This is the final segment of this documentary. Here, Rattle explains the connections between the music of Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, and John Adams.

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Here Rattle explains the relantioship between the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman and Terry Riley

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In this segment Rattle starts explaining how the work of Kurt Weil is conected to the american tradition, since he was an inmigrant like many others that helped build the USA. Then he goes to explain the main characteristics of Leonard Bernstain's work, one of the most prominent figures in american musical life in the 20th century.

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Salaam E Ishq (Salman Khan, Main Song)

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Une des cantigas de amigo avec un arrangement musical merveilleux et la magnifique voix de Sigrid Hausen.

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Dirigent Riccardo Muti

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From Glyndebourne, 2005. Moroccan countertenor Rachid Ben Abdeslam sings Nireno's aria - and dances it, too, in delightful Bollywood style, complete with back-up dancers. Nireno is the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra's confidant.

"Chi perde un momento
d'un dolce contento
Lagnarsi non si deve
S'amor poi l'affanna...."

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"Whoever wastes
a sweet moment of happiness
should not complain
if love tires him out...."

Recitative and aria from the multi-award-winning, famous and fabulous, funny and moving production of Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" by DavidMcVicar, set in late 19th-century colonial Egypt with the Redcoats keeping Cesare's Roman Empire running.

With William Christie directing the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

From Glyndebourne, August 2005.

If you like this, do go and buy the video and get the entire opera! (It's really worth it!)

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Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =g67LfN-nDjU&fmt=18

I. Castor et Pollux.

Musiciens du Louvre.

Magdalena Kozena.

Dir: Marc Minkowski.

Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 at the Académie royale de musique in Paris. The librettist was Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard, whose reputation as a salon poet it made. This was the third opera by Rameau and his second in the form of the tragédie en musique (if the lost Samson is discounted). Rameau made substantial cuts, alterations and added new material to the opera for its revival in 1754. Experts still dispute which of the two versions is superior. Whatever the case, Castor et Pollux has always been regarded as one of Rameau's finest works.

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Better resolution and stereo sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =9kZ2onf6uXU&fmt=18

Sì dolce è 'l tormento, SV 332, for soprano and basso continuo, music by Claudio Monteverdi on an anonymous text, published in 1624 in Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo della ariose vaghezze, an anthology of Venetian secular songs, along with two other works by Claudio Monteverdi: La mia turca che d'amor, and Ohimè ch'io cado.

"Monteverdi's setting of 'Si dolce il tormento', one of the numerous solo settings of this text in the early seventeenth century, clearly demonstrates the composer's interest in the canzonetta form. [...] Through his subtle musical treatment of the poetic form, phrasing, and subject matter of 'Si dolce il tormento', Monteverdi, not for the first time in his career, proved that the canzonetta, no matter how crude or popular in style, was capable of serious expression both within the framework of large-scale forms and simply by itself."
- Cory Michael Gavito
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Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
L'Arpeggiata, conducted by Christina Pluhar

This work will appear (in a studio version) in the album "Monteverdi - Teatro d'Amore", with Philippe Jaroussky, Núria Rial, Cyril Auvity, Xavier Sabata, and L'Arpeggiata conducted by Christina Pluhar, that will be released by Virgin Classics in January 2009.
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Marc D.

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