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Have you played the Vivaldi Lute and Mandolin concertos transcribed for guitar Rob?
Beautiful.
Hi Lisa, I have played some (and I agree, very beautiful) of it over the years, especially the Largo from Concerto for Lute in D Major, a very moving piece which I should dig out and play sometime. Julian Bream, my favourite guitarist/lutenist, has a great recording of Vivaldi's Lute pieces. To be honest, over the last three or four years I've generally focused on Bach, including Chaconne from Partita No. 2 - BWV 1004, which is pretty time consuming!
Whilst I appreciate that no-one will listen beyond around 6 seconds, this is one of the most beautiful things ever recorded and was the first track I ever heard by Le Poeme Harmonique and Claire Lefilliatre. on Radio 3 just after 6am many years ago. I remember it as if it was yesterday; Instantly mesmerised.
On the contrary , I've listened to it all. And as you say, beautiful.
Mendelssohn i s a favourite of mine, Fingals Cave, wow, such power.
Anyway, my older brother is a Dr of Music and it kind of rubbed off on me and I can go on about it forever! haha!
Hi Lisa, I have played some (and I agree, very beautiful) of it over the years, especially the Largo from Concerto for Lute in D Major, a very moving piece which I should dig out and play sometime. Julian Bream, my favourite guitarist/lutenist, has a great recording of Vivaldi's Lute pieces. To be honest, over the last three or four years I've generally focused on Bach, including Chaconne from Partita No. 2 - BWV 1004, which is pretty time consuming!
I agree with you on Julian Bream - have many recordings, although some are on vinyl which I need to dig out.
There's a great recording of the lute and mandolin concertos on Deutsche Grammophon with Narciso Yepes on guitar and Takashi and Silvia Ochi on mandolin.
By the way - your brother - is he from Swansea / West Glam and what age is he?
The late John Jenkins did a lot for music in West Glamorgan. In the 70s/80s there seemed a lot of money available in W Glam which was good because it introduced numpties with no money like me to classical music through schools etc.
Some stuff I enjoy:
Bach Violin Partitas Bach Cello suites Brahms violin concerto Elgar cello concerto Faure Requiem Mozart clarinet concerto A major
ummm you're not serious are you? "Classical" (which I assume you are lumping romance period and baroque and such into this) and opera were music of the people? if by people you mean courtiers and monarchs. They were commissioned by and played for royalty. Its not as though they had records rolling around and most people couldn't read signs let alone music.
The music for the common folks were bardic ballads, folk music and secular tunes heard in the churches... unfortunately much of the former two have been lost to time as they weren't commonly written down for obvious reasons...
As to the question... I grew up around opera and as far as the academic type musics its probably my favourite. Top of the class in opera for me is Verde (I have an aria from Rigoletto "zitti, zitti" tattooed on my person). I'm also quite keen on Puchini and Bizet (Carmen is a marvel of music)
In the classical types I like a lot of baroque especially Hayden. later classical-isque is really down to stuff like Lizt and Debussy. I grew up really digging on beethoven too but I don't listen to a lot of these days.
And of course far removed from classical, Holst's The Planets is a pleasure for a dark room and a glass of wine. For those times you want to feel hoity and better than all the Roobes.
I agree with you on Julian Bream - have many recordings, although some are on vinyl which I need to dig out.
There's a great recording of the lute and mandolin concertos on Deutsche Grammophon with Narciso Yepes on guitar and Takashi and Silvia Ochi on mandolin.
By the way - your brother - is he from Swansea / West Glam and what age is he?
From Pontardawe, in his 40's has a PhD in composition from Cardiff. Currently working on a John Cage project at Huddersfield University.
I enjoy listening to classical, instrumental pieces, can be relaxing. My problem talking about it would be that I have no idea who wrote the piece or what it's called, could hum the tunes and light bulb goes on when I hear them, but remembering names of songs, outside commercially popular songs, I am seriously lost.
Not a fan of opera and the singing styles associated. Just not my cup of tea.
Learning music and having piano lessons from Emrys Jones in Manselton was not a particularly evocative start to my life .
It does stay with you Philip like riding a Bike. NO PUN INTENDED THERE .
Its handy to know, but seeing as McCartney knew jackshite about Theory its not that important. Far better to have feel for music and soul
Term that I hate is SERIOUS music as being Classical.
Can think of many modern day popular music musicians that are pretty serious
I know enough theory to sink a battleship but sight reading for guitar is a bitch. Anyway, I'm an improviser...
ps I saw a DVD of the great Joe Pass giving a masterclass to earnest guitar students. I'd always thought he was the cultured professorial type but he sounds like a New York cabbie.
Q: How important are modes? A: Don' ask me nuttin' about modes! I don' know nuttin' about modes!
Not keen at all on the great sopranos of our time as for me the best ladies voice is Contralto.Check out the works of Kathleen Ferrier, Softly awakes me Heart. You ll be in tears after three bars . Moving beyond words.
Personally, Robeson was the greatest Bass that ever lived and Caruso the greatest tenor followed closely by Gigli.
Not keen at all on the great sopranos of our time as for me the best ladies voice is Contralto.Check out the works of Kathleen Ferrier, Softly awakes me Heart. You ll be in tears after three bars . Moving beyond words.
Personally, Robeson was the greatest Bass that ever lived and Caruso the greatest tenor followed closely by Gigli.
Light music? Go for Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusic
Something to stir the soul? Scheherezade
Contemplation. Beethoven Pastoral
Inspirational. Holst Planet Suite. Jupiter
Sex. Ravel
Call me a heathen for this if you will. At an old work place, the radio was stuck on classical fm, and like said, I enjoyed the music as a main, but unless the presenter piped in to talk about the song, I couldn't tell when one song stopped and the other began. A bit like a Cheap Trick album.
Call me a heathen for this if you will. At an old work place, the radio was stuck on classical fm, and like said, I enjoyed the music as a main, but unless the presenter piped in to talk about the song, I couldn't tell when one song stopped and the other began. A bit like a Cheap Trick album.
Prick.
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