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Mozart's Prague Symphony definitely gives me a lift, as does the last movement of the 23rd Piano Concerto. It makes my heart sing!  |
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« Reply #31 on: 21:06:50, 16-11-2007 » |
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Heard Delius's La Calinda in the car today (on Classic fm!) and found it very uplifting. That 12 note chromatic run down on the trumpet always makes me smile.
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« Reply #32 on: 18:53:34, 05-12-2007 » |
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Spate of 4(?) in the mornings lately, whereby I caught a brilliant Mahler 6 on TTN by the Romanian Phil-really fine conducting and ensemble to my ear-why arent these guys rleasing over here? paradoxical uplift because the intricacy and pacing of the episodes was so finely judged rather than hammering home the 'leitmotif' etc. Sir Cowan seems to be adjusting to his post quite well and this is a hopeful sign amidst the admittedly frequent inanities at other hours.Likewise Handley M -talking to mbf ceo-noticing that a musicians' life is often stressful (wheras hitherto twas unkown in the broadcast idyll that anyones' was). This increased sensitisation may yet yield a more general return to intelligent comment.
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Plenty of Berlioz does it for me, particularly the Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust, and the Roman Carnival overture.
Recently heard for the first time in 30 yrs the Meyerbeer-Lambert Les Patineurs - some great stuff there, undemanding but polished music. Ditto Gounod's Faust ballet music, Massenet's Le Cid and the Rossini-Respighi Boutique fantasque.
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« Reply #34 on: 02:51:58, 06-12-2007 » |
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I'll tell you what gets me going. The entrance of the fourth movement of Bruckner. WooHoo. This can range from a monstrous plodding canter (Klemperer), to a fair old gallopping (Tintner), or a thunderous collection of hoofs by Bernstein, and even a real nice big trumpet thumping full on attack by Karajan and his orchestral allies. I have listened and heard to so many samples of this, but the one I really want to hear is Jansons and his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra doing it. In fact, I'm away now to see if such a recording exists...
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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, etc.,"
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« Reply #35 on: 12:53:40, 06-12-2007 » |
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Recently heard for the first time in 30 yrs the Meyerbeer-Lambert Les Patineurs - some great stuff there, undemanding but polished music. Ditto Gounod's Faust ballet music, Massenet's Le Cid and the Rossini-Respighi Boutique fantasque.
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Glad to see some popular ballet music getting a plaudit. Have you seen Les Patineurs the ballet? It was on TV some years ago--very entertaining. The final Galop is one of my favourite lollipops.
If you like Le Cid ballet music, you may also like Massenet's various Scenes suites. They're hardly great masterpieces but have some splendid moments. My favourite section is Sous les Tilleuls from Scenes Alsaciennes--the interplay between cello and clarinet is quite magical.
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« Reply #36 on: 17:24:18, 06-02-2008 » |
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a few pieces...
g minor prelude, rach
au fond du temple saint, bizet
campanella (3), liszt
queen of the night aria, mozart,
pf conc 3, rach (3)
impromptu in g flat, schubert
(oh, and anything by dowland as well)
sorry, more than one!!
but those pieces definitely give me a lift (and yes dowland does lift me!)
MLK
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« Reply #37 on: 22:21:24, 08-02-2008 » |
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Further to Martle's Breitlich and despite download problems,bits of Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn on BBC4 Omnibus rerun-sheer artistry and a very human encounter with no showbiz phoneyism.
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« Reply #38 on: 13:30:59, 09-02-2008 » |
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Recently heard for the first time in 30 yrs the Meyerbeer-Lambert Les Patineurs - some great stuff there, undemanding but polished music ...and the Rossini-Respighi Boutique fantasque.
My amateur orchestra played those two pieces last year. After rehearsing them for a number of weeks, as amateurs do, I was heartily sick of them by the time of the concert. At the moment we're rehearsing excerpts from the operas. We're playing the Meistersinger overture so slowly it really drags and playing the chorus of the Hebrew Slaves is a real bore. Oops, sorry, this is supposed to be about music that gives one a lift. I'm putting me coat on even as I type this. |
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« Reply #39 on: 14:17:06, 09-02-2008 » |
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About ten year ago I went through a period of depression after a bereavement. One horrible thing was that I could listen to music that I knew had moved me before, but couldn't feel a thing. I could listen to something, and it would remind me life was not always depression, but it didn't give me a lift.
I think I get a lift out of something I have not heard for some time, and the excitement or the beauty coming back to me as a surprise.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #40 on: 07:39:30, 10-02-2008 » |
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The Meistersinger overture is a test of good conducting imho-the scoring is suet pudding until real ensemble is facilitated, and its really tiring if its plodding and people are demotivated to listen to each other in the band. Could you try imagining youre playing say Le Corsair? The opening of hit me in the tube station on the pa system the other day-so brilliantly written it lifts the day for me.
...And Don B, Thanks for sharing your remembered feelings so eloquently. I was travelling down to my mums' yesterday, such an evocative journey through time past the patina of the heedless doings on the national express.
re: a sense of place, some longeurs about some other places were forestalled by the tome 'Places to Hide' by Dixe Wills which was handed to me in the pub the other night. Shortly afterwards I witnessed a performance which I can only describe as neo-Islamic hip-hop Donald Sinden with stentorian melodica accompaniment. The combination of these two left me completely incapacitated.
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« Reply #41 on: 08:57:48, 10-02-2008 » |
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Shortly afterwards I witnessed a performance which I can only describe as neo-Islamic hip-hop Donald Sinden with stentorian melodica accompaniment.
 Now, that I'd pay good money for. |
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« Reply #42 on: 21:54:33, 10-02-2008 » |
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Andreas Scholl singing almost anything. The timbre of his voice just cheers me up!!
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MabelJane
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« Reply #43 on: 22:13:49, 10-02-2008 » |
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Jussi Björling singing almost anything. The timbre of his voice just cheers me up!!  Ironed to his Verdi Requiem today... |
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« Reply #44 on: 23:26:02, 10-02-2008 » |
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Donald Sinden singing almost anything neo-Islamic-hip-hop. The timbre of his voice just cheers me up!!
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