If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On: The Music Thread: What Are You Listening To?

[lizkat]

Absolutely spot on, and very well said.

Which of those soundtracks would you especially recommend?

Well I recently watched the film Girl With a Pearl Earring again, and have been playing that soundtrack lately as a result. Because of the very different attributes and behavior of characters in that film, Desplat gets to play with the high and low ranges of his orchestration, and the results do remind me of those characters.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Well I recently watched the film Girl With a Pearl Earring again, and have been playing that soundtrack lately as a result. Because of the very different attributes and behavior of characters in that film, Desplat gets to play with the high and low ranges of his orchestration, and the results do remind me of those characters.

Some years ago, I read the book (and loved it) though I have not yet seen the movie.

Must see if I can locate (and listen to) the soundtrack.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Making Plans For Nigel - XTC.

 

[Apple fanboy]

The drummer in this group works in my warehouse. I was pleasantly surprised how good they were. I was expecting it to be an Irish folk band for some reason.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

A night of classics, some old favourites: A few from The Stranglers (Golden Brown, No More Heroes, Waltzinblack), Queen (Who Wants To Live Forever, The Show Must Go On, Bohemian Rhapsody), Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms, Telegraph Road), The Beatles (A Day In The Life...), Supertramp (Child Of Vision, Rudy, Crime Of The Century, Take The Long Way Home), Bono & Luciano Pavarotti (Miss Sarajevo) among others.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Ultravox - Vienna.

 

[quagmire]

Star Wars mood:

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1434745850308272129/

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Sanctus, from The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, by Karl Jenkins.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

@lizkat: A heads-up: A very nice (and welcoming) Classical Music Thread was started last Saturday (September 4) on MR and is well worth a visit.

If I thought that a demand for such a thread existed here, I'd happily start one.

 

[SuperMatt]

@lizkat: A heads-up: A very nice (and welcoming) Classical Music Thread was started last Saturday (September 4) on MR and is well worth a visit.

If I thought that a demand for such a thread existed here, I'd happily start one.

I would definitely have an interest.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I would definitely have an interest.

I suspect that you, @lizkat and I would be the main contributors.

Okay, I'll start one over the week-end.

 

[User.45]

I've heard my first cosmic funk track 10 years ago and hooked ever since.
It is exactly the music you'd imagine for a low budget sci-fi themed erotic movie.
The synth lead with this aftertouch vibrato is just phenomenal.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

A Baroque evening beckons.

Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D Minor Op. 9/2 - 2. Adagio.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And more Tomaso Albinoni: This time, his celebrated Adagio in G Minor.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Laetatus Sum - Claudio Monteverdi.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Canario - G. G. Kapsberger.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Luz del Alva - Del Morra - Spanish Songs Of The Early Renaissance.

Stunning stuff.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Ah.

Well, I have finally graduated from the Baroque, only to arrive at W. A. Mozart.

Thus, I am now listening to his sublime Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor K.466, 2nd Movement (Romance). Try telling me that this isn't perfection...

For anyone who frequents this thread, this is a superb - agonisingly, exquisitely, painfully - beautiful piece of music.

Listen to it, if you haven't done so already; and listen once again, - savour it - if you do know it.

 

[lizkat]

Tonight listening to Brahms 2nd and 3rd symphonies. Pretty sure they beat the Emmy Awards, which I realize I'm condemning without having investigated even the live updates in a few online newspapers...

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