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Give me your recs!
I love classical/instrumental/opera/choir music (well mostly baroque, but that's only if we're getting into specifics) and I listen to it a fair amount. Ironically, I'm not one who memorizes everything written by a composer. Heck, sometimes I'll listen to a piece more than once and not even know the composer or even the song title.
Anywoo, I'm sure I'm not alone. If you're up for it, please link me some of your favorite pieces (any era/genre ... medieval, renaissance, baroque, opera, classical, romantic, 20th century, contemporary, movie scores, etc.)
I actually first heard this melody in a 1960s cover of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, and I loved the melody so I did a search and found the source.
Love music composed for castrati. It's one of my weird quirks.
Rameau is the shit. He's like the best example of overly embellished baroque music. While I do enjoy a lot of his ballet-operas, I picked this piece because I love the demonstration of baroque ballet.
This is just awesome, the haunting echo in the caves is insane.
Another melody I first heard in a pop song, well a Japanese pop song by my favorite voice actress. The night I heard the song played on the classical radio station I freaked out in excitement, but never got the title. Then when I was a freshman in college I took a music appreciation course and I finally got the title to my mystery song!
Anywoo, I'm sure I'm not alone. If you're up for it, please link me some of your favorite pieces (any era/genre ... medieval, renaissance, baroque, opera, classical, romantic, 20th century, contemporary, movie scores, etc.)
I actually first heard this melody in a 1960s cover of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, and I loved the melody so I did a search and found the source.
Love music composed for castrati. It's one of my weird quirks.
Rameau is the shit. He's like the best example of overly embellished baroque music. While I do enjoy a lot of his ballet-operas, I picked this piece because I love the demonstration of baroque ballet.
This is just awesome, the haunting echo in the caves is insane.
Another melody I first heard in a pop song, well a Japanese pop song by my favorite voice actress. The night I heard the song played on the classical radio station I freaked out in excitement, but never got the title. Then when I was a freshman in college I took a music appreciation course and I finally got the title to my mystery song!
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Sorry, I suck at embedding things but these are a few of the many I love (I can provide more... so many more...) I love choral music, and also piano music
part of Requiem for my friend by Preisner -always sends shivers down my spine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xacflWZig8c
Another Requiem - this time Faure - this is the Pie Jesu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxquaZZFQo
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff - another good choral piece with some thumping good tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
Missa Solemnis by Beethoven - this is the Kyrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncKcq3bBK1Q
and some non-choral...
Beethoven piano concerto No 5 'The Emperor"
(anything by Beethoven really...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46JgM-K5SI
Bach Cello Suite No 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEgAn7bLgk
Vaughn-williams - Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU
I'll stop there... hope there's something there you like and might even be new to you!
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Also, no worries about not embedding them. Chances are my computer won't be able to handle more youtube embeds than what is already in the journal entry!
OH! I have a favorite classical radio station as well. It's now a public station/listener funded, but it's a NYC staple and has been on air since 1939! WQXR WQXR (http://www.wqxr.org)
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Ahaha, I love André Rieu's concert clips. He makes me laugh but the music is good!!! (and the girls wear great dresses :3 )
In Beethoven related news, I love the piece they used in The King's Speech. The buildup is great!! XD
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And the Preisner is spine-tingling, isn't it?
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Most of these are contemporary.
Here are some of my favorites:
ERA ~ Ameno (one of my favorite pieces of music...there's a Game of Thrones fanvid to this song that just makes the overall vid so epic):
Gregorian version of Ave Maria (common pieces in churches, but I like the song...and this version is a nice one...I have the one by Celtic Woman on my iPod :p):
Dreamcatcher from Secret Garden (calming, beautiful musical piece):
Zelda Medley by violinist Lindsey Stirling (Lindsey is so good in what she does...this is a favorite of mine):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3KUyPKbR7Q (embed disabled)
Gypsy by Ronan Hardiman (piece from Lord of the Dance...another of my favorites...kind of a seductive song...I find it motivational while writing ;)):
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Hee, a lot of your picks are or almost New Age. Definitely my favorite type of music to listen to while reading or vegging out!
Funny you linked the Gregorian chant piece. I was totally listening to Gregorian versions of contemporary songs yesterday, like Boulevard of Broken Dreams (http://youtu.be/-SvhLaHRvUs) and Clocks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgUMWSITk7Q). They have many more, but you should definitely check them out if you have some time!
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Ah yeah. *facepalm* I'm not good at labeling some music...but New Age makes sense. I just find the melody pretty and save it to a YouTube playlist. :p
I've listened to some of the Gregorian versions of contemporary songs, but not those particular two. I like the Gregorian versions of Forever Young and Wind of Change. Thanks for the recs!
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This was what I was originally looking for. "She loves and she confesses" by Purcell, I love this.
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I love the lute! Much appreciate the Purcell rec!
EDIT
Just want to add that I always get a little giggle when I see contemporary costumes/staging paired with century specific music.
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If you like it I'd be happy to send it to you, as I'm pretty sure the CD is out of print.
(I love Maite to bits; I saw her sing in Chicago and have been obsessed ever since.)
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Oh and a long playlist!!! I love putting those on when I'm working or reading! :D
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Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Pslams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms), conducted by The Maestro himself.
I first heard this piece when one of my friends from Tacoma Youth Chorus did the solo in the second movement locally. I grew up on West Side Story, too, (my mother had this awful vinyl version with Jose Carrararrarrawhatsisface and... some female opera singer, I've blocked it out). I am a Bernstein fangirl. He made his musicians miserable lol but he made music so beautiful it's beyond compare. AND HIS LITTLE FACE. omg. lol.
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I really enjoy his Candide overture (and I may get Kristin Chenoweth's version of 'Glitter and be Gay' stuck in my head all the time). Though like anything, not familiar with all his work. Thank you for this nice piece of ear candy!
Love how it started energetic, then ended quite softly.
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Turn up your volume and put on your seatbelt for this. It's a snippet from the choral reckoning where the town calls for the title character's blood in the opera Peter Grimes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes). I had the unbelievable fortune of seeing the LA opera do this when I was in undergrad, and it was literally life-changing for me. Its genius can be found even in just this little snippet-- the plaintive fog horn underlaid at the end. Ung.
I could show you a dozen Britten videos, but this is the one that came to mind first.
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...dunno if it makes the best background music, though! lol. Well, some of it does for sure, like Anonymous 4 or the Sixteen (depending on what the pieces are, of course). I ALWAYS listen to Anonymous 4 when I'm writing canon Merlin.
/excessive sharing
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Ahaha, yeah. If I ever get my ass back to drawing, I could listen to a choral rec playlist while working on art. Since if I used it for BG reading music I would probably get distracted by ~words~.
Yeah, send me those links!
(If you could put them in as links instead of embeds, my computer would thank you forever. Ahaha, next time I do this I should put that in as a disclaimer. I had no idea the adobe plugin would slow down the old girl so much. XD Live and learn!)
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http://www.triomediaeval.no/
http://www.thesixteen.com/
:D
I'm sure there are playlists on youtube, i just... have really insanely bad google-fu. ^^
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This is a set from my 2nd senior recital four years ago, which was all 20th century music by LGTB composers.
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I love the quirky animal songs you chose XD
What's your voice range?
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;) j/k