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That was lovely. I think that was Delibes...I'm not sure.
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02-28-2007, 11:57 AM | #362 |
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Indeed, HB! It is the Flower Duet of Lakmé!
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Goodie!
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Hmm...
Didn't work. Maybe I'll try it later with Internet Explorer.
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Good luck, TB! Its a very nice piece!
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03-15-2007, 05:39 PM | #367 |
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Favorite classical....hmmmmmm.....
My favorite symphony is "Symphony Phantastique" du Hector Berlioz. Additonal favorite composers and pieces: *Tchaikovsky (CANNOT listen to 4th symphony Pathetique, rips my heart right out of my body) - 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien, Marche Slav *Rimsky-Korsakov "Prince Igor", Russian Easter Festival Overture *Ippolitov Ivanov Caucasian Sketches *Borodin *Bizet *Debussy *Liszt *Beethoven *Mozart *Albinoni *Bach *Dvorak *Smetana "Ma Vlast" *Schubert *Mendelssohn *SOME Gershwin *Vivaldi and most other Baroque composers *Handel Just a partial list. I really love the Romantic and the Baroque periods, love "Chamber music", all of Mozart's works, love the Strauss stuff, Wagner of course, Rachmaninoff...I've played cello for 31 years (gasp!) but was a lover of classical music long before I rosined a bow. It is a testament to the composers of classical music that their works are still performed today, and even though I have heard thousands of pieces, and played hundreds, there is so much more of the surviving works that are still to be heard. Folks who don't like classical music, I find, are rather shallow and not really possessing of a rich and deep personality that classical speaks to, and are a little slower on the uptake, in my overblown and non-humble but unwavering opinion.
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I also have to confess a very limited love for opera.
I do enjoy the entire Wagner Ring cycle, and some of the Mozart opera, and a very little of the Verdi stuff, but for the most part, opera really doesn't get my blood roiling. However, as a I grow older, I tend to accept more and more opera, and veer more and more from the utter tripe that is released as "music" these days.
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Btw, people: Shosty playing! http://youtube.com/watch?v=zYOpnq6h_...elated&search=
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Also, Ippolitov Ivanov's "Caucasian Sketches" is a great tone poem, as well as Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique", as is Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture".
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So you're not a full-fledged opera guy, but you certainly seem to know your Symphonic poems. I'm a big fan of Dvorak's symphonic poems, and Sibelius'.
Smetana's Ma Vlast is of course awesome, and I wholeheartedly agree: the template for great tone poems. Have you heard Balakirev's "Islamey" transcribed for Orchestra? Very good piece, on both piano, and for orchestra. I'm something of an authority on the Symphonie Fantastique, I own six different recordings of it. In fact, for my English class I wrote an essay comparing the Fantastique and Beethoven's Ninth.
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Darn. What is it about Mahler's symphonies? They're just so darn good!
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I'm listening to the New World symphony by Dvorak more and more often.
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So why the sarcasm?
TB, if you like his New World Symphony, you'll love ALL his symphonies. IMO, they're all good. But really outstanding for me are Symphonies Nos.3,4,5,6,7,8...
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Okay. I'll look 'em up on my laptop! Last night I heard Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, or something like that. "The only recording I know of," Jim Svejda said.
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I haven't heard it, but I know it is a work that incorporates a narrator.
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Yes, it does. The one he referenced is one of the people in LotR, I believe.
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Really? Probably Ian Holme or McKellen...
Now narrators for Peter & the Wolf are pretty darn famous. I have a version with Sting narrating, Claudio Abbado conducting the Chamber Orch. of Europe. Awesome. Let's see, famous narrators: Patrick Stweart, Sean Connery....
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I think Marilyn Horne is okay. Huge, fantastic voice, but her diction (or perhaps I should say, LACK of) irritates me to death. TO DEATH! I writhe every time she sings Italian, and worse every time she sings in English. Assuming she ever has sung in English. It's so very difficult to tell . Well, I'll admit. I do love the recordings of Christmas music she did. And a few of the opera pieces she did (a very few) but the majority of her stuff I simply don't care for. Like Renee, I think a lot of the stuff she did when she was younger were really good, but then later not so much. I haven't heard Cecila's Salieri album. I'm still stuck on her Opera Proibita album. Oh my GOD... the melizmas are insane. INSANE!!!!!!!! And her high notes are incredible. She puts such a delicate touch on the soft songs, but has so much power on the big songs. Magdalena Kozena is another soprano I enjoy, although I haven't heard a whole lot about her. |
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