Once in a while I enjoy a Chinese cinematic story. I know it's not my usual type of post, but even grown-ups can enjoy fantasy.

It was a long week. I will end it with a special performance, Ivo Pogorelich playing Ondine, the first movement of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. (Tokyo, 1983)

Probably one of the best energising choices before a long day, Mari Samuelsen and Vivaldi’s Summer. Have a great day!

I'm having some issues with uploading videos since I upgraded Amethyst and am trying things since it might have been just a huge file.

I will say goodbye today with a fun detour from my usual posts. Some of us live in countries where brass music is an important cultural component so I will present to you the Berlin Brass Quintet with Irving Berlin's "Puttin' on the Ritz".

If you had a long week, like me, here's the antidote. Bach's Concerto for 4 harpsichords BWV. 1065 (based on Vivaldi’s concert for 4 violins) Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Mikhail Pletnev and James Levine

Claudio Arrau playing the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Appassionata. (1970) He was known to play "as it is intended to be", without any personal touches. For example, Rachmaninov's modifications in the score of the 2nd Chopin Sonata, in his own words, made him mad. And with this, I wish you all a beautiful Friday!

Vera Danilina & Vivaldi work like a double shot of espresso! Have a beautiful day!

Slow lunch break with Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, "Adagio assai". Martha Argerich, Paris 2017

According to the weather, I will begin a little dark with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique", where you can almost feel him watching the Grim Reaper in the eyes. (He died nine days after the premiere, and it's rumoured to be of unnatural causes.) Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert Von Karajan

After a long day, I'll share with you a peaceful moment by Vera Danilina playing Bach's Prelude from Lute Suite, BWV 1006a. Have a beautiful evening!

Good morning! I will start the week without music, but with a silent footage of Giacomo Puccini playing the piano and composing at his home.

It was a long week! Let's "chill" with a leap back in time and watch Luciana Serra singing “Non piangete, o sventurati” from Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira.

I'm in the mood for Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, so here we go. This is footage from Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland, from 2015. Gauthier Broutin (cello), Violaine Despeyroux (viola), Malgorzata Wasiucionek and Elin Kolev (violins)

Nathan Milstein performing Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006

Hilary Hahn playing Bach's Adagio from Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin As a small side note, Bach wrote it shortly after his first wife, Maria Barbara, died unexpectedly while he was away, and this tragedy shaped the Adagio’s tone, making it sound more like a prayer.

The only footage with Ginette Neveu, Paris 1946, playing Chausson's Poème. (3 years later, when she was 29, her plane crashed)

Kristīne Balanas, violin, and Margarita Balanas, cello, playing Vivaldi's Summer.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to @Odie 40HPW. Since @Richard Greaser of the @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 has encouraged him to share some of his music on Nostr, we can help with that too. The best is to quote Odie directly. "I work as a producer and singer in a vocal ensemble, and this is a recording of Våren by Edvard Grieg, arranged for 16 voices. Recorded at our latest concert in Stavanger Concert Hall. My ensemble is called Valen Vokalensemble (8 singers), and we did this concert in cooperation with Edvard Grieg Vokalensemble from Bergen (also 8 singers). In former years of my career, I also used to play keys in a band, I might dig up some history in a later note. After retiring from pop music in 2017, my main focus has been classical music and for the last five years, to build a professional vocal ensemble in my hometown."

Sol Gabetta, Cello, and Polina Leschenko, Piano, playing Frédéric Chopin's Étude, Op. 25, No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor. Have a beautiful evening!