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[Sophie 378]

The Mozart Requiem is pure bliss.

It's great fun to sing, too. It was a great relief to sing Mozart last year - he actually writes for singers as if they're singers, rather than assuming they're like violins or something that can sustain a note with no breaths over five pages or something.
Anyone know if you can hear all of the requiem on Youtube? Or should I stop being lazy and go buy a CD of it?

 

[HypnosTene]

It's great fun to sing, too. It was a great relief to sing Mozart last year - he actually writes for singers as if they're singers, rather than assuming they're like violins or something that can sustain a note with no breaths over five pages or something.
Anyone know if you can hear all of the requiem on Youtube? Or should I stop being lazy and go buy a CD of it?

Buy a CD! Youtube's audio quality is rather horrible :< and Mozart deserves way better.

 

[vbraun]

I'm not a big fan of music prior to the Romantic period and the very early Romantic era. Easily my favorite piece from before the Romantic era is Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, mostly for the Clarinet. Actually Wikipedia has a decent recording of the Clarinet Concerto.

I'm a big fan of Brahms, especially for his Clarinet Sonatas. Dvo&#345;&#225;k's Slavonic Dances, the first set, became one of my favorite when I was first getting into Classical Music. Holst's Wind Suites are some of the finest Wind band literature there is and are a real joy to listen to.

Recently I've been getting into Mahler with his 5th symphony. I'm hoping to get the rest of them soon.

Brahms' Clarinet Quintet.

Good choice.

 

[Whomp]

This is on El Justo's Age of Imperialism Mod. Very nice when you're slapping the French, Brits and Russians around as the Germans.
Richard Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz

 

[Abaddon]

This is on El Justo's Age of Imperialism Mod. Very nice when you're slapping the French, Brits and Russians around as the Germans.
Richard Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz

 

[classical_hero]

This is on El Justo's Age of Imperialism Mod. Very nice when you're slapping the French, Brits and Russians around as the Germans.
Richard Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz

That is is Actually Johann Strauss Jr. Every year at Vienna during the New Year's Eve Concert, that gets played. There are just too many Strauss' which can be confusing, especially if you include Levi. A Famous piece by Richard Strauus is Also spracht Zarathustra. It is prominent in "2001: A Space Odyssey".

 

[Whomp]

Oops. Thanks for the clarification CH.

 

[Bartleby]

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, second movement.

I find this so beautiful it almost brings a tear to my eye.

 

[HypnosTene]

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, second movement.

I find this so beautiful it almost brings a tear to my eye.

Aye, it is beautiful. One of my favs as well <I am not original in that I like his III, V, VII and IX most ;p>

 

[classical_hero]

It's great fun to sing, too. It was a great relief to sing Mozart last year - he actually writes for singers as if they're singers, rather than assuming they're like violins or something that can sustain a note with no breaths over five pages or something.
Anyone know if you can hear all of the requiem on Youtube? Or should I stop being lazy and go buy a CD of it?

Buy the CD. Have you heard Faure's Requiem?

 

[Sophie 378]

Buy the CD. Have you heard Faure's Requiem?

Probably. I have literally hundreds (yes, really; there's a whole bookcase devoted to cassettes and another of CDs and a massive boxful of vinyls) of cassettes and CDs and vinyl; I only started paying attention to composers and titles when we started searching for CDs of the cassettes that are wearing out - just a few years ago.

I'll listen to bits of it on Youtube for now, and put the CD on my list of "to buy sometime when I have the time/money/attention span".

 

[classical_hero]

I have just found a heavenly piece. It is from the movie Hannibal.
Vide Cor Meum (See My Heart)
This is taken from the poem by Dante called "La Vita Nuova"

ITALIAN/LATIN

Chorus: E pensando di lei
Mi sopragiunse uno soave sonno

Ego dominus tuus
Vide cor tuum
E d'esto core ardendo
Cor tuum
(Chorus: Lei paventosa)
Umilmente pascea.
Appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.

La letizia si convertia
In amarissimo pianto

Io sono in pace
Cor meum
Io sono in pace
Vide cor meum

ENGLISH

Chorus: And thinking of her
Sweet sleep overcame me

I am your master
See your heart
And of this burning heart
Your heart
(Chorus: She trembling)
Obediently eats.
Weeping, I saw him then depart from me.

Joy is converted
To bitterest tears

I am in peace
My heart
I am in peace
See my heart

 

[Kosez]

These guys are on my disc:Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss (both), Haydn, Rossini (note the Willem Tell opera), Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schumann, Verdi (probably the best composer of operas), Brahms, Dvorak (slavonic dances), Debussy, Ravel, Vivaldi.

Rimski-Korsakov is also great. And Sabre dance by Khachaturian. Modern classics: Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue, Stravinski's operas, and Preisner's work for Kieslowski.

Classiacal music is great!

 

[wicshade]

i just found this thread in someones signature im very excited that there is a place to post and share this.

debiles "Lakme flower duet"

it's like eating choclate while jumping off a cliff, bitter sweet.
this recording doesn't have good intonation and the coulor can sometimes be destorted, this song should be heard live onec in you life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-6Ej2lnwg&mode=related&search=

this recording is for orchestra and to vocals the best is the last 3 mins IMO. Debussy's tonality is expressed very well in this song, it use musical expression with lots of 5th, much like clair de lune only to buatiful voices, I'l go ahead and admit it i cry when ever i hear this song, it is to beautiful for my words.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Mozart requiem

I think you almost destroyed this thread by showing us Victor Borge, and i was foolish enough to show his dutch counterpart.

You should check out Verdi's Requiem as well. An amazing counterpart to Mozart's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOybOtYT1-0

In case you were wondering about the passion behind these two "Dies Irae," the words Dies Irae mean "Day of Wrath."

 

[Fifty]

EVERYTHING ELSE IS FOR NOOBS
part 2

 

[Mirc]

The First Piano Concerto by Tschaikovski:

- First part (first part of the first part)
First part (second part of the first part)
- Second Part
- Third Part

With Evgeny Kissin (at 16! ) and Herbert von Karajan.

 

[Bast]

Do you like the one in the opening post from Purcell?

The other one isn't online anymore. But what an amazing rendition of the Canon.

 

[Ramius75]

Bolero - Ravel
Piano Concerto No 1 - Traschosky (spelling)
Carmen - Bizet
And Carvatina - Myers

 

[Sofista]

Here's Tito Gobbi singing Cortigiani, vil razza dannata from Verdi's Rigoletto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAGkOMtdS-0&mode=related&search=

I couldn't find an online translation for the whole scene, but I found a multilingual one for the aria (starting at 3:40):

http://www.opera-guide.ch/show_highlight.php?id=944&oper_id=394&uilang=en