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Classical Music for the Film Music Fan

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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2008
    An evening of Vaughan Williams on THE PROMS on BBC 2 right now.

    Bye punk wave
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    I think that we've shamed Alan into finding and listening to it.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"

    I have a couple of versions of this. I love the LSO version conducted by John Williams.

    Simply stunning! Glorious music! cool
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    I will check this thread daily until Alan has listened to it.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    sdtom wrote
    I will check this thread daily until Alan has listened to it.
    Thomas smile


    The Alan Watch has begun.

    wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    And I notice he is on the site right now!!! Watch Watch Watch!
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
  7. I shall listen to it by the end of today...
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    punk

    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    I think that this link from the FSM board might be appropriate for this thread. I spent a bit of time looking up the links etc. It is definitely not dirty laundry!!!!
    Thomas smile

    http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/p … ;archive=0
    listen to more classical music!
  10. So I listened to some Hovhaness earlier...

    The version of Mysterious Mountain / And God Created Great Whales is the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Gerard Schwarz) version on the Delos label.

    Mysterious Mountain first...I enjoyed this very much. Just what I expected from Hovhaness. Reminded very much of an Alfred Newman or Rozsa biblical epic in places (1st & 3rd movement) and a little baroque in between.

    And God Created Great Whales was a bit different though. There were some fine touches in this 12-minute piece and it would be interested to know the motivation for Hovhaness to use the pentatonic scale (giving it a definite Oriental feel to it) - this CD's liner notes doesn't go into too much detail - but on the whole I didn't like it. It just seemed too fragmented a piece, with the recorded whale songs intruding into the music. For a piece representing a "...depiction of earth as it emerges from the primordial chaos..." I thought that Jean-Michel Jarre did a better job in Oxygene.

    I'll find some time for the other pieces on this CD at a later date.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    Good anyway that you listened!
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
  12. Some more from me.

    - Symphonic Impressions of Oman (Lalo Schifrin)
    A great piece of modern program music from Schifrin, one of the most eclectic film composers of the Silver Age. Eight movements of orchestral development split over twelve tracks. Highlights include the tribute to Sinbad adventure stories 'Fantasy' (which could sit happily next to Herrmann and Rozsa's scores on the character), the lengthy 'Rondo', and what is probably one of the more energetic tracks titled 'Elegy' that you're likely to hear. The London Symphony Orchestra performans. There's not a hint of traditional Omani music here - hence the title. Though there are ways in which Schifrin's modern style comes to the fore, this is a very traditional late romantic portrait of the exotic east, and would sit comfortably with Scheherezade.

    - Letters from Argentina (Lalo Schifrin)
    As an Argentinian, it probably was unavoidable that Lalo Schifrin would be able to cook up a solid tango. However if you only ever encountered his work from the perspective of the films he's scored, this might seem a very obscure corner of his work - with only Carlos Saura's brilliant film Tango drawing on his talents in this area. In this live recording, you'll hear a lot more of it. The main theme from the Saura film - 'Tango del Atardecer' - opens things up fantastically. The ensemble consists of piano (Schifrin himself), clarinet, violin, bandeneon, double bass and percussion, and the recording places the listener really beautifully on the stage with them.

    - Officium (Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble)
    Goodness, Garbarek's soulful saxophone weaving in and out of the glorious voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. What a great idea... Not sure if the album quite sustains me, but the 16th century piece that opens (and closes) the album - Morales 'Parce mihi domine' - is one I've returned to hundreds of times. The pieces are a mixture of early Gregorian (including songs they're not even what the original melody was), polyphony, and Renaissance composition.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  13. sdtom wrote
    Good anyway that you listened!
    Thomas smile

    Don't get me wrong, there's plenty on this CD (that I have heard so far) that I do enjoy: Mysterious Mountain is definitely up there with Mount St. Helens Symphony in terms of enjoyment. Sometimes it's just easier to write a bit more about why I don't like something than why I do like something!
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    Which is why it is hard to like everything.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008 edited
    Daphnis Et Chloe - Maurice Ravel

    A long time favourite of mine. Written as a Ballet this score is a fantastical flight of fantasy that features Nymphs, Pirates, Satyrs and the god Pan written for a very large orchestra with a wide selection of purcussion and wordless choir and even features a wind machine. For me this is an awesome orgasmic work of otherworldlyness and it's influence can be felt very strongly in many scores, of particular note are Jerry Goldsmith's LEGEND ( minus the synths wink ) and SECRET OF NIMH and even the "religious" moments of THE FINAL CONFLICT.

