Classical Music

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Fat middle

Here, here

I'm sorry I haven't posted in months, but I'm still reading the board frequently.

The blame for my absence must go to excesive work and to a classical music forum I'm getting adicted

Well, in fact I'm not only getting adicted to the forum... It is an emule forum so it cames along with the habit of downloading CDs via emule or via bittorrent. I know this sounds dirty, but I'm finding so many great recordings that I cannot stop

I'm glad you like Teresa Berganza and Emma Kirkby!!! Have you got Pergolessi's Stabat Mater with her and James Bowman. One year ago or so I spent almost a whole month listening to that recording again and again. Emma Kirkby is also wonderful in Bach's cantata BWV 81 (I think that's the number) "Jauchzet (sp?) Gott in alles landen", conducted by Gardiner.

I've spent these months in a very baroque mode and also listening a lot of vocal religious music, but right now I'm coming out of it and am listening more piano and sinfonic music.

Well, I hope to post more often from now on.

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater? Nope, not yet.

Originally Posted by Eärniel

For the start of the Mozart-year, Klara (a Flemish classical radio) calculated you could fill 11 days with all the music that Mozart wrote plus commentary and proceeded to play them all one after another for 11 days. I listened to some of it, but am somewhat embarrassed to say I hardly recognized anything.

11 days? Just Eleven? with all the opera I was thinking somewhere in the 20's...
Well, Wagner's "Ring" lasts about half a day... I havent yet braved it for that amount of time though.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Do you mean anything else in the Planets or in the whole concert?

In addition to Mars, Venus, and Jupiter,
we are doing Movement I (Gandalf) of the Lord of the Rings Symphony (orchestrated version) by Johan De Meij (This was written in the mid-90s before the movies came out)
and the strings are doing something from the Holberg Suite by Grieg.

It really varies by conductor how much music we do. A few years ago they did tons of stuff (but obviously would've worked on the things a lot less).

We have about 15 hours of rehearsal total (when you take out meal times and breaks and warm ups, etc. Thursday, Friday, and a teeny bit on Saturday, then the concert Saturday night.


I've heard/played Mars so much now.....................

I bought that LotR symphony and gave it to someone for a present. I should've kept it. I did hear the hobbit movement a lot on my computer though.

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

i love mars, it is definitely the best of the suite

Aha! you're back. But you're wrong, Uranus is the best one, and Saturn...oh! and Jupiter.

Originally Posted by jellyfishannah

Happy Birthday, Wolfie!!!!!

Happy B-Day indeed! though I'm still not sure if his B-day was on Friday or Saturday...

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Aww...I missed it?
Oh well, I'd forget my own birthday if I didn't have a calendar or someone to remind me.

Mars is great, besides my being a Martian. Ha! Like Obi Wan Kenobi said, but as though referring to me! "Not the last of the old Martians, Bren. The first of the new."
I fail to remember where Obi Wan said that, but I've seen the quotes on several sites, so I'm taking it for granted.

Anyway, Jerry Goldsmith did Planet of the Apes perfectly. I recorded the score with my recording program directly from the DVD as it was in the drive. On with creative, on with PotA, and poof! I only have to wait eight minutes and then wait a little longer for it to convert to MP3. Well, actually, I just saved it as a wave, but you get the idea.

Young man, what are you doing with an mp3? you ought to have an ipod! Like me!

Originally Posted by rohirrim TR

I just bought the most excellent episode I soundtrack.

The double disccer eh? It's good.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Which piano version of Pictures at an Exhibition would y'all recommend?

I have a NAXOS recording with Jeno Jando, also with Balakirev's wonderful Islamey piece.


All right, now for the joyous news....
Yesterday I went to Hastings (boo), and of course they didn't have my order in...I did buy a La Boheme and also Handel's violin sonatas. In all I spent thirty something on two things.
Then I got curious as to what other music stores carried cd's...and we drove around and I found this place called Cat's Music. Apperantly the only things they put any worth on were Pop, Rock, Rap, Metal and Electronic. Then they had the "Dollard cd" row, and I found a DG recording of Schubert's G minor mass/Schumann Mignon requiem with Claudio Abbado conducting, Mackerras and Mozart's 40th and 41st, a very strange girl playing Beethoven, Corgliano and Arvo Part (Helene Grimaud), Rachmaninov's Vesper's (which I had already, bought it at Hastings for 18 dollars! ), Erich Kunzel conducting the Strauss's, Tallis performed by King's College (stephen cleobury), and a disc by the masterfully idiotic PDQ Bach ( )....and the biggest prize of all I almost didn't see...
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto/Oboe Concerto, Christopher Hogwood conducting. Super nice disc.

Each for one dollar, eight dollars in all.
Sometimes it's a blessing when people don't know the worth of classical music.