I adore classical music as much as I do Jazz. One of my favorite ways to relax is taking a nap or just laying in bed with classical music playing in the background but it has to be a very low volume because that helps me tune out the rest of the world. That way I have to pay attention to only the music as if I was seeking it's original source in order to connect with it, and fall asleep or daydream and become more peaceful and a little less lonely... And if I were stuck on an island and there was only one music genre I could listen to for the rest of my life, I would be stuck between Classical and Jazz :) 

While I do love Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Mozart, Camille Saint-Saens, Pierne, and Bach to death, you will not hear Vivaldi in this playlist because I just don't like his music. I much prefer turn of the century classical, Gregorian Chants, Baroque, Medieval, movie soundtracks, and Opera--lots and lots of sweet Opera because I am head over hills in love with Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, and Russian national treasure Anna Netrebko but you will NOT hear 'Popera' here either! 😆😆 I also thoroughly enjoy modern and post classical music from groundbreaking artists like Phillipe Glass, Arvo Pärt, Nils Frahm, and the extremely talented Max Richter--whom I have a crush on! 😍

ABOUT THE PHOTO: That's me at age twenty -- full of insecurities and fears and childhood traumas that I was not even aware of at the time. I grew up thinking I was an ugly duckling because my mother and my sister's are extremely beautiful women. My mother is Latina born in Panama and a direct descendant of Indigenous Panamanians and Spanish immigrants and she is what is called Mestiza. My father is a strong black Jamaican that immigrated to Panama in the 1930s. The reason I thought I was ugly is because my sisters and I have different fathers so our hair and complexion are different. My sisters have lighter skin and beautiful long straight hair. I grew up in Latin America where Colonial Mentality is pervasive to this day so I was told that I was not really black even though my father is a black man from Jamaica. I was taught that having lighter skin and straight was somehow better and I grew up believing negative societal constructs :/  Today I've myself beyond measure, I chose to be born and I love life 🥰

I hope you are happy, peaceful, and productive when you listen to this playlist, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo amigos! 😊

Musica clasica

Jörgen Van Rijen, Sofia Philharmonic, Frédéric Chaslin, April 2021

Frédéric Chaslin, 11 Variations for Trombone and Orchestra after Mahler 3rd Symphony

Pièce pour deux flûtes et piano, extrait de l'opéra Lakmé

Leo Delibes, Duo des Fleurs

Dexter Britain - Blissful Ignorance

A cello quartet arrangement of the second movement from J S Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.
Cello arranged and performed by Deryn Cullen
Mix and mastering by @dan-cullen

J S Bach - Air on the G - String

Anna Netrebko 
Giacomo Puccini 
'Gianni Schicchi' - O mio babbino caro  
July 7 2006 
THE BERLIN CONCERT 
live from the open air arena "Waldbühne"
conductor - Marco Armiliato
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Anna Netrebko - O mio babbino caro Gianni Schicchi live Waldbühne 2006

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Thomas Gould, violin 
London Firebird Orchestra conducted by Achim Holub

Recorded live at St Paul's Covent Garden, London, on 20 March 2012.

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Composer, Conductor, Pianist Frédéric Chaslin is composer at Universal Edition, Vienna. He's been Music Director at the Opera de Rouen, France, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and since 22 years resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper)

Frédéric Chaslin, 11 Variations for Trombone and Orchestra after Mahler 3rd Symphony

Frederic Chaslin