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All I Want for Christmas: The Stockholm Syndrome

All I Want for Christmas: The Stockholm Syndrome

Cellist Josep Castanyer Alonso of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has issued a video of himself playing the Maria Carey hit in the style of six composers.

Josep samples Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók.

Boulez might have been good.

But his captions are brilliant.

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