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Maurice Ravel – Bolero | Alondra de la Parra | WDR Symphony Orchestra

7,075,768 views Premiered Apr 1, 2022 KÖLNER PHILHARMONIEMaurice Ravel’s “Bolero” performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on January 27, 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Maurice Ravel – Bolero WDR Symphony Orchestra Alondra de la Parra, conductor *** MORE ALONDRA DE LA PARRA WITH THE WDR ORCHESTRAS IN OUR PLAYLIST:    • Alondra de la Parra dirigiert   *** ► For more on the symphony orchestra, concerts and current livestreams, visit https://sinfonieorchester.wdr.de ► The WDR Symphony Orchestra on Facebook   / wdrsinfonieorchester  

The idea of pursuing a career as a musician came early and was supported by his parents: At the age of 13, Maurice Ravel receives lessons at a private music school and studies immediately afterwards. There is little motivation left when Ravel fails his intermediate exam and has to leave the master class right away. Nevertheless, one work in particular composed by Ravel, the “Boléro”, is one of the best known and most frequently played pieces of music in the world. Ravel not only works on the Boléro with the greatest care and attention to detail, he often takes a long time to complete his works – due to the complexity and accuracy of his works, he is also called the “Swiss watchmaker” among composers. Regarding his orchestral work “Boléro” – eponymous with the dance genre – Maurice Ravel commented one day: “My masterpiece? The Boléro, of course. It’s just a pity that it contains no music at all”. Beginning with the probably best-known, always constant (ostinato) rhythm, the snare drum opens the piece in pianissimo. It accompanies the two 16-bar melodies (melody A and B) throughout, which are repeated eighteen times – first solo, then by several registers in unison. They occur in the form AA BB until the last two repetitions. In the climax of the climax, A and B follow each other “undoubled”. The melodies are varied only in the shaping of the instrumentation – and thus the timbre – resulting in a majestic crescendo until the end of the boléro.WDR Klassik

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Hozier – Movement by Andrew Hozier-Byrne

Premiered Nov 14, 2018

Listen to ‘Movement’ here: https://Hozier.lnk.to/MovementIN Follow Hozier : https://Hozier.lnk.to/FollowID Hozier Store : https://Hozier.lnk.to/StoreID Music: Hozier Starring: Sergei Polunin Directors: Us Production Comp: Academy Films Producer: Tabetha Glass-Jackman Executive Producer: Leah Joyce Executive Producer: Sheira Rees-Davies DOP: Sebastian Wintero Choreographer: Sergei Polunin Edit House: Trim Editor: Vid Price Post Production: The Mill VFX Supervisor: James Mac 2D artist: Amit Kambli Colourist: James Bamford With thanks to Panavision Music video by Hozier performing Movement. © 2018 Rubyworks Limited, under assignment to Universal Music Operations Limited http://vevo.ly/5FWxxS

Lyrics

I still watch you when you’re groovin’
As if through water from the bottom of a pool
You’re movin’ without movin’
And when you move, I’m moved
You are a call to motion
There, all of you a verb in perfect view
Like Jonah on the ocean
When you move, I’m moved

When you move
I’m put to mind of all that I wanna be
When you move
I could never define all that you are to me

So move me, baby
Shake like the bough of a willow tree
You do it naturally
Move me, baby

You are the rite of movement
Its reasonin’ made lucid and cool
I know it’s no improvement
When you move, I move
You’re less Polunin leapin’
Or Fred Astaire in sequins
Honey, you, you’re Atlas in his sleepin’
And when you move, I’m moved

When you move
I can recall somethin’ that’s gone from me
When you move
Honey, I’m put in awe of somethin’ so flawed and free

So move me, baby
Shake like the bough of a willow tree
You do it naturally
Move me, baby
So move me, baby
Like you’ve nothin’ left to prove
And nothin’ to lose
Move me, baby

Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oh baby, oh baby
Move like grey skies
Move like a bird of paradise
Move like an odd sight come out at night

Move me, baby
Shake like the bough of a willow tree
You do it naturally
Move me, baby
So move me, baby
Like you’ve nothin’ left to lose
And nothin’ to prove
Move me, baby
So move me, baby
Shake like the bough of a willow tree
You do it naturally
Move me, baby

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Andrew Hozier-Byrne

Movement lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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Niall Horan – Flicker, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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Niall Horan – Flicker (Niall Horan with The RTE’ Concert Orchestra)

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Music video by Niall Horan performing Flicker. © 2018 Neon Haze Music Ltd, under exclusive license to Capitol Records

Flicker

Niall Horan
 
When you feel your love’s been taken
When you know there’s something missing
In the dark, we’re barely hanging on
Then you rest your head upon my chest
And you feel like there ain’t nothing left
I’m afraid that what we had is gone
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
When you lay there and you’re sleeping
Hear the patterns of your breathing
And I tell you things you’ve never heard before
Asking questions to the ceiling
Never knowing what you’re thinking
I’m afraid that what we had is gone
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
And I want this to pass
And I hope this won’t last
Last too long
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Julian Bunetta / Niall Horan / John Henry Ryan
 
