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Performed by Dag Åsbjørn Johansen:
Bach — Little Prelude in C Major (BWV 924)
Beethoven — Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO 59, Bia 515) «Für Elise»
Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement, Op. 27, No. 2)
Chopin — Waltz in A Flat Major (Op. 69, No. 1)
Mozart — K. 332 — Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major (2nd Movement)
Satie — Gymnopédie No. 1
Bach — Prelude in C Major (BWV 846) from «Das Wohltemperierte Klavier» vol. 1
Mozart — Romance Piano version of 2. movement from Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor K. 466
Haydn — Andantino
Mozart — Piano Version of Gavotte (Allegro) from Les petits riens, K.Anh.10/299b
Mozart — 2. movement from Sonata no. 17 in B flat major K. 570
Chopin — Preludes Op. 28 no. 7
Chopin — Preludes Op. 28 no. 4
Chopin — Preludes Op. 28 no. 6
Chopin — Preludes Op. 28 no. 20
Chopin — Preludes Op. 28 no. 15 «Raindrop» prelude
Grieg — A Little Girl I Know — Eg veit ei lita gjente Op. 17 no. 16
Grieg — I Sing With a Sorrowful Heart — Jeg sjunger med sorrigfullt hjerte Op. 17 no. 14
Grieg — Notturno Op. 54 no. 4
Grieg — The Pig — Grisen Op. 17 no. 8
Grieg — When my Eye weary and faint — Når mitt øye trett av møye Op. 17 no. 9
Grieg — Solitary Traveler — Ensom vandrer Op. 43 no. 2
Grieg — Arietta Op. 12 no. 1
Grieg — The Young Man — Ungersvennen Op. 17 no. 2
Grieg — Lullaby of Gjendine — Gjendines bånsull Op. 66 no. 19
Grieg — Shepherdess Song — Leik (kulokk) Op. 17 no. 22
Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque, No. 3)
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Performed by Various, licensed by PremiumBeat, Storyblocks and YouTube Audio Library:
Chopin — Nocturne in E Flat Major (Op. 9, No. 2) (Storyblocks)
Chopin — Nocturne in E minor (Op. 72, No. 1) (Storyblocks)
Chopin — Waltz in C Sharp Minor (Op. 64, No. 2) (Storyblocks)
Chopin — Nocturne in B Flat Minor (Op. 9, No. 1) (PremiumBeat)
Beethoven — Sonata No. 8 in C minor (2nd Movement, Op. 13) (Storyblocks)
Satie — Gymnopédie No. 3 — Wahneta Meixsell (YouTube Audio Library)
Bach — Suite No. 2 in C minor (BWV 813) Allemande — Wahneta Meixsell (YouTube Audio Library)
Liszt — Consolation No.3 in D flat Major S.172 (Storyblocks)

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV 232 — 18. Et resurrexit (chorus)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket conductor

J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 138 [17:03]
BWV 99 [16:43]
BWV 51 [16:29]
BWV 100 [21:02]

Soprano: Malin Hartelius
Counter-tenor: William Towers
Tenor: James Gilchrist
Bass: Peter Harvey
Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner

Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Unser Lieben Frauen, Bremen, Germany.
www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Gardiner-Rec2.htm

Provided to YouTube by Warner Classics International

Trumpet Sonata in D Major, Z. 850: I. Allegro · John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell Essentials

℗ 1995 Erato Disques S.A.

Trumpet: David Blackadder
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Composer: Henry Purcell

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The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750). The work was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues and 2 canons, was copied by the composer in 1745. This manuscript has a slightly different title, added afterwards by his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol: Die Kunst der Fuga. Bachs second version was published in 1751 after his death. It contains 14 fugues and 4 canons. «The governing idea of the work», as the eminent Bach specialist Christoph Wolff put it, is «an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.»

Structure

0:00 — Contrapunctus I
3:12 — Contrapunctus II
6:24 — Contrapunctus III
9:20 — Contrapunctus IV
14:38 — Contrapunctus V
17:55 — Contrapunctus VI in Stylo Francese
22:04 — Contrapunctus VII per Augmentationem et Diminutionem
26:04 — Contrapunctus VIII
32:06 — Contrapunctus IX alla Duodecima
35:06 — Contrapunctus X alla Decima
39:30 — Contrapunctus XI Triple fugue
46:41 — Canone allOttava
49:35 — Canone alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
51:52 — Canone alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza
56:36 — Canone per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
1:01:27 — Contrapunctus XIII rectus
1:03:59 — Contrapunctus XIII inversus
1:06:57 — Contrapunctus XII rectus
1:09:50 — Contrapunctus XII inversus

