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Redevan, you might want to check out my blog "Fortress of Solitude"... Not really a blog at all, but a collection of pictures, quotes, and music of a quiet beauty to help medicate the soul.  :)
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Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Hungarian March

 

 

Something to put a spring in your step! Sounds like it was taken from the recording by Sir Colin Davis with the LSO.

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Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Hungarian March

 

 

Something to put a spring in your step! Sounds like it was taken from the recording by Sir Colin Davis with the LSO.

 

Very nice. One of those pieces everyone's heard but no one can name.

It's also called the Rákóczi March, and it's also attributed to Liszt.

The truth is, both Berlioz and Liszt stole it from wandering gypsies.

 

Isn't it ironic? Don't ya think?  ;D

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On 05/02/2019 at 22:35, [[Y...] said:
 

IMHO still the best version out there. But feel free to try to change my mind!

So you want me to troll the internet for a better performance of that?  ;)

But yours does underscore the point that the music from Peer Gynt should always include the words. And Anitra's Dance should always be danced:

 

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I don't know how to attach a link, but I these days I've really been loving Barber's Adagio for Strings.

 

My emotions have felt muted during my taper and that piece really tugs at some strong "feels."

 

P.S. I just figured out how to attach link :)

 

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Composed by Bernard Herrmann for Citizen Kane

This is actually an amazing piece of music I had not heard. Just one more amazing thing from Bernhard Herrmann.

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Posted this on my blog, but it'll get more views here.  :)

 

Played beautifully by Arthur Rubinstein...

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Grieg: Piano Concerto II: Adagio

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232px-Nicky_Benedetti.jpg  Nicola Benedetti CBE (born 20 July 1987)
is a Scottish classical violinist. Benedetti was born
in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, to an Italian father
and an Italian-Scottish mother. She started learning
to play the violin at the age of four. At age eight, she
became the leader of the National Children's Orchestra
of Great Britain. By the age of nine, she had already
passed the eight grades of musical examinations while
attending the independent Wellington School, Ayr, and
in September 1997 began to study at the Yehudi Menuhin
School for young musicians under Baron Menuhin and
Natasha Boyarskaya in rural Surrey, England.

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The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams

 

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Wow, thanks Evan – I actually use classical music as a form of pain management, so what a Meditation this is. Just glorious.
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Wow, thanks Evan – I actually use classical music as a form of pain management, so what a Meditation this is. Just glorious.

 

Well then, here's one more for your pain.

 

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Ombra Mai Fu
Georg Friederich Händel
Soprano: Lucia Popp

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Omigosh thanks, that’s a wonderful rendition of Ombra mai fu – I’m adding it to my pain-relief playlist now.

  :smitten:

 

I actually have a version of this on my Apple Music playlist, by the amazing contra tenor Franco Fagioli. Dang, am I having a benzo moment here? I think we may have discussed contra tenors on this thread before, as it’s feeling very déjà vu:laugh:

 

Anyway, found this video of it on YouTube:

 


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Ombra Mai Fu
Georg Friederich Händel
Contra tenor: Franco Fagioli

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I actually have a version of this on my Apple Music playlist, by the amazing contra tenor Franco Fagioli. Dang, am I having a benzo moment here? I think we may have discussed contra tenors on this thread before, as it’s feeling very déjà vu:laugh:

 

Never heard Franco Fagioli before. Nice rich timbre.

And his name is Italian for "Frankie Beans"

How cool is that? Cool beans!

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