Author: whskyjack

Fantaisie-Impromptu is one of Chopin’s most performed compositions, it was composed for the piano but this young woman’s variation on the harp is worth listening to.

Performed by Nadja Dornik

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Something different for this Sunday morning, traditional Japanese music on the Japanese flute, the Shakuhachi

From Wikipedia, “The shakuhachi is traditionally made of bamboo. It was used by the monks of the Fuke Zen of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen  “

Performed Kohachiro Miyata.

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Sinfonia Antarctica. by English composer Vaughn Williams

It seems to fit the weekend, at least around here. Stay warm.

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This performance by Yo-Yo Ma can best be described as the end of a musical marathon. He has already played his way through the Bach’s first 5 cello suites and has been playing for over 2 hours when this video starts. It is an incredible performance of a beautiful piece of music.

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Or get your New Years Eve off to a good start, with a little New Orleans style jazz.

Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars

From the link:

Jon-Erik Kellso and Matt Munisteri formed the EarRegulars in 2007. The band’s weekly residency at New York’s Ear Inn has continued ever since, the trumpeter and guitarist working with an ever-changing roster of players. For this album, the band’s second, clarinettist Evan Christopher and bassist Kerry Lewis join in the fun – and fun In The Land Of Beginning Again most certainly is.

Most of the tunes are well-established if not well-known. The quartet plays each one with an authentic flair and a laid-back, low-key approach that reflects the spatial limitations of the Ear Inn (even though the album was recorded in a New Orleans studio). The musical interplay is complementary rather than combative: epitomized by Kellso and Christopher’s interaction on S’posin’. The mid-tempo jollity of Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans Stomp opens proceedings, Benny Carter and Irving Mills’ Blues In My Heart showcases the EarRegulars’ fragile and tender side, Kissing My Baby Goodnight and Once In A While give Kellso a chance to play with a little more attack as his colleagues maintain a more relaxed style.

Enjoy and be careful tonight if you are out and about. Jack