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« on: 20:39:47, 28-08-2007 » |
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A song by one of my favourite bands ends with a twenty-second piece of "classical music" and I would really like to know what it is. All I know is what it says in the CD booklet: "Classical music at end of track 1 with kind permission of Virgin Classics/EMI. And the CD itself dates from 1998 so the sampled music must be at least that old. I've tried to extract it to an mp3 and stick it on my web space... I hope this works: http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk/mp3/classical.mp3There may be some extraneous notes at the beginning and end, as it linked two other songs and it was difficult to isolate just the classical section. Any ideas? |
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John W
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« Reply #1 on: 20:48:04, 28-08-2007 » |
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Hardly classical. Might be Philip Glass, that's the composer not the tune  |
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #2 on: 20:51:22, 28-08-2007 » |
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The server doesn't seem to want to share this particular goody with me  |
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« Reply #3 on: 21:11:01, 28-08-2007 » |
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I definitely heard it, is the www missing?
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« Reply #4 on: 22:12:01, 28-08-2007 » |
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Darn it, the www was indeed missing! Your browser may or may not have extrapolated it... It's fixed now. Sorry.  |
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« Reply #5 on: 22:39:06, 28-08-2007 » |
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I've heard very little of Philip Glass, it may be something he wrote 20-30 years ago but I'm really guessing.
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« Reply #6 on: 22:41:25, 28-08-2007 » |
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My computer won't let me listen. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #7 on: 09:16:43, 29-08-2007 » |
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I got there in the end with it last night, but I'm none the wiser. It certainly sounds like a moment from Philip Glass... it might be SATYAGRAHA? It's not AKHNATEN as far as I know (and I know that score in some detail), and the scoring is wrong for it to be EINSTEIN or BEAUTY & THE BEAST.
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« Reply #8 on: 09:30:12, 29-08-2007 » |
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A song by one of my favourite bands ends with a twenty-second piece of "classical music" and I would really like to know what it is. All I know is what it says in the CD booklet: "Classical music at end of track 1 with kind permission of Virgin Classics/EMI. And the CD itself dates from 1998 so the sampled music must be at least that old. I've tried to extract it to an mp3 and stick it on my web space... I hope this works: http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk/mp3/classical.mp3There may be some extraneous notes at the beginning and end, as it linked two other songs and it was difficult to isolate just the classical section. Any ideas? Hello IgnorantRockFan, The piece we're talking about is Company by Philip Glass (based on a text by Samuel Beckett). You can listen to fragments from it over here: http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Violin-concerto-Philip/dp/B00004SYG9/ref=sr_1_2/103-1592908-8893469?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188375756&sr=8-2I'm not a great fan of Philip Glass, but I like this piece very much.  |
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« Reply #9 on: 09:52:24, 29-08-2007 » |
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Thank you Pim (and everyone). I can't listen here at work but I will do so as soon as I get home. Glass is a Minimalist, isn't he? I don't really know anything by him, and I certainly can't tell if I will like him from 20 seconds of music, but I will try to explore further  |
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« Reply #10 on: 10:26:36, 29-08-2007 » |
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I certainly can't tell if I will like him from 20 seconds of music Errr, actually maybe you can |
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« Reply #11 on: 10:33:04, 29-08-2007 » |
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I certainly can't tell if I will like him from 20 seconds of music Errr, actually maybe you can I suppose, logically, "minimalist" implies that you can  |
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« Reply #12 on: 11:47:20, 29-08-2007 » |
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Thank you Pim (and everyone). I can't listen here at work but I will do so as soon as I get home. Glass is a Minimalist, isn't he? I don't really know anything by him, and I certainly can't tell if I will like him from 20 seconds of music, but I will try to explore further You're welcome, i-r-f. Yes, Philip Glass is a minimalist. You should explore his Violin Concerto. A beautiful piece. I don't know the Naxos recording of it, but I like Gidon Kremer's performance on Deutsche Grammophon. |
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« Reply #13 on: 11:49:10, 29-08-2007 » |
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Yes, Philip Glass is a minimalist. You should explore his Violin Concerto. A beautiful piece. I don't know the Naxos recording of it, but I like Gidon Kremer's performance on Deutsche Grammophon.
That's funny, pim, because I was just about to say that I don't know the Naxos recording of it but that I like Gidon Kremer's performance on Elektra Nonesuch! |
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« Reply #14 on: 11:51:45, 29-08-2007 » |
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That's funny, pim, because I was just about to say that I don't know the Naxos recording of it but that I like Gidon Kremer's performance on Elektra Nonesuch! I suppose you mean John Adams's Violin Concerto, t-i-n? I don't believe Gidon Kremer made recording of the Glass concerto on Elektra Nonesuch.  |
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