Flicker lyrics © Bmg Platinum Songs, Bob Erotik Music, Tg Worldwide Publishing, Dragon Bunny Music, Njh Publishing Limited, Music Of Big Deal (bmg), The Family Songbook (big Deal), The Family Songbook (bmg), Music Of Big Family

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Emmylou Harris,Dolly Parton,Linda Ronstadt – After the Goldrush (Neil Young) with thanks to David Letterman

Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)

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•May 2, 2018

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“Trio II” was recorded in 1994 but not released until 1999, when Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt appeared on Late Show to perform Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush.” The Glass Harmonica (or Armonica) was played by Dennis James, who remembers the performance in an interview with Rich Bailey in 2002: Rich Bailey: I remember when you appeared with her on Letterman and you discussed the Armonica a bit. How was that? Dennis James: Well, it was a great surprise. A sort of unspoken message in the air to me before the broadcast was “Do not say anything on the air!”. After all, these things are Linda’s appearances. When David L. leaned over his desk and directed a question to me I simply froze- on playback of the dub I can see myself caught and unable to speak. I received a glance from Linda that said to me it was OK and so when he tried again I called back a flip one liner and on things went from there. http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/djames…. The synthesizer player is Cliff Carter. I think the pianist is Robbie Kondor. The Trio altered two lines in their original “Trio II” recording: 1. “in the nineteen seventies” changed to “in the twentieth century.” 2. “And I felt like getting high” changed to “And I felt like I could cry.” Here’s their CD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykMzS… It’d be tough to imagine them changing the lyrics without first getting Neil’s permission. So to everyone complaining about the lyric changes in this live performance: Don’t blame the show or the network. The changes had been made in the Trio’s original recording. And, we must assume, with Neil Young’s blessing. Update: Quoting Wikipedia: “Parton also released a solo version of the song in 1996, though her version altered the line ‘I felt like getting high’ to ‘I felt like I could cry’ with the permission of Neil Young.”
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Niall Horan – Flicker, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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Niall Horan – Flicker (Niall Horan with The RTE’ Concert Orchestra)

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Music video by Niall Horan performing Flicker. © 2018 Neon Haze Music Ltd, under exclusive license to Capitol Records

Flicker

Niall Horan
 
When you feel your love’s been taken
When you know there’s something missing
In the dark, we’re barely hanging on
Then you rest your head upon my chest
And you feel like there ain’t nothing left
I’m afraid that what we had is gone
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
When you lay there and you’re sleeping
Hear the patterns of your breathing
And I tell you things you’ve never heard before
Asking questions to the ceiling
Never knowing what you’re thinking
I’m afraid that what we had is gone
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
And I want this to pass
And I hope this won’t last
Last too long
 
Then I think of the start
And it echoes a spark
And I remember the magic electricity
Then I look in my heart
There’s a light in the dark
Still a flicker of hope that you first gave to me
That I wanna keep
Please don’t leave
Please don’t leave
 
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Julian Bunetta / Niall Horan / John Henry Ryan
 
Flicker lyrics © Bmg Platinum Songs, Bob Erotik Music, Tg Worldwide Publishing, Dragon Bunny Music, Njh Publishing Limited, Music Of Big Deal (bmg), The Family Songbook (big Deal), The Family Songbook (bmg), Music Of Big Family

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Jessie Buckley – Boulder to Birmingham – The Late Late Show | RTÉ One. #Hamnet 🇮🇪 ❤️

 
 

Jessie Buckley – Boulder to Birmingham

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Actress and musician Jessie Buckley performs Emmylou Harris’s Boulder to Birmingham.
 

Lyrics

I don’t want to hear a love song
I got on this airplane just to fly
And I know there’s life below me
But all that you can show me is the prairie and the sky

And I don’t want to hear a sad story
Full of heartbreak and desire
The last time I felt like this
I was in the wilderness and the canyon was on fire

And I stood on the mountain
In the night and I watched it burn
I watched it burn, I watched it burn

I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
I would hold my life in his saving grace
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
If I thought I could see, I could see your face

Well, you really got me this time
And the hardest part is knowing I’ll survive
And I come to listen for the sound
Of the trucks as they move down out on 95

And pretend that it’s the ocean
Coming down to wash me clean, to wash me clean
Baby, do you know what I mean?

I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
I would hold my life in his saving grace
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
If I thought I could see, I could see your face
If I thought I could see, I could see your face

Thank you

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Bill Danoff / Emmy Lou Harris

Boulder to Birmingham (2003 Remaster) lyrics © Reservoir Media Management (ireland) Limited

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