...the London Symphony Orchestra's YouTube channel...
http://www.youtube.com/user/Lso
Sorry to be a bit of a Philistine, but I find classical music far more engaging if I can watch the performers (BBC Proms for instance). It gets me through a whole concert, whereas I get too distracted just playing a CD or listening to a performance on R3.
However, after teasing me with all those great YouTube clips, I can find hardly any LSO DVDs (or Blu-rays) on Amazon.
I would probably end up buying most of them if they produced DVD/BluRay versions rather than just CD/SACDs. (A Blu-ray box-set of Beethoven's Symphonies by the LSO, or a complete Handel's Messiah would be great.)
Does anyone else like to watch as well as listen? (Specifically with respect to classical music.) I don't mean ballet or opera - they are quite well represented on DVD - but any classical music. I like to watch the conductor, the soloists, the choirs and the orchestra as a whole.
(I can't be alone in this.)
Ah well, only a month until the Proms
http://www.youtube.com/user/Lso
Sorry to be a bit of a Philistine, but I find classical music far more engaging if I can watch the performers (BBC Proms for instance). It gets me through a whole concert, whereas I get too distracted just playing a CD or listening to a performance on R3.
However, after teasing me with all those great YouTube clips, I can find hardly any LSO DVDs (or Blu-rays) on Amazon.
I would probably end up buying most of them if they produced DVD/BluRay versions rather than just CD/SACDs. (A Blu-ray box-set of Beethoven's Symphonies by the LSO, or a complete Handel's Messiah would be great.)
Does anyone else like to watch as well as listen? (Specifically with respect to classical music.) I don't mean ballet or opera - they are quite well represented on DVD - but any classical music. I like to watch the conductor, the soloists, the choirs and the orchestra as a whole.
(I can't be alone in this.)
Ah well, only a month until the Proms