Two fast-paced Rigaudons (Rigadoons) from the Third Suite of Handel's Water Music, performed on virtual instruments: soprano recorder, two Baroque oboes, Baroque bassoon, two first violins, two second violins, 2 violas, cello, viola da gamba, 2 basses, and Baroque lute (instead of harpsichord, as scored).

Handel: Water Music, Suite III, HWV 350 - 2. Rigaudon I & II (2013.08.03)

Sarabande French Suite B minor BWV 814 JS Bach take 3

recorded live @ Eglise des Dominicains Brussels, 6 june 2014

The New Baroque Times ensemble

G. F. Haendel. Sonata op2 n.5 (allegro)

Vladimir Oppenheim - Mendelssohn Song Without Words Op.62 No.1

Mendelssohn Song Without Words Op.62 No.1

Ultraviolence, live, Lana Del Rey, cover

Johannes Brahms:
Two Intermezzi from Klavierstucke Op. 119, in b minor and e minor

Johannes Brahms

002. Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus Passion (BWV 244) - Erbarme Dich(1)

Chopin's G minor Ballade is one of those pieces that is played a great deal and often rather mangled by exaggerated rubato and mannered interpretation. I love to reveal the unvarnished truth about music, to reveal its natural patterns and structure. For me, allowing the rhythm and melodic lines to flow with natural flexibility only adds to the extraordinary cathartic beauty of Chopin's refined yet emotional and virtuoso composition.

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Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

Iliya Rashkovskiy performs Chopin's e- minor piano concerto on November 11th, 2011 at Gorzów Philharmonic concert hall. Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski conducting. Live recording.
Iliya Rashkovskiy that 2011 year was a 3rd prize winner of the A. Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Later he conquered the 1st prize at Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan.
The new, very fresh Polish orchestra, established just few months before this performance, showed great musicianship and yet maturity. The concert master for that memorable evening was Tomasz Tomaszewski - 1st concert master of Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Fr. CHOPIN - Piano concerto e minor 2nd mov.

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Mendelssohn Song Without Words in A minor op 38 no 5

The joy we feel at the sighting of a butterfly when the warm weather arrives after the long, dark cold of winter is a very special feeling. Music can bring us this joy whenever we need it!

First Butterfly of Spring

First Butterfly Of Spring

For Phil, traditional classical piano training was something of a straitjacket. He rebelled from a very young age by teaching himself to improvise and play by ear. Fundamentally gentle by nature - he’s a vegan and life-long meditator - the competitive world of classical piano seemed brutal. Phil plays music simply for the love of it and nothing else matters to him. He’s not interested in definitive interpretations or who-can-play-the-fastest performances: what Phil offers is real musical sense, through delivering rhythm and groove, melody and harmony with depth, clarity and unconventional intelligibility.

Phil plays in a refreshingly unpretentious and accessible way, telling musical stories with vivid, straightforward passion. Being a Yorkshireman, he says it how it is, and music for him is profound solace, catharsis and joy: so this is what he offers. Being extraordinarily fluent in the language of music on the keys, he loves to improvise freely, allowing the music to pour forth spontaneously, from a place of deep body-and-soul consciousness. And he aims to make the music of Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and every piece he plays, come from this place of real transformation and healing.

Mendelssohn Song Without Words in A minor op 38 no 5

Phil Best