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I'm afraid my tastes are not very sophisticated yet. Mostly, just little ditties as I study. But, I totally adore Beethoven's "Fuhr Elise". It has to be one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. And, here is the thing that blows me away about classical compositions, where "Fuhr Elise" is just one example of so many. How the heck do they portray something (another little ditty, as an example, is "Flight of the Lonely Beetle") so clearly that I can either envision it ("Beetle") or feel it like a hammer ("Elise") without a single word spoken. Just awesome!.
The Sentient Struggle For Transformation
https://www.amazon.com/Sentient-Struggle-Transformation-Whickwithy/dp/1734822147/ -
Dream of Gerontius
Officium defunctorum
Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-02 16:39:07'' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt '' -
Though we may deserve it, it will be worth it.
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Cantata Profana
Diana Damrau -Queen of the Night...Out of this world..............I wouldn't take a Haribo Tangfastic if my life depended on it!
Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-03 01:58:16'' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt '' -
I watched Spanish dancers dance to a performance of Ravel's Bolero at the Royal Albert Hall. Fantastic :D
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Cervus said:
I wouldn't take a Haribo Tangfastic if my life depended on it!
Why would you want to take sweets to the opera? :PThough we may deserve it, it will be worth it. -
On the original instruments.
If I were dead, could I do this? -
^^^^ That is stunning......I know it is not in the same league but I have one of these (it is actually the same one I used to play in junior school) I went back years later to find it shoved in a cupboard as it had been replaced with plastic ones. The horror!
It is such a beautiful thing.
Post edited by Cervus at 2013-08-05 02:53:23'' Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever going to feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new, just lesser versions of what I've already felt '' -
I inherited a couple beautiful wooden recorders from an elderly lady I cared for in her last years. I can play the flute and clarinet with basic proficiency, but I can't seem to play a decent melody on their simple country cousin.
If I were dead, could I do this? -
A brilliant scene: the juxtaposition of the man's vulgar nature with the tenderness of the piece. I wonder, though, whether or not the man was as much of a beast as they portray him.
If I were dead, could I do this? -
Good idea for discussion Carpy, and great to see Arvo Pärt on your list.
Anything by Dustin O'Halloran, especially his 2nd album 'Piano Solos Volume 2' & also 'Lumiere'.
Nils Frahm, especially his 'Screws' album (so called due to his falling from a bunk bed and breaking his right-hand wrist, requiring screws to heal it, becoming frustrated at not being able to play with both hands, he composed & recorded this album solely with his left hand - genius)
Hauschka, master proponent of the 'prepared piano' (household items, i.e. beer bottle lids, fixed to certain wires inside the piano) especially 'Ferndorf', 'Foreign Landscapes' or 'Small Pieces'.
Post edited by pascho at 2013-08-08 06:17:52
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