Popular Post KK 3,307 Posted November 26, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2016 One of my personal favourites. Such aching melancholy... Bespin, Cerebral Cortex and Melange 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 Apparently this got recently discovered and recorded. Absolutely fascinating! Dixon Hill and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Yay, it got uploaded on YouTube! ^_^ I watched it on the stream yesterday. Based on what Stravinsky said about it in his later years I thought it would literally just be some woodwind instruments playing some melodies one after the other. Turns out it is much more complicated than that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 If you like Williams in his scherzo/whimsical mode then I guess you'll find something to like in the last movement from Prokofiev's 7th Symphony : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 This is an important milestone in musical history. Stravinsky's early work "Chant Funibre" written after the death of his mentor, Rimsky-Korsakov, was long thought lost. Stravinsky said this of the lost work: "The best of my works before The Firebird". It was rediscovered in 2015 and here is the first performance of this work in over 100 years. It starts at roughly 45 minutes in to the broadcast. http://www.medici.tv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=201612&utm_content=live20161202&utm_term=stravinsky#!/valery-gergiev-stravinsky-chant-funebre This is to me the equivalent of Rachmaninoff's early works like "The Rock" (no affiliation with Dwayne Johnson) and "Prince Rostislav". Those are very substantial early works retaining the fingerprints of Rachmaninoff and an important part of documenting an artists development. Stravinsky's originality is already recognizable. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Martins 3 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Melange 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will 2,215 Posted December 7, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2016 This was recommended to me by Jilal, and might be my favorite piece of classical music I have ever heard: Just like Williams' works, there are major moments that grab me but also, importantly, smaller more incidental ones too. I just get this feeling of overall perfection in every moment, just as I do with many Williams works. In particular, just a few of the great moments: - The opening figure was my favorite part on first listen (specifically 0:16), with those little brass echoes. - The swashbuckling bit starting at 4:54 absolutely kicks ass. I've noticed that many conductors seem to take this piece slower, but I think that's a very bad thing, and this little bit here is one example. A slow tempo totally wrecks the awesome swashbuckling quality of this moment. - 5:53 and what follows is one of those random moments that I've really liked. - I've had the Forest Battle-like ending (7:19 and beyond) stuck in my head at times today. Jilal, Loert, Cerebral Cortex and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 @Will Have you listened to the rest of the symphony? I get the impression that Tchaikovsky purposefully made the third movement over the top in terms of its optimism and cheerfulness in order to make the fourth movement just that much more despairing. It's a brilliant movement, and impressive how Tchaikovsky manages to keep the momentum going uninterrupted for eight minutes (no wonder that the audience at the premiere broke into applause at the end of it!). Yet when you learn what comes after it...the relentless cheerfulness can make you feel a little uneasy at the same time! -------------------------------------- Here's another "deceptive" work I got to know lately: The introduction with the spitting crowd is particularly thrilling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Score 770 Posted December 7, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2016 11 hours ago, Will said: This was recommended to me by Jilal, and might be my favorite piece of classical music I have ever heard: Just like Williams' works, there are major moments that grab me but also, importantly, smaller more incidental ones too. I just get this feeling of overall perfection in every moment, just as I do with many Williams works. In particular, just a few of the great moments: - The opening figure was my favorite part on first listen (specifically 0:16), with those little brass echoes. - The swashbuckling bit starting at 4:54 absolutely kicks ass. I've noticed that many conductors seem to take this piece slower, but I think that's a very bad thing, and this little bit here is one example. A slow tempo totally wrecks the awesome swashbuckling quality of this moment. - 5:53 and what follows is one of those random moments that I've really liked. - I've had the Forest Battle-like ending (7:19 and beyond) stuck in my head at times today. You are strongly recommended to listen to the whole work. The 6th symphony by Tchaikovsky is among the two or three best pieces of music ever written. Will, Jilal and Cerebral Cortex 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 @loert, no I have not listened to any of the other movements. Hmm... sounds very depressing from your description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I've never heard of this Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera, before today but this very short piece from his "12 American Preludes" for solo piano has me mesmerized: If I knew more about music I'd be able to explain why I find these chords so beautiful. Muad'Dib and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,345 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Listening to Peter Boyer's Symphony No 1, its pretty good. nightscape94 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 I've always loved this particular movement, since I was a child the march section made me think of pirates Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 On 07/12/2016 at 1:25 AM, Holly Martins said: Ravel : Piano Concerto in G Major.83 -2. Adagio Holly, posting an embed to another video of that one as the original one posted seems to have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Been studying to Hovhaness this morning. The 3rd movement has long been one my favourite works. Particularly influential on me even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Martins 3 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 On 12/15/2016 at 2:20 PM, Melange said: Holly, posting an embed to another video of that one as the original one posted seems to have been removed. Sorry about that, Melange. Thanks for posting that version. The one I posted featured the great Yuja Wang on piano. Maybe this link will work: https://youtu.be/Eh9IaiPU0so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Old school favourite of mine, here. First off, my favourite performance of this is not on YouTube, one by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, under Sir Charles Mackerras. (link) I'd heard lots of performances of it until I got that one, but the one on that CD nailed it somehow. However, this one on YouTube does a fine job, and a similar tempo to the one I love. I'll never tire of what is 5:15 on the performance below, the way it comes out of nowhere again, the sheer flailing madness. And 5:27 was responsible for more arm flailing fist clenching demon faced air conducting in my teens than anything else I reckon. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 May I also recommend the original version: Melange 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Been on a Hovhaness bender the last few days. The aleatory here sound very Shore-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Melange 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 I am actually in search of something: Today in music history class at school my teacher played a documentary about the history of Christmas (since it was our last full day before winter break!) It used brass renditions of various famous traditional carols. They sounded Renaissance/Baroque-ish, with orchestration and often a quick pacing all similar to this: Anyone know of any albums that fit that description? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Maybe one of these, @Will ? Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Those sound great! Thanks, @Cerebral Cortex. Gosh, I need to get a Christmas-y avatar! Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,340 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Yes you do! Everyone around here used to do it for the entire month of December, how times have changed... Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Speaking of brass Christmas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Just discovered a bunch of Philly brass ensemble recordings! I will get to sing some of these when caroling with my very musical grandparents and cousins when we visit them in a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 22/12/2016 at 8:13 PM, publicist said: Superb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 I'm listening to Classic FM's Christmas Carols request show and they played Nigel Hesse's Christmas Overture, a spectacular orchestral suite of carols. Could anyone recommend me some CDs that contain more of these instrumental Christmas arrangements? The grander, the better, but only instrumental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 1 hour ago, bollemanneke said: I'm listening to Classic FM's Christmas Carols request show and they played Nigel Hesse's Christmas Overture, a spectacular orchestral suite of carols. Could anyone recommend me some CDs that contain more of these instrumental Christmas arrangements? The grander, the better, but only instrumental. There's a Boston Pops CD with Arthur Fiedler called "Special Days (A Christmas Festival)" which has these kinds of Christmas arrangements. I think it's on iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 On 12/24/2016 at 8:36 AM, loert said: There's a Boston Pops CD with Arthur Fiedler called "Special Days (A Christmas Festival)" which has these kinds of Christmas arrangements. I think it's on iTunes. That's a great CD. I love the opening 9 minute medley. Much better in the Fiedler version that the JW/BPO IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Cancel your plans for the next twenty-five minutes! The awesome Hilary Hahn plays Max Bruch's first violin concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Andres Orozco-Estrada. I saw her play this earlier this month with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (but with the same conductor and the same frock!) and it was mesmerising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 A wonderful work by an American original... Both his Symphony NO. 1 and 2 evolve from beautiful part writing in the strings to triumphant orchestra. I love how it evolves from Brahmsian old fashion to a triumphant finale. publicist and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 It arose in my head at work yesterday, and I was whistling endlessly. Trouble is, to other's ears my whistling probably sounds random, as I have the luxury of the original accompanying me in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Crazy far out piece for solo trumpet. I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 One of Liszt's greatest piano works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 On 1/10/2017 at 10:17 PM, Disco Stu said: Crazy far out piece for solo trumpet. I dig it. Check this out: Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 8 hours ago, Gnome in Plaid said: Check this out: Haha very cool. I love these pieces that are really into exploring the range of sounds a trumpet can make, not just the clear, beautiful tones we know and love it for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Some more Liszt: This one will leave the Dies Irae theme embedded in your brain for life. Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 4 hours ago, LampPost said: This one will leave the Dies Irae theme embedded in your brain for life. "A Knife in the Dark" did that a decade and a half ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Howard Hanson; Symphony No.6 The final movement may be described as symphonic "rock n' roll". Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 WARNING: the piece below is dangerously addictive: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2017 Sharkissimo, Disco Stu and Naïve Old Fart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 On 17/01/2017 at 0:13 AM, Prerecorded Briefing said: I'm not sure if it ts as good as JESUS' BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET, but it gives it a run for its money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Richard said: I'm not sure if it ts as good as JESUS' BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET, but it gives it a run for its money. Listening to both are exercises in seeing how long I can hold back tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Sadness? Boredom? Happiness? All three? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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