I find Classic music is great to relax especially after the kind of day I had today. I often have it in the car stuck in traffic. Got great variations so it can be heard through out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maciamo
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I find Classic music is great to relax especially after the kind of day I had today. I often have it in the car stuck in traffic. Got great variations so it can be heard through out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maciamo
Very nice indeed. I like Mahler a lot, and Bernstein channels him the way Muti channels Verdi, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maciamo
Oh, and I'm all for drama, as long as it's not in my personal life! In this particular case, I do think Mahler was thinking about love, however. :smile:
Feist singing Mushaboom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYF0qU5WSew
The Handsome Family....Far From Any Road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGw7KtRxfgU
Thanks, Hope. I had never heard of the Handsome Family before. Off to Youtube to explore their music further.
They`re new to me too Aberdeen, so I don`t know what their other stuff is like. I came across the soundtrack for the TV series True Detective [ it didn`t air here ..or if it did I missed it...] and this was one of the tracks from it I liked, along with this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aberdeen
The Hat....The Angry River.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfzrRdarnEs
Kevin Ross-This Is My Wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0e0G8VfWFw
He's a credit not only to Motown but to the Berkeley School of Music, a really great school, only next to Julliard, in my opinion.
Neanderthal Jazz flute quartets mostly
This you tube compilation was playing at a party...really great if you're in the mood for holiday music.
Crooners Sing Christmas, Bing, Frank, and Dean...Strange to think it took me so long to appreciate them...the older I get, the better they sound. The playlist and times are in the notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBKRs_B8Bvg
One of the highlights of the New York Holiday Season is the annual production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite as choreographed by George Balanchine. It's a more than 55 year old unbroken tradition. The gold and glitter of the theater, the sumptuous stage set and costuming, the orchestra, the wonderful dancers, and the presence of so many awestruck and excited children in the audience combine to create a really magical and unforgettable experience.
For those who prefer just the music, this is a lovely performance by the Osaka Philharmonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Au8EDsQfI
Youtube offers the entire, wonderful 1993 performance with Darci Kistler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ5Se2ErinU
This is a short excerpt from the Bolshoi performance of one of the favorite sections, the duel of the Rat King and the Nutcracker Prince:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfFLjXszBiQ
I'm feeling morose. So I'm listening to pre-WW2 Cajun blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzYKS7_mn3E
I have a few Gaspard's in my family somewhere.
I thought nobody would like this music; but I showed this song to several people and they were fascinated by it. It is gloomy and mysterious. Very little is known about this musician. His name was Alcide Gaspard and was blind. He died very young; about 8 years after this song was recorded.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Uncle_Gaspard
This season there were twelve scheduled performances of Handel's Messiah in New York, and that's not counting the performances in the suburbs in the surrounding tri-state area. The performances of the New York Philharmonic and the Oratorio Society are probably the most highly regarded. I personally don't think it's ever been done better than when Leonard Bernstein conducted it. I've provided a link to the "Chorus" below. Quincy Jones did a "soul" arrangement which is very nice. That link is listed as well. Speaking of fun versions, there is a great one done by the Boston Gay Men's choir that uses visual aids for the lyrics, mainly, I think, so that the vocally challenged could participate. :) There are always some complaints because it does distract from the wonderful singing that is a hallmark of this group, but you have to have fun with the classics too! Anyway, another fun thing to do if you're in New York around this time of year, and you're a frustrated performer like some of us (ahem!) is to participate in one of the Messiah Sing Ins, of which there are dozens. The best, in my humble opinion, is the one put on by the National Chorale, when we are 3,000 strong.
Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpTR...OK8Zi0&index=8
The Quincy Jones "soul" version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V51aTh2c0Q
Boston Gay Men's Chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRocpQOMpeU
Khachaturian....Masquerade Suite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp3Qh-GRqs
That was just lovely, Hope. Lovely as music, and lovely as a dance. It's such a pity that "real" dancing has so gone out of style.
I know that Leonard Cohen is not everybody's cup of tea, and it's certainly a totally different genre, but i was listening to him the other day, and so the following song came to mind when I listened to this waltz. This particular clip is from when he was older, and his voice had already started to go, but as with Johnny Cash, it's almost more moving to me for that very reason, and plus, I love the visuals in this particular clip.
