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Fritz Kreisler plays Thaïs-Meditation (youtube video/audio BEAUTiFUL)
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Posted on 01/07/2018 12:07:46 PM PST by RoosterRedux

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I have loved opera and classical music all my life and this is the most beautiful piece I think I have ever heard.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: kreisler; violinist; violinmusic

1 posted on 01/07/2018 12:07:46 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Thanks for the introduction to this music. Never been much into violin, but this could change my mind.


2 posted on 01/07/2018 12:11:32 PM PST by mairdie
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To: RoosterRedux

Thank you for the post. I listened and fell in love with this type of music which until now I was unfamiliar with.


3 posted on 01/07/2018 12:14:08 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: mairdie
Here are the other renditions of this Massenet piece (click the link).

I think the Kreisler performance is head and shoulders above the rest.

4 posted on 01/07/2018 12:16:06 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
I love this one. I used to play it on the organ, played violin all through jr high and high school but had not heard this played until much later in life.
5 posted on 01/07/2018 12:22:46 PM PST by Aliska
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To: RoosterRedux

Very captivating. Were I a savage beast, I would have been soothed.


6 posted on 01/07/2018 12:29:01 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: mairdie; Maine Mariner
Think of the violin as a voice or the song coming from the heart itself.

It has a personality.

If it is too perfect, a robot could have done it.

Kreisler's rendition is so loaded with heart and personality it could have been produced by a jazz musician.

Each note conveys a world of meaning and emotion.

7 posted on 01/07/2018 12:29:14 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: JudyinCanada
Hey, Judy, and Happy New Year.

Wishing you the very best for a 2018.

8 posted on 01/07/2018 12:33:50 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Right back at ya, Rooster!


9 posted on 01/07/2018 12:36:57 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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What a miraculous age we are living in. Evil abounds, certainly—but beauty flourishes in the youtube video/audios of great classical and romantic music.


10 posted on 01/07/2018 12:42:17 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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Thank you. Good rendition even if I prefer it played by an orchestra with more instruments. The Budapest Orchestra rendition is awesome.


11 posted on 01/07/2018 12:43:50 PM PST by miniTAX
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Fritz Kreisler is wonderful. When I was in prep school on vacation and in college, I used to go to the Boston Symphony Orchestra every Wednesday, and he was one of the guys who used to conduct there.

Those were the days.


12 posted on 01/07/2018 12:50:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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When I started this video, two of my dogs and one of my cats jumped in my lap. The dogs curled up and went to sleep right away. The cat rubbed against my phone, which the video was playing on, and was asleep before it ended. When it ended, she woke up, and started pawing at the phone. I better start the video again, before she does any damage.


13 posted on 01/07/2018 1:14:42 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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Our beloved animals seem to know beauty first and foremost...right after dinner that is.;-

They have their priorities straight.

14 posted on 01/07/2018 1:21:43 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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Ain’t it the truth? They know good music.


15 posted on 01/07/2018 1:25:45 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: RoosterRedux

Bump


16 posted on 01/07/2018 1:29:35 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Don't bump it SP...go listen to it.

It is absolutely heavenly.

17 posted on 01/07/2018 1:33:36 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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This is also beautiful, Yo-yo Ma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J22X2tN-zJA


18 posted on 01/07/2018 2:02:36 PM PST by Savage Beast (President Trump: "Les sots le prennent pour un sot." "Fools take him for a fool." ~Stendahl)
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To: RoosterRedux
Yes - it is so beautiful. I could not listen to it earlier today and I wanted to placehold it.

What passion in his playing. He had a style that was so, so unique.

19 posted on 01/07/2018 4:12:43 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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