 
 
Mary Martin (1944)
 
 
Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman (1941 - 3)
 
 

Let's Misbehave (1928)
 
Irene Bordoni with Irving Aaronson and His Commanders (1928)
 
 
Irving Aaronson and His Commanders (1928)
 
 
Tom Sacks with Harry Reser and the Cliquot Club Eskimos (1928)
 
 
Ethan Uslan, piano (2011)
 
 
 
You've Got That Thing (1929)
 
Ted Lewis (1929) (instrumental)
 
 
Frank Luther with the Leo Reisman Orchestra (1930)
 
 
Maurice Chevalier (1930)
 
 
 
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What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929)
 
Elsie Carlisle (1929)
 
 
Ben Bennie and his Orchestra (1930)
 
 
The Rollickers with Fred Rich and his Orchestra (1930)
 
 
James P. Johnson (1930)
 
 
Lillie Holman (1930)
 
 
Artie Shaw (1938)
 
 
Billie Holiday (1945)
 
 
Charlie Parker (1952)
 
 
Bill Evans (1959)
 
 
Wynton Marsalis (1991)
 
 
 
You Do Something to Me (1929)
 
Player Piano Roll
 
 
Leo Reisman Orchestra (1929)
 
 
Lee Wiley (1929)
 
 
or
 
 
 
Love for Sale (1930)
 
Libbey Holman (1930)
 
 
Kitty Kallen with the Jack Teagarden Orchestra (1940)
 
 
Benny Carter (1943)
 
(This particular recording is found on You Tube also as a 1946 recording by Carter and a 1946 recording by Artie Shaw.)
 
 
or
 
 
Sidney Bechet (1947)
 
Abbey Lincoln with the Max Roach Qunitet, Paris, January 1964
 
 
Elisabeth Welch (1986)
 
 
 
 
Night and Day (1932)
 
Fred Astaire

1932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHBeGlRLvE 

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WX_fKVWX2s

1933

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR2uCi8d_k

1934

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydxcHACwX4Y

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5e7mWcQJE

Ray Ventura Orchestra (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFNVz6_aU0

Billie Holiday (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huejqu5qgE0

Benny Goodman (c. 1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_ttc_DlGQ

Frank Sinatra

1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUs-QT6a2gA

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLnii5rNcBE

c. 1945?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2VnjWtJ2s

Deanna Durbin (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8RIoKJk2Y

Charlie Parker (1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJRdwloCaeo

 

Image result for cole porter singing and playing piano in public

 

You're the Top (1934)

Cole Porter on piano and singing (26 October 1934)

 
and
 
 
Ethel Merman in the 1934 stage musical Anything Goes! 
 
 
Skinnay Ennis with Hal Kemp & His Orchestra & Skinnay Ennis (1934) 
 
 
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra with Peggy Healy and John Hauser (1935)
 
 
 
I Get a Kick Out of You (1934)
 
Ethel Merman (1934)
 
Sally Singer with the Leo Reisman Orchestra(1934)
 
 
Ramona Davies with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1935)
 
 
Jeanne Aubert (1935)
 
 
Billie Currie with the Harry Roy Orchestra (1935)
 
 
 
Image result for cole porter at piano
 
Anything Goes (1934)
 
Cole Porter singing and playing piano (1934)
 
 
and
 
 
Dorsey Brothers (1934)
 
 
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1935)
 
 
Lew Stone and his Band (1935)
 
 
 
All Through the Night (1934)
 
Bob Lawrence with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1934)
 
 
or
 
 
Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra
 
May Fair Hotel, London (1934)
 
 
 
 
Image result for cole porter
 
Don't Fence Me In (1934)
 
Roy Rogers in the movie Hollywood Canteen (1944)
 
 
From the movie Don't Fence Me In (1945)
 
 
Gene Autry (1945)
 
 
 
Miss Otis Regrets (1934)
 
Ethel Waters with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (1934)
 
 
Alberta Hunter with Jack Jackson and his Orchestra (1934)
 
 
Cab Calloway (1935)
 
 
 
Begin the Beguine (1935)
 
Xavier Cougat (1935)
 
 
or
 
 
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (1938)
 
 
Joe Loss & Chick Henderson (1939)
 

The Andrews Sisters with Glenn Miller (1940?) (02:58)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyQeOxU6co

Fred Astair and Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody (1940) (11:03)

https://vimeo.com/111209181?lite=1

Django Reinhardt (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqngiUG4Zrg

Harry James (1944)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp8dSELzko

Deanna Durbin (1944)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqTph3eAec

Jo Stafford (c. 1945)

 

Frank Sinatra (c. 1945?)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URDvt4712dU

 
Ginny Simms (1946)
 
 
Charlie Parker with Machito (1948)
 
 
 
I've Got You Under My Skin (1936)
 
From the musical Born to Dance
 
Virginia Bruce (1936)
 
From the Hollywood movie Born to Dance (1936)
 
 
Al Bowly with the Ray Noble Orchestra (1936)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TsMIIlvE4

Lee Wiley (1937)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWj2JExwPGA

Ginny Sims (late 1940s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJdj_0Td-M

 

Rosalie
 
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra (1937)
 
 
or
 
 
 
In the Still of the Night
 
Carroll Gibbons (1937)
 

 

 

Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (1944)

Nan Wynn (1944)

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Maxime Sullivan with Teddy Wilson (1944)
 
 
Peggy Mann with Benny Goodman (1944)
 
 
Sonny Rollins (1957)
 
 
John Coltrane (1961)
 
 
1962
 
 
 
Night and Day
 
1946 Hollywood movie with Cary Grant portraying Cole Porter
 
Advertisement:
 
 
Excerpts:
 
