As stated, post here your favorite.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Overture
As stated, post here your favorite.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Overture
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain
this is the kind of prelude that really grabs you by the shoulder and pulls you right into to the drama
“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!'" Matthew 25:41 (Christian Standard Bible)
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Verdi. La Forza del Destino Overture - Karajan
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain
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Mefistofele Prelude. Awesome!
Muti-Bellini-Norma-Overture, Wien, 1977
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain
"Music in any generation is not what the public thinks of it but what the musicians make of it"....Virgil Thomson
Mykola Lysenko
Opera "Taras Bulba" - overture
The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra,
Hobart Earle, conductor.
October 31, 2014
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David A. Hollingsworth (dholling)
~All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
Roger Ebert
Video cuts off at a rather frustrating spot, but a good performance of the moodiest, most atmospheric, beautifully orchestrated prelude Puccini ever wrote. Makes me wish he had written at least one large scale purely orchestral piece.
Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots - Overture
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain