Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@mahgister 

If you can stream, here is suggestion: stream Beethoven's 7th Symphony by Karlos Kleiber. He does not play around with timing to milk emotions. At least that's what my ear hears. Yet, staying within fairly strict time constraints, he can seem to pull out more emotion than current conductors who like to ebb and flow a lot.

I am listening to my Samson Francois album. I bought it in a used record store and picked it up for Liszt's two piano concertos. I dismissed the pianist because I'd never heard of him. Now I can begin to appreciate him. He died relatively young.

i know Kleiber and he is in the video i posted...Thanks for the suggestion ,it is the most universally recommended version among other great one...

When i spoke about musical time, i did not refer to measurable duration as in slow or less slow speedy etc...

Musical time refer for me to the way the time qualities impressions seems to be born from the musician gesture itself (or the maestro) and not from an external recommendation or even suggestion  even by the composer...

«Musical time concepts include tempo (speed), meter (organization of beats into measures), time signatures (notation for meter), pulse (the steady underlying beat), and rhythm (the pattern of sounds and silences). These elements create the structured flow and patterns that define a piece of music»

The musical time is what tie  all these elements and factors together in an organic non measurable qualitative  whole. The musical time manifestation by an artist  cannot be taught and cannot even be imitated.It is the most precious core of the musical miracle as pure individualisation of the universal as  his time dimension.

 Samson Francois  is a cult French pianist. He was legendary and his interpretation of Scriabin sonata no-3 is proof...

@audio-b-dog

... something that lifts my spirit

i can almost understand why you favor the song . it has a certain mood perhaps induced by its slow tempo and the pleasant melody which seems to me to not quite emerge . his voice however i find a bit sharp and common . not quite Luciano Pavarotti particularly at 7:00 . i can not but wonder how the song would fare in the hands of say Cat Stevens the younger . as for lifting spirits Boogie Woogie All Day Long Baby

https://youtu.be/Rf9ZJdIDNiM

as for but one of my own uplifting Chicago 25 or 6 to 4

https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg

also covered amazingly by Leonid & Friends

!https://youtu.be/9_torOTK5qc

or perhaps Cat Stevens’ Mona Bone Jakon / Teaser and the Firecat / Tea for the Tillerman

cheers

Cat Stevens is hard to dislike...

 I like him all...

I will suggest to relax:

Cosmo Sheldrake...

A poet as Stevens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ruo7mI4sAA&list=RD8Ruo7mI4sAA&start_radio=1

@mahgister 

Music can be many things to different people. I don't think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that's all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it's different things for me at different times.

I got up very early this morning and played Puccini arias. Here is what I am listening to now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywEByqEVQRk&list=PLOJWuc3CN301JqbcCyHNPdvOSN0JkJ3f_