The most beautiful melody ever written
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Katherine Hepburn's Clara Wieck Schumann played this at the beginning
of "Song of Love". Thats when I was introduced to this work. To me
Its one sublime piece of music that made the portrayal of the love
story of Robert and Clara Schumann all the more moving.
of "Song of Love". Thats when I was introduced to this work. To me
Its one sublime piece of music that made the portrayal of the love
story of Robert and Clara Schumann all the more moving.
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely is thy Dwelling Place) from Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem op. 45
Georges Delerue scored this 1969 historical drama. I am not
sure if the song here was indeed written by Henry the VIII
to try to court Anne Boleyn as depicted in the movie. Regardless
of whether he was the actual composer Delerue extended and developed
this song into one stirring piece of music in the overture in the soundtrack.
sure if the song here was indeed written by Henry the VIII
to try to court Anne Boleyn as depicted in the movie. Regardless
of whether he was the actual composer Delerue extended and developed
this song into one stirring piece of music in the overture in the soundtrack.
Perry:
You offered a title from Scheherazade, I can't even remember the titles. The masterpiece is absolute music to me, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Rimsky-Korakov chose to make it descriptive but it wasn't necessary. As such I can't post just a single movement.
You offered a title from Scheherazade, I can't even remember the titles. The masterpiece is absolute music to me, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Rimsky-Korakov chose to make it descriptive but it wasn't necessary. As such I can't post just a single movement.
I agree with you that the whole piece is marvelous. I love making love to it... so what else can one say!
And I think Gerdiev is a particularly masterful interpreter of it. There are several recording of it by him with different orchestras.
I was referring to the theme from the second movement which I find particularly mesmerizing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgRKXzB6tI ... about 40 seconds in.
Perry
Along the line of some of the pieces already posted in this thread
I'd pick Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
as a work about as enchanting as Ravel's Pavane For a Dead Princess.
With movie themes I'd say Miklos Rozsa was one of the
greatest melodists among the golden age film composers.
Rozsa's nativity music for Ben Hur is music from heaven.
HIs Lady Rebecca's theme from Ivanhoe is to me beautiful
to the point of agonizing.
I'd pick Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
as a work about as enchanting as Ravel's Pavane For a Dead Princess.
With movie themes I'd say Miklos Rozsa was one of the
greatest melodists among the golden age film composers.
Rozsa's nativity music for Ben Hur is music from heaven.
HIs Lady Rebecca's theme from Ivanhoe is to me beautiful
to the point of agonizing.
Is there a greater love letter written in music for his country
than Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana's My Fatherland
(Ma Vlast) I wonder. Famous melody from the 2nd movement that
evokes the sound and flow of the Vltava River. As good as the
rendition here by Rafael Kubelik is I still think the performance
of this work by the great Czech conductor Vaclav Talich is unsurpassed.
than Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana's My Fatherland
(Ma Vlast) I wonder. Famous melody from the 2nd movement that
evokes the sound and flow of the Vltava River. As good as the
rendition here by Rafael Kubelik is I still think the performance
of this work by the great Czech conductor Vaclav Talich is unsurpassed.
At my school, every friday morning-assembly, the music teacher used to play a classical piece. This was one of my favourites.
I wasn't the only one who thought how apt the title was for the piece - "Leaning Over Water". My father corrected my ignorance (Lieder Ohne Worte), but spoiled the illusion.
I wasn't the only one who thought how apt the title was for the piece - "Leaning Over Water". My father corrected my ignorance (Lieder Ohne Worte), but spoiled the illusion.
One of the highlights of the film "Brassed Off" -- Rodrigo's 'Orange Juice' concerto. (The film is about a coal mine closure in South Yorkshire (where all the top brass-bands are based). In the 1920s there were well over a million coal-miners in Britain. Now only 3 mines are left, employing a few hunded.)
