The Music Box

[Horsa]

try these Horsa:

A nice song to dance to & a beautiful 1 to listen to, Vince. I enjoyed them. Thank you very much for sharing.

 

[Horsa]

Well, if it comes to the classical music hipsters, there is no better one than Nigel Kennedy.
Nigel's interpretation of 4 seasons is just hilarious. He also has the history of collaboration with Polish musicians, esp. in the forefront of jazz, both aspects so close to my heart.
This rendition of 4 seasons is with young Palestines. If you don't have time to watch the whole story just skip to 5:45 and listen to the first allegro (Spring) to have a quick taste of Nigel. Hilarious vibrattos. If I was Vivaldi I would just rise from my grave to hear that!

I'm very sorry to disappoint you but I disagree. The best classical music has to include

 

[Horsa]

For some reason I love songs in b-flat major keys. This scale strikes me as very warm and sentimental.
And Pie Jesu by Faure is written as such. Another,very famous version of it:

That's very nice. It reminds me of Charlotte Church when she was younger.

 

[Horsa]

This bloody hilarious. What happens at 0:45 (when she departs from the script for a second) is only the start! Then at 1:35, the mood changes and the music become a bit "metallic". But that's not the end! At 2:22 the mood goes crazy. But that's still not the end! The series of key changes starting from 3:15 are just shocking!
I dedicate this piece to mrzz. And to those not convinced how interesting heavy metal music can be. Those guys create such crazy music all the time and we've seen an example of it earlier in this thread, an example that I admitted to have listened twice, to vfully appreciate.

I'm still not convinced. It still offends my ears.

 

[tented]

As a young boy I used to be King Crimson fan. And I still am in a broad sense. This type of music "symphonic rock", popular in 60s & 70s was very interesting, with Hammond Organs at its core. KC in particular, achieved intriguing sound. Today I stumbled upon their little known live recording of well known Mars movement from Planets op 32 by Holst. That little recording (from December 1969) gave me a chance to re-evaluate KC music few decades later, with my musical taste (almost) fully mature. The re-evaluation went very bad.
Just compare the recording in question:

with the magnificent interpretation by Polish Philharmonic Orchestra (listen to just Mars movement):

OMG, KC recording is like junk! To be clear, it's not that the KC recording is older but the precision and the quality of the KC performance is down the toilet! The "psychedelic" effect of "out of this world" sound by Hammonds, was achieved by introducing random noise in the circuitry, resulting in "garbled" distortion (like in the old analog phones), nothing creative here. Guitar has some interesting sound but that's about all. On top of that, a tempo is clearly disturbed at one bar in the middle: they just chocked for a moment there and made me cringe.
On the other hand, Polish Philharmonic Orchestra recording is just picture perfect, with immaculate rhythm (fantastic job by the director Tarnowski) and interesting amalgamation of sounds from violin section, and especially brass section.
I think in general, if you are a fan of "rock" or "pop" music, once you get a taste of classical orchestral/choral/ensemble or whatever, you will quickly admit that your old musical taste does not stand up to the beauty and perfection of the latter. Pop certainly can entertain us, but cannot achieve the artistic qualities of classical music. My experience above may be extreme but not unique: I could find lots of rock bands that "tried" to interpret classical pieces and failed to achieve anything worthy.

Agree with all of this. The KC is poor and unnecessary. (I feel the same way about their Pictures.) In the pre-Planets section, Lake’s voice is horrible.

I love progressive rock (Yes is one of my all-time favorite bands), but when they do “interpretations” of classical music, it seems silly, whereas classical-filtered-through-rock such as their debut album is perfect.

Thanks for the link to the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra. I enjoyed that a lot.

 

[Horsa]

 

[Chris Koziarz]

I'm very sorry to disappoint you but I disagree. The best classical music has to include

Huh? Where is your supposed disagreement? All pieces you've linked herein are my favourites, and I even mentioned some of them above.
Thanks for re-stating them.
I had time to listen to Guillaume Tell Overture only. And I felt slightly disappointed because the version you linked does not sound as "rich" as I used to perceive it. This version by the famous Herbert von Karajan orchestra sounds better, especially the 2 & 4 movements, that are made to be emphatic, so the more diverse instruments filling in the space the better.

EDIT: Of course you have to listen on high quality headphones to really appreciate the deepness of this interpretation, from very low by some of the double bases to the very high (almost overtones, some kinda tiny bells prominent at the end of 3 movement) which to be honest, I don't know where they come from.

 

[Horsa]

Huh? Where is your supposed disagreement? All pieces you've linked herein are my favourites, and I even mentioned some of them above.
Thanks for re-stating them.
I had time to listen to Guillaume Tell Overture only. And I felt slightly disappointed because the version you linked does not sound as "rich" as I used to perceive it. This version by the famous Herbert von Karajan orchestra sounds better, especially the 2 & 4 movements, that are made to be emphatic, so the more diverse instruments filling in the space the better.

EDIT: Of course you have to listen on high quality headphones to really appreciate the deepness of this interpretation, from very low by some of the double bases to the very high (almost overtones, some kinda tiny bells prominent at the end of 3 movement) which to be honest, I don't know where they come from.

I disagreed with your statement that "Where classical music comes in Nigel Kennedy is the best." or something along those lines.

I'm very sorry. I was looking for a full "William Tell overture" & only found this 1. I've shared a better 1 before but it appears to have disappeared. All the others I found were only the most well-known & remembered part of it (the finale).

 

[Chris Koziarz]

I disagreed with your statement that "Where classical music comes in Nigel Kennedy is the best." or something along those lines.

I said "if it comes to the classical music hipsters, there is no better one than Nigel Kennedy".
By "music hipsters" (my term, apologies if a bit contrived) I meant unconventional musicians. And Nigel is truly unconventional up to the point of being hilarious. You misunderstood me thinking I was talking about classic musicians in general.

 

[Horsa]

I said "if it comes to the classical music hipsters, there is no better one than Nigel Kennedy".
By "music hipsters" (my term, apologies if a bit contrived) I meant unconventional musicians. And Nigel is truly unconventional up to the point of being hilarious. You misunderstood me thinking I was talking about classic musicians in general.

I know. It could have been used to mean classical music hipsters as in fans listening to the music which is what I took it to mean.

I agree. I thought you was talking about classical music in general & its fans. Sorry.

 

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[Vince Evert]

thank you HORSA, i share your enthusiasm for the legendary swedes ABBA.

 

[Horsa]

thank you HORSA, i share your enthusiasm for the legendary swedes ABBA.

You're welcome, Vince.

 

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[Horsa]

The music is a bit hmm different. I like it though. Thank you very much for sharing. I don't think much of the artwork on the front though. Give me a Stubbs, Constable, Landseer, Gainsborough, Titian, Turner, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh or Hogarth any day.

 

[Horsa]

 

[tented]

The music is a bit hmm different. I like it though. Thank you very much for sharing. I don't think much of the artwork on the front though. Give me a Stubbs, Constable, Landseer, Gainsborough, Titian, Turner, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh or Hogarth any day.

I know you still won’t like it, but here’s a better picture of the cover:

 

[Horsa]

I know you still won’t like it, but here’s a better picture of the cover:

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To be constructive instead of just saying I don't like it I will say it's very colourful & looks very similar to a Joan Miro painting I've seen. (I think the art appreciation classes I've been put on are helping me to express how I feel about pieces I don't like & start to appreciate them. A lot of the art we've looked at I like, though.)

To bring things back to music I'm sharing a song about a famous painting (which I just happen to like) & 1 about a famous artist.

 

[britbox]

Still a top anthem.