Description via Reddit: "She's Masha Terentieva, and she studied at the Ecole Nationale du Cirque here in Montreal, which is the school that Cirque du Soleil built. Her major was actually aerial hoop,... continue reading

posted by Kevlar 1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,425 views

"Trailer for "Video Games Live" concert special, coming to TV for the first time in summer 2010 on PBS. Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the biggest video games of all... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 2,686 views

A bewitching piano cover of Justice's song

posted by Seric 1 decade 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,700 views • 2:50

From YT: "Thy hand, Belinda" recitative followed by "When I am laid in earth..." This is the final soprano aria of the opera "Dido and Aeneas" (Henry Purcell) where Dido dies of a broken heart. Recorded... continue reading

posted by Deano 1 decade 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,932 views • 5:28

BW study of light/shadow patterns on water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2O_%281929_film%29

posted by Eklek 1 decade 4 years 6 months ago • 1,210 views

Wonderful song and perfect performance! Footage from Wiener Jazzfruhling, Kurhalle Oberlaa (Vienna, Austria), March 12th 1989

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 979 views • 4:42

That movie Shine made people go nuts about Rachmaninov's third concerto, but I've never understood how people manage to play this at all. Prokofiev himself, a virtuoso in his time, could barely play it. Also played ... continue reading

Prokofiev was known as a piano virtuoso in his time, but I don't think he could play this as well as he wanted. You should really hear the modern extremely well played versions first. Near Perfect: ... continue reading

Like Prokofiev gone pop, this arrangement of Beyoncé's hit "Crazy In Love" for solo piano is a whirlwind of drama and passion, set appropriately to a montage from "L'année dernière à Marienbad", a... continue reading

posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,890 views • 3:52

I've seen something posted about him before on the sift....I find people like this fascinating....

posted by bleedmegood 1 decade 4 years 8 months ago • 2,211 views • 1:50

In the summer of 1741 Handel, at the peak of his musical prowess but depressed and in debt, began setting Charles Jennens' Biblical libretto to music at his usual breakneck speed. In just 24 days, Messiah... continue reading

posted by moodonia 1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,297 views • 4:18

Messiah is an English oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel, and is one of the most popular works in the Western choral literature. The libretto by Charles Jennens is drawn entirely from the King... continue reading

posted by moodonia 1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,821 views • 3:26

Great stuff from the one and only.

posted by Deano 1 decade 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,216 views • 3:06

Vladimir Horowitz performs Frédéric Chopin's Raindrop Prelude in D flat.

posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,981 views

Sounds like they're making fun of one of the residents or CRNA's in their program (stipend, training, etc).

posted by nock 1 decade 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 3,302 views

An instrumental blend of classical and rock elements. Very moving. Much better quality here which I can't embed: http://www.vimeo.com/4583175

posted by RedSky 1 decade 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,408 views

"TV-Sport for the Swiss lottery Lotto directed by Christian Aeby." "Commercial for the Austrian Lotteries. Apparently playing the lottery makes you so filthy rich, the music at the opera will stop when... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 5 years ago • 1,405 views

from yt: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 K.467 - 2nd Movement Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic.

posted by MrConrads 1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 2,110 views • 8:20