Herbert Tachezi, organ

[Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Fugue]

The Varnus Organ Hall needs your help. We are asking the communitys support to restoring and operating Varnus Hall, Canadas only private organ concert venue owned by Xaver Varnus, to provide a worthy home for organists, famous artists and young talent alike, from around the world to perform, and broadcast their concerts online. We are grateful to you if you can help our work with any donations. ca.gofundme.com/f/fundraising-for-varnus-organ-hall-in-nova-scotia

Xaver Varnus plays Toccata and Fugue in D minor (edited by Mendelssohn) on the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom. Recorded live on the Opening Night of the «Berliner Internationaler Orgelsommer 2013».

At the time of its dedication in 1905, the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom was the largest in Germany, with its 7269 pipes and 113 registers, distributed across four manuals and pedals. The court organ builder Wilhelm Sauer, from Frankfurt on the Oder, created an instrument that embodied the newest technical and musical developments of German organ building at the time. In that way, the organ met the high expectations of both the organ builder and his client: in the Protestant Cathedral of the capital city, there was to be a monumental, modern, and in every way extraordinary instrument of the highest quality. The organ of the Cathedral of Berlin represents the highpoint of Sauer’s career. At the same time, it marks the end of the long development of Romantic orchestral organs, whose sound corresponds to the characteristic sound of a symphonic orchestra of that period. Today, the organ in the Cathedral of Berlin is the largest late-Romantic pneumatic action organ in the world that has survived in its original condition.

•●The Official Video Site of Concert Organist Xaver Varnus●•

Born in Budapest, his first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Claude Debussy. Xaver Varnus has played virtually every important organ in the world, including those in Bachs Thomaskirche in Leipzig (2014), Berliner Dom (2013), Notre-Dame (1981), Saint-Sulpice (2006) and Saint-Eustache (1996) in Paris, National Shrine in Washington, D.C. (1985), and Canterbury Cathedral (2004), as well as the largest existing instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (1985). His Quadruple Platinum Disc winning album From Ravel to Vangelis, released by Sony BMG in 2007, is the best-selling organ CD ever. As a Canadian citizen, Xaver Varnus resides in Berlin, Germany. «Put simply, Varnus is a monster talent, every bit as stimulating and individual as the late Glenn Gould» (The Globe

Download the Goldberg Variations (mp3, wav): kimikoishizaka.bandcamp.com/album/j-s-bach-open-goldberg-variations-bwv-988-piano
Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, The English Patient, Captain Fantastic, Before Sunrise, and Solaris are just a few films to have featured Bachs Goldberg Variations.

«Counterpoint passes back and forth between the hands in a conversational and judiciously balanced manner, while a strong lyrical inlpulse informs the cross-handed variations rapid, bravura passages (Vars 5 and 19, for example). Ishizakas restrained and concentrated way with slow minor-key variations (Vars 15,21 and 25) lets the musics agonising harmonic tension speak softly for itself.»
— Jed Distler, Gramophone Magazine

«She has the fleet fingers to speed through the virtuoso variations with compelling clarity and the sensitivity to probe the dramatic potential of the slower, more profound numbers, pleasurably aided by her consistently lovely tone.»
— Robert Schulslaper, Issue 36:1 (Sept/Oct 2012), Fanfare Magazine

«The sound quality of the recording is top notch»
«In fact, the albums an audiophile gem.»
— Reviewed by Christopher Lim in The Business Times, July 20, 2012.

J.S. Bachs «Goldberg Variations», BWV 988, recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer grand piano, with score following provided by the iPad app from MuseScore. For more information on this project, see www.opengoldbergvariations.org

0:00 Aria
5:00 Variation 1
6:57 Variation 2
9:03 Variation 3
11:00 Variation 4
12:10 Variation 5
13:44 Variation 6
15:22 Variation 7
17:35 Variation 8
19:31 Variation 9
21:38 Variation 10
23:24 Variation 11
25:33 Variation 12
27:49 Variation 13
32:04 Variation 14
34:20 Variation 15
38:54 Variation 16 «Ouverture»
42:03 Variation 17
43:47 Variation 18
45:37 Variation 19
47:03 Variation 20
49:08 Variation 21
53:02 Variation 22
54:36 Variation 23
56:55 Variation 24
59:41 Variation 25 («Black Pearl» — slideshow)
1:09:01 Variation 26
1:11:03 Variation 27
1:12:55 Variation 28
1:15:20 Variation 29
1:17:30 Variation 30 «Quodlibet»
1:19:32 Aria da Capo

