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Post by Tomas on Jan 10, 2021 18:08:08 GMT
Additional to the reading thread:
Music you are listening to at the moment. Sharing on personal choice. Impressions, memories, theme, musicians involved, highlights, and any aspects related.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 10, 2021 20:43:20 GMT
I took two of the "Paris symphonies" by Joseph Haydn this afternoon. Both in major (C and G) which of course are the more uplifting mode suitable for a Sunday to get away sensibly from the present politicalised chaos gloom. It was from a giant box that I relish and get into whenever there is a time for something extra. Fun (if that´s the right word) trivia found in another box set was the supposed rivalry once between legendary mastermind director Fürtwängler (another musical "hero" as arguably the greatest conductor of all time!) and the upcoming Karajan during late Nazi years. If one shall believe the booklet the former were the choice of Goebbels while the latter had a promoter in Göring. Whatever that would mean, or matter? As the picture shows, he looked almost like the perfect movie villain in his day of career:
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Post by hilary on Jan 10, 2021 22:11:07 GMT
Handel's Messiah performed by Our Lady's Choral Society kept me very happy in the car in the lead up to Christmas and it's still there.
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Post by cato on Jan 15, 2021 14:58:15 GMT
They have a great reputation but I have yet to hear them in the flesh. God willing before next Christmas. It's a fabulous work of music in its complete version. I have been listening to the sixteens recording conducted as usual by the great Harry Christophers.
I have enjoyed his music for years . He specialises in choral/sacred music sung to a very high standard. Strongly recommended.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 28, 2021 19:23:59 GMT
Since last time I´ve continued with the Haydn "London" symphonies from that same box, and also revisited and been greatly consoled by a couple of Mendelssohn string quartets during evenings. What they have in common (Haydn, Mendelssohn) is their very fresh and musically immaculate sense of "ordered joy" or almost inexplicably marvellous *structure-effects* (lack of words here but the way it feels when you find something being exactly the way it "should be" in a certain piece of masterpiece art whether music or painting or literature or other). Like always some remembrance on the sideline adds a little to the sheer music experience, in this case the extra that no less prominent listener than Queen Victoria herself had Felix Mendelssohn as her personal favourite. Would qualify his works as Conservative by any common standard of necessity!
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 29, 2021 10:26:13 GMT
I've been listening to this song over and over for a few months. It's the opening credits song of the surreal seventies film Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me?, starring Dustin Hoffman, which is where I encountered it. You'll get a good idea of what sort of film it is if I tell you that, at the start of the credits sequence, the protagonist jumps off the balcony of his penthouse suite, falls in slow motion for the duration of the song, and lands in his therapist's office at the end of the sequence. But worth watching if you're in the mood for that kind of thing. youtu.be/kqMqfejlX5I
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Post by Stephen on Jan 29, 2021 10:44:44 GMT
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Post by cato on Jan 29, 2021 13:16:29 GMT
Since last time I´ve continued with the Haydn "London" symphonies from that same box, and also revisited and been greatly consoled by a couple of Mendelssohn string quartets during evenings. What they have in common (Haydn, Mendelssohn) is their very fresh and musically immaculate sense of "ordered joy" or almost inexplicably marvellous *structure-effects* (lack of words here but the way it feels when you find something being exactly the way it "should be" in a certain piece of masterpiece art whether music or painting or literature or other). Like always some remembrance on the sideline adds a little to the sheer music experience, in this case the extra that no less prominent listener than Queen Victoria herself had Felix Mendelssohn as her personal favourite. Would qualify his works as Conservative by any common standard of necessity! Apparently JFK was a Haydn fan and helped "popularise" him in 1960s America when educated people saw the White house as am exemplar of good taste.
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Post by cato on Jan 29, 2021 13:22:34 GMT
Hans Zimmer is a great contemporary composer. I liked the above piece Stephen. His score for the movie Gladiator is one of my desert island disc choices if I ever get exiled. Rousing and soothing . A great piece to listen to . The movie is a modern classic which helped revive the ancient classical movie genre too.
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Post by cato on Jan 29, 2021 13:29:09 GMT
I have Town to Town by 1980s Cork band Microdisney stuck in my head after watching it on the wonderful YouTube.Its a catchy classy cheery tune that brings me back to teenage years.
John Peel of BBC fame said he could listen to Microdisney's Cathal Coughlin singing the phone book. Does anyone under 25 know what a phone book is?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 29, 2021 16:29:54 GMT
I have Town to Town by 1980s Cork band Microdisney stuck in my head after watching it on the wonderful YouTube.Its a catchy classy cheery tune that brings me back to teenage years. John Peel of BBC fame said he could listen to Microdisney's Cathal Coughlin singing the phone book. Does anyone under 25 know what a phone book is? They probably think it's a Kindle book you read on your smartphone!
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Post by Tomas on Jan 29, 2021 19:08:46 GMT
I've been listening to this song over and over for a few months. It's the opening credits song of the surreal seventies film Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me?, starring Dustin Hoffman, which is where I encountered it. You'll get a good idea of what sort of film it is if I tell you that, at the start of the credits sequence, the protagonist jumps off the balcony of his penthouse suite, falls in slow motion for the duration of the song, and lands in his therapist's office at the end of the sequence. But worth watching if you're in the mood for that kind of thing. youtu.be/kqMqfejlX5INice tune! Retro enough to make a dude want to spend the night with an outdated 70s cult comedy movie stock.
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Post by Tomas on Nov 19, 2021 20:50:47 GMT
Simultane capacity? Tonight relaxation upon the bed with headphones brewing warm in a good recording of Richard Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica, checking Irish Conservatives Forum. Happy again!
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Post by assisi on Nov 20, 2021 19:31:12 GMT
Simultane capacity? Tonight relaxation upon the bed with headphones brewing warm in a good recording of Richard Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica, checking Irish Conservatives Forum. Happy again! And possibly a little snifter of cognac too.....
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Post by cato on Nov 20, 2021 22:22:57 GMT
Simultane capacity? Tonight relaxation upon the bed with headphones brewing warm in a good recording of Richard Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica, checking Irish Conservatives Forum. Happy again! Rebuilding European Civilisation brick by marble slab.....
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