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Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Saints_Alive, Jun 13, 2017.

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Do you want a stickied music thread ?

Poll closed Jun 16, 2017.

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  1. It's Only A Game

    It's Only A Game Well-Known Member

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    Watched a film tonight (Atomic Blonde...5/10) this was one from the soundtrack. Took me back a few years.

     
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    Rach 2 is quite possibly my favourite (or right up there with the others) piece of classical music. To me, it’s quite stupendous, but I’m unsure I’ll ever forgive Eric Carmen (nice little clue, TSS) for pinching the melody for his hit.

    I love most of the Russian composers, but apart from the Firebird suite (which, funnily enough, I first came across at a concert by Yes), I’m not a huge fan of Stravinsky. I definitely think that as one gets older, one is more inclined to listen and appreciate classical music. I’m experimenting more these days (though I still go back to prog rock, rock and classic pop :emoticon-0103-cool:) and have discovered many composers to whom I wouldn’t have listened before, but now I can sit and enjoy ......:emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Indeed he isn't. :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    I only started to listen to classical music after reading about composers who influenced by favourite jazz musicians. This meant that I tended to come to classical music via more modern composers and then work my way backwards. This is probably different from most other people's experience. I don't dislike Rachmaninov but I have found it difficult to admire him for sticking rigidly to a old-fashioned romantic style when the music was changing around him. The odd thing about modern classical music is that I find it divisive. I really hate the 12-tone composers like Schoenberg, Webern, Berg and the more mathematical composers who followed in their waken after Wolrd War Two. By contrast, some of my favourite composers emerged in the 20th century whether it is French Impressionists such as Debussy and Ravel, Eastern European composers like Bartok, Scriabin and Janacek or even more frivolous writers such as Milhaud or Poulenc. The point of entry for me was Olivier Messaien who still remains my favourite. There are also loads of really good contemporary composers who I enjoy such as Steve Reich and Gavin Bryars.
     
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  7. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Talking of Russian composers and music, there can surely be no better example than this, one of my all-time favourites. This is a brilliant performance of Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, given by the Gimnasija Kranj Symphony Orchestra. They must be one of the best-looking bunch of musicians ever assembled, and certainly have one of the most enthusiastic clarinet players, but the music is simply sublime:
     
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    I like that Chilcs. I have it on CD at the back of the sideboard somewhere along with a number of other classical favourites. This has reminded me to get them out and play them in the car.

    This has always been been one of my favourites. Like a bit of cello.

     
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    Completely agree with your view on Schoenberg, etc. My ex brother in law (a classically trainer guitarist) refers to that genre as “squeaky fart music” which always made me smile. I love Ravel, Debussy, Bartok, etc so I’ll look out music by those composers as I’m always listening out for new music to enjoy.
     
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    Absolutely love Scheherazade by Romsey Korsakov. Reminds of this by the multi- talented band “Renaissance” with the angelic voice of the gorgeous Annie Haslam fronting them ....


     
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    Ooooo, we've gone all classic pops! Well a bit.

    This is a nice bit of Borodin, Gliding Dance of the Maidens from the Polotvsian Dances.

    Or as my dad would've known it "Stranger in Paradise"



    My version singing nicely on the Rega, 99p off ebay :emoticon-0105-wink:

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    Yes - “Stranger in Paradise” indeed! :emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    I suppose I'm a bit of saddo knowing that the headshell in the foreground is originally from a Pioneer turntable. Probably a PL12D. And although I never had that particular dust pickup [not a Watts "Dustbug"], my brother still does on his setup.
     
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  14. ChilcoSaint

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    Mostly Russian:
     
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    Classical but different

     
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    This was a bit different and experimental too from EC and The Brodsky Quartet which Declan described as "a song sequence for string quartet and voice and it has a title. It's a little bit different. It's not a rock opera. It's a new thing."

    This song fromThe Juliet Letters has a resonance today in the aftermath of the Brexit opportunist Tory landslide although he wrote it in 1992 when Major won...

     
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    This might sound daft but my Dad bought this album and this introduced me to classical music


     
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    Bless the weather, some topical tunes. COYR



     
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