New album from Kimiko Ishizaka featuring her own compositions: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeWVBqJrTS7fVZoVreWC0LN3G2EePa2op

Die Goldberg-Variationen | 哥德堡变奏曲 | ゴルトベルク変奏曲 | 골트베르크 변주곡 | Вариации Гольдберга

The opening chorus Herr, unser Herrscher from St John Passion, performed by the Nederlands Bach Society for All of Bach. The St John Passion was the first Passion Bach had written as cantor in Leipzig. The Passion story as told in the Gospel of John is different from that told by the other three evangelists – Matthew, Luke and Mark. John’s version places the emphasis on Christ’s divine origin. Throughout his suffering, this divine origin still plays a role and nowhere is Jesus as human as in the other gospels.

For this performance, we selected a cast of singers under the age of 35. Apart from the leaders, all the orchestra members are also younger than 35. The concert series was preceded by a course of auditions and masterclasses.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on March 11th 2017 at the Grote Kerk, Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.

For the behind-the-scenes of the auditions for the St John Passion go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=64h8n4FOSlk
For the behind-the-scenes of the masterclasses for BWV 245 go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHt-bJ3acLY
For the behind-the-scenes of the general rehearsal of BWV 245 go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w9bZOkEZgE
For more information on BWV 245 and this production go to allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-245/

All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and her guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material allofbach.com/en/. For concert dates and further information go to www.bachvereniging.nl/nederlandse-bachvereniging.

Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

Soloists
Raphael Höhn, evangelist (tenor)
Myriam Arbouz, soprano
Maria Valdmaa (Maid), soprano
Daniël Elgersma, alto
Marine Fribourg, alto
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Guy Cutting (Servant), tenor
Felix Schwandtke (Jesus), bass
Drew Santini (Peter), bass
Angus Mc Phee (Pilate), bass

Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
Played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://www.youtube.com/vadimchaimovich)
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Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night one year before dying.
Chopin composed his popular Nocturne when he was about twenty.
it does not matter if you think that it is too late for you or that you still have a lot of time...you have to decide whether you are Chopin or van Gogh.

The idea behind these videos is coming from a research published by the Psychology Department of Berkeley University studying the relation between colors, emotions and how external stimuli are impacting decision making.

The study results demonstrate a strong correlation between faster music in minor tone and the choice from participants of colors from that were saturated, yellower and lighter whereas a slower and minor music produced the opposite pattern (choice of desaturated, darker and bluer colors).

Based on these findings, we wanted to create synesthesia in our videos and trigger more intense and long-lasting emotions in our viewers, get higher audience retention and interaction. We decided to do that by associating drawings from the major painters that were following the scientific findings of this research.
The choice of these paintings and the consecutive association with the music is also based on an accurate work that requires significant time and energy.

The analysis of the melodies returned to us a lot of information on how the painting should have been made. We needed a simple blue pattern but with an intrinsic meaning. Something that people could watch for a while without really understand it.

By creating this video I tried to do only one thing which turned to be the most difficult one: make you feel an emotional synesthesia.
When hearing the melody, dont you feel that everything is...blue? aren’t you lost in the sky? is your mind going over? It’s not for no reason.
it is not only an image, it is not only a melody. It is a trip.
You dont feel bored. Its your mind using the notes and the colors to create your own experience.

Most of the videos online with only one image are only music, but not this.

The research behind the perfect combination is the key for the unconscious.

The research:
«Music–color associations are mediated by emotion»
www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8836
Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, Zoe Xu, and Lilia R. Prado-León
— This popular nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). Nocturne in E-flat major opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano, containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.

В 1942 году крупное подразделение советских войск попадает в немецкий «котел» — с тылами армию соединяет лишь узкий перешеек, окруженный болотами. Немцы готовят прорыв, среди русских находится опытный диверсант. Для его разоблачения НКВД внедряет одного из лучших сотрудников, майора Урусова, который берет с собой трех молодых разведчиков. Выдавая себя за полковника Ямпольского, Урусов начинает расследование, а диверсант не дремлет: одного за другим убирает свидетелей и организует постройку лесной дороги для прохода немецкой бронетехники через кажущийся непроходимым лес. У Урусова постоянно появляются новые подозреваемые, но каждая версия рассыпается, как назло. В финале Урусов, рискуя жизнью, разоблачает диверсанта, которого поначалу никто и не думал подозревать, а разведчики вместе с кучкой партизан останавливают наступление немецкой дивизии и дают своей армии возможность выйти из котла.