Spinning Today (Classical version)

Andrew Schultz - contemporary Australian composer I've just come across on Spotify - really good!

https://open.spotify.com/album/47lwr...QJWqzGXxBKLnug

https://open.spotify.com/album/01WpB...SC2u0le6qyh6Yg

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The National Philharmonic Orchestra* ‎– Close Encounters Of The Third Kind And Other Great Space Music
Label: Stereo Gold Award ‎– MER 440
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1978
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack

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this extensive live recording series with Leon Botstein conducting the American SO has many excellent recordings. Well worth investigating.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3wHOM...ReumImZRitrBIQ

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Classical........

Surely no one actually listens to this pretentious shit ....it's only heavy metal done wrong.

Or am I missing something.....?
Don't get me wrong, I have tried, tried, and thrice tried to embrace the old poop, but I don't get it.


Could someone please recommend a classical album for beginners.......Ta.


(Must include The William Tell overture, cause that rocks)

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Originally Posted by thingfish

Classical........

Surely no one actually listens to this pretentious shit ....it's only heavy metal done wrong.

Or am I missing something.....?
Don't get me wrong, I have tried, tried, and thrice tried to embrace the old poop, but I don't get it.


Could someone please recommend a classical album for beginners.......Ta.


(Must include The William Tell overture, cause that rocks)

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Don't call it

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pretentious shit

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.. thats rude....

Sorry Grant, I did of course mean Pretentious Music..........Bloody predictive text.:D

Guess that could be said about most music, depending on your likes. Bar oldie blues of course...[emoji6]

I hate most jazz.
I wouldn't call it pretentious shit, though. :nono:
Although undoubtedly some of it is. :lol:

I've had the CD of this recording for decades.
One of my favourite fairly laidback chamber music listens.
Bernard Herrmann's clarinet quintet and string quartet.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ftYE...RiupKAc09MRuLg

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Originally Posted by thingfish

Classical........

Surely no one actually listens to this pretentious shit ....it's only heavy metal done wrong.

Or am I missing something.....?
Don't get me wrong, I have tried, tried, and thrice tried to embrace the old poop, but I don't get it.


Could someone please recommend a classical album for beginners.......Ta.


(Must include The William Tell overture, cause that rocks)

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I think you need to consider the context, classical music was effectively the pop music of its day, using instruments of the time, primarily wriiten and performed for the privileged. Folk music was the people’s music. If you consider say Vivaldi concertos or Mozart sometimes they were expressing a feeling or a piece of poetry, or landscape. Other pieces being just wriiten to entertain. Later symphonies came which you can consider expressionist. Beethoven being a great exponent of these.

If you want an easy start try the Four Season by Vivaldi. If you listen carefully you will get it, there are parts of the music representing birds and animals, a good copy will have a synopsis or look it up on line.

Another stunner is Beethoven’s symphony number 5.

Most music if not all is an expression of human condition, feelings or what we see, even pop although sometimes it is purely commercial and trite. There is good and bad in all genres, but I would not discount any of it as you may very well miss out on something that is excellent.


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