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Norah Jones – Sunrise

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Jessye Norman sings Wagner – Der Fliegende Holländer Senta’s ballad

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The Flying Dutchman never had a more sublime Senta!

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I Need You by Tim McGraw & Faith Hill

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Antonio Vivaldi – Nisi Dominus, Andreas Scholl, The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

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Maelyn Jarmon and Sarah McLachlan Perform “Angel”

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Évangéline by Annie Blanchard

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The Chieftains & Rita McNeil – Come By The Hills

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Working Man by Rita McNeil

On this Labor Day, we honor the people who have come before us and worked so hard to build families and a better world for their children and communities.

“Working Man” was composed and written…

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Viola Organista made by Sławomir Zubrzycki

First performance of the viola organista made by Sławomir Zubrzycki. International Royal Cracow Piano Festival October 18th, 2013, Aula Florianka. The viola organista was designed by Leonardo da …

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Johnny Cash – One Piece At A Time

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J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D, Glass Harp (Part 1 and 2)

J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D, Glass Harp / glasharfe (part 1/2)

J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D, Glass Harp / glasharfe (part 2/2)

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Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight

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Maria Callas – Caro Nome

CAF Note: I am seeing Rigoletto this coming week at the Bregenz Festival. This new Bregenz production (it will run next year) has received rave reviews. Stay tuned for our announcement of the Lake…

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Tina Turner – Proud Mary – Live Wembley

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Organ Concert in Geraardsbergen by Gert van Hoef

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime

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Flashmob Nuremberg 2014 – Ode to Joy

In appreciation of our region! Many thanks to all members of the Hans-Sachs-Chor and the Philharmonie Nürnberg, who enthusiastically took up this project with us and realized it so much on the 14…

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So Good – The Williams Brothers

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Down In The River To Pray – Colorado All State Treble Choir – 2019

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Nimmen Sjongt (Nobody Sings)

Lyrics by Takis Simotas(Translated from Greek into Frisian)

Group: Souldada

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A. Vivaldi: Concerti con molti strumenti [Europa Galante – F. Biondi]

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Nat King Cole sings “When I Fall in Love”

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Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1

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Arisa in Halleluja di – Leonard Cohen – Live con Orchestra

A personal version of Arisa from the 1984 classic by Leonard Cohen Hallelujah, made famous by Jeff Buckley’s cover but also by the interpretations of many other well-known and less known artists. …

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Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 (Movements 1,2,3) of Beethoven, by Jonah Ho (age 7)

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Crowder – Wildfire (Official Music Video)

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Yiruma – Maybe

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.” ~ Plato

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Nat King Cole -Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Nov. 1946 – Nat King Cole, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y.
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Arvo Pärt – The Deer’s Cry

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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Sting – Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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Bizet – L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 & Suite No. 2 / Nathalie Stutzmann

Stockholm Concert Hall
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Goodbye Stranger

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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Remo Giazotto – Adagio In G Minor For Strings And Organ

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Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around

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Bach on Piano for Blind Elephant

Lam Duan is the name of an old blind elephant, her name means “Tree with Yellow Flowers”. Lam Duan has been blind most of her life. Lamduan lives at Elephants World, Thailand.

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Richie Havens – Freedom at Woodstock 1969

From Wikimedia Creative Commons

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This Bitter Earth by Dinah Washington

Photographer James Kriegsmann, New York.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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“These Days” with Nico, Jackson Browne Intro

Album Cover

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Viva Vivaldi!” – Cecilia Bartoli & “Il Giardino Armonico”

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Odetta – This Little Light Of Mine

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I’m For Love by Hank Williams, Jr.

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Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

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Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Raga Piloo

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♫ Happy New Year! – Auld Lang Syne ♫

John Masey Wright and John Rogers’ illustration of the poem, c. 1841
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Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld…

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Sting: A Winter’s Night… Live from Durham Cathedral

Durham Cathedral from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Nave in 2010

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Christmas in Vienna 2016

Complete concert, produced and broadcast by the ORF Cast:

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Tennessee Christmas – Babbie Mason and Guy Penrod

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Andrea Bocelli – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

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The Missing People Choir

[CAF Note: Something more important than money is missing! If you dig down deep, I believe the money is disappearing through the same forces that is disappearing the people. They appear unrelated,…

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Sade – Pearls (Live)

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Thanksgiving – by George Winston (with autumn slide show)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – The Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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Erik Satie – Once Upon A Time In Paris

Erik Satie, by Donald Sheridan

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Alma Deutscher, Violin concerto in G minor

A portrait of Alma Deutscher by Alex Nightingale Smith • Created: 27 July 2016

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Concert of Aranjuez (1939) – Joaquín Rodrigo – DRSO – Pepe Romero – Rafael Frühbeck of Burgos

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Gioachino Rossini – Ouverture ‘Semiramide’ (Gustavo Dudamel)

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Crowder – All My Hope with Tauren Wells

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Classical Music for Reading

Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky

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Lambada: Koharu Sugawara & Sugar Cello | Dance

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Faure Pavane Op 50 – The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmonker

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Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey – When You Believe (From The Prince Of Egypt)

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Mo Ghille Mear (My Gallant Hero)

From the album ‘Invisible Stars – Choral Works from Ireland and Scotland’
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
Artistic Director: Desmond Earley
Solo: Mark Waters

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When I Need You – Julio Iglesias

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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)

Aretha Franklin – Respect [1967] (Original Version)

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John Trudell – It Is What It Is

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The Young Violinist at the Mall

Sharon Robinson Performs Lucky – Paris 2015

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Sissel Kyrkjebø & Jose Carreras – Quando Sento che Mi Ami

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Les McCann & Eddie Harris – Live at Montreaux Jazz Festival 1969 – Compared To What

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Götterdämmerung – Opera by Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen – Sofia Opera and Ballet

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Maurice Ravel – Bolero – Vienna Philharmonic

Note from CAF: I arrive in Vienna today. Heaven!

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Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit (Grace Slick, Woodstock, Aug 17 1969)

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Allegro Vivace (Symphony V, opus 42 no. 1) by Charles-Marie Widor

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Tracy Chapman – Stand by Me

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GMJO: Jean Sibelius – Finlandia op. 26

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Brian Owens – When a Grown Man Cries

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Dr Joseph P. Farrell Virtual Pipe Organ Crowdfund

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Tina Turner – Lotus Sutra / Purity of Mind

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I Am Australian by The Seekers

This week we celebrate the warm welcome the Solari Report subscribers have received in the “Lucky Country” down under!

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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Plays Handel’s Keyboard Suite in D Minor

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Along for the Ride

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Theme from ‘Shaft’ – The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

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2 Cellos – Game of Thrones – Live at Sydney Opera House

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Mary J Blige – “Mighty River” (Mudbound OST)

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Miles Davis – My Funny Valentine 1964 Milan, Italy

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Angel Blue – Sempre Libera

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Théâtre du Ranelagh

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Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire

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Jane Zhang sings Diva Dance from The Fifth Element

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Strauss – Radetzky March – Karajan

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Vienna Philharmonic – Radetzky March by Joseph Strauss Sr

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – This Train

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To Welcome 2018! Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert

 

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