Leonard Cohen: Dance Me To The End of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I
Since red is a nice, festive Yuletide colour, I'm listening to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzLwX2z7ZY
Enjoyed that very much Hope Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by hope
Adele mood this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7-vnrJD3k
and my fovourite from Adele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ
Actually Angela, whilst I wouldn`t say I was a big fan of Leonard Cohen, there are in fact quite a few of his songs I do like...he uses lyrics brilliantly. The video you posted didn`t play for me in my part of the world so I went to YouTube and found it there..which turned out to be a good thing..I heard a Cohen song a short time back and never caught the title... I found it whilst looking for your video! So that worked out well..:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Aberdeen...of all the songs with red in the title..you had to post 99 Red Balloons..that song sticks in your head for days!..lol. I didn`t even listen to it once I saw what it was..and I`m still humming it..:grin:
Maleth Glad you liked Masquerade Suite. I have phases where I listen to Folk music for a while, then some 80s Pop then Classical..this month it`s classical. I have been listening to Lully lately [ one of my favourites..very regal..lol.] See what you think of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-yugPw_X8
Regards Adele and Skyfall, it and Rolling in the Deep are my two favourites from her..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw
@Maleth,
Any day is a day when I can listen to Adele...one of my favorites. http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/...main/smile.gif
@Hope,
I'm a HUGE Leonard Cohen fan, of both his performed and unperformed poems. I could post song after song that I find profoundly moving and meaningful, but at this time of year I tend to mostly listen to either classical or "holiday" music.
I was at a different kind of holiday celebration this week, a Hanukkah one, and it wasn't all just "Dreidle, Dreidle, Dreidle". :smile:
Prokofiev's "Overture" On Hebrew Themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBaXeAHuVTg
Amit Peled playing Bloch's "Prayer". I really like this piece and I really like him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTso0wYH4f4
I defy anyone to keep their feet still while listening to this amusing Mazurka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2BHc0nU2E
December is also Dvorak month in New York.
Here is the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Yo Yo Ma and the New York Philharmonic. (He is a very emotional and expressive performer, by the way...and warm and engaging in real life as well...another stereotype bites the dust!:grin:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQIiFI_MiuY
This seems like a suitable song for December 21.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mh5zPj7Lc
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Originally Posted by hope
Thanks for that. It is another (Lully) very pleasant one and to my liking Hope. I like classic Music with a punch. Heard a few more of Lully and defiantly (Like Vivaldi) there is something in the sequence that works well on my mood......................Oh.. I cannot stop Listening to Lully......:heart:
Rolling in the Deep is another awesome number from Adele I agree.
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December is also Dvorak month in New York.
Here is the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Yo Yo Ma and the New York Philharmonic. (He is a very emotional and expressive performer, by the way...and warm and engaging in real life as well...another stereotype bites the dust!http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/.../main/grin.png)
Thank you for posting Angela. Surely that is some Talent from Yo Yo Ma. Without so much emotion those notes cannot sound so perfect and expressive. What a beautiful instrument the cello is :satisfied:
I thought you would like that ,Maleth....:smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maleth
.... Its Rameau, Rondeau des Indes Galantes this morning........:smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvd...gPw_X8&index=3Quote:
Originally Posted by hope
I'm feeling old school, and angsty.
Helmet - Unsung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xRmCiAqQI
Preparing for an upcoming Rachmaninoff concert at the New York Philharmonic...we'll see how Danil Trifanov will do...it can't be better than this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-k7QDefWc4
It seemed apropos for New Year's Day: It's A New Dawn, It's a New Day, It's a New Life For Me and I'm Feeling Good-Michael Bublé
Plus, I love him. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI&list=PLdakRkpsmtJG2YgTJlT52Ty_omuoiUrVQ
New Year's Eve was all about dancing, and there were a lot of Michael Bublé romantic songs playing. (I seem to be traveling in a "set" that's doing a lot of "slow dancing" lately. No cracks, if you please. :smile:
Now, I'm a dyed in the wool romantic, and despite all the evidence to the contrary still a bit of an idealist when it comes to love, but I have to admit that when this song was playing I kept on thinking how it could double as a profile on some internet dating sites. What a playbook for an unscrupulous man. :laughing:Women generally just eat this stuff up, no matter how often they've been burned, in my experience. Appropriate as a wedding song chosen by a twenty year old bride perhaps, but a little too much for me.