Begin the Beguine
 
Sung by Carlos Ramirez
 
 
I Get a Kick Out of You
 
Sung by Ginny Simms
 
 
You're the Top
 
Sung by Cary Grant and Ginny Simms
 
 
Night and Day (Chorus) (Ending)
 
 
 
Ginny Simms
 
An Hour with Cole Porter
 
With the Royale Orchestra
 
Radio broadcast in the late 1940s
 
 
 
The Words & Music of Cole Porter
 
An album
 
1. Billie Holiday   -   Let's Do It
2.
Bing Crosby   -   Don't Fence Me In
3.
Frances Day   -   It's De-Lovely
4.
Al Bowlly   -   How Could We Be Wrong?
5.
Gertrude Lawrence   -   Experiment
6.
Jay Wilbur   -    Miss Otis Regrets
7.
Marlene Dietrich   -   You Do Something to Me
8.
Nat Gonella   -   Blow, Gabriel, Blow
9.
Frances Langford   -   Easy to Love
10.
Fred Astaire   -   I've Got You On My Mind
11.
Cole Porter   -   Anything Goes
12.
Billie Holiday   -   Night and Day
13.
Artie Shaw   -   What is This Thing Called Love?
14.
Billy Cotton   -    My Heart Belongs to Daddy
15.
Noel Coward   -   You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
16.
Frances Langford   -    Rap Tap On Wood
17.
Chick Henderson   -   Begin the Beguine
18.
Gertrude Lawrence   -   The Physician
19.
Irving Aaronson   -   Let's Misbehave
20.
Virginia Bruce   -   I've Got You Under My Skin
21.
Sam Browne   -   Just One of Those Things
22.
Cole Porter   -   You're the Top
 
 
So in Love (1948)
 
Patricia Morrison (1948)
 
 
Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson (1953)
 
 
Frederic Sylvestre (guitare) et Erik Berchot (piano) (2009)
 
 
 
 
 

I Love Paris

1953

 
Piano solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxZkmMRUKs

Accordion and violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_WQwHf6NyY

The Coasters (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Es3qB3Sd64

Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWo3qy3CbJ8

The Avalon Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hU_X6Vr1MY

The Hot Sardines

Live at Joe's Pub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JKfrVzFGRE

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkK6Kf5uak8 

Jacky Terrasson, piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oh3GpA7pWk




Brush up Your Shakespeare

From Kiss Me Kate

Musical

1953


Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore

Kiss Me Kate

Movie 1953

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Zzl_HH4XQ


Cyril Ritchard

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji1h3yZx4NE


Broadway

2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmZfnax1yw


Broadway concert

Lee Wilkof and Michael Mulheren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIpp2Jj8AQ


The John Wilson Orchestra

Michael Jibson & James Doherty

BBC Proms 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocq0-LINGyw



 
 
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Hoagy Carmichael
 
Hoagy Carmichael - 1947.jpg
 
1899 - 1981
 
 
Rockin' Chair (1929)
 
Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong (1929)
 
 
Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra (1930)
 
 
 
Heart and Soul
 
Beatrice Wayne (Bea Wain) with the Larry Clinton Orchestra
 
1939
 
 
 
Stardust
 
Hoagy Carmichael (1927/9)
 
 
 
Up a Lazy River (1930)
 
Hoagy Carmichael (1930/1)
 
 
Louis Armstrong (1931)
 
 
Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman (1941)
 
 
Louis Prima
 
 
 
Georgia on My Mind
 
1939
 
 
 
Skylark (1941)
 
Helen Forrest with Harry James (1942)
 
 
Ray Eberle with Glenn Miller (1942)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hoagy Carmichael singing Am I Blue? with Lauren Bacall in the 1944 Humphrey Bogart movie To Have and Have Not
 
 
 

Stardust

Edgar Hayes

1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqSd3hdf8Bg


 
 
 
---------------------
 
 
 
 
Jerome Kern
 
1885 - 1945
 
 
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Ol' Man River (1927)
 
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
 
Paul Robeson
 
Excerpt from the 1936 Hollywood movie Show Boat
 
 
also
 
 
also
 
 
 
Long Ago (and Far Away)
 
Jo Stafford
 
 
 
Dick Haynes and Helen Forrest
 
 
 
All the Things You Are ()
 
Helen Forrest with the Artie Shaw Orchestra (1939)
 
 
 
Jo Stafford
 
 
 
 
Smoke Gets in You Eyes (1933)
 
Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman (1941)
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
------------------
 
 
 
 
Rodgers & Hart
 
Lorenz Hart
Richard Rodgers, left, and Lorenz
Hart, right
 
 
We'll Have Manhattan (1925)
 
Player Piano Roll by Vee Lawnhurst (1926)
 
 
Makers of Melody
 
1929 film short
 
 
 
Isn't it Romantic? (1932)
 
Bill Smith with the Harold Stern Orchestra
 
 
Maurice Chevalier
 
From the 1932 movie Love Me Tonight
 
 
Jeanette MacDonald
 
From the 1932 movie Love Me Tonight
 
 
 
Lover (1932)
 
John Williams conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra
 
 
Frank Sinatra (1950)
 
 
Charlie Parker (1949)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5lov2qaEc

 
 
Blue Moon (1934)
 
Bunny Berigan
 
 
 
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936)
 
Paul Whiteman (1936)
 
 
From the Hollywood movie On Your Toes (1939)
 
 
 
Where or When (1937)
 
 
 
Oscar Hammerstein II
 
Related image
 
 
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
 
(With Sigmund Romberg) (1928)
 
Franklyn Baur with the Nat Shilkret Orchestra (1929)
 
 
Artie Shaw (1938)
 
 
Nelson Eddy (1940)
 
 
Sonny Rollins (1957)
 
 
John Coltrane (1961)
 
 
 
