Enouraged by some of the other song treads out there and not wishing to impose this genre on those really good threads, each of which attempt to address a particular type and style, thought I'd start this thread for Waltz, Classical, melodic ... and the other genres that come close to those.

I dunno what shape this is going to take, but what the heck, it's Friday night(well, Saturday morning :P) and I have time to kill so here goes :)

Please feel free to add your picks as you wish.

Johann Strauss - Radetzky March Claudio Abbado - Wiener Philharmoniker
1991 Vienna New Year's Concert

Andre Rieu leads his orchestra into this brilliant performance of Amazing Grace (Psst .. I couldn't make out what I thought was German captions but the music is still great)

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Andre Reiu again. This time with Bond performing Victory

LOL!!!! hahahahaha.......

i need a ladki to dance with....
where's my night gown...err...i mean my fav. black versace suit :P

Elizabeth Parcells singing a waltz opera, i believe :S

The genre lines might be getting a bit blurry here - perhaps this is still melody of sorts :P - but here is Orinoco Flow from Celtic Woman

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Loots - Almost missed your post. An interesting choice (jeez, what a loaded word, ya? :P) you made there :)

Aight, off now. Think I can finally hit the sack.

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Capt - long time, goodness me!

Re the Strauss piece - that was lovely. Don't know his music at all. Btw, went to a Richard Strauss concert the other day - Ein Heldenleben. Marvellous.

I have trying to locate a Tchaikovsky one from Sleeping Beauty but so far to no avail. Will keep trying.

Here's one of my Tchaikovsky favs. From The Nutcracker with the illustrious Sir Simon Rattle. Lovely.

Oh forgot say hello to LootK.
Hope you're keeping good as you do - Sajha surfing and what not!

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I finally found the one from Sleeping Beauty.. This one is a ballet clip - I prefer the Orchestra to the dance but copied hereunder all the same. Enjoy.

Oh Jeez, look who made it to Sajha today! LOL! :) How have you been ? Good to see you - drop by more often if you can. :)

Both great pieces there - I like Tchaikovsky. I have posted his Symphony no 4 on the other thread.

Here is that all too familiar Beethoven's Symphony no 5:

Carmen overture perfomred here, as per Youtube, by "the German CJD Youth Orchestra at the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie in Berlin (14 October 2006)".

Capt, :-)
I am keeping good as I do - a tad busy with life's other pressing priorities. Oh, had my spring break recently - spent the majority of the time outdoors, skiing and all that. Good to see you still firmly at the Sajha helm. :-)

Thanks for the two pieces - lovely.

Here's one of my most fav classical pieces ever: Adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony.
Visconti has used this movement and other parts of the fifth in his film - Death in Venice, a film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel. The pic cuttings are from this film.

The fifth has got to be Mahler's master piece and this adagietto always moves me to the core - so hauntingly beautiful.

You have a good Sunday, old chap.
Carpe diem

From the Fifth again - with Berlin Phil Orchestra's Sir Simon Rattle.

Fanale to the Fifth.

Sandhusrt L -

Nice choices there - that is a really good piece of music. Came across this bit of trivia about the Adagietto: it was played at the funeral of Robert Kennedy (slain US presidential candidate) in 1968 at St Patrick's cathedral in NYC.

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And here is Beethoven's Für Elise - prolly the most played and over played work of Beethoven in many parts of the world:) I chose it because it often serves as the initiation into the world of classical music for many people - including myself. I guess that fact that it is a solo makes it a simple yet appealing piece that serves to remind people that this type of music is within the reach of anyone infront of a piano who has a desire to learn.

Performed here by Ivo Pogorelich





And this from wikipedia:

"Für Elise" (German for "For Elise") is the popular name of the "Bagatelle in A minor", WoO 59, a famous piece of music for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in about 1810. Beethoven scholars and critics are not entirely certain who "Elise" was. The most reasonable theory is that Beethoven originally titled his work "Für Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), whom Beethoven intended to marry in 1810. Unfortunately, she declined Beethoven's proposal. In 1816 Therese Malfatti, who was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Malfatti von Rohrenbach (1769-1829), married the Austrian nobleman and state official Wilhelm von Droßdik (1771-1859). When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the piece Ludwig Nohl mistranscribed the title as "Für Elise". The autograph is lost.

How about Four seasons by Vivaldi?



Hey Captain - You read out my mind loud! I was thinking of coming up with a thread dedicated to classical musics a while ago, but never did. This is one good thread. i shall include Gregorian Chants too! :-)

Catch ya'll later.

Flips - Great choice there! :) Please keep them flowing.

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The Four Seasons (Spring) by Vivaldi.

Flip,
Lovely. Vivaldi is one of the two Baroque masters that I love - the other being Bach.

Let's hear it again - Spring - with the divine Anne Sophie Mutter. Movement 1



I will try and find Bach's Air on G String. ... wait out.

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Capt, ol chap,
Evening.

Hey SL, haven't seen u for a while..no visit to our Nautankiland?? :) Just dropped in to say hello to SL.. sorry Capt. saab..no contribution here..:)

Here it is: Juliun Llyod Webber.