A musical interlude...
May 12, 2020 6:12 PM   Subscribe

The Carmina Quartet performs Boccherini's Fandango, complete with castanets...
posted by jim in austin (4 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Absolutely gorgeous for the ears and eyes. I love chamber music when the players get physically into it.

I got to play castanets ina choral piece once. It was a lot harder than it looked.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:08 PM on May 12, 2020 [2 favorites]


What a great idea to post this.
posted by pmurray63 at 11:36 PM on May 12, 2020 [1 favorite]


pmurray63: I saw the May 10th post and had favorited it but had already been poking around listening to various Boccherini selections on YouTube for some time. Then I stumbled on this singular performance with castanets and dance. My Spanish is rather poor but the comments seemed strongly positive...
posted by jim in austin at 6:45 AM on May 13, 2020


This is fabulous and primal inside that stone room, with the echoes, and the beautiful dance. Then it took me to this, Flamenco competition in Cadiz, Spain. I am a novice of the art of Flamenco, and this just rocked!
posted by Oyéah at 11:42 AM on May 13, 2020 [1 favorite]


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