Madlib: Crate Diggin' - part 4

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi diretta da Carlos Kleiber con l'Orchestra e il Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cecilia Gasdia, Peter Dvorský, Giorgio Zancanaro, il 20 dicembre 1984.

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata - di Giuseppe Verdi

Antonin Dvorak - Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7

Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No.2

Ginastera’s Danza del viejo boyero is not just a cranky old gaucho stomping across the Pampas—it’s quantum mechanics in a poncho.

From a purely musical lens, the left hand bangs out jagged, percussive rhythms like boots hitting hard-packed earth, while the right hand teases out melodies that feel both playful and a little unhinged. But step into the quantum field, and suddenly this is no ordinary rustic dance—it’s a particle-wave paradox in disguise. The “old herdsman” is Schrödinger’s gaucho: both drunk and sober, dancing and collapsing in his hammock, until the pianist opens the box with a fortissimo chord.

Every accent feels like matter popping into existence, every silence like a return to the void. The harmonies are so sharp they could cut leather, yet they shimmer with humor—Ginastera winks as if to say, “Yes, it’s folkloric… but only if your folk live on a quantum ranch where time and tonality keep folding in on themselves.”

So, the first movement isn’t just a rustic stomp. It’s the cosmos reminding us that even in a dusty cowboy’s shuffle, the universe is jittering with infinite probabilities—and that sometimes the deepest truths arrive wrapped in a rhythm that sounds like a bar fight between a cowbell and a black hole.

Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 - I. Danza del viejo boyero

Alberto Ginastera Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 - I. Danza del viejo boyero

First Loves
Tim Fain, violin
Robert Koenig, piano

First Loves is a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired me to be a violinist. Includes showpieces by Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, Wieniawski, and more, plus “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
As a kid, I was surrounded by classical, pop, rock, jazz, film and contemporary concert music – finding a balance of old and new music is still very important to me. Many of the works on First Loves are the ones that drew me in as a child – Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, and Wieniawski, arrangements by Heifetz, and Kreisler – and remain profoundly relevant today. I’ve also included “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which I made after my work on-camera and on the soundtrack of the film Black Swan. Each track is dedicated to someone who inspired me or made it possible for me to be the person and the artist that I am today. My hope is that First Loves will inspire others, young and old, to fall in love with the violin as I did.

First Loves

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Praeludium And Allegro - Fritz Kreisler

Kiss Tha Game Goodbye

Put Ya Hands Up

One Size Fits All

Florentine Pogen

My compilation of this piece. Played in register by register, quantized to sound awesome, added reverb, mixed to taste.
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Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Antonio Vivaldi-Summer

PI Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, my favourite Christmas music piece.

The Flight of the Bumblebee on Piano

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