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Post by erik on Jul 27, 2013 19:28:45 GMT -5
The very first classical work (in its World Premiere recording here) by Tony Banks, the keyboardist for the English progressive rock group Genesis (yes, the one that had Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins in it). If this seven-part orchestral suite sounds a lot like music for a motion picture, your ears surely aren't deceiving you, as at least some of this music was indeed designed for film scores that never came to pass.
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Post by musicaamator on Jul 29, 2013 6:20:38 GMT -5
I have always loved this song, and the guy's voice is incredible live or in-studio. I believe the cat's name is David Pack.
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Post by erik on Nov 19, 2013 23:05:06 GMT -5
French/Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin's debut recording (for Deutsche Grammophon) as the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra touches on works greatly associated with this orchestra's history: the complete ballet "The Rite Of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky, as well as three works for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach that were introduced in orchestral form in Philadelphia in large-scale transcriptions made by Leopold Stokowski, the man who put Philadelphia on the classical music map.
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Post by erik on Mar 2, 2014 0:39:59 GMT -5
Bob Dylan's legendary acoustic folk/country score to director Sam Peckinpah's 1973 sagebrush classic PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID, which contains, of course, the immortal "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", heard in the scene of the film where a dying Slim Pickens gazes longingly on the Pecos River as his wife (Katy Jurado) looks on with tears in her eyes. Get the soundtrack, of course, but do see the film too.
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Post by erik on Mar 27, 2014 21:53:18 GMT -5
A perfectly unusual combination of works by Franz Schubert: his early Symphony No. 3; the famed Unfinished Symphony (#8); and Franz Liszt's piano/orchestra transcription of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy for solo piano. Boris Berezovsky is the pianist in the latter; and Kurt Masur conducts the New York Philharmonic on this 1997 recording.
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Post by erik on Apr 17, 2014 18:03:08 GMT -5
Linda's Duets, and Everlasting by one of Linda's many acolytes, Martina McBride. Revisiting this 1993 Deutsche Grammophon collection of five of Maurice Ravel's greatest works, including that great 20th century musical experiment, "Bolero". A baton-free Pierre Boulez is on the podium here, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Post by erik on May 12, 2014 19:11:35 GMT -5
A great example of how some fine female singers fall between the cracks because everyone's hooked on MTV. This album, released in 1993, was Maria's second solo album, and has much of the wide stylistic dexterity that she'd display throughout her discography. Among the highlights is the C&W shuffle "Only Once". Two late works of Sergei Prokofiev (meaning the early 1950s), the Sinfonia-Concertante for cello and orchestra (with Heinrich Schiff the cello soloist), and the youthful Seventh Symphony, with Andre Previn conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. This recording was made at UCLA's Royce Hall in April 1989.
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Post by erik on May 20, 2014 18:39:58 GMT -5
Brand new recording (released March 11th, anyway): One of America's greatest living composers, John Adams, unleashed this surprisingly accessible but (less surprisingly) lengthy oratorio last year here in L.A., and this 2-CD recording by Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and a huge cast is the end result. This will almost certainly end up on my Top Ten list at year's end.
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Post by fabtastique on May 21, 2014 3:20:33 GMT -5
Listening a lot to Natalie Merchants new album. A great artist
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Post by Dianna on Jun 8, 2014 13:51:37 GMT -5
Lana Del Rey
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Post by erik on Jul 3, 2014 18:26:42 GMT -5
The first of these is a recording that pairs two works by Stravinsky: the 1928 ballet "Apollon Musagete" (or "Apollo, Leader Of The Muses"), and his Symphony No. 1 In E Flat Major. Both are well-performed on this 1981 recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under their Conductor Laureate, Antal Dorati. The second puts four straight Mozart symphonies (30; 31; 32; and 33) together on one CD, in a 1985 rendering by the Dresden State Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis. Both orchestra and conductor had a rich tradition with W.A. Mozart; and this recording shows why (IMHO).
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2014 18:40:43 GMT -5
On this day, July 15, 2014, it's all Linda, in honor of her 68th birthday.
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Post by erik on Aug 22, 2014 20:15:28 GMT -5
A pair of very thorny works from one of the 20th century's greatest composers, the early ballet "Aly And Lolly" (Scythian Suite) from 1914, and the much later (1947) Symphony No. 6, in the unusual key of E Flat Minor. Both are played with precision by the L.A. Phil in this 1987 recording under Andre Previn.
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Post by erik on Sept 16, 2014 17:39:17 GMT -5
Just because I felt like it... Including the heartfelt overture for the composer's 1845 opera "Tannhauser", this 1980s EMI recording of various excerpts from Richard Wagner's Teutonic Ring tetralogy is performed in first-rate fashion by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Klaus Tennstedt's direction. And yes, "The Ride Of The Valkyries" (used with unconscious Aryan irony by Francis Ford Coppola in his 1979 Vietnam War opus APOCALYPSE NOW) is one of those excerpts found within.
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Post by erik on Oct 14, 2014 18:17:06 GMT -5
Three works by the 20th century Italian composer Luciano Berio, who passed away in 2004--"Formazioni"' "Folk Songs" (a suite of adaptations of ethnic folk songs from around the world, including "I Wonder As I Wander"); and "Sinfonia". The British vocal ensemble Electric Phoenix and mezzo-soprano Jard van Nes are joined on this 1990 London/Decca recording by the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under the direction of Riccardo Chailly.
