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16th December 2011, 01:56
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Another good movie one...I notice a lot of trailers have been using this lately. The Artist, the Maggie one, I think Munich used it a while back too. It's originally from The Life of David Gale, which is on some rubbish digital channel atm and reminded me. Often confused for an actual classical piece (like a lot of film scores, though it's inspired by many) it's actually composed by Alex & Jane Parker for the film, but like that famous Clint Mansell one, has transcended it somewhat.
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4th January 2012, 17:22
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Cheers for thinking of me!  New year -- Onwards and upwards! Trionfo e Gloria! indeed. (Hopefully already tonight. What a dismal New Years eve that was...) Bach -- Cantata BWV 190 'Singet dem Herr...' EBS & the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner -- Going to listen to your posts as soon as I'm done with my 'Singet dem Herr...' flailing around. (It's often a part of my pre-match ritual, along with Björling's Ingemisco.  )
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4th January 2012, 17:42
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Great piece Waltraute. For some reason I have discovered Bach only quite late compared to most other great composers. I've been listening to Beethoven, Mozart, Tsjaichovsky, Händel, Wagner etc. since my childhood, but never really got into Bach. Last few years however, I've really started appreciating his work, and especially the cantates, more and more.
This is one of my favorite classical pieces: Favorite piece of all time will always be Mozart's Requiem though. |
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4th January 2012, 18:55
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 I'll get back to you with some recommendations, but I'm too giddy for the game right now. Watching games on TV makes me so nervous -- and they never start because there's nothing to do before the game. (My brain: Is it now? No. Is it now? No. Is it now? No. -- ad infinitum) I'm even lolling at Nani's Quote:
 And cheers for your kind words, King_Eric. Here's Nilsson's absolutely immense '65 Salome -- |
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18th January 2012, 13:21
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O! Caftards rejoice!
I'm just so incredibly happy someone uploaded this performance to Youtube. It's something I've always wanted to share, but I'm too lazy for words when it comes to uploading stuff. It's Hotter under Celibidache in that unbelievable '57 performance of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. [Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester und Chor -- and they're absolutely marvellous!] This could make me launch into RAWKesque purple prose, so I'll just say 'You HAVE TO listen to this!' Especially you film music lot have to listen to 'Denn wir haben...' -- this is epic epic, not a whiff of papier-mâché-and-strings to be detected. 'Herr, lehre doch mich' 'Denn wir haben...' |
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19th January 2012, 13:54
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Trying to lure the film lot with some Bergman --
Birgit Nordin singing Der Hölle Rache in Swedish (Mitt krav på hämnd) from Bergman's Zauberflöte film, Trollflöjten. Even though it's hardly the most technically accomplished performance recorded, I love how Nordin under Bergman's direction managed to emphasise the pure chilling horror of this aria, often just regarded as a virtuoso piece. It's really spinechilling stuff -- threatening your daughter than you'll disown her and condemn her forever if she doesn't kill your enemy. Pure hate in coloratura form. [When I was 5 and watched this for the first time I imagined poor Pamina as City and The Queen of the Night as United. Maybe I can be excused when you know that my first United memory was our relegation.]ETA: Just discovered that this is one of those 'anti-embedding' vids. (Why do people do that? Utterly pointless and silly.) Just click twice and launch a separate window, it's worth it. |
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24th January 2012, 01:29
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And just before going to bed (because that's when these things come to you) I remembered I promised pillory I'd recommend DVDs -- I'm incredibly sorry, but that Newcastle game just drove it right out of my head.
Well, off the top of my head, you should watch the Abbado/Ponnelle Barbiere film with Berganza and Prey. More to come tomorrow, but here's Berganza's brilliant Una voce poco fa -- ETA: I've probably already posted this, but I'm sure there are new 'tards who need to hear it. We all need to hear it, every day. Hotter's '54 Amfortas' monologue under Knappertsbusch. Legend doesn't even begin to cover it. |
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10th February 2012, 13:35
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Inspired by Why are modern day football supporters so bitter and paranoid? --
Osmin's version of 'Build a bonfire...' -- The very definition of bitter from Walter Berry -- |
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20th March 2012, 00:46
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Cheers for posting, LoveInTheAsylum.
 I love hearing new stuff. Some excerpts from Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle -- |
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13th April 2012, 00:42
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Ortrud & Elsa from the second act of Lohengrin; Varnay and Nilsson under Jochum --
Probably one of the saddest pieces of music I know. Elsa's naïvete slays me every single time. ETA: More Lohengrin; the greatest version ever of In Fernem Land by Björling (in Swedish) -- ETA2: Ludwig's absolutely immense Fahr heim! -- |
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26th April 2012, 23:32
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Full length production here. I saw the opera whilst I was in Vienna, didn't really have a clue what was going on so it's nice to have subtitles! |
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4th May 2012, 00:42
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The commendatore scene from Gardiner's great Concertgebouw Don Giovanni --
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4th May 2012, 02:06
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It will always comfort me, always. Even after Monday.
This version especially, since it was so soon after my father's funeral. Miah Persson under Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Et Incarnatus Est; Mozart's Mass in C minor -- ETA; And my favourite Et Incarnatus Est. I know I've posted it before, but I think you need to hear it again -- |
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6th May 2012, 05:49
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I haven't heard it before, sorry.
From what else has been posted, I really struggle with opera but part of me would love to see a live performance one day. I actually had to watch that film adaptation of Don Giovanni last year, Vienna as a setting for anything sounds fantastic and as if it trumps it by some way. You certainly love your German opera, Waltraute (well duh I guess)! I mean I love the music for Lohengrin but (blasphemy), opera vocals are so often off-putting for me. It's no time to properly dissect why, so I'll just say that the Prelude is therefore obviously perfection(!) and that Fahr heim is incredible. I also don't love Bartók from the little I know (even that sounds more grand than it actually is, it's safe to assume that what I 'know' is only the really obvious pieces, in this case Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Concerto for Orchestra). I really liked Door 7 though. Thanks for posting. Smetana - Ma Vlast: Vltava (Moldau) Spoiler
Will edit in more of what I've been listening to (which has no doubt been posted many times before) before I disappear for a while. I wanted to post the Brodsky Quartet's Elegie which cropped up again in a film I watched recently on the other Brodsky, but I can't find it on the net. |
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6th May 2012, 10:16
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11th May 2012, 15:24
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Best Verwandlungsmusik ever -- Knappertsbusch, Bayreuth '64. Hotter as Gurnemanz, Vickers as Parsifal.
ETA: --Ich schreite kaum, doch wähn' ich mich schon weit! -- Du siehst, mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit! |
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15th May 2012, 15:19
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Couldn't find any Hotter Nebensonnen on Youtube, so here is Greindl/Klust --
And I agree with the uploader's comment -- 'The grimmest Winterreise ever recorded' -- so in a way it's better than Hotter regarding capturing my current mood. |
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18th May 2012, 18:26
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My fave Travelling Song
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