music to love

holberg suite. i love this. i always think it sounds ‘very english’. i have a thing for all strings! here is some more.

i enjoy a lot of sibelius’s music, and was debating what to start with. but i have decided on the jollity of the opening of the karelia suite. hope you like it too. thinking as i hear it of the friends i had in the french horn section!

the thing with this is that this series got me through redundancy process at work. and hearing this theme still gives me that same sensation of being able to breathe again.

so here it is, battlestar galactica, a theme that i will always be thankful for though i don’t rank it in the music to love pantheon in quite the same way!

i fell in love with philip glass’s music when i went to see the making of the representative of planet 8 at the ENO as a student. it is really difficult to find any traces of that music! i love the rolling harmonies and the repetitions. it is an evolution in his style, and i certainly don’t like it all, but … so i am trying to find in utube clips what i mean. his violin concerto good!

i love this particular piano concerto. one day i need to practice enough to consider playing perhaps the slow mvt… ihave a lovely recording of barenboim playing them in one take, mistakes and musicality and totally brilliant. here is barenboim playing the ‘moonlight’ sonata which i do love playing, but obviously with less skill!

even if it isn’t all written by him, it is great!As usual, yes, i have played in the orchestra - university of london - and sung in the choir - leeds festival chorus. And most noticeably written an exam paper to the dies irae in my head, and had to pause with the choir rests [evolutionary psychobiology].

dies irae one of my fav bits in any requiem tbh, and this no different, but it is all beautiful.introitus and kyrie, confutatis and lacrimosa, tuba mirum,

i adore this early vocal music. i love the harmonies, i love the modulations, and the gentleness and soaring qualities. did you get that i love it? here is the miserere - i had allegri’s earlier for a comparison! [which i love more. somethings are better known because they are better!] with leeds festival chorus, i had the marvelous opportunity of singing spem in alium in rippon cathedral - rather magical! A fantastic bit of elizabethan music. lets not forget vaughn williams fantasia either. anyway, have a wander round the tallis on utube!

such a naff rendition!! but..

and i always have to think hard about which has the R. many centuries apart, but i love them both

john taverner and Sir John tavener

yep, more mind to neutral music. i love these - bach’s cello suites. this one is played by rostropovich, who taught my sister. i have yo yo ma cd at home though, so this is the version i regularly listen to and love - its quite a bit slower. a bit from the second suite too. i’d recommend you flick through that you tube persons others in the series - i think it could be the same cd as mine of all of them! i like the talk around this though, it is the unaccompanied bach that floats my boat!

sh thought this was good music to choose to cheer you up. it made me cry - you know you are messed up when s club 7 makes you cry!

she did like doing the karaoke version with me though.

i adore this man and this music - what a wonderful world if i listen to this back to back for a bit it REALLY helps!

and a bit of satchmo and ella - summertime!

for a different summertime version. i enjoy heifetz playing i think he had a really light touch with the violin - ideally suited for gershwin, as really easy to be overly indulgent with the music - singers get away with it, the violin doesn’t! He arranged a fair number of gershwin’s pieces, and was particularly good at sounding like 2 violins! a violin hero of mine - click through some of the other links!
this also helps - i believe it is also a favourite of Jax - somewhere over the rainbow

anyone else needing a chillpill and a musical rescue remedy?

not very pc, but i was listening to jerusalem on classic fm, reminding me of this cd leeds festival chorus made whilst i was in it. it was good fun! so listen to a few excerpts! or youtube another version of jerusalem and i was glad

I love this bit of music. in this time of stress at work it is a perfect antidote! lots of lovely versions around, and this not the best, but liked the location - flick through some of the others! [that one prob best, but in 2 parts!]

this is exactly what i want after a hard day at work. i can relax into the fab baroque chord progression. Zadok the priest!! obviously its the build up beginning i love best!! an alternative is this, once i have already relaxed, as a bit more chirpy! Arrival of the queen of sheba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0RgjrBu5uE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z5a-tLV7IY&feature=related

OK, having written this 8 times and its got lost, it doesn’t seem to like a titel or a link [fails to save or publish!]

Beethovens violin concerto, absolutely fab. I fell in love with it and learned to play it after my grade 8. Spent the whole weekend attached to my violin. eventually good enough to play it wth an orchestra. tempts me to get violin out again!

i love the sound of a counter tenor. SO I have chose this, as one of my favourite counter tenor arias from Handel’s opera Xerxes. I saw this once at the ENO - really fab production. Actually, i think this version better!

well i had too, this was our marriage music! I love the whole symphony. it was also the piece i played a couple of years back with the High Wycombe Symphonia - with my mum and sister also in the orchestra. prob the last time we will all play together properly like that. It will always give me good memories. this is not the best recording obviously, as it is youtube!

here is cavalleria rusticana by mascagni. I won’t tend to link dates and music! but i love opera, and this is a particular tear jerker [aren't all operas??] so thought I would do a topical monday link!

[and as an easter bonus, a second composer!]

I love them all, but have to say my first love will be my favourite. I first played this at the county string orchestra -? was i about 11? Anyway, this is number 3. I can still play a fair wack of it without music! tell me when we have enough home-edders to do this? I suppose number 2 a close favourite, and with our current recorders,violins and continuo set up [Jade had better keep up with cello!!] mix, could be the one for the future [sort of!]. for the other movts, can we find a trumpet? Actually, maybe number 5… did i say i love all 6??
And feel free to join in on the music meme - Sarah and Jax have. doesn’t have to be classical, doesn’t have to have a theme, just what you are liking, thinking about, singing now.