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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 0:13:15 GMT
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
Yes indeed !
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:13:41 GMT
Off to bed anyway, we'll get slaughtered if the Oasis fans spot this thread LOL! I like Oasis and heavy/thrash/death metal as well. Good music is good music-no matter who produces it.
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:15:12 GMT
The bit of Rossini that we all know. Marvelous rousing stuff .....and to make it worse I remember the 1950's TV series .... So do I Bish-but thankfully only on repeat.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 0:20:01 GMT
Marvelous rousing stuff .....and to make it worse I remember the 1950's TV series .... So do I Bish-but thankfully only on repeat. Not me I'm afraid .....I also remember the Redifusion commercials in the breaks !
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 0:22:28 GMT
So do I Bish-but thankfully only on repeat. Not me I'm afraid .....I also remember the Redifusion commercials in the breaks ! We had Redifusion with it's dial on the wall at the back of the TV. I think BBC1 was E on the dial?
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Post by bathstoke on May 26, 2015 6:44:10 GMT
Never mind modern nonsense like Mozart & Beethoven, get yourself on to Bach's cello suites
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Post by bathstoke on May 26, 2015 7:00:36 GMT
How about a bit of contemporary classical music. Gorecki, not for the faint of heart:-
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Post by redstriper on May 26, 2015 9:41:17 GMT
How about a bit of contemporary classical music. Gorecki, not for the faint of heart:- That Gorecki piece is very moving, it's one of my favourites. I'll throw in the rest of my mournful top half dozen Barber - adagio for strings Debussy clair de lune Elgar - cello concerto Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra Albinoni -adagio in G minor over played some of them maybe, but still poignant if heard in the right circumstances
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Post by bathstoke on May 26, 2015 10:48:37 GMT
How about a bit of contemporary classical music. Gorecki, not for the faint of heart:- That Gorecki piece is very moving, it's one of my favourites. I'll throw in the rest of my mournful top half dozen Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra Here she is, followed by a couple of lines of coke & a Viagra:-
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Post by bigjohnritchie on May 26, 2015 11:00:51 GMT
I have never taken the time to get into classical like I should, even though I have bought quite a few cd based on hearing one or two pieces I've liked, and listening to Classis FM. Thank you to those contributing to this thread, I will go through most of what's recommended and take my time
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 14:32:49 GMT
That Gorecki symphony 3 is huge; there's that vocal part in the middle and the way all the strings come in just after the last high vocal part is overwhelming. Remember they featured it on the South Bank Show some years ago, accompanied with a lot of concentration camp footage as it's connected; it made me feel ashamed to be human.
Yeah, Bach gets mentioned a lot but Ive never quite gone in for the baroque era. Nor Mozart, I seem really to start at around Beethoven's time.
The Albinoni Adagio In G Minor; try and have a listen to it conducted by Herbert Von Karajan/played by Berin Philharmonic. It's a slower tempo but more emotional for it. I never believed it when I first got into this stuff, but the conductor really can make a difference.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 14:49:33 GMT
This is a useful link, it's a decent Youtube to MP4/MP3 converter, if you want to save anything off Youtube to your laptop or USB. Very often, the videos infringe copyright and get taken down so it's worth nabbing anything half decent.It's pretty easy to use and I've not had any virus issues in the 2 or 3 years Ive used it so far. www.clipconverter.cc/
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 21:48:21 GMT
Vaughan Williams - Lark Ascending Bit more mainstream but gets me every time.
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Post by craig67 on May 26, 2015 22:14:29 GMT
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 22:34:24 GMT
While I'm in the mainstream:-
Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana is pretty rousing stuff
and I'll risk the ire of some of the Little Englanders on here by highly recommending:-
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 22:42:29 GMT
While I'm in the mainstream:- Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana is pretty rousing stuff and I'll risk the ire of some of the Little Englanders on here by highly recommending:- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Good choice .....this sort of music transcends all notions of Nationalism mate ...it's there for all to enjoy .
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 22:54:32 GMT
While I'm in the mainstream:- Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana is pretty rousing stuff and I'll risk the ire of some of the Little Englanders on here by highly recommending:- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Good choice .....this sort of music transcends all notions of Nationalism mate ...it's there for all to enjoy . Thanks for that. Symphony No.4 and particularly No.5 are well worth a listen as well. I haven't mastered putting links up yet. Perhaps someone would kindly oblige. I think most of us over a certain age will recognise the Carl Orff.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 22:58:23 GMT
I've always thought the description "classical music" to be very strange. What does it mean? To be classical music, does it (the music) have to be very old, or very famous music ( or both)? Or does it mean any music played by an orchestra or a string quintet. Is it music that is "in an old style"? If a modern piece, usually played by a rock band, were to be played by an orchestra, would it become "classical"?