 
Rodgers & Hammerstein
 
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers, left, and Oscar Hammerstein II, right 
 
 
Oklahoma! (1943)
 
1955 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin'
 
Bing Crosby and Trudy Erwin (1943)
 
 
Frank Sinatra (1943)
 
 
Nelson Eddy (1944)
 
 
From the 1955 Hollywood movie 
 
 
 
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1943)
 
From the 1955 Hollywood movie
 
 
Miles Davis Quintet (1956) with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones
 
 
Ahmad Jamal (1958)
 
 
McCoy Tyner (1968)
 
 
 
People Will Say We're in Love (1943)
 
Frank Sinatra (1943)
 
 
From the 1955 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
Carousel (1945)
 
1956 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
If I Loved You
 
1956 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
Till There Was You
 
1956 Hollywood movie
 
 
Sonny Rollins with Oscar Pettiford and Max Roach (1958)
 
 
 
June is Bustin' Out All Over
 
1956 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
You'll Never Walk Alone
 
1956 Hollywood movie
 
 
or
 
 
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
 
 
Kiri Te Kanawa
 
 
 
South Pacific (1949)
 
Some Enchanted Evening
 
1958 Hollywood movie
 
 
Bali Ha'i
 
1958 Hollywood movie
 
 
Younger than Springtime
 
1958 Hollywood movie
 
 
 
The King & I (1951)
 
Excerpts from the 1956 Hollywood movie with the same name with Yul Brynner
 
The March of the Siamese Children
 
 
Getting to Know You
 
 
A Puzzlement
 
 
I Whistle a Happy Tune
 
 
Something Wonderful
 
 
 
Flower Drum Song (1958)
 
I Enjoy Being a Girl (1958)
 
From the 1961 Hollywood movie Flower Drum Song
 
Nancy Kwan (dubbed by Betty Jean Baker)
 
 
Chop Suey
 
From the 1961 Hollywood movie Flower Drum Song
 
 
 
The Sound of Music (1959)
 
Julie Andrews
 
From the movie The Sound of Music (1965)
 
 
 
My Favourite Things
 
Mary Martin
 
From the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959)
 
 
 
John Coltrane, soprano sax
 
With McCoy Tyner, piano; Steve Davis, bass; and Elvin Jones, drums
 
Recorded in October 1960 (Atlantic Records)
 
 
 
Julie Andrews
 
From the movie The Sound of Music (1965)
 
Excerpt
 
 
Song
 
 
 
Climb Every Mountain
 
From the movie The Sound of Music (1965)
 
 
Finale (Chorus) from the movie The Sound of Music (1965)
 
 
 
Do-Re-Mi
 
Mary Martin
 
From the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959)
 
 
 
Julie Andrews
 
From the movie The Sound of Music (1965)
 
 
 
 

South Pacific

Younger than Springtime

John Kerr (dubbed by Bill Lee) and France Nuyen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYCyLywywA


Bali Hai

Juanita Hall

Dubbed by Muriel Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7xsdfDvn0


 
 
 
-----------------
 
 
 
 
Irving Berlin
 
Related image
 
1888 - 1989
 
 
God Bless America (1938)
 
Kate Smith
 
First radio braodcast performance (1938)
 
 
 
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1911)
 
Billy Murray (November 1911)
 
 
The Andrews Sisters (c. 1942)
 
 
 
Puttin' on the Ritz (1927)
 
Harry Richman (1930)
 
 
Fred Astaire (1930)
 
 
Clark Gable (1939)
 
 
 
Blue Skies (1926)
 
Harry Richman (1927)
 
 
 
There's No Business Like Show Business (1946)
 
From Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
 
With Buffalo Bill . . .
 
 
Ethel Merman (1954)
 
 
Sonny Rollins (1955)
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
------------------------
 
 
 
 
Harold Arlen
 
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1905 - 1986
 
 
Let's Fall in Love (1933)
 
Annette Hanshaw (1933)
 
 
 
Come Rain or Come Shine (1946)
 
John Coltrane (1957 or 1958)
 
 
 
Stormy Weather (1933)
 
Ethel Waters (1933)
 
 
Lena Horne (From the 1943 Hollywood movie Stormy Weather)
 
 
 
 
Get Happy (1930)
 
Phil Duey, Frank Luther and Leo O’Rourke (1930)
 
 
Red Norvo (1945)
 
With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
 
 
Bud Powell (1959)
 
 
 
Over the Rainbow (1939) with E. Y. Harburg
 
Judy Garland in the 1939 Hollywood movie The Wizard of Oz
 
 
 
Blues in the Night (1941)
 
William Gillespie (1941)
 
 
Cab Calloway (1941)
 
 
Jimmie Lunceford (1942)
 
 
Harry James (1941)
 
 
 
One for My Baby (And One for the Road) 
 
Fred Astaire Excerpt from the 1943 Hollywood movie The Sky's the Limit
 
 
Frank Sinatra
 
Excerpt from the 1954 Hollywood movie Young At Heart
 
 
 
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1932)
 
Cab Calloway (1931)
 
 
Louis Armstrong (1932)
 
 
Kate Smith (1932)
 
 
The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers (1932)
 
 
Helen Ward with Benny Goodman (1935)
 
 
Thelonius Monk (piano solo) (1967)
 
 
 
 


Out of this World

1944

Jo Stafford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCeeixN9VFQ


Bing Crosby

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTTXm_NUAAI


1945

Tommy Dorsey

Stuart Foster, vocal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL5HUAXRfFc


Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band

1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2BUAO6JkeM


The Three Sounds - jazz trio

1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75UvcpjPcBs


John Coltrane Quartet

Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; James Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums

Rudy Van Gelder, recording engineer

1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aKHMd_jESI



 
 
 
-----------------
 
 
 
