exchemist
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Classical Music Corner
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Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Yes, quite a bit of Prokofiev. In fact, as it turns out, I seem to particularly enjoy Russian composers.
exchemist
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Isn't that just a Tierce de Picardie, though?
But certainly it seems we lost a lot when we gave up all the modes, other than the major and minor ones. I have read, I think, that the reason was these 2 modes lent themselves best to harmony, but I'm not good enough at music theory to know whether this is really the case.
Of the other Renaissance composers, I have a soft spot for Victoria. He seems to have a very Spanish gift for raw emotion. Here is one I've sung which can bring tears to the eyes:
Text:
O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam, atténdite et vidéte:
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.
Atténdite, univérsi pópuli, et vidéte dolórem méum.
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.
Translation
O all you who walk by on the road, pay attention and see:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
Pay attention, all people, and look at my sorrow:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
(I had the experience of singing this in a concert, 24hrs after learning my wife had cancer. I shall never forget it. )
Vivaldi on an electric violin
Heyo
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The violin is not my favourite instrument. Classical composer rely too much on it and the usual style to play it gives a sickly sweet tone to it. Vanessa Mae's style is completely different. She gives a serious edge to the instrument and not only the electrical version but also a Stradivari backed by a classical orchestra:
Have you heard any Licia Micaralli? She has a way with the violin that i think is unique.
exchemist
Veteran Member
But not always.....
Here is the master, Johann Sebastien, putting a string band to work without anything sickly about it:
I love the 3rd Brandenburg: Bach has such tremendous confidence and drive, and the whole thing is a beautiful piece of German precision engineering. The players obviously love it too, even though they are working so hard.
Regiomontanus
Ματαιοδοξία ματαιοδοξιών! Όλα είναι ματαιοδοξία.
I enjoyed it tremendously. Thanks again.
Regiomontanus
Ματαιοδοξία ματαιοδοξιών! Όλα είναι ματαιοδοξία.
Yes me too but they are a fairly recent 'discovery' for me.
Heyo
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Sorry, still too traditionally for my taste.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
I love the piano music. My favourite composer is Scriabin, but have recently discovered two more fabulous composers for the piano: Mosolov and Feinberg.
Here is a great performance by Yevgeny Sudbin of Scriabin's Sonata no.5.
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Heyo
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It is less the music as written but the performance. Violinists are taught to be annoying and few, like Mae, can transcend that training. Talking about performance, here is a version of the Brandenburgische Konzerte I like better (the 3. starts at 31:05):
Lately I've liked Chopin & Liszt.
Heard from one of them....
"I paid for the whole damn piano, so I'm gonna use all of it!"
Heard from one of them....
"I paid for the whole damn piano, so I'm gonna use all of it!"
My favorite classical music is program music, particularly movie scores.
When the movie & the score work together....great stuff.
RIP, Mr Horner.
When the movie & the score work together....great stuff.
If you like Haydn, I encourage an investigation of his many Baryton Trios. Quite unique in their day...
I have a piano, and love playing the Liszt Concert Etudes -- especially Un Sospiro. I inherited very large hands from my father (a carpenter, not named Joseph), though not quite the extension that Liszt had (he could span a fourteenth, or about 2 octaves). There are fingerings that can overcome that deficiency.
But my favourite piece just to play (and to wake my lover up with, because he loves it) is Claude Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie (the sunken or engulfed cathedral).
As you listen, picture a misty morning at a place called "the bay of the dead." Then imagine, as the mist clears on Easter morning, and bubbles start appearing on the surface, and soon an entire cathedrale rises aboves the waves. Then, with the bells sounding (using E octaves) the inhabitants of the bay of the dead come to mass. The service proceeds through the music and when it's done, the cathedral slowly sinks beneath the waves again, to await another year.
Quite glorious, if you give it some attention.
As you listen, picture a misty morning at a place called "the bay of the dead." Then imagine, as the mist clears on Easter morning, and bubbles start appearing on the surface, and soon an entire cathedrale rises aboves the waves. Then, with the bells sounding (using E octaves) the inhabitants of the bay of the dead come to mass. The service proceeds through the music and when it's done, the cathedral slowly sinks beneath the waves again, to await another year.
Quite glorious, if you give it some attention.
You might like the Penguin Cafe Orchestra! Youtube has quite a bit of them. I might suggest "Now Nothing" or "1-4".
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
My youngest is a classical pianist and viola player so I hear a lot of Classical music
However I am a big fan of baroque composers, especially Bach. But I also like many form the classical period. Beyond that I like Chopin, Debussy, Russians: Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, and Schostakowitsch and going American, Gershwin
However I am a big fan of baroque composers, especially Bach. But I also like many form the classical period. Beyond that I like Chopin, Debussy, Russians: Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, and Schostakowitsch and going American, Gershwin