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Ligeti Romanian Concerto

Movement I

Beethoven Symphony No. 8

Movement I

Movement II

Movement II

Movement III

Movement III

Movement IV

Movement IV
 

Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes

Variation for violin

 

A Young Conductor Leads a Noble Experiment
Andrea Shea/WBUR | April 9, 2010

Courtney Lewis is not your typical conductor. For starters, he’s only 25-years-old.

Lewis heads up a chamber orchestra of his peers — mostly 20-somethings — and Discovery Ensemble is bringing classical music to Boston schoolchildren.

Full article and video

 

Beethoven Symphony No. 4

Be sure to watch the complete performance on Youtube of Beethoven Symphony No. 4!  It was filmed live in concert in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge on September 20, 2009.  Be aware that, because of the current limitations of Youtube, it was necessary to cut the recording of the first movement in half and present it in two separate clips.

First Movement part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9yVHLTXOs

First Movement part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIHEmgh0ckY&feature=related

Second Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fep7c-Sr7Og&feature=related

Third Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTUQY4Gb8I&feature=related

Fourth Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJDf1FdkdQ&feature=related