    Ravel is one of modern orchestral musics Godfathers, such was his orchestrational excellence.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    Another good choice which is somewhat easier to get into.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    sdtom wrote
    Another good choice which is somewhat easier to get into.
    Thomas smile


    cool

    I gave it a spin yesteday afternoon Tom and it still souds so goddamn fresh and new. Daphnis Et Chloe is Ravel's masterpiece.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    One of many Timmer
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    sdtom wrote
    One of many Timmer
    Thomas smile


    I haven't finished with Ravel yet! I just think this thread works better with one recommendation at a time.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2008
    Agree!!!
    Sinfonia Antarctica, The Red Pony, and Scheherazade. Whoever listens to them please report back to the thread. And you have to listen more than once.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    Wouldn't this thread be better on the main page rather than Off Topic?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  22. Seems it is now.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    franz_conrad wrote
    - Letters from Argentina (Lalo Schifrin)


    NOW you're cooking! (Though you had to pull out the Big Guns to get my attention biggrin )
    Schifrin in classical jazz fusion mode is truly at his best, and never more than here, when he's able to use the music from his roots. Excellent recommendation, Michael, which I'll second without hesitation.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    Martijn wrote
    franz_conrad wrote
    - Letters from Argentina (Lalo Schifrin)


    NOW you're cooking! (Though you had to pull out the Big Guns to get my attention biggrin )
    Schifrin in classical jazz fusion mode is truly at his best, and never more than here, when he's able to use the music from his roots. Excellent recommendation, Michael, which I'll second without hesitation.


    "big guns"? Laugh? I almost cracked a rib! rolleyes wink

    I have taken notice of this recommendation though, I have a few of his 'Jazz Meets The Symphony' albums and they're brilliant, 'Letters' is a must for me.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    Compared to his previous recommendations, Tim... rolleyes

    tongue
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    Martijn wrote
    Compared to his previous recommendations, Tim... rolleyes

    tongue


    Me doofus. Me bend over. You kick! shame
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008
    As for me the jury is out on the Jazz Meets Symphony series. I'd like to hear all of them but right now I'm tapped out.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorScribe
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2008
    franz, I just received and listened to Golijov's Oceana album based on your recommendation. Not quite what I pictured based on your words, but very intriguing. I think it will have to grow on me a bit. But given the pitifulness of my classical music knowledge I intend to take many more recommendations from this thread as I have money to do it.
    I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to!
  29. Scribe wrote
    franz, I just received and listened to Golijov's Oceana album based on your recommendation. Not quite what I pictured based on your words, but very intriguing. I think it will have to grow on me a bit. But given the pitifulness of my classical music knowledge I intend to take many more recommendations from this thread as I have money to do it.


    Start at 'Tenebrae' and the 'Three Songs'. The title work itself is not a favourite of mine, but the rest is a very potent brew.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2008 edited
    La Cathedrale Engloutie ( ENGULFED CATHEDRAL ) by Claude Debussy

    Based on the Breton legend telling how the Cathedral of Ys was engulfed by the sea in the 4th century AD because of the impiety of the inhabitants. This magnificent piece ( originally written for just the piano ) runs at just under 8 minutes of orchestral power and shows Debussy's preoccupation with water and bells. Pianist Robert Schmitz, who studied with Debussy, rightly calls attention to the ambiguity at the heart of the piece : is it an "association of two religious concepts or a struggle between them"?

    Orchestrated by Leopold Stowkowski ( yep, the legendary conductor who appears in Disney's FANTASIA ) I just can't recommend this piece enough.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt

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