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
 
Leonard Bernstein
(1918 - 1990)
 
 
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West Side Story (1957)
 
Composed in 1957; arranged in 1960; released in 1961
 
Overture
 
 
Jets Song
 
 
Something's Coming
 
 
 
Maria
 
 
America
 
 
 
 
Tonight (Ensemble)
 
 
Somewhere
 
 
and
 
 
Cool
 
 
or
 
 
 
Symphonic Dances
 
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra (2011)
 
 
 
1957 Broadway Musical Soundtrack
 
Uploaded in error as the 1961 movie sound track
 
 
 
1961 Movie Soundtrack
 
Uploaded in error as the 1957 recording
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
--------------------
 
 
 
 
Maurice Jarre
 
1924 - 2009
 
 
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
 
Opening Theme
 
 
 
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
 
Overture and Theme
 
 
 
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
 
Theme at ending
 
 
 
Passage to India (1984)
 
 

 
-------------------
 
 
 
 
 
John Williams
 
1932 -
 
 
Jaws (1975)
 
Theme
 
 
Boston Symphony Pops Orchestra
 
John Williams conducting
 
 
 
Star Wars (1977)
 
Main Theme
 
 
 
Star Wars Suite
 
Sinfónica de Galicia (2015)
 
Dima Slobodeniouk
 
 
 
Superman (1978)
 
Theme
 
 
 
 
 

-------------



Taras Bulba

Soundtrack Suite

Franz Waxman

1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CovY06K3NnY


Ride to Dubno - Ride of the Cossacks

Franz Waxman

John Wilson

Proms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asoLIJpvb_w


Excerpt from the movie with Yul Brynner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8G6S6fQQ4I


Classic FM Orchestra of Sofia, Bulgaria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4Qx97wAoQ





--------------------




JOHN PHILIP SOUSA

1854 – 1932


The Stars and Stripes Forever / National March of the USA

1896

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7KIVLtMUA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7KIVLtMUA


Semper Fidelis / Official March of the U. S. Marine Corps

1888

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnnGKzqdmo


The Liberty Bell

1893

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6x7ld7aEJk


The Thunderer

1889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csaCJWGeEZ0


The Washington Post

1889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAgBsiiu0Io


Stars and Stripes Forever

1952 Hollywood movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHRgyttNXM8





GEORGE M. COHAN

1872 - 1942


Over There

1917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYA0gQJ8qg


Give My Regards to Broadway

1904

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtPdd6fkS0


The Yankee Doodle Boy

1904

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCxOKP_q7o


You're a Grand Old Flag

1906

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9oj5clY5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu-w_1_59a0


Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 Hollywood movie

https://ok.ru/video/1027688499864



 
 
 
 
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Listening to Music
 
With Craig Wright
 
Yale University, Fall 2008
 
A 22-lecture course in understanding western music
 
 
 
Lecture 1. Introduction
 
1. Introduction to Listening to Music
2. Why listen to classical music?
3. Course requirements and pedagogy
4. Diagnostic quiz
5. Pitch
6. Rhythm

Yale U. website:
 
 
Transcript:
 
 
1. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
2. Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Straus
 
 
All 22 lectures on You Tube with captions in English
 
Begins with lecture # 1.
 
 
and continues to lecture # 22
 
 
 
 
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34

Benjamin Britten

Description by Peter Pears with illustrations

 
Without narration
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM

 

 

 

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The United States Army Field Band
 
army chorus
 
 
Semper Fidelis
 
John Philip Sousa
 
 
 
The Washington Post March
 
 
 
Inside the Big Band
 
 
 
Instrument Demonstration for Beginning Band
 
 
 
Horn Playing Past & Present
 
 
 
Wind Band Basics
 
 
 
The Saxophone Standard
 
 
 
Unheard of Instruments in the Saxophone Family
 
 
 
The Trumpeter's Resource
 
 
 
Trombone: A Player's Guide
 
 
 
Tuba & Euphonium: The Individual & The Ensemble
 
 
 
Understanding the Oboe
 
 
 
Bassoon Basics
 
 
 
Improving Your Clarinet Section Through The Use of Clarinet Quartets
 
 
 
Flute Fundamentals
 
 
 
The Jazz Band Rhythm Section
 
 
 
The Complete Percussionist
 
 
 
Caballo Viejo
 
Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors "Son
Tropical"
 
 
Bamboleo
 
 
 
The Joy of Singing
 
 
 
 
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Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Lyrics by William Whiting, 1860

Music by John Bacchus Dykes, 1861

Wells Cathedral

Wells, Somerset, England

1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHPSFFa5cU


The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Film Music of Hans Zimmer

1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSXKbQV5Xvs

1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dlXmuYuAYc


Claude Thomas Smith

Arrangement

1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuzV-QgnhQ



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Image result for leonard bernstein
 
 
Young People's Concerts
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
New York Philharmonic
 
1958 - 1972 
 
 
Young People's Concerts
 
What is a Melody? (1962)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals (1965)
 
 
 
3.
 
4.
 
5.
 
 
What is a Mode? (1966)
 
 
 
The Sound of an Orchestra (1965)
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Anatomy of an Orchestra (1970)
 
 
 
What is Orchestration? (1958)
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is Classical Music? (1959)
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is a Concerto? (1964)
 
5 clips
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is a Sonata Form?
 
 
 
 
 
 
What Makes Music Symphonic? (1958)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Overtures and Preludes (1961)
 
 
 
The Latin American Spirit (1963)
 
Part 1
 
 
Part 2 (Viila-Lobos)
 
 
Part 3
 
 
Part 4
 
 
Part 5 (West Side Story)
 
 
 
Unusual Instruments of the Past, Present and Future (1960)
 
 
 
Jazz in the Concert Hall (1964)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Charles Ives, American Pioneer
 
 
 
Image result for leonard bernstein- the unanswered question
 
 
The Unanswered Question
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Harvard
 
1973
 
The XXth Century Crisis
 
 
 
 
 


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Flamenco


Sabicas

Arabian Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VROY01EAg


Malaguena

1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwdcrYsApUE


Guajira, Rondena, Buleria.