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Post by erik on Nov 28, 2014 19:19:13 GMT -5
Starting up again with Linda's Christmas album from 2000. I was for a long time very ambivalent at best about the album because of the fact that it has all the traditional Christmas pop songs at the start and then is almost exclusively secular/choral in the second half. I have warmed up to it substantially in the last five years, though I still wish she had done a Christmas album of the California rock variety back in the late 1970s. Revisiting John Williams' classic score to director Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi masterpiece CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. It isn't hyperbole to say that Williams may be the most listened-to composer, living or dead, in music history (IMHO).
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Post by erik on Apr 29, 2015 21:09:05 GMT -5
Beethoven's final symphony, the gigantic "Choral" Symphony (#9), with Sir Simon Rattle conducting a distinguished cast of vocal soloists (Barbara Bonney; Birgit Remmert; Kurt Streit; Thomas Hampson); the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus; and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in this 2002 recording. Recorded in 1989, this is Zubin Mehta's second go-around with Holst's interstellar extravaganza (his first being his classic 1971 London recording with his Los Angeles Philharmonic); and while it may not match what Mehta did in the City of Angels, the Big Apple's big band under his direction nevertheless impresses.
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Post by Sloan on Apr 30, 2015 13:16:33 GMT -5
Rediscovering Pink Floyd's Animals. An amazing album!
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Post by rick on Apr 30, 2015 13:39:21 GMT -5
A friend recommended "Green Garden" by Laura Mvula to me last night. I played it and liked it and then listened to a few other tracks from her album "Sing to the Moon." What I have heard so far I have enjoyed. Just an FYI.
Here is a live version of "Green Garden" --
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 14:06:54 GMT -5
I unexpectedly saw this on tv. This girl looks and sounds like a young Linda Ronstadt: Even though the video was not available, I was able to view the archive using the wayback machine site. She obviously has talent, and hopefully will develop further, but I'm not sure I see the Linda resemblance...
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Post by erik on May 29, 2015 23:41:09 GMT -5
Two great film scores (the first by Steven Price; the second by Hans Zimmer) to films that are the only ones of recent vintage that match the splendor of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (IMHO) Miranda Lee Richards, an L.A. based folk-pop singer, was one of those artists who appeared at last December's Linda Ronstadt benefit concert at the Satellite here in L.A. for Parkinson's research, where she performed "I Never Will Marry." Here, from 2008, is Miranda doing her own acoustic ballad "Life Boat":
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Post by erik on Jun 10, 2015 18:18:32 GMT -5
A recording of four works by the great 20th century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, two of which are exceptionally well known, two others not so much (though the renditions of them here will make one wonder why that is). The two lesser known works are the 1944 March In B Flat Major (originally composed for military band, and intended as a celebration of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in their front of World War II), and the Overture On Hebrew Themes (which Prokofiev wrote while in the US in 1919, and written for a group of Russian emigres known as the Zinro Ensemble). Then there's the work that likely exposed kids to classical music for the first time--the 1934 piece "Peter And The Wolf", with all the characters of the story represented by various instrument in the orchestra, and featuring narration by one Gordon Sumner (Sting, to the rest of us). The concluding work is the product of Prokofiev in his mid-20s, the Symphony No. 1 In D Major, composed in the early part of 1917, before the Bolshevik Revolution. He called it his "Classical Symphony", for being in proportion and orchestration to the kinds of symphonies composed by Haydn and Mozart in the 1780s; and it indeed succeeds at being a combination of old-world Classicism with modern orchestral techniques. Claudio Abbado conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on this recording from 1990.
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2015 9:17:20 GMT -5
Being July 15th, it is all-Linda, all day today.
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Post by erik on Aug 6, 2015 22:01:59 GMT -5
A fairly rare performance of a concert overture of Felix Mendelssohn--"Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage", based on two poems by Goethe. The performance is a live recording from 2007 by the orchestra that Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy build into a world powerhouse, the Philadelphia Orchestra, here under the direction of their late, German music director (from 1993 to 2009) Wolfgang Sawallisch:
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Post by fabtastique on Aug 8, 2015 3:27:45 GMT -5
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Post by Goldie on Sept 6, 2015 22:39:55 GMT -5
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Post by Goldie on Sept 6, 2015 23:19:51 GMT -5
some of Posturex1's better videos:
he also does original compositions. Some get loud and the newest split screen videos sound the best. He sure is prolific.
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Post by erik on Sept 7, 2015 8:42:57 GMT -5
One of the great albums of 2015, from a gal I really wish I had heard about sooner:
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Post by erik on Sept 11, 2015 23:20:44 GMT -5
On this solemn day...
The final "Lux Aeterna" from Mozart's Requiem In D Minor, with the Leipzig Radio Choir and the Dresden State Orchestra (Staatskapelle Dresden), led by Peter Schreier (recorded in 1983).
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Post by Goldie on Sept 23, 2015 18:38:58 GMT -5
This is probably my favorite pop song (non-Linda) and also my favorite time of day....Ebb Tide. I loved being out on the bay in the cabin cruiser when the tides began to shift and the world slowed down. It was close to heaven for me. (ebb tide def. The period between high tide and low tide, during which water flows away from the shore.)
First the tide rushes in Plants a kiss on the shore Then rolls out to sea And the sea is very still once more So I rush to your side Like the oncoming tide With one burning thought Will your arms open wide At last we're face to face And as we kiss through an embrace I can tell, I can feel You are love, you are real Really mine in the rain In the dark, in the sun Like the tide at its ebb I'm at peace in the web of your arms
an ebbing tide for the uninitiated
celestial ebb tide
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