Buskers Sing “I Shot The Sheriff” And Become One Of The Best Street Bands In The World
The Big Push, a dynamic band that emerged from Brighton’s thriving busking scene, made waves. They met as buskers and continued to grow their audience by busking and posting videos…
Is Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah one of the greatest songs of all time?
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is the 9th most covered song, according to Mental Floss. In 2009, Cohen even expressed the opinion that the song might have been covered too many times…
Singer Sparkles With A Heartfelt Reading Of Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved”
Sydney-based singer and songwriter Brittany Maggs had a difficult childhood. Her mother was in and out of hospital as a result of multiple brain tumors, which placed stress on the…
Aram Khachaturian: “Masquerade: Waltz” and “Sabre Dance”
Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor (6 June 1903 – 1 May 1978). The “Waltz” is from the 1944 Masquerade Suite based on the Mikhail Lermontov play of…
Teresa Berganza sings “Anda Jaleo” by Federico García Lorca (Guitar: Narciso Yepes)
Anda Jaleo is probably the best remembered and the most frequently performed song of the many Spanish canciones (songs) compiled, arranged, recorded, and popularized by Federico García Lorca and La Argentinita. Here is the Teresa Berganza…
Gran Vals (Francisco Tárrega)
Francisco Tárrega is the composer of what has been claimed to be “probably the world’s most heard tune”: the Nokia ringtone, the Nokia tune, also used in advertising spots, is…
Francisco Tárrega’s Lágrima, played by César Amaro
Lágrima is a piece by Francisco Tárrega, and certainly a little gem in the guitar’s repertoire. It’s called “lágrima” (tear, or teardrop) because of the sadness in the second section, and…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Thielemann)
Conducted by Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Wiener Philharmoniker) and the Vienna Singverein perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op 125. Recorded in 2006 at…
John Williams plays Agustín Barrios Mangoré’s Vals Op. 8 No. 4
Australian-born British classical guitarist John Williams plays Agustín Barrios Mangoré’s Vals Op. 8 No. 4. Agustín Barrios Mangoré Agustín Barrios Mangoré Agustín Pío Barrios (also known as Agustín Barrios Mangoré,…
Caruso: Vesti la giubba [1902, 1904, 1907 editions]
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso was the first gramophone star to sell more than a million copies with his 1904 recording of “Vesti la giubba” from the opera “Pagliacci” (Clowns) by…