1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76B-4EtN0Z4



Carmen Amaya

1935

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFq-AnctOJc

1939 . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCca6d2ceI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls-aYNIrlKs


Carmen Amaya y su troupe

Bulerias

1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3Gho5qe4Y



La Singla

Barcelona

1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VyNakWH6pw



Baile por seguiriyas

Cante: Diego Vargas

Festival Flamenco Gitano 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4Jd932auQ



Flamenco


Toni El Pelao

1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9H3u08Xj9I



Antonio Gades y Cristina Hoyos - baile

El Lebrijano, Emilio de Diego, Seguiriyas

1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3no7u4r-XRI

1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Rf_rgE4uY




Flamenco arabe

Abderrahim Abdelmoumen

Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpajdVFtDio


Arabs in Spain

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gqrBXG6ec4



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Latin favourites


La Paloma

Emilio de Gogorza

Recorded in 1905

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmyArLGpFt8


La Paloma (The Dove)

Rosita Serrano

1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-sGVyyJV4


Excerpt from the 1939 movie Juarez

About Maximillian I of Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4AY_RRTSQ0



Santa Lucia

Enrcio Caruso (1916)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebrnxY0Fuw


Granada

Mario Lanza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88YRtu2gEE

Juan Diego FLÓREZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-pql5EhzQ

Rolando Villazon (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb_OYHYi1zU

Plácido Domingo (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkSKmXSnf3U


Mambo

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Caracas, Venezuela (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRRJDPKt3k

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U8wTk8UxdA


Danzon No. 2

Arturo Marquez

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Caracas, Venezuela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeWiixwEz4


Huapango

Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Netzahualcóyotl

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sznD8rrHCbk


Ginastera Estancia Suit

Gustavo Dudamel

Proms 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhACD-PwNv4



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The Lost City

Movie about Havana during the days of Batista and Castro's revolution with many favourite Cuban songs (2006) (2:24:20)

Andy Garcia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN9it_Xy-YI


Si me pudieras querer

Bola de Nieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRevuy6Cb8


 
 
 
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Chinatown, My Chinatown
 

Kerns and Wells
 
1914
 
 

Prince Orchestra
 
1914
 
 
 
Sam Ash ?
 
1914
 
 
 
Art Gillham
 
1928
 
 
 
Red Nichols
 
1929
 
 
 
Max Fleischer
 
1929 cartoon
 
v=VjFu5XwCVyI
 

 
Fletcher Henderson
 
1930
 
Louis Armstrong
 
1931
 
 
 
Ray Noble
 
1935
 

 
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
 
1935
 
 

Stéphane Grappelli and his Hot Four 
 
Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre "Baro" Ferret (g); Louis Vola (b)
 
 
 
Louis Prima
 
1930s
 
 
 
Lionel Hampton
 
1937
 
 
 
Slim and Slam
 
1938
 
 
 
Player Piano
 
 
 
Johnny May
 
Stride piano and ragtime piano
 
 
 
Jack Hylton
 
Date?
 
 
 
Japanese Mamma
 
Paul Whiteman
 
1928
 
 
 
One Night in China Town
 
Sydney Lipton
 
1935
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Hawaii


 
Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee) (Liliʻuokalani, 1878) 
 
Madame Alapai (1911)
 


Frank Ferera and Helen Louise (1917) 

 
 
Waialai
 
Henry N. Clark and Kaai Glee Club (1911)
 
 
 
That Hula Jazz
 
Ben Hokea and Al Nani (1920) 
 
 
 
Sweet Lei Lehua
 
Kalama's Quartet (January 1927)
 
Sound film



 
Hula Girl

Kalama's Quartet (January 1927)
 
Sound film
 
 

Hula Girl

Sol Ho' opi' i
 


My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua (1933)

 
Sol Ho' opi' i (1933)
Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Marcellino and the Debutantes
 
 
and
 
 
Paul Whiteman with the Vorcordians (1934)
 
 
Ben Pollack (1934)
 
 
Green Brothers Marimba Orchestra (1934)
 
 
Norman Price Trio (1934)
 

2013

 

Flower Lei

Sol Ho' opi' I (1936)
 
 
 
Iniki Malie (Waikapu)

Sol Ho' opi' i
 
 
 
Pidgon English Hula

Sol Ho' opi' I (1935)
 

 
Ukulele Lady; Pidgin English Hula
 
Hilo Hattie (1942)
 
 

Honolulu Harbor

Sol Ho' opi' i
 
 


Honolulu Baby
 
From the 1933 Hollywood movie Sons of the Desert with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
 
 
Movie Preview
 
 
  
Weintraub's Syncopators (1936)
 


Song of Old Hawaii
 
Cliff Edwards
 
 
 
Sweet Leilani
 
Cliff Edwards (1937)
 
  
 
Moon of Manakura
 
Dorothy Lamour

1937
 

1943




Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra
 
With Ray Andrade
 
From the Hollywood movie Cocoanut Grove (1938)
 
 
also:
 
Cocoanut Groove (same tune, other lyrics)
 

 
Hawaiian War Chant

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Buddy Rich
 
1942
 

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Hula
 
National Geographic
 
 
 
The Grit and Grace of Hula
 
 






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Tar Paper Stomp

Wingy Mannone

1930

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7tnmsTqVY

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfjZhy_T_c


In the Mood

Edgar Hayes

1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjGC7fXjiXA


IN THE MOOD

Glenn Miller

From the movie Sun Valley Serenade

1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKb-qfwbZ2M


Glenn Miller & The Army Air Force Band

November 13, 1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hOy5T71sv0




Ragtime, Dixieland, Swing . . .

