The earliest classical videos on Youtube?

It will be ten years this week, April 23, 2005, that Youtube went live, and a while longer before it changed our lives.

Started by three ex-PayPal guys — Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim – it drew 65,000 videos in the first years and was sold to Google for $1.65 billion in November 2006.

The inaugural video was posted by Karim.

The next dozen were gloopy home vids.

When did classical music make it onto Youtube? Quite soon. We found this from Julianna Yau in September 2006.

And this from Mi-Young Lee two months later.

The first professional concert may have been the winner’s recital at the 2005 Chopin Competition.

Does anyone know of any earlier classical postings on Youtube?

The first classical Youtube star, Valentina Lisitsa, did not upload until April 2007, when the network was two years old. She said: ‘The first video I posted was of Rachmaninov’s ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Etude and it was made by a group of video students. It was basically a class project for them.’

UPDATE: Heike Matthiesen uploaded one of the earliest clasical guitar videos on 14 June 2007, receiving more than 1 million views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oScByhA15g0

UPDATE2: But here another 7-million player from Ana Vidovic, dated December 2006.