14! 21! Vivaldi + Pachelbel’s Canon. Lose yourself in glorious ecstatic music!

Vivaldi Tribute, played by Tina (14 y.o.), played on her Vigier Excalibur, taught and filmed by her teacher Renaud Louis-Servais ( http://www.youtube.com/renaudls )
"Presto" is the 3d movement from Antonio Vivaldi's "Summer", from the "Four Seasons".This version is an extract from Patrick Rondat's guitar adaptation in his "Amphibia" album (1996).

and while we’re in guitar hero mode, an almost historic (2005/8!) intertubes sensation – Funtwo (click this link for his website) plays Pachelbel’s canon. His real name is Jeong-Hyun Lim from Seoul, Korea. Lim's video is the fifty-sixth most viewed and tenth most favourited video on YouTube, as of June 26, 2011, with over 90 million views and counting.

And here’s how he has refined it by 2012. Probably this doesn’t quite have the raw edge of the original.

and the original "classic" version

 

It’s not all gloom on this blog!

                                                                                                   

Not much to do with sustainability - more like “and stuff”. A simple compilation of cat “video moments” that is guaranteed to raise at least a couple of laughs.

 

The video is backed by a spectacular “guitar hero” pyrotechnics version of Pachelbel’s Canon. I love just about any version of this “old favourite” but when I first heard the two versions embedded below I got chills down my spine. Not technically perfect in the execution but crikey, they are unbelievably inventive! The version on the video is the Funtwo one – pump up the volume.