BE-BOP

Dizzy Gillespie

Jivin' in Be-Bop

1947

Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra

Salt Peanuts
One Bass Hit
Oop Bop Sh'Bam
He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
Shaw 'Nuff
A Night in Tunisia
Grosvenor Square
Ornithology

With bassist Ray Brown
vibraphonist Milt Jackson
pianist John Lewis
singers Helen Humes and Kenny "Pancho" Hagood

Master of Ceremonies Freddie Carter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d0o5D6L2eU&t=14s



Charlie Parker

September 4, 1948

Royal Roost, New York City, New York

Charlie Parker Quintet:

Miles Davis (tpt); Charlie Parker (as); Tadd Dameron (p); Curley Russell (b); Max Roach (d); with Symphony Sid Torin and Bob Garrity (ann)

Announcement 0:00
52nd Street Theme (T. Monk) * 0:18
Ko-Ko (C. Parker) ** 5:22

Concert recording, broadcast by WMCA Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PYIsrfjMBQ


December 11, 1948

Royal Roost, New York City, New York

Charlie Parker Quintet

Miles Davis- trumpet; Charlie Parker- alto saxophone; Al Haig- piano; Tommy Potter- bass; Max Roach- drums

with Symphony Sid Torin- announcer

Announcement 0:00

Groovin' High (D. Gillespie-F. Paparelli) 0:11

Big Foot (C. Parker) 5:01

Announcement 9:45

Ornithology (C. Parker-B. Harris) 9:51

Announcement 15:29

Slow Boat to China (F. Loesser) 15:39

Concert recording, broadcast by WMCA radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VInmvMEEb-w


A Night in Tunisia

Charlie Parker and Miles Davis

Miles Davis (trumpet)
Charlie Parker (alto saxophone)
Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone)
Dodo Marmarosa (piano)
Arvin Garrison (guitar)
Vic McMillan (bass)
Roy Porter (drums)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxibMBV3nFo


Jazz at Massey Hall

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

15 May 1953

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet
Charlie Parker, alto sax,
Bud Powell, piano
Charles Mingus, bass
Max Roach, drums

Perdido
Salt Peanuts
All the Things You Are
Wee
Hot House
A Night in Tunisia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4RrDikMTr8



COOL

Cool Jazz



Miles Davis

Miles Davis Quartet

Miles Davis - trumpet
John Lewis, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Max Roach, Art Blakey - drums

NYC - studio

May 19, 1953, March 15, 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W50DGLXmXg


Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Paris Concert

Gerry Mulligan - Baritone Sax
Bob Brookmeyer - Trombone
Red Mitchell - Bass
Frank Isola - Drums

Salle Pleyel, Paris

1, 4 June 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDMJrbvckE



SONNY ROLLINS


Sonnymoon for Two

Live at the Village Vanguard

Village Vanguard, New York City

November 3, 1957

Sonny Rollins, tenor sax
Wilbur Ware, bass
Elvin Jones, drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4LKaS1nLI


Doxy

Sonny Rollins at the Village Gate

New York City

July 27 - 30, 1962

Don Cheery, trumpet
Bob Cranshaw, bass
Billy Higgins, drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pbu76U43yY




AVANT-GARDE

Avant-garde jazz


Pharoah Sanders

Quintet

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5mCPpGk8QE


Albert Ayler

Ghosts

Saxophonst Albert Ayler
bassist Gary Peacock
drummer Sunny Murray

July 10, 1964

Variety Arts Recording Studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZDHaVDMRM


Archie Shepp

The Girl from Ipanema

1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8BZ4IO66kQ




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Jazz in the 21st century



Branford Marsalis

A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)

1. Acknowledgment
2. Resolution
3. Pursuance
4. Psalm

Brandford Marsalis - Tenor Saxophone
Joey Calderazzo - Piano
Jeff Tain Watts - Drums
Eric Revis - Doublebass

Amsterdam

Live

2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8LQoV-uUW0


The original recording

John Coltrane Quartet

John Coltrane, tenor and soprano saxophones
McCoy Tyner, piano
James Garrison, double bass
Elvin Jones. drums

Recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on December 9, 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3CMgiUPuU



Bechet's Fantasy

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IHnD0XOtA


Sidney Bechet

1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0t-l3dGuA



Oh! Didn't He Ramble

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXjGNBIkRQ


Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton

1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEX2z-ZGMUw



When the Saints Go Marching In

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9USUBG21U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XsokzJXEM


Louis Armstrong

1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfLnfp9DaA&t=3s

1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eUzdTF3P2M



Corrine, Corrina

Taj Mahal

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPYGEZOLFk


Red Nichols

1930

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0Y_c4GF8M


Big Joe Turner

1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCXd9NanLY



Sweet Georgia Brown

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkvC2FT7Xs


Bing Crosby

1932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTnWDZtyww


Brother Bones and his Shadows

1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAMH9QcNRA

With the Harlem Globetrotters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLvbnoGA6M



The Flight of the Bumble-bee

Wynton Marsalis, cornet

1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNabGj2p-iQ


Composed by Rimsky-Korsakov

An orchestral interlude

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1899 - 1900

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAJopwEYv8


Harry James

Early 1940s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxS7llr8x_4



Olé (J. Coltrane)

Wynton Marsalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SP3NfxI7dg


John Coltrane

1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWEvjzbTLR4



Jazz Titans

Duke, Dizzy, Trane & Mingus

Wynton Marsalis

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLYVxVytTA

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOcGc-ZE4&t=1426s


Duke Ellington

Take the A Train

1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY


Dizzy Gillespie

With Charlie Parker

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PiKHAEcEvM


John Coltrane

My Favorite Things

1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3JpqhpkXg


Charles Mingus

Eat that Chicken!

