Favorite Music

my mom was a coloratura (opera singer, high end of soprano)

Here's a piece she used to sing...(I love Maria Callas...)

Maria Callas - Puccini - O mio babbino caro

Well, you have to listen to some Pavarotti.

here he is, perfectly in voice, back in 1978,

Luciano Pavarotti - Ave Maria, Notre Dame Cathedral, Montreal 1978

I've always liked the Vienna Boys Choir...such pure voices...and, for me, just about the embodiment of perfection:

Christmas Songs

And this one, in German, but I just love the rendition. I do speak a little German, my family was from Leipzig, so maybe I am biased towards them...I don't know...

Silent Night (in German)

nice rendition of the Bolero

Wiener Philharmoniker - Maurice Ravel - Bolero - Regente Gustavo

and, last one...

Deutsche Grammophon was a great record label

They have a You Tube Channel

I think you will find many wonderful things there...
https://www.youtube.com/@deutschegrammophon

Just found the Deutsche Grammophon Channel on You Tube

just wonderful clips of beautiful classical music:
https://www.youtube.com/@deutschegrammophon
(Deutsche Grammophon has been one of the premiere classical music labels for decades - mom was an opera singer...so I grew up around Deutsche Grammophon records...and my father's side is German, so.....)

here's some of their Chopin Clips:

Not full concerts...at least not mostly. My wife and I have found a lot of wonderful short pieces...

They don't get any more talented than Liberace! My mom and I saw Liberace in person with front row seats at Olympia High School in Olympia WA in 1961 for one dollar apiece!! He played this song among many. It was great!
It is at this site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nO9Ro_kd4. Note: They play a commercial first. Just hit "skip ad". If this doesn't work just do a Google search for Liberace playing "Boogie Woogie."
PML

My mother was an opera singer. She also studied piano. She studied piano under Clara Husserl, a piano teacher from Newark, NJ. She was from the Beethoven lineage. Beethoven taught Czerny, who then taught Liszt, Liszt taught Leschetizky, and Leschetizky taught Clara Husserl.

Her students included a number of well known concert pianists. Including Liberace.

It was a different era. They all used to go for picnic lunches in the park together.

Another student, Seymour Bernstein, became a master teacher of other concert pianists.

In 2014, the actor Ethan Hawke did a documentary on him:

Introducing Seymour:

How interesting! So we have your Mom to thank for Liberace being so good! That's fascinating! Tell your Mom thank you for teaching Liberace so well! Do you have any tapes etc. of your Mom's singing and/or piano playing that we could enjoy? She must be very talented! And, you must be so very proud of her!
Thank you for sharing this and thank you also for the trailer about Mr. Bernstein. That was very interesting.
PML

Hi @samcal9977zz and @pml, allow me to step in. I'm afraid that there has been a misunderstanding that went sideways.

Sam, if I read your post correctly, you mother studied with Clara Husserl, a piano teacher who taught many students including Liberace. Not that your mom taught Liberace. Do I have that right?

@pml is a longstanding and helpful member on Connect. I'm confident that she did not intend her post in the tone that it was taken. She shares your love of music and wished to say thank you for the video.

When we only have words on a screen without the benefit of tone and body language, it can be easy to misinterpret the words. Let's get back to sharing stories and music.

I'll go next. While this isn't me playing, here are four people playing the instrument I once played in opera orchestras in Germany. The French horn is soothing, dramatic and simply a beautiful instrument.

I did not mean my comments to be offensive or harassing. I think it's wonderful that your Mom taught Liberace! She did a very good job too! Please forgive me for not stating my comments more clearly.
I'm sorry that you have high blood pressure problems. I will say a prayer for you.
PML

Colleen:
Thank you for the kind words. I did misunderstand and I really thought his mother taught Liberace. I was not being unkind. I sent an apology to him. You may have seen it. However, when I sent it I still, at that time, thought that his mother taught Liberace. Perhaps I should send another apology?
The music you added was beautiful! Good for you playing that instrument. I didn't play any instrument but twirled the baton ever since I was 5 years old. I still love patriotic music! That's what all the bands played when I was the baton twirler in the parades.
Thank you again,
PML

I thought that was the case, @pml. I know you would not be unkind.

I know it's a little for Christmas, but I was completely mesmerized when I watched Pentatonix' version of "Mary, did you know"