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What is your favorite piece of classical music? (1 Viewer)
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wikkidpissah
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i dont know if the rest of the un-renewed series is set in Paris, but i got a strong feeling watching ep 1 that Weiner didnt have a big idea yet but decided to shut up the people trying to throw money at him by telling them he had an idea set in Paris so he could shoot in Paris
Jefferson the Caregiver
Rebel Without A Pause
gianmarco
Footballguy
So, couple things, and I'll spread it out over 2 posts.
First, as a bass player, this is pretty cool. One of my fellow bass players sent me this. She even wanted to try and get a group of us to do this as well but I'm just not able to at this time. Anyway, enjoy:
Recitative 9th Symphony Beethoven - 30 Double Bass Players
"Positive things from coronavirus"
First, as a bass player, this is pretty cool. One of my fellow bass players sent me this. She even wanted to try and get a group of us to do this as well but I'm just not able to at this time. Anyway, enjoy:
Recitative 9th Symphony Beethoven - 30 Double Bass Players
"Positive things from coronavirus"
gianmarco
Footballguy
The other day while listening to some music on Alexa that was relaxing in the background, this came on. I've fallen in love with it. So haunting, so beautiful. I was driving into work the other night, 11pm, no cars and listening to this on a day when things really changed with covid-19 last week and it was just emotional. Crazy how music is.
Max Richter (from sleep)
Max Richter (from sleep)
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Some beautiful Easter pieces on this reflective holiday, especially by Bach
St. John Passion
Easter Oratorio
St. John Passion
Easter Oratorio
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wikkidpissah
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a lapsed Catholic, debauched altar boy, rancid heretic i, but i do have one Christian Ritual i've kept throughout my life. me Ma would make sis and i sit from noon til three each Good Friday and, if not say the Stations of the Cross, reflect in stillness upon the suffering Christ endured for love of Father and flock. it was the one thing about the faith i never ironicized or attempted to escape as a kid and, when i was mindful of what day it was as an adult, i always took a chunk of time to meditate on that Greatest Love.
when i chose a contemplative life 20some years ago, i bought a lot of classical music as accompaniment. i'd heard, but not heeded Bach's Passions and the St John blew me away. ever since, i've not missed recycling me Ma's ol' ritual for me by combining the two hours of listening to St John's Passion each Good Friday with considering how much one can and should care & suffer upon this world and its causes, seldom more necessarily than now.
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Eephus
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BigJohn
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Over the years, I've discovered that I am partial to waltzes, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Bizet and Vivaldi.
But, I just can't replicate the experience I get when I listen to John Williams. Maybe its because I've lived through the times where his music has been so prevalent in movies. But the music immediately takes me into each experience. It's just different.
And I have to say, Jurrasic Park may be the most beautiful of them all. I'm becoming an audiophile based on this piece alone.
But, I just can't replicate the experience I get when I listen to John Williams. Maybe its because I've lived through the times where his music has been so prevalent in movies. But the music immediately takes me into each experience. It's just different.
And I have to say, Jurrasic Park may be the most beautiful of them all. I'm becoming an audiophile based on this piece alone.
Eephus
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My cousin Daniel (first cousin once removed) posted a new piece for violin and piano. He's a doctoral candidate in a Music Composition program in Oregon.
In an unexpected turn, he's also started playing bass in a punk band.
In an unexpected turn, he's also started playing bass in a punk band.
Eephus
Footballguy
I've been listening to lots of Beethoven lately. There have been a number of new releases and reissues in conjunction with the composer's 250th birthday this year.
Last night I watched Copying Beethoven on Prime Video. It's a 2006 movie starring Ed Harris as late-period Beethoven and Diane Kruger as a fictionalized copyist who transcribed his score for an orchestra. If you can get past that it's a complete fantasy, it's a pretty entertaining movie. Director Agnieszka Holland has a dynamic visual style that flatters the music, especially the film's centerpiece of the premiere of the 9th Symphony. Harris is good at portraying tortured artists and looks very different in a wig. Kruger makes a lovely muse as the central character of the film.
I'll compare it to Immortal Beloved after I watch that.
