Go away programmers! I'm talking about music this time.
I like strings and here is a collection of some of my favorite pieces. If you know great string pieces please share.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude
Performed here by Mstislav Rostropovich. This piece is sublime, Yo-Yo Ma also does a great rendition.
Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Winter - Allegro Non Molto
Peformed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan Main with main violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter the youtube sound really doesn't do this one justice. Also see Vanessa Mae's performance of this piece for a good example of what to do with it.
Pssst Osso, on the first page of a collection please contribute to the collection if you have any I don't want to push all the good stuff off to the next pages.
Alison Kraus and Union Station rely heavily upon the dobro, Ill see ifn I cant sniff out a representative piece.
Not a virtusitic piece but quite appropriate for the task at Virginia TEch. The piece written by Jay Unger, was used as an anthem for the PBS "Civil WAr"series
This is a recent discovery for me, having first heard this piece off Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz's Jazz Samba album. Baden's version is sick, loving it!
Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D Major, Largo (guitar transcription)
The first time I ever heard this music was on Sesame Street. It was the short where they slowly pan around a sunflower as the music plays, and as the music ends they pan back and show that its in a pot on a windowsill somewhere in Manhattan.
YoYo Ma's fab, Rostropovich exquisite, but for my money I'll go with Anner Bylsma when it comes to baroque cello.
Solo cello performances can make me cry at the very best of times, but Mr. Bylsma ... oy, I've dripped tears at his feet (literally) a few times. The last time he was in Toronto, I bought a ticket to each performance that had tickets available (and I already had a subscription to the series he was performing in).
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