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The Leopard
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Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 6:38 PM GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 6:46 PM GMT
Great piece of music.

His violin concerto is awesome!
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 6:52 PM GMT
Just listening here :
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 7:27 PM GMT
Prefer Finlandia :
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSaT6U4e-8
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 7:56 PM GMT
Are you really into classical music leopard???
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 8:02 PM GMT
Yep
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 8:03 PM GMT
Nice one.
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 8:04 PM GMT
Lots of good stuff out there !
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 8:09 PM GMT
What are your favourite works???

I know there's a lot to choose from!
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 8:40 PM GMT
Here's one :

Mozart - Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major, K 299
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nheif2BuFz0
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 8:52 PM GMT
Another :

Gustav Holst - The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 8:59 PM GMT
Great pieces...

I think this is one of the greatest chamber works ever composed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlwQRCgq1bw
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 9:04 PM GMT
And this is high up on my list...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ZboerS4zc

(I've not actually played these versions, I just wanted you to know the pieces)
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 9:08 PM GMT
Haha I could go on all night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Y8Wbj80_w
Report wit-ham • December 7, 2015 9:08 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuoWhTJbPA

The Nice doing Karelia Suite by Sibelius
Report sheppy123 • December 7, 2015 9:10 PM GMT
Great piece!
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 9:18 PM GMT
Will give those a listen later.
Report themightymac • December 7, 2015 10:33 PM GMT
Sibelius was a musical genius.

Quiz

The Karelia Suite was brilliant but for what 70s tv programme was it the theme music?
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 11:30 PM GMT
Weekend World - without googling
Report The Leopard • December 7, 2015 11:34 PM GMT
No......This Week.....on googling
Report blackbarn • December 7, 2015 11:57 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXI8tnibmI

This is the only live recording of Sibelius conducting his own music. It was certainly played at his funeral and I believe was the only piece of his work to be played.  He wrote the tune for the 25th anniversary of a sawmill.    It is my single favourite piece of Sibelius apart from the first half of his 7th Symphony (not that much wrong with the second half, mind!
Report blackbarn • December 8, 2015 12:10 AM GMT
Witham - The Nice's version of the Karelia Suite is awful, mind you I loved it in 1968 at the MarqueeWink  American is better!
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • December 8, 2015 9:25 AM GMT
another great homage to Finland, which always stays in the memory. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwc3VGvlRY
Report wit-ham • December 8, 2015 1:31 PM GMT
Grin
Report themightymac • December 8, 2015 5:17 PM GMT
My all time favourite, Leonard Bernstein plays Gershwin`s Rhapsody In Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2PH0auTUU
Report Kit-Kat-Dan • December 8, 2015 5:36 PM GMT
Python's Finland Song has just been played on Radio 2 by Simon Mayo - marvellous stuff!
Report workrider • December 8, 2015 6:30 PM GMT
Finlandia ,one of my fav , always hoping I'd get asked it in a quiz , this was  one of the first tapes of classical music I ever bought in the 80s .
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