I've listen to "classical music" for as long as I can remember - and played it (along with jazz, folk, rock, brass band, big band and most other styles).
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Post by Okie Stokie. on May 26, 2015 23:05:49 GMT
I like a bit of Phamie Gow.......
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 23:14:44 GMT
I've always thought the description "classical music" very strange. What does it mean? To be classical music, does it (the music) have to be very old? Very famous music? Or does it mean any music played by an orchestra? Or string quintet? A good question to which I can't come up with an immediately obvious answer. It can't be entirely age related though as there is a recognised canon of modern classical music. It seems to have a beginning date in the late 17th Cent. Music from before that time is referred to sequentially as baroque, renaissance and early or medieval. Some of that stuff is interesting as well. I particularly enjoy early church music. It can't be the number of instruments involved as you have classical pieces for single piano etc. I suspect it is something to do with the general adoption of a "modern" instrumentation and standard musical scale and notation.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 0:23:22 GMT
Classic FM have certainly adopted Karl Jenkins as a modern classical composer - something that I have trouble understanding.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 0:37:48 GMT
Off to bed anyway, we'll get slaughtered if the Oasis fans spot this thread LOL! Oasis .......wasn't that a pleasant fruity soft drink that was available a few years ago now ?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 0:43:53 GMT
I've always thought the description "classical music" very strange. What does it mean? To be classical music, does it (the music) have to be very old? Very famous music? Or does it mean any music played by an orchestra? Or string quintet? A good question to which I can't come up with an immediately obvious answer. It can't be entirely age related though as there is a recognised canon of modern classical music. It seems to have a beginning date in the late 17th Cent. Music from before that time is referred to sequentially as baroque, renaissance and early or medieval. Some of that stuff is interesting as well. I particularly enjoy early church music. It can't be the number of instruments involved as you have classical pieces for single piano etc. I suspect it is something to do with the general adoption of a "modern" instrumentation and standard musical scale and notation. Perhaps the term " classic " best describes a type of music that has a timeless quality about it and one that can appeal to different generations over different eras regardless of age .....it doesn't involve the abomination known as " singing " !
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Post by bathstoke on May 27, 2015 7:12:47 GMT
I've always thought the description "classical music" to be very strange. What does it mean? To be classical music, does it (the music) have to be very old, or very famous music ( or both)? Or does it mean any music played by an orchestra or a string quintet. Is it music that is "in an old style"? If a modern piece, usually played by a rock band, were to be played by an orchestra, would it become "classical"? I've listen to "classical music" for as long as I can remember - and played it (along with jazz, folk, rock, brass band, big band and most other styles). Back in its day, it was just modern rubbish:)
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Post by bathstoke on May 27, 2015 7:15:12 GMT
While I'm in the mainstream:- Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana is pretty rousing stuff and I'll risk the ire of some of the Little Englanders on here by highly recommending:- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Good choice .....this sort of music transcends all notions of Nationalism mate ...it's there for all to enjoy . I find that lots of classical music is steeped in jingoism
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Post by wizzardofdribble on May 27, 2015 7:19:29 GMT
I was bought up on Mozart Wagner Pink Floyd & Tangerine Dream.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 7:45:55 GMT
Good choice .....this sort of music transcends all notions of Nationalism mate ...it's there for all to enjoy . I find that lots of classical music is steeped in jingoism " jingoism " .....that often misused descriptive label slapped upon any patriotic sentiment.......of course it may be there in some cases if you care to look for it and apply it .
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Post by bathstoke on May 27, 2015 8:00:24 GMT
I find that lots of classical music is steeped in jingoism of course it may be there in some cases if you care to look for it and apply it . Well given that it's an art form & meant to be interpreted & the western hemisphere was going through a spot of turbulence, I'd say it's there to be applied
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 27, 2015 9:55:34 GMT
of course it may be there in some cases if you care to look for it and apply it . Well given that it's an art form & meant to be interpreted & the western hemisphere was going through a spot of turbulence, I'd say it's there to be applied You may well be right concerning the music's original context but that was 150+ years ago. Perhaps one of the defining elements of a music called "classical" would be it's ability to transcend that original context and still be relevant in wholly different circumstances years later. That it then gets appropriated and used by one faction or another shouldn't reflect on the music itself surely.
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Post by bathstoke on May 27, 2015 11:07:40 GMT
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