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On my car stereo I currently have an elderly CD of Popular Overtures, with the LSO under Barry Wordsworth. It was an early purchase when we first invested in CD equipment.
This meant that, on my deadly dull grocery shopping trip today, part of my in-house entertainment was Nicolai's Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor.
It's hard to think of a short piece which can lift my mood more than this cheerful little curtain-raiser.
What does the same for you?
Ian.
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NatalieT
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« Reply #1 on: 23:46:23, 01-11-2007 » |
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Grieg concerto (esp. 3rd mvt), Rachmaninov Concerto no.2, and Brahms Symphony no.3 (I think it's the 3rd mvt). Hopefully, I won't cause an accident...  (I tend to sway!) |
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Swan_Knight
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« Reply #2 on: 23:49:04, 01-11-2007 » |
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'Die Meistersinger' overture and the 'Siegfried Idyll' always do it for me! |
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...so flatterten lachend die Locken....
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John W
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« Reply #3 on: 00:01:45, 02-11-2007 » |
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Beethoven's 'Egmont' and the 'Coriolan' overtures hit a spot in my brain, and in my heart, hard to explain why.
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #4 on: 05:30:52, 02-11-2007 » |
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I suppose it's hard to remain unlifted by the Overture to RUSLAN & LUDMILA For blowing away the cobwebs gently of a morning, Hummel's "Military" Septet is pleasantly cheerful stuff |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #5 on: 10:31:04, 02-11-2007 » |
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I suppose it's hard to remain unlifted by the Overture to RUSLAN & LUDMILA Absolutely. Other candidates: Tchaikovsky Serenade for StringsMendelssohn OctetHandel Da Tempeste from Giulio Cesare (the aria where Cleopatra realises that Caesar is still alive and that she will be reunited with him) |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Morticia
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« Reply #6 on: 19:14:19, 02-11-2007 » |
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In no particular order
Herold - Zampa Overture
Strauss - Die Fledermaus Overture
Handel - Moderato from Concerto Grosso B Flat Major, Op 3
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Antheil
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« Reply #7 on: 19:20:07, 02-11-2007 » |
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In no particular order: Beethoven's Eroica, he is the main man for me Frank Zappa, always. Lou Reed, sometimes When someone replies to your Personal Message  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #8 on: 19:36:16, 02-11-2007 » |
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Mendelssohn Octet
Oh, yes! I'd also add Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, especially that terrific opening, Ippolitov Ivanov's 'Procession of the Sardar' and the finale of Tchaikovsky 4! |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #9 on: 19:42:16, 02-11-2007 » |
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As a certain Member ain't going to respond before I go off air, this photo of mine, discovered in some village in the Auvergne, is my favourite.  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #10 on: 21:55:47, 02-11-2007 » |
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I don't know which member in particular was ignoring your PMs, AtTL, but it does strike me in passing that there's another not a million miles away for whom that picture might also have a passing relevance....
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MabelJane
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« Reply #11 on: 22:25:17, 02-11-2007 » |
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That Litolff Scherzo* always makes me smile and, I have to confess, singalong...it's just so joyful!
*from Concerto symphonique No. 4
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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thompson1780
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« Reply #12 on: 22:40:20, 02-11-2007 » |
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The Mandolin bit in "Tales from the Vienna Woods"
The Padstow Lifeboat - yes those notes... !
Tommo
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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richard barrett
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« Reply #13 on: 22:45:27, 02-11-2007 » |
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The Mandolin bit in "Tales from the Vienna Woods"
That would be a zither, I believe, Mr T. Nice though. |
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martle
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« Reply #14 on: 22:54:40, 02-11-2007 » |
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Right now, the bit in the prelude to Gotterdammerung where Siegfried takes leave of Brunnhilde, mounts his steed and disappears from (our) view down the mountainside to pursue his quest and embark on his journey down the river. But not HER view, as she gazes after him and the music makes clear her feelings and a sense of inevitable catastrophy. I hadn't realised until the other day that one motif Wagner uses here is the 'descent into Niebelheim' motif form Rheingold. 'Doomed descents', eh?
I find it uplifting because it's just breathtakingly vivid and real.
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Green. Always green.
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