Last night I watched Copying Beethoven on Prime Video. It's a 2006 movie starring Ed Harris as late-period Beethoven and Diane Kruger as a fictionalized copyist who transcribed his score for an orchestra. If you can get past that it's a complete fantasy, it's a pretty entertaining movie. Director Agnieszka Holland has a dynamic visual style that flatters the music, especially the film's centerpiece of the premiere of the 9th Symphony. Harris is good at portraying tortured artists and looks very different in a wig. Kruger makes a lovely muse as the central character of the film.
I'll compare it to Immortal Beloved after I watch that.
gianmarco
Footballguy
Wait, what?
You've never seen Immortal Beloved?
I don't think it's critically acclaimed but I love it.
Eephus
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wikkidpissah
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that was a delight. Chang really threw herself into the concept - i checked her against her other performances and her entire posture was different for this. she had the same haughty, clenched "dare you but adore me" carriage as a flamenca you'd see in third-floor Seville parlors. Domingo must have worked with her on it - is he a serious conductor now?
i have a wonderful flamenco memory. perhaps America's best flamenca, Maria Benitez, lived in the same NM town as the hippie commune where i resided in '78. the only place of business in Tesuque was a restaurant/club, El Nido, and Benitez & her husband would give a show there once or twice a month, her mostly to work out routines for choreographies she was doing around the country, like a standup comic working out new material.
anyways, every time there was a Benitez show, we barefoot scallywags would cobble together enough articles of real-people clothing to look the hippie version of dressed up and squeegee showerwet tumbles of ragged hair behind our ears like we were interviewing for jobs and go down for dinner and the Benitez show because our girls wanted to feel like girls and nothing does that quite like watching a flamenca after a fancy feed.
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gianmarco
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This isn't "classical music" and belongs in the Christmas music thread, but I figured I'd put it here. While I posted about these 2 songs in that thread, I've started listening again and I can't get enough of how insanely beautiful this music is to listen to.
Mary, Did You Know -- Performed by Voctave with Mark Lowry who actually wrote this song.
O Come, All Ye Faithful -- Also by Voctave. The lead singer (EJ Cardona) is absolutely incredible, especially the last note at the end.
Enjoy.
Mary, Did You Know -- Performed by Voctave with Mark Lowry who actually wrote this song.
O Come, All Ye Faithful -- Also by Voctave. The lead singer (EJ Cardona) is absolutely incredible, especially the last note at the end.
Enjoy.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I'm finally listening to that Gorecki #3 with Beth Gibbons I think Eephus posted years ago.
I love the piece to pieces.
but Beth isn't right for it. lacks the legato and some of the pitch. made me realize- even though I love her- some things need to be sung just right. this is one of those.
I love the piece to pieces.
but Beth isn't right for it. lacks the legato and some of the pitch. made me realize- even though I love her- some things need to be sung just right. this is one of those.
Eephus
Footballguy
A team of musicians and computer scientists used fragments of Beethoven's handwriting and his other works to "compose" the missing movements of Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony.
It's an interesting AI application and certainly listenable but it's tough to create genius in a lab..
It's an interesting AI application and certainly listenable but it's tough to create genius in a lab..
Eephus
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
giving a listen now.
btw- I wrote the above mid-song listen.
by the end, I was all in on Beth. so to speak.
dhockster
Footballguy
Just found this threat. While I enjoy some classical music, I wouldn't say I am an avid listener. My favorite genre of music is progressive rock which borrows heavily from classical music. One of my favorite songs done by a prog band is Keith Emerson's piano concerto #1 off of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's Works Vol. 1 Album. Emerson is a great piano/keyboard player and I love the orchestration of this concerto.
Eephus
Footballguy
ELP also did an adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1. Ginastera was an obscure contemporary Argentinian composer; the royalties were a windfall when Brain Salad Surgery went gold.
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Don Quixote
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Bump, but not sure any other classical music thread to put this in… For any fellow Apple Music subscribers, they released their new Classical music app for iPhone. Been exploring a bit this morning — interface is pretty good. A lot easier to find composers/selections/eras to explore than the native Apple Music app, and built-in biographies and descriptions of the era/genre — going to enjoy digging into it.
El Floppo
Footballguy
just posted this in the listening now thread... as if it was the first time hearing it, and also with the exact opposite take- thought she's perfect for it.
