Loert 2,510 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Can't get enough of the section between 3:47:03 - 3:54:20: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 16 hours ago, loert said: Can't get enough of the section between 3:47:03 - 3:54:20: That's a great opera and Wagner's masterpiece. Seeing it live, the ending packs quite a punch. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantus Venti 13 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 The only piece of music I could ever seriously recommend is beyond perfection in its imaginative vision: 40 second part #1 (Dancing with the Prince of the Forest) 40 second part #2 (Dancing with the Angels) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 There's no other classical music you could ever seriously recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantus Venti 13 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 2 minutes ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: There's no other classical music you could ever seriously recommend? No, I tend to only seriously recommend this piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 That's baffling, but ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 What about if somebody told you "Recommend me a piece of classical music which isn't Borodin", what then? Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2016 From 1971! Loert, nightscape94 and karelm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I thought this was a lovely nocturnal piece. Somewhere between Scriabin and Debussy. Benjamin Britten doesn't get enough love here. Peter Grimes is one of the greatest operas of the 20th century and I highly recommend those of you who enjoy opera to listen to the work in its entirety. It is dramatic and oozes with evocative atmosphere and originality. I prefer the composers recording (he was an excellent conductor): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 This is fucking awesome Gnome in Plaid and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I would like to recommend Henri Dutilleux. In particular there is a CD that I can't find on Spotify nor youtube to link but this is the CD: http://www.bis.se/index.php?op=album&aID=BIS-1651 It is his early music but they are all of consistently high quality, evocative, and very finely written. I loved this CD so much I listened to it twice in a row. The music is a wonderful amalgamation of 20th century french music. You get the impressionists and the Messiaen style ondes martinon, post Ravel, plus those influenced by Wagner as well (Cesar Frank, D'Indy, etc). I loved this CD and DEFINITELY must explore this composer further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Ah, love him. Along with Takemitsu and Koechlin he was sort of my gateway drug into that niche of composers. I get the feeling that Williams is a fan, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I have the Tortelier set. Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Re: Dutilleux, I like to think Jerry was a fan. This bit could be straight out of Outland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 On 4/8/2016 at 2:09 AM, Michael said: This is fucking awesome Have you heard the "Asteroids" pieces? Saariaho's and Pintscher's are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 Very nice! The second video appears unavailable to me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Currently listening to the Naxos recording of Williams' Cello Concerto with Slatkin conducting and Robert DeMaine. Very good performance in my opinion, in what I believe is the most up-to-date version, reinstating the big opening from the orignial, and maintaining that great climax/re-climax ending with all the other changes made in the 2013 (?) version. Considering this is alive recording, the Cello has a nice timbre and the balance is good. I like this performing version the best and I'm trying to re-acclimate myself to it. I like the changes in some of the soloing lines. I imagine this is what will be played when I see it in a couple of weeks. Can't wait! Bespin and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Some of you might be interested to know that Jim Self has written an orchestral work called "Tour de Force" which is available here: http://instantencore.com/music/details.aspx?PId=5124095 Jim is an extraordinary tuba player and frequent John Williams performer having performed on some classic scores like Close Encounters (he was the mothership), E.T., War of the Worlds, Star Wars The Force Awakens, and a thousand other scores. He is also an extraordinarily kind person whom I've had the great honor of playing bass trombone next to and got to hear his recollections at first seeing the tuba solo part for CEOTTK. From his bio: His solos in major films include John William's scores to Jurassic Park, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Hook, and was the "Voice of the Mothership" from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Other solos can be heard in James Horner's Casper and Batteries Not Included, Marc Shaiman's Sleepless in Seattle and in Jerry Goldsmith's score to Dennis the Menace. Later films include Wall-E, Troy, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Legend of Zorro, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Princess and the Frog, Valentines Day, Avatar, Tintin, Toy Story 3, and recently Bridges of Spies and Star Wars 7, The Force Awakens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 The LSO performs 'Mothership', specially composed by Mason Bates, Composer-in-Residence, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011. This performance features example improvisers (clarinet, violin, cello, and trumpet). Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted April 23, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2016 4 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: Williams did it better. justaguy, Sharkissimo and Marcus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Nah. Also, Williams just needed lyrics for a song and happened to choose Shakespeare, but the text doesn't really have a lot of impact. Mäntyjärvi specifically set the text to music, with lots of matching effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Williams-hater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 In honor of one of my favorite composer's birthday today (April 23, 1891), I present the clumsily titled "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution". Happy 125th birthday, Sergei! publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 On 23.4.2016 at 3:52 PM, Stefancos said: Williams-hater! That antiquated Hans Zimmer wannabe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelot 508 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Did anyone mention Richard Strauss "Don Juan". This to me is the precursor to Korngold and then William's "Swashbuckling" scores. Difficult to play but oh so much fun. I keep trying to post the concert I was at from 2014 where Davis conducted it but for some odd reason it keeps putting in Jupiter from the planets itself..... Very odd. Just search "Strauss Don Juan Davis" It should be the one from the BBC Proms at the Albert Hall. There is also an amazing rehearsal with Karl Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic if you like to watch those. Yeah no matter what I try and link here, it takes me to Jupiter... Very odd. Ah, finally I can post one of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Korngold's swashbuckling music owes quite a bit to Strauss (there's also some great stuff like this in Rosenkavalier) and Puccini. ocelot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Throwing some more Atterberg out there. The intended final movement of his 7th symphony which was dropped and reworked as a standalone piece, "Vittorioso". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelot 508 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 On April 23, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Stefancos said: Williams-hater! Hilliams-Waiter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 On 24.4.2016 at 7:11 PM, ocelot said: There is also an amazing rehearsal with Karl Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic if you like to watch those. The music notwithstanding, the kvetching austrian pedant that Bohm is makes the whole thing outrageously entertaining, for native speakers anyway. Marian Schedenig and ocelot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 When watching that Böhm video, It's nice to see that the Philharmonic are (or were) not that much more disciplined than our amateur choir when it comes to shutting up during rehearsals. Here's another fun Strauss rehearsal, though unfortunately without subtitles and with horrible VHS quality: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Not bad for an insurance salesman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 On 4/26/2016 at 1:03 AM, publicist said: The music notwithstanding, the kvetching austrian pedant that Bohm is makes the whole thing outrageously entertaining, for native speakers anyway. Footage of Karl Böhm saying "I'll do a striptease" should be considered an international treasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Did he have the bod for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 One of my Mendelssohn favourites: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I enjoyed this tone poem by a composer I never heard of before. Jiri Jaroch's Old man and the Sea. Some Vaughan Williams in it but also Jerry Goldsmith mystical and action music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 For those of you wondering what is the loudest symphony, here is what an organ with 18 trumpets sounds like. Cerebral Cortex and Gnome in Plaid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 I've been particularly enamored with the second movement of Henri Duttileux's Symphony No. 1, lately. It's a piece which showcases both an extraordinary amount of energy and virtuosity and masterful orchestration, and it's written in a very colorful harmonic language with some lovely quartal bits here and there (cf. 11:40). Loert and Dixon Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Hard day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Kapustin is great at fusing jazz idioms with classical form. I also highly recommend his Second Piano Sonata (which happens to be my favourite piano sonata), and his Eight Concert Etudes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Very interesting combinations of electric guitar and string quartet. Dixon Hill and Gnome in Plaid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 14 hours ago, loert said: Very interesting combinations of electric guitar and string quartet. Score Follower/incipitsify have some really neat stuff on their channels. Loert and Dixon Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 A very fine modern take (2012) on a Mahler style symphony. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 A fun piece: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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