Who listens to classical music? And what are your favorite pieces?

[GammaGlobulin]

On 2/5/2022 at 5:09 AM, LaosLover said:

If you love Bach, try a few of the more austere yet modernistic versions on the ECM label.

ECM:  WTC, Book 1 & Book 2?

 

And, then.....?

[LaosLover]

ECM label music is now only viewable on Youtube if you pay for their MusicExtra Subscription. That's snob appeal. 

 

During times of duress, ECM music has been like musical Xanax for me.

 

Here's a nice mix of Arvo Part, their biggest act and a good indicator of whether you will enjoy their spiritual minimalism infused with pristine recording and stark northern/eastern Euro existentialism. The first cut is often used in Holocaust docu's:

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

 

[JetsetBkk]

This is the only Vivaldi I like!

 

 

[RJRS1301]

One of the worlds great voices

[Oxx]

5 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

One of the worlds great voices

Definitely on a par with Florence Foster Jenkins.
 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

My Five Easy Pieces, sung by Jack Nicholson....(Maybe you know about playing piano pieces to please your father...)

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Is this always the final ending for most piano prodigies?

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

aa.  Jack Nicholson was a Bad A.s in the film "The Last Detail"

 

bb.  And, we know that colors are important here

 

cc.  And, what about this color?.....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

I mean, Vivaldi is OK.

 

Vivaldi is only second to JS Bach, and Vivaldi was born before JS Bach...

 

But, is there any significance in this yellow gown.....or....NOT?

 

 

Who cares about the color of the gown, when one tries to play Vivaldi, and never achieves even half of what Vivaldi intended.

 

But, anyone's interpretation might be considered as good as the next.

 

Since, Vivaldi died too young, before the age of electronic recording of music.

 

Such a pity.

 

All we have left is the dregs of written music.

 

We can only interpret what we, nor anyone, never witnessed.

 

In a court of law, these days, we realize that testimony from eyewitnesses carries no weight.

 

Vivaldi is second, only, to JS Bach, a man I knew well, and still know, to this day.

Hope it is the same for you.

 

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by GammaGlobulin

[LeungKen]

Hummel - Trumpet Concerto

 

 

[LeungKen]

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring

 

 

[LeungKen]

The Flower duet from "Lakme" by Delibes

 

 

 

[LeungKen]

The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams

 

 

[LeungKen]

The Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor - Borodin

 

 

[LeungKen]

Handel - Zadok the Priest

 

 

 

[LeungKen]

Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Part

Mats Ek Choreography, "Smoke". Danced by Sylvie Guillem

 

 

[LeungKen]

In a Monastery Garden - Albert Ketelbey

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Sometimes, while dreaming about things that might have been, or what should have happened, I wonder much about what might happen if, in every Tambon, instead of other music, Vivaldi started the day here, Every Day:

 

 

 

And then...I think....

[GammaGlobulin]

And then...I think....

 

IF Vivaldi were to be played in every Tambon, maybe.....heads might explode....

 

Like this...

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

 

[LeungKen]

Schubert's Serenade.

 

 

[CharlieH]

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[LeungKen]

Edvard Grieg - "Peer Gynt - Morning Mood"

 

 

[Pravda]

My father was an opera singer. When I was a young boy I saw a lot of operas and made me proud how popular he was especially among the ladies. My mom unfortunately suffered because of this. My father would often take me backstage and I would always get compliments too about how handsome I was. He would always try to set me up with ballerinas when I was 10 years old. Backstage was a hoot. They would always crack jokes and even on stage too! I specifically remember one night when he performed "Magic Flute". He put the flute between his legs while serenading to another female singer. I was with my mom at the audience and she rolled eyes and said something like "look at your father and where his flute is". 

 

He unfortunately died recently. I had fallen out with him when I moved to Canada and he decided to make another son with an 18 year old lady. 

 

This is one of his records. RIP 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LeungKen]

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

 

 

 

[LeungKen]

Beethoven - Piano sonata no. 8 in C minor (Pathetique)

 

 

[LeungKen]

Offenbach - Barcarolle

 

 

[LeungKen]

Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune