I listened to some classical music as a kid, but something happened to my temper as a grew up, and since then it's been rock mainly.
But very slowly, these thirty years later, classical is creeping back in. Here is one (Christmas Oratorio: Jauchzet, frohlocket) I enjoy, by Bach. (I don't know what happens if you click that link and don't have iTunes installed. But if you don't it takes you to the iTunes store. Double-click the song for a sample.)
Bach was scary brilliant.
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Yes, it doesn't get much better than this. Where you referring to a specific piece or the album in general?
I've always considered the expression of Bach as something different from "music". It is more pure, but also "systemic" in a way that approaches infinity. Closer to God.
Bach would have made a great computer programmer.
I've updated the post to make it clearer; I was thinking about "Christmas Oratorio: Jauchzet, frohlocket".
Also try Haendel: Messiah. A wonderful monumental piece.
I also like all sorts of harmonic tunes, even if produced by an idling jet engine.
If you feel attracted to classical music, you're going to explore a vast, mostly beautiful terrain.
Hey Martha, why don't you play us that Rach 3 song you know. (This is serious shit. Insane.)
And then to recover sanity, here is Chico at the circus.
Ok, Martha knows some Prokofiev too. Namely his Toccata.
It is said that practising this piece leaves blood on the keyboard. The listener it's gonna kill.
"Rach3" does not sound like a classical title to me. ??
That Rach3 - the conductor, with the bent nose and some of those facial expressions reminded me of a bearded Stephen Fry.
"They would lock me in and let me slooshy holy music by J.S. Bach and G.F.Handel,..."
Did you ever listen to any of Carlos' interpretations of Bach?
"Rach 3" is pianist slang for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Opus 30.
"Rach 3" is in a key role in the movie Shine. A bit like "Ludwig van's 9th" is in A Clockwork Orange.
I enjoyed Shine. I like movies where the protagonist is a mentally unstable character (like in Close Encounters, Shining, Se7en, etc.) I'm not sure what that tells about me.
Yes, Alex, I've listened to Walter/Wendy. But I've enjoyed Isao Tomita's stuff more, though.
I'll try Shine.
I always had a fondness for the Innocent character. There's sometimes an overlap with madness.
The only Tomita I have at the moment is "A Sea Named Solaris" just one track on the soundtrack to Cosmos.
I liked the usage of the Bach in the soundtrack to"Solaris", there isn't much music, but when it's there it's pleasing and fitting.
As for CWO, I like the tribute closing tune to Tokyo Godfathers.
As for innocents, when I finally read a Thomas Harris novel (Silence of the Lambs) I realized the only true innocent was Hannible. Oh what fun.
Try this.
"As for innocents, when I finally read a Thomas Harris novel (Silence of the Lambs) I realized the only true innocent was Hannible. Oh what fun."
Yes. Same with John Doe on Se7en. You can't really fault his trying the best he can to rid the world of its (seven deadly) sins, and being proud of his "masterpiece".
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