Music appreciation for the older generation

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I'm trying to develop a taste for classical music and a little of opera on the side. There is never a wrong time to widen out own appreciation for things related to the arts and culture. Now in my twilight years, my taste  for music has evolved somewhat from that which I had been listening to in my youth. I really didn't have time or inclination to delve into multiple genres in the past but with time on my side now, it seems good to listen to some of the master pieces of time gone by.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/arts/music/classical-music-mozart.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

 

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mozart

 

Mitsuko Uchida, pianist

There are so many moments. “Giovanni” has everything. “Figaro” is perfect. And “Così,” that is one piece I would take with me to a desert island: the duet for Fiordiligi and Ferrando, which I do not think is cynical music, and the trio “Soave sia il vento,” which brings tears to my eyes every time the strings start playing.

But K. 545, the “Sonata Facile,” is one of the most amazing pieces, and I have always loved it. The slow movement is the twin of the aria “Dalla sua pace.” 

 

 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Mclove

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2019 | Martha Argerich plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

Conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy (The guy is phenomenal)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNg750e09d4

 

Hear My Song (Boychoir) - full movie 2014

 

 

https://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-225083/soundtrack/

 

• Adiemus by Jenkins
• Coronation Anthem by Handel

• Spem in Alium by Tallis

• Hallelujah by Handel

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https://jwtalk.net/topic/48735-my-prayer/?do=findComment&comment=813512  Thanks Br. Jerry for introducing me to Russian singers. Appreciate your taste in music.

 

 

 

You rode on a troika with sleigh bells,
And in the distance lights flickered..
If only I could follow you now
I would dispel the grief in my soul!

By the long road, in the moon light,
And with this song that flies off, ringing,
And with this ancient, this ancient seven-string,
That has so tormented me by night.

Edited April 30, 2021 by Mclove

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMWJx91sxY

 

The 10 Most Popular Opera Arias - by classical music stars 

 

0:00 Handel - Lascia ch'io pianga from Rinaldo (Deborah York)

7:08 Mozart - Voi, che sapete from Le Nozze Di Figaro (Frederica von Stade)  ❤️

23:49 Puccini - O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi (Valentina Nafornita)

29:23 Puccini - Nessun dorma from Turandot (Luciano Pavarotti)

Edited August 2, 2021 by happiness IS

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You may be interested in the thread on opera which I started some time ago.

 

 

I like to listen to arias on occasion, but much prefer to listen (watch) entire operas.  There are great stories and music (and often superb individual arias too).

 

I just bought the dvd of “Satyagraha” by Philip Glass which is about Ghandi and his influences from Tolstoy, Tagore and how he influenced Martin Luther King.  No “arias” as such and sung in Sangskrit, but so beautiful.

 

Glass has written some amazing operas: Akhnaten, The Perfect American (based on Disney), Einstein On The Beach, Kepler (based on the German astronomer), Galileo Galilei, The Trial (based on Kafka’s novel), The Fall Of The House Of Usher (story by Poe), Appomattox (the end of the Civil War in USA) 

 

They can all enthrall. And they are just by one modern composer.

 

Add in the Classics - Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini etc. etc and there is a plethora of enjoyable entertainments.

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by bohemian
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Thanks Brother @Lee49for this walk down memory lane. Just giddy with joy. It was great to see what those 'golden oldies' singers look like. To quote someone "25 minutes covering my life from age 6 to 16"  Those stats are mine though.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDWPNgRNdHI

 

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Most Popular Song Each Month in the 60s

 

The Theme from "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRV0yHiEua8&list=OLAK5uy_k9FK5AkY2XGdb68U1l-EsAmGMx_QP2TP0

Percy Faith & His Orchestra and Chorus - Theme from 'A Summer Place' (Audio)

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Chet Atkins "Zorba The Greek"

 

 

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Grazing in the Grass - Chet Atkins

 

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SEPTEMBER (Earth Wind and Fire) Performed By SASSY

 

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/arts/music/opera-classical-music-maria-callas.html?

 

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Maria Callas

Listen to the best of opera’s defining diva, chosen by Patti LuPone, Renée Fleming, Marina Abramovic and many more.

 

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“Andrea Chénier” was not the most significant opera in Callas’s career, but in this aria she gives full life to Maddalena, who is recalling the death of her mother, moving from sorrow to hope and redemption. In the 1993 film “Philadelphia” it is this recording that Tom Hanks’s character, suffering from AIDS, plays in the famous scene in his apartment, when he finally opens up to his lawyer. It is the tears we hear in her voice that bring us to tears

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBM4JqH-j8

Maria Callas La Mamma Morta (They killed my mother) Scene From Philadelphia (With Tom Hanks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgSB34QfKiw

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All lyrics are included in Italian and in English. 

