mint Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Norman, I've just GOT to tell you....My new computer has bluetooth, which means that I can buy those speakers sans fil for it!!!But, I don't know if I'd need speakers as the volume is very LOUD and very clear and I am operating it at only 50%.So, you can now bring on all the stuff you find on line that you post for me and everyone else to listen to and I won't be struggling with sounds that break up or, even worse, that don't even come out other than as NOISES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 It's even better if you download from YouTube, and then listen, because then there is no problem with buffering.You can use this:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Another brilliant octet:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmSYIvq094Evidently Mendelssohn wrote it when he was only 16! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 What I really love is his violin concerto. Heard it live on at least 2 continents, maybe 3!I heard it played by Gil Shaham in New York when he was still a very young man making his mark.I did hear Kyung Wha Chung playing it in Cardiff not long before we came to live in France but she was past her best by then [:(]Can't look around for it now as I have to get ready to go out. Perhaps Norman will post a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 This is the movement that reminds us that he wrote incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emoyA7iGFKgI saw Kyung Wha Chung playing the Brahms in Exeter with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra...The first half was the Rite of Spring so it was a marvellous programmeHere is the Mendelssohn concero...I have linked to this version partly because I love the fire of Vengerov, but also because the Gewandhaus orchestra seems so appropriate...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTiOPJ6g28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Norman,Watch it! A lot of my old records are by the Cleveland Orchestra because I come from Cleveland. Admittedy, not all conducted by Americans. Doesn't anybody here listen to organ music? E Power Biggs, Virgil Fox, Anthony Newman, Carlo Curley (Saw him three or four times in St Albans before he died. Great showman.), etc.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 17,Assuming you meant the Last Night of the Proms, that with the soprano and Nigel Kennedy was one of the best Last Nights I've seen.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 Last night BBC TV4, a programme on requiems with some wonderful singing. Unfortunately, I missed several minutes of the beginning as a friend from the UK rang and we had a lot of catching up to do.Perhaps, Norman, you could give a computer link so that Patf could watch the programme as well?I have a feeling she'd really enjoy it.OH is going to have DuruflƩ but I shall go for the FaurƩ....phew, another of life's little problems solved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hhqck/Requiem/To watch that in FranceUse Google Crome as your browser and install the Hola.org add onIf you don't know how pm me [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Norman,So, this thread is only a private two way discussion. Sorry to invade. Bye.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Not at all. What provoked that reaction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Yes, what on earth was all that about?[8-)]David, if you watched the programme or will be watching it, why don't you give us your thoughts on it?I'm always ready to talk music and always interested to hear an informed opinion.There's always something to learn and always something to discuss.Come back, all is forgiven?[:P]Norman, did you you like the programme, BTW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 [quote user="NormanH"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hhqck/Requiem/To watch that in FranceUse Google Crome as your browser and install the Hola.org add onIf you don't know how pm me [:D][/quote]Thanks for thinking of me! I haven't tried the link yet, but I do know a few Requiems from my choral singing days.I know it's not classical, but we're enjoying the new Gareth Malone choir series, even if it's a bit schmaltzy.Reminded me of the last thing I sang in, Dream of Gerontius. It was very emotional and when it came to "Praise....." etc I couldn't sing for crying - not much help to the altos.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcpAOWN6d8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Pat, I do hope that you manage to watch the programme because I just KNOW that you'd enjoy it![:D]As for the Dream of Gerontius, I got to know the Newman poem first (as a spotty and very serious teenager...urgh) and didn't know about Elgar's compostion. It was many years later when OH first introduced me to that.I have to disagree about Gareth Malone, he gives me the creeps![+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I liked a lot about the programme apart from the usual crass editing that has people talking over the music you want to listen to. Why on earth don't they put commentary in sub titles so it doesn't interfere aurally?Secondly it fall into the usual contemporary trap of confusing exuding emotion with profundity of feeling.Every thing now has to be 'dramatic' [:(]Thirdly it is a pity that the definition couldn't have been widened a bit to 'funeral music' to allow the splendid Purcell music to be included, or Bach (which I find intensely moving in its understated simplicity and confidence) ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGOQt3tn-Q&html5=1My Favourite is Victoria as you might perhaps have imaginedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoUi4OIYCE&html5=1If we move to the big 'orchestral' works the one that stands out is the Brahms, but that hardly counts as a Requiem, more a 'Consolation'Here is a nice version without the usual fat sound and wobbly vibratohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBMhP0UcdU&html5=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 I know exactly what you mean about people talking over the music. I could scream with frustration ....and sometimes DO!Thanks for the links. Will listen on the new ordi. It's about the only thing where it's a GREAT improvement on the old one......[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 [quote user="NormanH"]Secondly it fall into the usual contemporary trap of confusing exuding emotion with profundity of feeling.Every thing now has to be 'dramatic' [:(][/quote]I've noticed this too Norman, and that's why the choir series is nowhere near as good now as it was at the start.Did this date from Diana's funeral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Well I gave a link in the John Taverner thread to that occasion, but the music at that point was still suitably dignified.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuIDtL6ydgleaving aside the absurd grunting of Reg Dwight which may be what you refer to ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I meant more the growth of weepy emotionalism - whatever happened to the stiff upper lip?Still I'm not the one to talk, tears come on easily now. Warren Mitchell once said it comes with age, after 60 music makes you cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 And I was thinking of the fallacy that came in with Punk I think (the whole movement, not just the 'music') that you don't need technique or work to express feeling, just raw emotion will do.In fact those who have spent years acquiring skills, such as classically-trained musicians or dancers are the object of derision for being uptight and incapable of expressing themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 17,Oh God! Gareth Malone. Now he is sprouting a beard. One of his 'choirs' sang in St Albans Cathedral. I didn't attend. I watched the Requiem program and 'computer said no' with about ten minutes to go. I guess I didn't miss much. More about it later after I check my record collection to see how many bits of requiems (?requiea) I have. I think Carl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace almost qualifies as a requiem. I have a CD of it.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 This one?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTktcc4NqO4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Ah, St Albans Cathedral...spent many happy days down there in my youth. The Norman part is very majestic.Back to the subject, I think they might have shown this one on the programme:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBAjzpLdAMThough, as Norman has pointed out, they did not expand their brief to music for masses; more's the pity.BTW, watch out for the Britten season, folk! Sure to be interesting.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 re Britten - when I was in UK in June/July darling daughter took me to an information -giving show of his Gloriana, with the producer singers etc.The small theatre was packed with (probably) opera officianados, it was very interesting, London has so much going on.But I'm very ignorant about opera, (another area in which I'm a music philistine) and the only Britten music I like are his settings of Blake poems. Though I can't say I've heard much else. Maybe themes from the War Requiem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 In this sequence of pieces for tenor Horn and strings by Britten the one at 13'45 is a dirge...Terrifying sound of everynight n all ..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0ITqRBaE0&html5=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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