January 2010
Academy of Irish Music Holiday Party – My Love is in America
The Academy of Irish Music, led by Noel Rice, is based out of Chicago. In this set, this fine group of musicians play three tunes. Enjoy!
Duration : 0:3:19
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The music of Bertali – Chamber sonatas
Classical music for your day.
Off to the baroque we go! And a pretty early baroque at that too.
Here are three pieces by Bertali. Born in Verona, he was an Italian composer and wrote a fair amount of operas, chamber music and liturgical works. Apparently (from Wikipedia), half of his works are lost [...]
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 C minor – Allegro
Beethoven Classical Music Violin Cello Viola Virtuoso minor
String Quartet No. 4 C minor – Allegro
One of Beethoven’s best chamber work in my opinion. And probably one of the best chamber songs period. Beautiful memorable melody, songs starts out at 280 BPM and speeds up to 360 BPM. Very demanding of a composer and a [...]
The Classical Music Appreciation Show (CMAS), EPISODE I
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Episodes start with a short lecture, then a LIVE performance of a piece or movement of classical music, with the goal to hopefully educate/inspire people who are new to classical music and entertain people who are already classical music appreciators. Heck, if you like the performance [...]
Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games – A Video Game Quintet
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A live performance for Seattle’s Marrowstone in the City program. The music was arranged by the genius Lennart Jansson (Link) and Gen Kim (myself as Ash Ketchum). I choreographed all the extra bits behind us as we play as well as [...]
Iris-Vitamin String Quartet
The Vitamin String Quartet’s version of ‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls.
I would never be able to play this song like they do, it’s not mine. I’m just sharing it.
I own nothing.
If you’re interested in the Vitamin String Quartet and/or this song, here’s a direct link to their website: http://www.vitaminrecords.com/web/page.asp
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Gerudo Valley – String Ensemble on Finale
So, I am kind of proud of myself that I managed to write this in less than 5 hours, but I hope it sounds nice as well! I just lost track of time…
This song is Gerudo Valley from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, originally written by Koji Kondo. I arranged it [...]
Borodin, String Quartet No.2, 3rd Mvmt.
The gem of the underplayed music.
Duration : 0:8:37
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BabyBlueArts presents Artaria String Quartet
babybluearts.com videotaped this 2nd movement of Prokofiev’s Quartet No. 2 Opus 92 for strings, played by the Minneapolis based ARTARIA STRING QUARTET.
Duration : 0:7:7
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Simple Measures – The Next Stop
Seattle’s Simple Measures classical chamber music group rides the Seattle Street Car.
Simple Measures offers a new kind of concert-going experience. We produce themed, high quality chamber performances with audience interaction, in intimate, informal neighborhood locales. Our goal? To make you fall in love with chamber music–or remind you why you love it–by presenting it in [...]