1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaY1KlQRi4








Opera Italia

Antonio Pappano

2010 BBC documentary in three parts about Italian Opera

Episode 1. Monteverdi, Rossini, Handel and Mozart

Episode 2. Verdi - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Otello, Falstaff and La Traviata

Episode 3. Puccini - La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi and Turandot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7jKQXHG48




Pappano's Classical Voices

2015

Four-part series

the greatest singers of the last 100 years

Soprano, tenor, mezzo-soprano, baritone and bass

1. Soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXFx4MxJwI

2. Tenor



3. Mezzo-Soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1W2n1J-kU

4. Baritones and Basses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjeIXt6c2k



Antonio Pappano's Essential Tosca

Pucini - Tosca

Ducumentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9frwaMzFjU



Pappano's Essential Ring Cycle

BBC Documentary (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQmof3TErs




Wagner

The Golden Ring

The Making of Solti s Ring

Wagner Ring Cycle

Documentary

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezLp1xdKZw


Rehearsing and conducting

Overture to Tannhäuser by Wagner

Süddeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L85eTSWrmg





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Dvorak

Rusalka

Anna Netrebko

Rusalka by Dvorak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXgTkSYi0GA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwuNqcKUxto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnP8AoatiVA


Songs My Mother Taught Me

Victoria de los Angeles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpupEM3TKJ8







Maria Callas

Opera Arias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVqiDwVy7w





Anna Netrebko

Franz Lehar

Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heiss

Proms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kaOYC_Fww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlPG91IRps


Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

Das Land Des Lächelns

Franz Lehár

Anna Netrebko and Placido Domingo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z7O3gJQDCc





Aida Garifullina

A Tatar from Kazan, Tatarstan


Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQBURLEdeY


Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Song of India from Sadko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5k-TaOmq5o


Dvorák - Rusalka - Song to The Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnbhBM6ClvE


G. Puccini - O mio babbino caro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWAr-VSPocI


Schubert - Ave Maria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja5hQH9USIU


Verdi - La Traviata - Brindisi

Paris 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVIhxycnVPU


Puccini - La Bohème - Quando me'n vo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rVt6cT8qg


V. Bellini - Casta Diva - Aria from Norma

Paris 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Dw0OjpDfw



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Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra

Gypsy melodies

Sava Center, Belgrade

April 8, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2iVQRvWnu0


Russian Melodies

Gypsy Philharmonic Orchestra

Recorded by Monaco Broadcast at Palais des Festivals, Cannes

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTLvorMfkjs


Celibidache in Bucharest (1978)

G. Enescu

Rapsodia Romania

G. Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra

Sergiu Celibidache, cond.

Recorded in Ateneul Romania 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Y5x1N_aIg


Dimitrievitch Gypsies

France, 1968

Valia Dimitrievitch singing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukPcbFlNfTc


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Czardas

Gezalius

The Kazakh Folk Symphony Orchestra, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWXEXS8-V8


Piano Transcription after Monti by Tzvi Erez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGG-PAL_RcQ


Hungarian Dance No. 5

J. Brahms

Violin, Cello, Piano, Bandoneon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfz3Kt9FrHA


Hungarian Symphony Orchestra

Budapest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzo3atXtm54


Lang Lang

Duet - 4 Hands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhXnyZ0hq0Y


Myroslav Skoryk

1938 - 2020

Carpathian Rhapsody

Violin soloist - Dmytro Udovychenko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txDFsowpp-Q

and

Violin soloist - Oleksandr Bozhik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21K_mdYrlwg


Liszt

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C Sharp Minor S. c244

Tzvi Erez, piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-WZ1cW8KeE

George Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wjKF0_kRc

George Li

Friska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVV_F_b6BmQ

Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra

Volker Hartung, conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNi-_0kqpdE


Liszt

14th Hungarian Rhapsody

Liberace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYK5Bopk2X0

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufvonnLTU-U

And some boogie-woogie

Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Last piano sonata by Beethoven, 1821 / 1822

Two movements

Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta - Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Claudio Arrau, pianist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSjeaCAdYGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljq4MwzAbo


Arietta - Third Variation

F. Say, pianist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2pKgwKpkTU


Versions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFfjmXj-o-4






Beethoven

Piano


Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, S. 464 (

Piano Transcription by Franz Liszt

I. Allegro con brio

Glenn Gould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNZtRi5yaVE


Ode to Joy

From Symphony No. 9, Op.125

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f_cDQDEYY


Moonlight Sonata

First Movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTVZMJ9Z2I


For Elise

1810

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Y6X0dCk-o


By Lang Lang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s71I_EWJk7I


Pathétique

I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
II. Adagio cantabile
III. Rondo: Allegro

Claudio Arrau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SZn4yi6sI


Appassionata

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57

I. Allegro assai
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro ma non troppo

Claudio Arrau

Beethovenfest

Bonn 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdg-DT8rTUQ



An Introduction to Beethoven Symphonies

Chairat Chongvattanakij

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCdAqFpolM


Lectures


First Symphony

1801

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3N9oGYtqQA&t=97s


Second Symphony

1801 - 1802

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb6v3DFdVN0&t=206s


Third Symphony - Eroica

1802 -1804

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHDtVCfs8qU&t=61s


Fourth Symphony

1806

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Ftstg-qi4


Fifth Symphony

1804 -1808

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qOwNwUZsd8&t=33s


Sixth Symphony - Pastoral

1802 - 1808

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82uxNNv62Q


Seventh Symphony

1811 - 1812

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IJXxJ2iLhA&t=11s


Eighth Symphony

1812

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35bTOmZjy4&t=83s


Ninth Symphony

1822 - 1824

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-WrQzw1RLc&t=44s

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoloaprof8&t=62s





Beethoven

The Nine Symphonies


First Symphony

Von Karajan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVKdd-gI_aQ


Second Symphony in D major, op. 36

Wiener Philharmoniker

Conducted by Christian Thielemann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdvcIE6kVuE