That''s all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFrPpPeED4
Ed. Much Better-You Were Always On My Mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSI8TSl17Gc
Sway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osgGQ-SOWsE
Always the last dance-Save The Last Dance For Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjfB0XfjkA
It's finally winter here; our first snow of the season is falling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCfydWF48c
Ahhhh Vivaldi....always...... :)Quote:
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Listening to Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, better known as George Michael......... what else but Freedom http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/...main/smile.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulBUdp-SAQ
Good old Jethro Tull.Quote:
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And this for winter's (and all other) days: ELP
Fanfare for the Common Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g
It certainly feels like this: Bad Moon Arising-Creedance Clearwater Revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YlTUDnsWMo
Someday Never Comes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNuQulK6N0
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGuyGPJ_JE
Cheer up Angela :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU
Ciaccona-Cazzati by the Pluhar ensemble. Yes, I know I seem to be Baroque fixated lately. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vrBLedI9E
Very nice, just what I needed this morning. The contrasts of Fortes and Pianos and constant base rhythm sound awesome (to me at least)Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela
Great description of a chaconne, and a passacaglia for that matter. :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maleth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaconne
A chaconne (/ʃəˈkɒn/; French: [ʃakɔn]; Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona, pronounced [tʃakˈkoːna]) is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention. In this it closely resembles the passacaglia.
They were danced to, for obvious reasons...
After the Baroque it went into a bit of a decline as a music form, but a lot of twentieth and twenty first century composers have brought it back.
Two of my favorite chaconnes:
Moneverdi's Zefiro Torna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6tJWY2Vaz4
Bach's Violin Partita in D Minor (This is actually one of my favorite pieces of music ever...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpYUaRg0aDw
Korpiklaani - Wooden Pints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjZ1B897Tuk
Finnish viking folk metal. I know guys, but I just had to ^^
The fiddle sounds similar to the Cajun french music we have here. I'm amazed at how similar old Scandinavia and Louisiana used to be.
Jussi Bjorling "Bella figlia dell'amore" from Verdi's Rigoletto. (It was featured in the English movie "Quartet" which I just watched last night, and which is about retired singers and musicians putting on a Verdi Gala. It has a great cast, by the way, including Maggie Smith and also some bona fide elderly opera singers. It's a very sweet movie, but oh dear, how I dread the idea of getting that old...of course, the alternative isn't so great either!http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/...n/laughing.gif)
Anyway, this Jussi Bjorling version is one of my favorites. It's just stupendously beautiful. Ironic but true that this Swede was one of the greatest "Italianate" tenors ever to grace the stage. He's at his best here...the tone...the phrasing...my god, the breath control...he seems to have superhuman lung capacity. When I hear untrained singers drawing these rasping breaths all over the place I want to throw a slipper or something!
Here are the lyrics for the section starting at 1:58. Does anything ever change? Ah, the perfidy of men! http://cdn.eupedia.com/forum/images/.../main/grin.png
DUKE
Fairest daughter of love,
I am a slave to your charms;
with but a single word you could
relieve my every pain.
Come, touch my breast and feel
how my heart is racing.
MADDALENA
Ah! Ah! That really makes me laugh;
talk like that is cheap enough.
Believe me, I know exactly
what such play?acting is worth!
I, my fine sir, am quite accustomed
to foolish jokes like this.
GILDA
Ah, these are the loving words
the scoundrel spoke once to me!
O wretched heart betrayed
do not break for sorrow.
RIGOLETTO
to Gilda
Hush weeping can do no good...
You are now convinced he was lying.
Hush, and leave it up to me
to hasten our revenge.
It will be quick, it will be deadly,
I know how to deal with him.
Listen to me, go home.
Take some money and a horse,
Put on the men's clothes I provided,
then leave at once for Verona.
I shall meet you there tomorrow.
http://www.islandcityopera.org/park/translations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFYtiWIAQ0
Here's my imaginary girlfriend Stevie Nicks singing "Gold Dust Woman".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCigoQf7MU