This is a video clip with an interview of well known jazz piano player Bill Evans from 1966. Listen to this musician talking about what he calls the jazz process, considering jazz as a style. It’s interesting that Bill Evans considers jazz as more a creative process than a style, since [...]
The Berliner Philharmoniker Performing the Polovtsian Dances of the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin
In this video the Berliner Philharmoniker under japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa perform the Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor by russian composer Alexander Borodin (1833 – 1887).
It should be said the Alexander Borodin was not a full time composer, instead he had different occupations, among them he had a degree [...]
Ionisation by Edgar Varese Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Watch this video with Pierre Boulez conducting the Ensembe InterContemporain for a performance of Edgar Varese’s (1883 – 1965) composition Ionisation. The music involves many percussion instruments and some rare music instruments like the siren and the lion’s roar which you can listen to as a solo instrument at 1:15 of [...]
Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Performing Christmas Woman
Watch this music video clip with Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society performing their sond Christmas Woman on the Moers Jazz Festival (Germany) in 1994 with bandleader Ronald Shannon Jackson on the drums, Dom Richards playing the electric bass, Rob Reddy on soprano saxophone, James Carter playing the tenor saxophone [...]
Brahms’ Capriccio performed by Arthur Rubinstein the Great Master of Classical Piano
This video shows the great piano artist Arthur Rubinstein performing a classical composition by german composer Johannes Brahms, the Capriccio No. 2. Arthur Rubinstein is well known as an excellent piano player and discovers the inner structure of this capriccio for our ears. He plays the Capriccio No. 2 out of [...]
Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Major played by Glenn Gould and Leonard Rose
Unfortunately, some jerk removed the embed ability for this video on youtube. This happens sometimes with people full of envy who don’t want to share the videos they upload to youtube, even thought they are for sure not the copyright holders. They just don’t want other people to enjoy the music [...]
Frank Zappa Performing Inca Roads with some Original Claymation and Overdubs
This video clip shows Frank Zappa performing Inca Roads live on stage and has some fantastic claymation (= animation with clay) work included. The noises from the claymation part seem to bother some people on youtube, however, this is great work and worth listening to. If you don’t get it the [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concert for Flute Harp and Orchestra
This video clip shows Katrina Szederkenyi on the harp and Desislava Dobreva on flute performing the first movement of the Concert for Flute, Harp and Orchestra. In this version, the orchestra is subsituted with a piano, which is a frequent way of reducing costs and still be able to perform [...]
Andrés Segovia performing Fernando Sor’s Op. 9
Watch this video of Andrés Segovia, the spanish top class guitar player, Opus 9 of Fernando Sor. This piece is quite difficult to play but of course this guitar master plays it with ease and putting a lot of feeling into it. His interpretation is perfect, even though the video is [...]
Frank Zappa Ronald Reagan Hairdress and Documentary Video
This video shows Frank Zappa at work in different situations ranging from the making of a music video to working with a 25 performers symphony orchestra that is putting on stage his compositions. It has some interesting parts about the appearance of Ronald Reagan’s hairdress in the mentioned clip. For people [...]