Third Symphony - Eroica

Von Karajan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtmV8-2ZGU


Fourth Symphony in B flat major

Op. 60

Wien Philharmoniker

Leonard Bernstein

1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQ2OWWzHZ8


Fifth Symphony

Von Karajan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_wqx76mpc


Sixth Symphony in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)

1 - Allegro ma non troppo
2 - Andante molto mosso
3 - Allegro
4 - Allegro
5 - Allegretto

West--Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Royal Albert Hall, 23 July 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-7CqxhnAQ


Seventh Symphony

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Iván Fischer

Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 9 and 10 January 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4788Tmz9Zo&t=804s


Eighth Symphony in F major

Leonard Bernstein

Wiener Philarmoniker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7-hbEWdw8


Nineth Symphony

Von Karajan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3MVY6UiMag



Beethoven

Eroica

1802 - 1804

Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55

Italian: Sinfonia Eroica; Heroic Symphony; German: Eroica

Symphony in four movements

2003 BBC television movie

About the first performance of Beethoven s Third Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7R8AkopRdA


Beethoven 5th Symphony

Analysis by Gerard Schwarz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hZY5h84Wc


The Secret of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

BBC Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9iMCXCbO7c


Beethoven

Ninth Symphony Documentary

1822 - 1824

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSAURczUFEw


Beethoven

Ninth symphony

DOCUMENTARY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSAURczUFEw&t=594s




Beethoven

The Nine Symphonies

Transcribed for piano by Liszt


First Symphony

Opus 21

I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
II. Andante cantabile con moto
III. Menuetto. Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Adagio - Allegro molto vivace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Q2xVAGdd0&t=124s


Second Symphony

Opus 36

I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
II. Larghetto
III. Scherzo - Allegro
IV. Allegro molto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpEQXsIaP4


Third Symphony

Opus 55

Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre - Adagio assai
Scherzo - Allegro vivace
Finale: Allegro molto – Poco andante – Presto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9sWSZJlkcM


Fourth Symphony

Opus 60

I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
III. Allegro vivace
IV. Allegro, ma non troppo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJV6dCZVsQ


Fifth Symphony

Op. 67

I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo. Allegro
VI. Allegro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTk-mX-G4Q&t=106s


Sixth Symphony

Opus 68

I. Allegro ma non troppo - Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande
II. Andante molto moto - Szene am Bach
III. Allegro - Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute
IV. Allegro - Gewitter, Sturm
V. Allegretto - Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmX7HMuUss&t=16s


Seventh Symphony

Opus 92

I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
II. Allegretto
III. Scherzo. Presto
IV. Allegro con brio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaZ49Gl2bHs


Eighth Symphony

Opus 93

I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Allegretto scherzando
III. Tempo di Menuetto
IV. Allegro vivace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HafOc41IBpg


Nineth Symphony

Op. 125

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
IV. Finale - Presto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I42Afr-OUso




VERDI

REQUIEM


Herbert von Karajan

Milano

Leontyne Price, Soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto, Mezzo-soprano
Luciano Pavarotti, Tenor
Nicolai Ghiaurov, Baixo-barítono

Orquestra e Coro: Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Regência: Herbert von Karajan

Direção: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Ano 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysUW00P3S8


Verdi Requiem

Philadelphia - 1986

Susan Dunn, soprano
Ildiko Komlosi, mezzo-soprano
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Paata Burchuladze, bass

Lorin Maazel, Conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ga26Lxw9RE



The Complete Guide to Verdi's Requiem

Inside the Score

00:00 - 3:20 Introduction
3:20 - 5:16 Requiem and Kyrie
5:16 - 14:10 Dies Irae (Sequence)
14:10 - 15:03 Offertorio
15:03 - 15:59 Sanctus
15:59 - 17:10 Agnus Dei
17:10 - 18:25 Lux Aeterna
18:25 - 22:02 Libera Me

Recording

Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Georg Solti

Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C8Jy4yyGuM





VERDI

Rigoletto

1851

Opera in three acts

1982 film by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Luciano Pavarotti as The Duke

Ingvar Wixell as Rigoletto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFtu9VV9f1o&t=307s





PUCCINI

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

1903


The story

Antonio Pappano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjYmGZgGJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYm9aphKusU


Vogliatemi bene

Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann and Angela Gheorghiu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Op7RmV7S3c



Un bel di, vedremo

Anna Netrebko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V8s9CW4DTA

2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppXnp8_Q4Y


Ying Huang

1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yhsGpuc910


Maria Callas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Knb2yc3e6o



Madame Butterfly

1932 movie with Cary Grant

Narrative without opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXywlI6Ckw


Madama Butterfly

1954 movie

The opera and narration

Narration in English, opera in Italian, songs in Japanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhxLpE7OxRc




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Wagner and Liszt

Howard Goodall

BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLq9mTv1n0



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Tchaikovsky

Andante cantabile

String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

For Cello and Orchestra

1871

Performances

2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0X4SkRL-k

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RArq6lMxrGc


Performance by violins

Itzhak Perlman / Janet Goodman Guggenheim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOCAJ1ud9w

Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5F460Bt_I



On the Isle of May


Connee Boswell

19 January 1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCXXv4eRV0

Woody Herman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCXXv4eRV0

Bob Crosby and the Bobcats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fz36vwVvXg