mancity2012_eamo
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Most Friday nights.Brahms and Liszt.
Most Friday nights.Brahms and Liszt.
Now there’s a new Music Thread.My mate carried his dads coffin into this song earlier this year. The family are Italian, we left the church too Joe Dolce - Shaddap You Face. Great sence of humour on a sad day.
I have started to understand classical music as I've got older. Beethoven is probably my favourite but also love pieces by Debussy too and I'm never quite sure where the boundary ends but a lot of the American composers too.
The one I find most fascinating though is Schoenberg. I can't imagine how it must have sounded around 100 years ago hearing dissonant music for the first time. Even now, it's pretty shocking and I think he had a profound influence on music - afterall, would people like Zappa, Sex Pistols and Happy Mondays been able to do what they did without someone like him?
I went to the "Last night of the proms" at the Bridgewater a few years ago and when it's all back open, I can't recommend it enough. It's not like the one in London, but they play classical music you know and it's a great intro to it as the conductor explains it before they play it. Been a few times and it's a superb night!
Been listening to this wonderful pianist's covers of Pink Floyd.
This is pretty good too ...
She's not on Spotify though, which is a shame.
I got into opera about ten years ago and now am almost obsessed by it.
Went to NY for the Met opera in March last and Donna Del Largo near Lucca for the Puccini festival this summer. Next year I’m going to Carmen at La Fenice in Venice and I’ve booked for the Verona Opera festival. I’ve seen operas in Paris, Vienna and Budapest also.
I also travel to see great orchestras, performers or conductors.
Travelled from Macc to London for Rattle with the Berlin orchestra doing Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony No. 2 a few years ago.
It was an incredible evening.
We are extremely fortunate in Manchester to have access to the Bridgewater Hall and the RNCM. I regularly go into the RNCM for free lunchtime recitals.
When things are back to normal try the Ellen Kent travelling opera companies. Not up to the Met standard but a very high standard from tiny East European countries. They visit the Palace/Opera House in town and also Stoke in their two tours per year.I got into opera about ten years ago and now am almost obsessed by it.
Went to NY for the Met opera in March last and Donna Del Largo near Lucca for the Puccini festival this summer. Next year I’m going to Carmen at La Fenice in Venice and I’ve booked for the Verona Opera festival. I’ve seen operas in Paris, Vienna and Budapest also.
I also travel to see great orchestras, performers or conductors.
Travelled from Macc to London for Rattle with the Berlin orchestra doing Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony No. 2 a few years ago.
It was an incredible evening.
We are extremely fortunate in Manchester to have access to the Bridgewater Hall and the RNCM. I regularly go into the RNCM for free lunchtime recitals.
Thought she was Beckhams Mrs at first but realised she doesn't have musical ability like that - nor the legs eitherWow, just look at those legs.
They don't make pianos like that any more.
Don't know much about the second player but the first one, AyseDeniz, does cover other bands and sometimes rearranges the tunes, or parts of them, to make a more classical sound. Her albums also combine traditional tunes or are fully classical. I just find it an easier way into the genre.Very nice but why have these talented musicians chosen to play pieces by those talentless twats in Pink Floyd. Could have picked Pretty Vacant, Peaches or anything by Morrisey
Missed opportunity