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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 21:33:17 GMT
Like my heavy stuff from prog rock all the way to thrash, black & death metal..but love a bit of classical too 
shame its sometimes seem as just music for the so called elite, it's music for ALL!
Anyone else like a bit of Holst or Stravinsky etc?? Or any particular movie soundtracks - the proper ones where its an orchestra (not just random r&b tracks cobbled together)  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 21:37:28 GMT
Most on here are Brahms & Liszt especially members of the Knitting club ....  I like Beethoven (Roll over Beethoven )  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 21:48:51 GMT
The soundtrack to last of the mohicans is epic, not quite classical but as close to it as I get
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Post by Okie Stokie. on May 25, 2015 22:00:43 GMT
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 22:13:48 GMT
Excalibur has alot of Wagner's Ring Cycle in it-excellent stuff.
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 22:14:57 GMT
Plus always like Holst from an early introduction at school and Mussorgsky(?)-Pictures at an Exhibition is very good.
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 22:21:05 GMT
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Post by dutchpeter72 on May 25, 2015 22:27:27 GMT
The British Leyland Concerto - in four movements, all of them slow, with a four-hour tea-break in between  |
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 22:39:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 22:44:39 GMT
Holst's " The Planets " is a favourite , particularly " Jupiter " .....I also like Vivaldi and Mahler
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 22:46:38 GMT
Like my heavy stuff from prog rock all the way to thrash, black & death metal..but love a bit of classical too
shame its sometimes seem as just music for the so called elite, it's music for ALL!
Anyone else like a bit of Holst or Stravinsky etc?? Or any particular movie soundtracks - the proper ones where its an orchestra (not just random r&b tracks cobbled together) Deep Purple in concert with the Royal Phiharmonic Orchestra at the Albert Hall ......the best of both worlds !  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 22:56:29 GMT
Most on here are Brahms & Liszt especially members of the Knitting club .... I like Beethoven (Roll over Beethoven ) Looks like you have dropped a stitch ........I thought it was Bend over Beethoven ? |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 23:01:53 GMT
Most on here are Brahms & Liszt especially members of the Knitting club .... I like Beethoven (Roll over Beethoven ) Looks like you have dropped a stitch ........I thought it was Bend over Beethoven ? Ooooooo you are awful .... |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 23:39:14 GMT
Like my heavy stuff from prog rock all the way to thrash, black & death metal..but love a bit of classical too
shame its sometimes seem as just music for the so called elite, it's music for ALL!
Anyone else like a bit of Holst or Stravinsky etc?? Or any particular movie soundtracks - the proper ones where its an orchestra (not just random r&b tracks cobbled together) Deep Purple in concert with the Royal Phiharmonic Orchestra at the Albert Hall ......the best of both worlds ! Hey you might like Metallica's S&M album/DVD; a live concert from 1999 that they did with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael kamen (Lethal Weapon OST). it's a bit heavier than the rather excellent Deep Purple project.
There's a few rock/metal bands who mix classical with metal; full orchestras, choirs etc. Therion, Nightwish & Epica are perhaps the best. I find the two genres to be very comfortable bedfellows; different instruments, same dynamics. Crosses over a lot better than some of the rock/rap stuff ever did.
I think DP might have done a more up to date version of that concert? Surprised Zeppelin or Sabbath never tried it? Jon Lord was a really good composer, easily cut it outside rock, RIP
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 23:44:02 GMT
Deep Purple in concert with the Royal Phiharmonic Orchestra at the Albert Hall ......the best of both worlds ! Hey you might like Metallica's S&M album/DVD; a live concert from 1999 that they did with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael kamen (Lethal Weapon OST). it's a bit heavier than the rather excellent Deep Purple project.
There's a few rock/metal bands who mix classical with metal; full orchestras, choirs etc. Therion, Nightwish & Epica are perhaps the best. I find the two genres to be very comfortable bedfellows; different instruments, same dynamics. Crosses over a lot better than some of the rock/rap stuff ever did.
