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Post by pieter on Jun 6, 2019 13:41:03 GMT -7
This is beautiful to in my opinion. Tastes differ from person to person. What are your musical preferences John, Karl, Jaga, Jeanne, Kaima, Ludvik, Nicetoe, Jim, Eric, Gardenmona, Pawian, Tufta and others.
The combination of soprano and alt tenor is special. It is beautiful when both voices go their own way, more towards eachother, merge and separate again. As a kid I couldn't stand Opera and soprano's considering it voices of histerical female singers. But the older I become the more I like soprano's and the female voice. I have learnt to listen to this music and understanding the musical quintessence of it.
John,
Ofcourse Maria Callas has a great voice and her biography speaks to our imagination. He dramatic life is well known and her fame continues after her death. She has a very special voice and style of singing.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jun 6, 2019 13:46:01 GMT -7
Here's one you can listen to while shopping !!!
She Overhears Costco Worker Playing Adele, Stuns Shoppers By Joining For Duet
John
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Post by pieter on Jun 6, 2019 13:56:03 GMT -7
Pieter,
I really like this. They are good.
John
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Post by karl on Jun 6, 2019 15:34:42 GMT -7
Pieter
A very nice and accurate presentation of John's excellent music taste, he has very good taste indeed so.. My self? In long past, I did so enjoy opera, but some time in past, this was lost to bad nerves with the high pitches of ladies voices and sudden down beat of the music.
Some time past, was my self to resort to the late 20s,30s and 40s music. Many for the most part are well balanced if to be selective, then there are the piano recitals and harpsicord, those still I do enjoy. Of late, have my self returned to French music and Italian. Most of the new German artist hold little interest to my self, but enjoyed many of the bands in the cold war time that were anti-war themed.
Then, there are the Argentine music of Carlos Gardel and some others with the Tango and of the Gauchos. This takes my self away from the concerns of the present in to the wonderland of music.
Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 7, 2019 4:26:51 GMT -7
Wow, wow, and wow again. I have enjoyed this thread enormously. Much good music. Thank you Karl. You're a true gentleman. Pieter, I must say you have as far as my music tastes go. The very latest that I have been playing and listening to is: Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor') is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Rus' prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. He also incorporated material drawn from two medieval Kievan chronicles. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890.
Here is a short 10 minute presentation of this masterpiece. Polovstian Dances, Borodin, Prince Igor
I find this very appealing and satisfying. I don't know. At 78 years young my tastes are evolving strangely. My compliments to you gentlemen. Love the music.
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Post by Jaga on Jun 7, 2019 22:50:12 GMT -7
I am addicted to Polovtsian dances since the first time I saw it on TV in 1980s. This is like Wild East (instead of Wild West).
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Post by Jaga on Jun 7, 2019 22:51:07 GMT -7
Pieter, this was also beautiful. These are very talented people and they sing so easily This is beautiful to in my opinion. Tastes differ from person to person. What are your musical preferences John, Karl, Jaga, Jeanne, Kaima, Ludvik, Nicetoe, Jim, Eric, Gardenmona, Pawian, Tufta and others. The combination of soprano and alt tenor is special. It is beautiful when both voices go their own way, more towards eachother, merge and separate again. As a kid I couldn't stand Opera and soprano's considering it voices of histerical female singers. But the older I become the more I like soprano's and the female voice. I have learnt to listen to this music and understanding the musical quintessence of it. John, Ofcourse Maria Callas has a great voice and her biography speaks to our imagination. He dramatic life is well known and her fame continues after her death. She has a very special voice and style of singing. Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jun 8, 2019 3:52:37 GMT -7
For John, I know you like our André Rieu. Her he is in his own city, in the Southern province of Limburg, Maastricht, the Capital of Limburg. André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. He and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts. He resides in his native Maastricht. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu
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Post by pieter on Jun 8, 2019 3:53:12 GMT -7
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 9, 2019 3:40:51 GMT -7
For John, I know you like our André Rieu. Her he is in his howe city, in the Southern province of Limburg, Maastricht, the Capital of Limburg. André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. He and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts. He resides in his native Maastricht. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu
You are correct again Pieter. André Rieu is one of my favorites. Not a classical purist you would like Pieter but a very good performer and presenter. I especially like his method of tuning the concert he will be presenting to the host country he is in. I have a number of his concerts on my PC which I play often.
One of my dreams to accomplish in this life is to be present with coat and tails at a dance with champagne flutes and my beautiful wife in full gown dancing to Strauss waltzes. Alas it will have to take place in another time and another life.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 9, 2019 4:31:57 GMT -7
Here's what I am listening to right now why I enjoy my coffee and cherry babka.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 9, 2019 6:23:45 GMT -7
One of my dreams to accomplish in this life is to be present with coat and tails at a dance with champagne flutes and my beautiful wife in full gown dancing to Strauss waltzes. Alas it will have to take place in another time and another life.
How can a person not like the Beautiful Blue Danube. These dancers are portraying elegance and beauty in their dance.
The debutantes of the 62nd Hungaria Gala Ball performing a Viennese Waltz to The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss, February 24, 2018.
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2019 14:25:22 GMT -7
Mozart is one of the great Austrian composers, next to Franz Schubert, Franz Joseph Haydn, Josef Strauss, Johann Strauss II and Johann Strauss III, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. He certainly is the most wellknown, most loved and one of the best European composers. In Arnhem you have the relatively wellknow, good and very professional Gelders Orkest which plays in the Arnhem classical concert hall, Musis Sacrum. I know a few classical musicians of that orchestra, and the most loved composers amongst these musicians are the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Ofcourse these guys play Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonio Vivaldi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin and George Enescu. But their favorites are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Ik like the Requiem of Mozart John, here is a good version of that:
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2019 14:31:13 GMT -7
2 other pieces of classical music I like very much.
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Post by pieter on Jun 9, 2019 14:59:23 GMT -7
Next to Chopin, my parents were font of Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi and Felix Mendelssohn. A family tradition was listening every year to the Queen Elisabeth Competition, an international competition for career-starting musicians held in Brussels. We listened to it with the stereosound of the TV and radio on on the same time. We could receive Belgian tv and radio during the eighties, although we didn't had cable tv in our part of the Netherlands back then. Often Sergei Rachmaninoff was played, and some times the best pianists were Russians, because they played with that Russian soul. Sergei Rachmaninoff was next to a composer also a good pianist himself. But Japanese, Chinese and American pianists were good too.
What are your favorite composers John? And do you also like American classical music.
I love this also because it is so American. I have American images in my head when I listen to this cheerful and atmospheric and movie like George Gershwin music. This atmosphere and feeling you get in old American movies, broadway musicals and sitcoms. Not in European ones.
P.S.- European music, cinema, culture and atmosphere has it's own quality and I like that too.
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