Anybody Like Classical Music?

[Insidious Von]

I Believe in Father Christmas (Lake, Sinfield, Prokofiev)

I almost dreaded bringing up Peter Sinfield bio, if he's no longer with us I didn't want to know. I'm happy to report he's still alive and kicking. I Believe in Father Christmas is a monumental holiday favorite that can be enjoyed year round. Sinfield is a lyricist, his partnership with Greg Lake went back to The Court of the Crimson King. Classical music is in the public domain, Sergei Prokofiev deserves a songwriting credit since the bridge music comes from his Lieutenant Kije Suite.

It helps that Peter Sinfield lives in Ibiza.

 

[Insidious Von]

I love this piece

I've never heard of Vadim Chiamovich. The Van Gogh is wonderful but I would have preferred him actually playing the Chopin Masterpiece.

 

[Vinson]

I've never heard of Vadim Chiamovich. The Van Gogh is wonderful but I would have preferred him actually playing the Chopin Masterpiece.

Beautiful

 

[Insidious Von]

Yuja Wang has won me over.

I was hesitant, she was out of her depth playing the Brahms 1st Piano Concerto. I love her take on Brahms 1st Piano Trio, at this stage in her career she should be playing chamber music. She has an affinity for it, she knows when to take the lead and when to let the strings sing. Amazing performance...and she looks super hot with short hair.

 

[Insidious Von]

Toronto burnishes it's credentials as a world class city, we now have the Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition. Held at Koerner Hall, part of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

 

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[Insidious Von]

Since it was released in 1955, Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations has never gone out of print. It was one of the first LP's and brought Bach back from obscurity. It was first recorded for Columbia Records, Gould became an international star. Columbia was bought by Sony who have made several reissues.

 

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[MrPrezident]

"By the 1910s, Scriabin’s projects had become more and more grandiose, including his Prometheus: Poem of Fire — scored for a massive orchestra, piano, organ, wordless chorus and a primitive “color organ” designed to project various light designs onto a screen. During the 1911 premiere in Moscow, led by Serge Koussevitsky with Scriabin as pianist, the color organ failed, and the composer never witnessed a performance that included it. One might easily wager that Scriabin would have been duly impressed by the light shows of our contemporary rock bands."

 

[Insidious Von]

Alexander Scriabin was the original rock star, the opposite of his rival the buttoned up Sergei Rachmaninov. Unfortunately luck wasn't on his side, he developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which affected how he played and wrote for the piano. I've never heard anything he wrote for orchestra, sometimes I wonder what was in the hashish he smoked to dull the pain. Rachmaninov superseded him due to the fullness of time, he outlived Scriabin by 27 years. Sciabin passed at 43. I'll have to make time to listen to Prometheus

One of Scriabin's hashish fulled works, Black Mass Piano Sonata.

 

[Insidious Von]

In the 60's he became classical music's Beatles. He and Paul McCartney are the same age.

 

[Alexis*]

Tchaikovsky Swan lake and the nutcracker are my favorites. Blue Danube, tales of Hoffman, polotsvian dances, and Vivaldi 4 seasons. There are so many peices I like but can't identify, side effect of having classical 96 as background music.

 

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[Insidious Von]

Sergai Prokofiev's terrifying wartime symphony No.5. It was written to rally the Russian people against the Nazis during WWII. I'm including just the finale, make sure you can hear the bass drum clearly. With Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons.

 

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[Zoot Allures]

 

[Zoot Allures]

Greatest ever music wriiten for a movie. The words are from Dante poem Divine Comedy

 

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[Zoot Allures]

Radioheads Creep played by classical pianist