The story takes place during the French Revolution. The title of the opera is also the name of the main character, André Chénier, a poet and believer in love and freedom. The story opens at the château de Coigny where Maddalena, a countess, is having a party which Chénier attends. These are the two major roles. The third major role is Gérard, a servant, who secretly loves Maddalena. Gérard later joins Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Eventually, Chénier and Maddalena fall in love. Gérard, who moves up in the ranks, has Chénier (who opposes the reign of terror) arrested but arranges for Maddalena to be spared. Unfortunately for Gérard, Maddalena chooses to die with Chénier rather than live without him. They are both sent to the guillotine.

 

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FSO - Memoirs of a Geisha - "The Chairman's Waltz" (John Williams)

 

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Top 65 Classical Music Masterpieces Everyone Knows, But Not Everybody Knows Their Titles

 

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• The fragment of Debussy's "Suite bergamasque" 
• Dvorak's "Serenade for Strings" 
• Liszt's "Liebesträume" 
• Piano version of Mozart's "Requiem in D minor" 
• Satie's "Gnossiennes" 
• Richard Wagner's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" 
• The fragments of Vivaldi's "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn"

 

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19 minutes ago, happiness IS said:

Top 65 Classical Music Masterpieces Everyone Knows, But Not Everybody Knows Their Titles

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1) 00.00 Tchaikovsky, Swan lake, Dance of little Swans (or cygnets) 

4)00:38 - Vivaldi "Four seasons", Summer 

 7)1:36 - Tchaikovsky, Dance of the sugar plum fairy 

10)2:13 - Dvorak, Symphony no 9

11)2:26 - Richard Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra (2001: A Space Odyssey)

12)2:39 - Mozart, Symphony no 40

13)2:48 - Chopin, Nocturne in Eb op 9 no 2

14)3:08 - Bach, prelude in C

15)3:23 - Erik Satie, Gymnopedie no 1

16)3:38 - Leo Delibes, Flower duet

17)3:48 - Giuseppe Verdi, libiamo ne' lieti calici

18)4:03 - Bach, Orchestral suite no 2

19)4:18 - Boccherini, minuet

 

21)4:38 - Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusic

22)4:55 - Erik Satie, Gnossienne no 1

23)5:15 - Chopin, Nocturne in Bbm

 

25)5:47 - Chopin, "Minute Waltz" 

27)6:14 - Modest Mussorgsky, Night on bald mountain

28)6:39 - Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overure

29)6:51 - Mozart, Lacrimosa

30)7:09 - Chopin, "Funeral March"

31)7:29 - Tchaikovksy, Waltz of the Flowers

32)7:44 - Jacques Offenbach, "Orpheus in the Underworld"

33)7:58 - Mozart, Rondo Alla Turca

34)8:12 - Bach, Air on the G string

 

36)8:44 - Vivaldi, Four Seasons: Autumn 

38)9:28 - Richard Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries

39)9:35 - Chopin, Revolutionary Etude

40)9:45 - Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker March

41)9:56 - N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumblebee

 

43)10:25 - J.S.Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

 

45)10:46 - P.I. Tchaikovsky – swan lake: act I: No.2 Valse

 

47)11:20 - W.A. Mozart – Piano Concerto no.21 in C major (II Movement)

48)11:31 - Johann Strauss II – Kunstlerleben (Artist’s life) op. 316

49)11:46 - Antonin Dvorak – Serenade for strings (II. Menuetto: Allegro con moto) 

51)12:18 - Edvard Grieg – Morning Mood

52)12:25 - Antonin Dvorak – Humoresque Op. 101, No.7

 

58)13:57 - Antonio Vivaldi – the Four seasons “Spring” (I: Allegro)

 

60)14:33 - Franz Liszt – Liebestraume no. 3 in A flat major 6

61)14:42 - Claude debussy – Clair De lune (from Suite bergamasque)

62)15:07 - Erik Satie – Gnossienne No.3

 

 

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2. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart (2:30)

 

4. Prélude No.1 in C major, The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 - Bach (15:20)

 

7. Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28 - Chopin (26:36)

 

9. Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Liszt (34:14)

 

11.The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: Waltz of the Flowers -Tchaïkovski (1:08:45) 1

2. Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Bach (1:15:40)

13. Piano Sonata No. 2, third movement "Marche funèbre" - Chopin (1:18:46)

14. Radetzky March - Strauss (1:28:11)

15. The Nutcracker, Dance of the sugar plum fairy -Tchaïkovski (1:30:40)

16. 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky(1:32:20)

17. Morning Mood, Suite No1. Op.46 - Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt (1:54:33)

 

19. The ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walküre" -Richard Wagner (2:00:35)