https://youtu.be/MqplTHg7_Xo?t=4One of his little heard pieces but a good one {as always ) Wolf . . If memory serves he was in US when WWII started and he was told to stay there. But he was too much an Englishman for that . This was written in 1941 so my guess was its about the American Military Force to come . |
And Leos can cover every inch of It !
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Every thing you say is interesting Jim , always a treat !
What I did not say at 2AM is I still try to make room for the music I grew up on , American Big-Band which was THE American music .There are hundreds of people I love there , but one, to me, stands out .Arty Shaw , the great clarinet player and leader of a band that had more
discipline than the Royal Marines .If there is a better instumentalist I have not heard them .
Scotland forever !
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You have a point newbee .One I thought of .
Because a song of Beethoven brought Classical to me , I played him all the time for years and finally got burned out on him .
I still listen to his string quartets perhaps once a week because, to me,that is his best .Glad you did what you did.
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My early music composers are in no particular order.
They are so compelling because the Church was the center of life then
and now is an after-thought , if that .
I sat in on a Philosophy class in Paris where the Prof was THE foremost
academic in France in that subject .She said no human will ever be like the early musicians because our brains and souls will never be able to focus as theirs did because of TV etc.
In general I think she was kinda-sorta correct but we do have Arvo Part.
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I’m old, it is late and I make a lot of mistakes but i’ll try.
The two composers I love with all heart are Bach and Brahms.
The ones I like very much are Haydn,Mozart, Schubert,Vaughn Williams,Sibelius,Rameau,Part,Puccini, , Janacek., Barber,Elgar,Grieg,Schumann, Dvorak and about 20 others.
I worship Jussi Bjoring . I heard him sing a lovely LvB lider on Armed Forces Radio , the first classical music I ever heard . It was bad day, a very bad day and it was like God had turned on a light in a dark room
to illuminate the world with light and pure beauty , I doubt if I ever would
have come to Classical otherwise , perish the thought !
Perhaps the most important is what I call my "soul cleaners’
Josquin Desprez, Tallis. Byrd., Purcell, Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo and handful of other early music religious composers .
My hero’s in Jazz are Sonny Stitt and Mingus . A Sonny a day puts troubles away.
Also listen to folk music ,mostly Celtic because there is a lot more music
there than one might think and many great composers didn’t use it for no reason.
Cheers !
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Indeed . I should have thought of Orlando Gibbons as well. Has someof the just plain beautiful music(esp. on strings) ever and also Anthems to the infinite that are stunning .
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To all the Mahler fans , and it seems he has the most. If you are in Vienna(Wien) and you should be because everybody that does such things , including the UN ,says it is the best city in the world to live in .
You must go the Central Cemetery(friedhof). From left to right two other composers. I believe to be his betters, Schubert and Brahms, lay side by side .
But not to worry, just left the around corner from Schubert lies Mahler .When I was there standing before Schubert, two Japanese Couples came next to me . The two men had at least 50 pounds of every know flower which they laid with great care(Japanese) . Then one of the men laid down on Schubert’s resting place and wept like a baby ! The other 3 went to their knees , lowered the heads and raised their hands in prayer . Were still there when I left .
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Think I will just get to the point . I believe this the Greatest piece of Music ever written.The first is what you would have heard in a small North German Church in Bach’s Time . I prefer this version. https://youtu.be/__lCZeePG48?t=1Full version take your choice . https://youtu.be/6j8BJ21yLoA?t=3I VERY seldom use the word genius , Karl Richter was a genius ! |
https://youtu.be/XXbP055Hx2IAs great as Elly is with Bach, she does even better with Schubert. If I should get to Heaven AND God takes wants I want to hear Arty Shaw play this jewel . |
This is the song that Jussi Bjorling bought me to classical music with and is sung by a artist that was almost as good as he and is VERY seldom heard today . A scandal ! https://youtu.be/e4SaCYgxze8?t=1The best thing I ever did was learn German , many thanks to my Girlfriend (s) ! |
mahgister, I am a big fan of la petite bande , but Wachet Auf was not one of their best outings . I’m also a big fan of Canada and in your honor I give you a period instrument band of your fellow countrymen playing Bach. Ever if it’s only Texas North . https://youtu.be/sLHyKl8Y3N8?t=1 Atlantic Bands were busy .
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I was in Germany when Christa Ludwig was at her prime and she was, beyond doubt , #1 with the German nation .My best friends sister was an excellent trained singer, leader in a great Choir in Berlin’s Catholic Cathedral.I told her once she sounded like Ludwig , she gave me a dirty look and
said "Bist du verruckt " aka Are you Crazy .
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mahgister,
Been listening to my CBC apt and flinching with Quebec at 5300 gone .Almost exactly what have here in MN with almost 3 million population less . NB has 750 K , I know my old Camp Gage Province only boards a small piece of Quebec but only 9 gone ?
I can guess what is going on in Quebec but would like to hear from someone actually there.The National isn't much help.
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When I taught in Vermont I guided best students to McGill . Which was also my grandmothers birth name . I’m guessing you were part of the Universite de Montreal ? This is one of the very best American musicians telling it like is . https://youtu.be/VYwb7Nt6nkw?t=4 |
In 30 seconds you can see McGill is at ease in his skin . Every person on earth has good days and bad ones even if you can’t see it.Most composers are people .Wagner was the exception . Here is guy that often looks like he’s ice and is a flame in inside . https://youtu.be/btrUlL7Hqag?t=1 |
I’m with you with the great Anglican hymns, jp. . All the Cambridge and Oxford and some Church Choirs are on You Tube ,can be bought on Amazon . I really liked this simple coast to coast of Canadian Anglican Church's getting ready for Advent . About an hour. Just real Christian's serving God.. https://youtu.be/6_6YoNOiQDk?t=1 |
If you don't believe me here is Dudamel whipping up the mighty Berliner Philharmoniker for " Berliner Luft" . In Berlin, it is, literally, sacred . https://youtu.be/peIEFBlJAy4?t=2 |
Mahgister,
Gramophone had a 150 known composers , young and old, to name the 3 composers they like best poll about a year ago.
To my surprise and joy , over half of the younger named Janacek.
Things are looking up a bit.
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This is one of the best recordings of its type I have ever heard .Both from player and composer. https://youtu.be/zN8llXUFNxc?t=9Recorded in Berlin, 2010 for DG Of course the Berliner Luft ( Berlin Air) gave all a boost. ( NOT a joke) |
Both names ring a bell but that is about it .
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Guys , I have a bunch of recordings that I think are from the greatest piano man from Romania .
RADU LUPU .
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Got a great second last night,. Joshua Bell was doing an average interview , well the jet-setter is doing over 200 hundred a year, what do
you expect .All of a sudden he stood up lighted like a Christmas tree and started a machine-gun tirade of one audience that is FAR, FAR away from any other in the world .Same one I’ve been telling people for 15 years, The Hungarian in Budapest !!More like a rock concert than a Classical Concert.Teens bring scores ,
200 Hungarians louder than a Rolling Stones concert in Madison Square Garden( well maybe many just as much )
No wonder Adam Fisher is such a great conductor . Been on virtual meth for decades .
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Can order A Blue here but no Poutine(sob)
Order of the day.
Et ta valeur,de foi tremp'ee
Prot'egera nos foyers et nos droits !
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Of course not, impossible to be a war-dog AND and a flake at the same Time . If Canada had a draft..........................
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Sounds like a pot party .
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Kurt Elling is the greatest male jazz artist of our time .
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