There are some clever people in this world. Do you remember the “Yo-Yo Shreds at the Inauguration” vid that popped up on YouTube?
Then there was the “Perlman Shreds Winter”:
Now, there is the “Berliner Philharmoniker Masterclass”:
I was in tears for the last one – it’s a great job of dubbing over what the violist does, here’s the original, before this nefarious violist “ms200shred” got his golden fingers all over it:
A portion of the last movement of Mahler’s First Symphony with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Here’s a video that’s been going around the blogosphere lately – it’s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony. The catch? He’s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end). Pretty cool, but I think there are still a few kinks to work out with the touch screen for piano playing purposes. (via Sarah @ Inside the Classics)
Here’s a movement of Beethoven’s not-so-well-known String Quintet in C major, op. 29 -
We have Principal timpani auditions coming up at the Oregon Symphony, and thanks to Sam Bergman over at the Minnesota Orchestra’s Inside the Classics, here is a YouTube gem: