The four seasonsAntonio Vivaldi
The four seasons
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…par Leopold Stokowski. Enregistré en 1950. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUYq5t-cCM There are also solo organ performances. For more violin music there is: Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Julia Fischer - Performance Edit (Full HD 1080p) 3,567,731 views Jan 17, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-W3lfcVvY with just excellent, world class, nearly uniquely good, cases…
on “Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card” ↗Not sure what you mean by "heavy", but you might give Vivaldi a try; start with the Four Seasons. It's not minimalist, but it's much lighter than e.g. Beethoven, and not as "serious" as e.g. Bach.
on “Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?” ↗…Arthur Rubenstein's Chopin, particularly the nocturnes. This is soulful Chopin before it was played as a sport. Glen Gould's interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Nigel Kennedy's Vivaldi's Four Seasons - and then Max Richter's recomposition, it's really worth it. Mozart's Requiem - any performance. it's huge. Same with Handel's Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest. Personally, I put a CD of Alan Mearns'…
on “Six Recent Studies Show an Unexpected Increase in Classical Music Listening” ↗…other mild melodies on stringed instruments. Relaxes you while you work. https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayat_Khan Edit(s): Vivaldi's Four Seasons is another good one for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi) Barclay James Harvest. The story of how they got their name is interesting…
on “Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?” ↗I have [this CD](https://www.allmusic.com/album/vivaldi-the-four-seasons-conc...) from 1990 of Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I have never heard a version of the Four Seasons that was so vibrant. Unfortunately I've never been able…
on “Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic” ↗If you have an iPad, Deutsche Grammophon's apps are a great intro to the intellectual and emotional complexity and nuance of some key classical works. They have apps for Beethoven's 9th, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and Liszt's Sonata. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beethovens-9th-symphony/id6019... With Beethoven's 9th, while you are listening it visually syncs the original manuscript and score, a visualization…
on “Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic” ↗…Used to be, had to go to live performances. Then we got audio tapes, vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, and the Internet. So, now just from a few keystrokes I can get terrific performances of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Bach's Chaconne, ... Barber's Adagio for Strings. Those are some of the ideas that have floated around. Money and power: The idea that just these two are the main causes of all of society's problems…
on “The fishy death of Red Lobster” ↗…after having a great professor at my University introduce me to it while taking an elective in Music Theory. Another great Minimalist Composer is Max Richter[4][5]. Richter did a revision of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a minimalist style that's quite good[6]. Minimalistic Classical is also one of the few genres I can write code while listening to and not have it distract me as well. Like the OP, I definitely recommend…
on “The computer rig of the Philip Glass Ensemble” ↗…the software world is akin to: Interviewer: "I see you are interviewing for the 1rst chair violin. The 3rd chair tuba player is really into experimental music, he would like to transpose Vivaldi's Four Seasons into a new scale with 12.5 notes per octave with a slight progressive jazz leaning. Oh, and since we all know there is pressure in performing in front of an audience, you have 30 seconds to think before…
on “Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?” ↗…abstract language indeed, but over time it developed so much that composers were able to express human feelings, emotions, as well as create associations with natural phenomena. One such example is Vivaldi's Four Seasons (though Vivaldi himself was a baroque composer, but this particular piece was probably one of the first notable experiments in this regard). I don't think anyone would argue that, for example, Bach's…
on “Second Life: Europeans Outnumber Americans 3 to 1” ↗Semantics. Spec is very close to dependent types. "Entirely different purpose" is kinda vague. If the end result is the correctness of the program, the purpose is the same. If someone can perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons on Ukelele, it's cool. It doesn't make Ukelele less of an instrument.
on “The Roots of Lisp (2001)” ↗…came with. Of course, it wouldn't have done me any good since I didn't have a record player. One piece my teacher wanted me to learn was Autumn by Vivaldi. I remember listening to my CD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons constantly to hear how a certain part should sound. Now only if I had a video, then I can see how they would've played it. :)
on “Why are so many athletics records falling?” ↗Danny Boy on the viola, and my own arrangement of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, for solo instrument (I'm using primarily the first violin line, reading it as written in alto clef, not treble, so down a 7th, dipping into the other violins or the viola occasionally to replicate the…
on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?” ↗…one rather amusingly named Fullness of Wind), eventually reaching tempos where you can hardly discern the original melody. Max Richter also brilliantly "recomposed" Vivaldi a few years ago, turning his Four Seasons into something like a modern work. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discreet_Music [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter#Recomposed_by_Max_...
on “60+ recordings of Satie's Gymnopedie One played simultaneously” ↗…relationships between albums and recordings and musical pieces (or works), once it reaches some level of critical mass you can start to mine the data for things like: Who has recorded versions of Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring in London? Which artists have recorded both Greig's Piano Concerto and Chopsticks? Who has recorded "A Day in the Life" other than by the Beatles?
on “MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia” ↗