I think DP might have done a more up to date version of that concert? Surprised Zeppelin or Sabbath never tried it? Jon Lord was a really good composer, easily cut it outside rock, RIP
Well Jon Lord was classically grounded of course .....even Ritchie Blackmore has nodded his head in that direction in the past ....perhaps even more so these days . |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 23:48:47 GMT
Ahh yes, Blackmore's Twelfth Night.. with his much younger and rather hot wife, if I remember.... |
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 23:49:36 GMT
A bit of Elgar-with the late great Sir George Solti conducting.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 23:52:22 GMT
Ahh yes, Blackmore's Twelfth Night.. with his much younger and rather hot wife, if I remember.... Yes Candice Night |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 23:53:08 GMT
A bit of Elgar-with the late great Sir George Solti conducting. Marvelous |
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Post by craig67 on May 25, 2015 23:54:34 GMT
Holst's " The Planets " is a favourite , particularly " Jupiter " .....I also like Vivaldi and Mahler Prefer Mars-The bringer of war from Holst. Will have to find some Rossini etc to put up. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 0:02:44 GMT
Holst's " The Planets " is a favourite , particularly " Jupiter " .....I also like Vivaldi and Mahler Prefer Mars-The bringer of war from Holst. Will have to find some Rossini etc to put up. Mars is excellent too......it does sum up the characteristics of the Planets , Mars is a far darker piece than Jupiter ....but of course he was the bringer of War , Jupiter far more cheerful and open ....the bringer of joyousness ....as an astronomer you do understand where Holst was coming from . |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 0:04:30 GMT
Mahler is pretty intense stuff. I discovered a contemporary of Holst, namely Arnold Bax; I would highly recommend his piece called Tintagel (based on Arthurian legend). Also if you want it heavy, I'd really recommend Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring. John Williams lifted pieces from it for many parts of the Jaws music (JW, brilliant music but he did pinch a lot)
Ahhh, to find a bit of culture in SOT ;-)
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:08:18 GMT
The bit of Rossini that we all know.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 0:08:30 GMT
Mahler is pretty intense stuff. I discovered a contemporary of Holst, namely Arnold Bax; I would highly recommend his piece called Tintagel (based on Arthurian legend). Also if you want it heavy, I'd really recommend Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring. John Williams lifted pieces from it for many parts of the Jaws music (JW, brilliant music but he did pinch a lot) Ahhh, to find a bit of culture in SOT ;-) John Williams is excellent though .....and to lighten the mood he plays a wonderful flamenco style of Guitar . |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 0:08:45 GMT
Prefer Mars-The bringer of war from Holst. Will have to find some Rossini etc to put up. Mars is excellent too......it does sum up the characteristics of the Planets , Mars is a far darker piece than Jupiter ....but of course he was the bringer of War , Jupiter far more cheerful and open ....the bringer of joyousness ....as an astronomer you do understand where Holst was coming from . The whole Planets suite is amazing; really like the way Neptune fades out with that haunting, ethereal chorus.
Great piece and all, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia theme, he also did the score for the John Mills Scott Of The Antactic movie which he then expanded into a full symphony, the Symphony Antarctica, dead atmospheric with some really eerie fx that reminds me of Neptune from The Planets
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:09:17 GMT
Mahler is pretty intense stuff. I discovered a contemporary of Holst, namely Arnold Bax; I would highly recommend his piece called Tintagel (based on Arthurian legend). Also if you want it heavy, I'd really recommend Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring. John Williams lifted pieces from it for many parts of the Jaws music (JW, brilliant music but he did pinch a lot) Ahhh, to find a bit of culture in SOT ;-) I've heard a bit of Bax-will have to look at him a bit more I think. |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 0:10:33 GMT
Mahler is pretty intense stuff. I discovered a contemporary of Holst, namely Arnold Bax; I would highly recommend his piece called Tintagel (based on Arthurian legend). Also if you want it heavy, I'd really recommend Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring. John Williams lifted pieces from it for many parts of the Jaws music (JW, brilliant music but he did pinch a lot) Ahhh, to find a bit of culture in SOT ;-) John Williams is excellent though .....and to lighten the mood he plays a wonderful flamenco style of Guitar . is that a different John Williams from the film composer?? |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 0:11:22 GMT
The bit of Rossini that we all know. Marvelous rousing stuff .....and to make it worse I remember the 1950's TV series ....  |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 0:11:43 GMT
Off to bed anyway, we'll get slaughtered if the Oasis fans spot this thread LOL!
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:12:34 GMT
The bit of Offenbach we all know as well.
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