Demitri_C Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Classical music? whoops ive got lost on VT forum what the hell am i doing here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 39 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: ... what the hell am i doing here? Because listen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, Xann said: Because listen I think i prefer arguing with you in the politics threads 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Demitri_C said: Classical music? whoops ive got lost on VT forum what the hell am i doing here? Why is this post not in Demglish? Has Mrs Dem got control of the keyboard? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 27 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: I think i prefer arguing with you in the politics threads No, nothing still? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted August 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Classical music? whoops ive got lost on VT forum what the hell am i doing here? Don't watch just listen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 28, 2020 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 28, 2020 First night of the Proms on BBC2 atm. New works by Hannah Kendall and Eric Whitacre, Copland's 'Quiet City' and Beethoven's Eroica. Socially distanced players and no audience, so a bit different. Actually really enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 28, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 28, 2020 On 15/08/2020 at 22:34, Xann said: No, nothing still? Thats a feckin rip off of Mark Stewart and the Maffia that is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Up there, that's a Gnossienne. What you got there is a Gymnopedie, ar? You'll remember the cover now. It's a nice one to get if you see it for a pound on CD/LP? They're seen in charity shops. It's always been in the clutch of best recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 The Berlin Academy of Early Music performing Beethoven and CPE Bach. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/099434-001-A/beethovens-sinfonien-und-ihre-vorbilder-i/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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useless Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Edited January 30, 2021 by useless Listened to Exotica (https://youtu.be/NEAK3uWveBo) first and then 'Tactil'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Had this album on today. Ritchie Blackmore was classically trained on the guitar and put a lot of classical elements into his playing. This is his take on Beethoven's 9th , although the live version is far superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 22, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Quote Nikos Mamangakis is a name unfamiliar to film music collectors as most of his scores have been confined to films directed by Reitz: DAS GOLDENE DING (THE GOLDEN THING, 1971); STUNDE NULL (ZERO HOUR, 1976) DER SCHNEIDER VON ULM (THE TAILOR FROM ULM, 1978) and the two HEIMAT films. He also scored a six hour film adaptation of Thomas Mann's FELIX KRULL directed by B. Sinkel. He was born in Rethymnon, Crete and after schooling in Athens came to Munich to study composition with Carl Orff and Harald Genzmer. Like the competitive group of composers depicted in DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT, Mamangakis was part of the young musical avant-garde of the 1960s, writing pieces utilizing quasi-mathematical formulae, aleatoric devices or scored for early electronic instruments or tape. During the early 1980s he wrote two full-scale operas: "Odysee" based on a text by Nikos Kazantzakis and "Erotokritos," a drama of medieval Crete. Should this make you suspect his film scores are cold, austere and bloodless you would be wrong. A new 4CD set from the small German Bella Musica label (BM003018) presents much of the best music from the two HEIMAT films: three CDs are devoted to DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT (running times 64:15, 56:12, 68:08) and the last CD is solely given to music from the original HEIMAT (49:47). In addition, a single CD of new arrangements and performances inspired by DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT has just been released on the Milan label (887881, running time 72:51). The haunting wordless vocal title music for HEIMAT, which in two minutes captures the melancholy and sorrow of remembered personal history, is an unforgettable signature piece. Mamangakis uses this same composition in varied orchestrations throughout the chapter openings and closings of DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT, and three different versions are included in the new Bella Musica recording along with the original 1984 composition. The CD devoted to the original 1984 HEIMAT consists Of 12 musical portraits; leitmotifs associated with the major characters who live in the fictional town of Schabbach. Deceptively subtle, many exhibit gentle folk-like phrasings, yet their economy in no way diminishes their emotional power. Woodwinds and strings or a solo guitar are the favored instrumentation, the latter associated with the character of Herman Simon in both films. Herman's triumphal choral composition which is performed in a huge underground cavern closes both the 16 hour film and the HEIMAT CD. The three Bella Musica discs devoted to DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT are an odd mix: original film music by Mamangakis; concert compositions by Mamangakis and others performed in the film; performances of works by Beethoven. Ravel, Schoenberg. Flotow. Chopin, Gershwin, etc. heard in the film; and snippets of dialogue (in German, naturally). The result is a bit fragmentary and many of the cuts are very short. The pieces are presented in the chronological order of the film, making for very uneven listening. Still there are some wonderful pieces by Mamangakis: Herman's Poulenc-like high school graduation cantata; the plaintive strings and alto cry as Clarissa is rushed to the hospital; the lied set to a text by Nietzsche text (" Die Krahen Schrein") that introduces the character of Alex, the perpetual philosophy graduate student; the filmmakers' imperial waltz; an organ toccata first heard in HEIMAT; a grotesque percussive interlude, among many others. Oddly missing are some of the highlights of the film: cello concerto written by Herman for Clarissa; the lovely bercuse for cello and piano that accompanied Reinhard's trip to Venice; the Foxhole requiem; and the improvisational percussion jam session in the university cafeteria. Instead we are given many odds and ends including a number of works by or featuring the leading actors. Some of these are quite pleasant, particularly a lullaby by Salome Kammer (who plays Clarissa the cellist), a percussion prelude by Daniel Smith (who plays the multi-talented Chilean Juan); and Peter Fischer's setting of Kurt Tucholsky's "Zwei Fremde Augen" sung by Salome Kammer. However. l would have sacrificed some of the minor performances, incidental songs and dialogue for the startling omissions. Three hours of CD playing time only accounts for less than a sixth of the 20 hours of music heard in the film and of necessity much had to be sacrificed. It seems this project was done more as a commemorative memento rather than as a record of the film's score. Credit for the conception of the entire 4CD set is given to actress Salome Kammer, which may explain the unusually large number of pieces by the leading actors. Yet, after waiting nearly ten years for HEIMAT to be released on CD, the appearance of three CDs from DIE ZWEITE HEIMAT seems a blessing regardless of the omissions. Link Been after this for years, soundtrack from my favourite ever TV film series. It's long out of print, but I managed to find an (expensive) copy for sale on Discogs. Worth it. Edited June 22, 2021 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 20, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2021 This is fantastic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 20, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) This is fantastic. Edited August 20, 2021 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheAuthority Posted January 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 8, 2022 You might like Black Angels by George Crumb @useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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