Music

PS As a big Rachmaninoff fan, I'm dying to know when he composed a fourth symphony,as I thought he had only written three. :)

Post 41

Friday, February 14, 2003 - 3:32pm

P.P.S Happy Valentines Day!

Post 42

Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 8:41am

Fourth concerto. Sorry. No one must know about the fourth symphony. Rach's on strike.

Post 43

Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 2:07pm

Okay, okay, I know this is not where the conversation was going, but I have question, and I can think of no people better to ask than Objectivists. After all, they have good taste.

I love classical music, but I don't know what else is worth getting and listening to beyond what I have in my collection. I love (almost all) DeBussy, Dvorak (esp. his 9th symphony), Smetana's The Maldau, and some Camille St. Saens. If I like these, who else in classical music should I look into? Please, feel free to chime in. Reccomemdations needed!

Post 44

Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 8:19pm

You need Beethoven's 9th, the Choral Symphony. The 5th would also come in handy.

How about also the Brahms Double Concerto and the Elgar Cello Concerto (ideally with Jacqueline Du Pre and Sir John Barbirolli, classic 1965 recording). Try also Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, the Bruch Violin Concerto and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

If you think you might like choral music then listen to Handel's Messiah.

Post 45

Friday, September 5, 2003 - 2:46pm

Thanks buddy, I will check them all out. Anyone else have any more reccomendations?

Post 46

Sunday, September 7, 2003 - 1:33am

Ryan - visit this page on SOLOHQ:

http://SoloHQ.com/Spirit/Music.shtml

Post 47

Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 8:32pm

Nice! Thanks Linz!

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 8:52pm

Wagner. You must get Wagner into your life; it will be much the richer for the experience. :-))

Start perhaps with a highlights CD of the Ring Cycle (Solti's version is a good choice)or if orchestral alone is you bag then a CD of Toscanini CD playing Wagnerian orchestral excerpts.

You'll never regret it. I promise. :-))

Post 49

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 8:54pm

Wagner. You must get Wagner into your life; it will be much the richer for the experience. :-))

Start perhaps with a highlights CD of the Ring Cycle (Solti's version is a good choice)or if orchestral alone is your bag then a CD of Toscanini CD playing Wagnerian orchestral excerpts would be a good choice. (There are many 'cleaned-up' CDs Toscanini available.)

You'll never regret it. I promise. :-))

Post 50

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 1:22am

Ryan - I apologise for my friend Cresswell: can't take him anywhere. He's tone deaf, you know. Do *not* bring Wagner into your life under *any* circumstances - meretricious pomposity set to pseudo-music.

:-)

:-(

Post 51

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 3:18pm

I really must apologise for my friend Perigo.

He's been trying all day to use the word 'meretricious' in a sentence and this is the only chance he's had. :-)

Post 52

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 1:41pm

About Wagner, I fall somewhere in-between Peter in Lindsay, because I recommend the 22-minute version of the Ring Cycle presented by Anna Russel. Once you hear that you will never hear Wagner again without a smile.

Post 53

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 6:00am

If I may add a recommendation. "The Land of the Mountain & the Flood" by Hamish MacCunn. Written when he was 19 as he exited the Royal College of Music.

And why not some later Haydn symphonies (for he was the father) # 101-104.

And a wee taste of Handel - "Acis & Galatea". Even the slaves are happy in this masque from the pop-meister.

Post 54

Monday, September 22, 2003 - 8:33am

You all rule. THanks a million.

Post 55

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 9:23pm

I would also recommend the music of Mike Shapiro, who is one of two Objectivist composers (me being the other one, unless there's more that I am not aware of). Since I don't have my own site up yet, I'll point you to his. You can find it at www.mikeshapiro.com .

Pianoman

"Music is food for the soul. Now leave me alone while I listen to my cheeseburger!" Pianoman

Post 56

Friday, December 12, 2003 - 6:06pm

hey all, I'd recommend Shostakovich. I don't know much about him, but I like his stuff and he's continually getting ripped off in film scores.

plus http://maddox.xmission.com/ recommended him and hey funny people can have decent taste in music too. his music is also mentioned on the page linked earlier in this thread, but ah well. He really is good enough to be mentioned twice.

Post 57

Friday, January 30, 2004 - 4:36pm

Yes, that's right we Fenwicks are explicitly Objectivist-ish. We have indeed played at an ARI sponsored event... and in point of fact, we have been billed at times as, "the world's greatest (and only) Objectivist Afro-Celtic Yiddish Ska band".... let's just say, if Bob Marley, Ayn Rand and the Marx Brothers ever had lunch, we'd be the dessert.... Come check us out at http://www.thefenwicks.com
And dig our two studio albums:
"Member of No Tribe" and "eudaimonia"

p.s. Ska is today's tiddly-wink, that's what I think!

Post 58

Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 5:15pm