At the moment, I can't stop listening to the Carmen Fantasy for flute. I have a CD where it is performed by William Bennet and it just makes the hairs on your neck stand up.

What good CDs are you listening to now? Which music makes you inspired?

I've had the Gaubert Madrigal for flute in my head for weeks! Also love listening to Dvorak's 9th Symphony! Never fails to inspire me!

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

Maggie

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Dvorak's 9th Symphony! Never fails to inspire me!

Oh yes, that is amazing!

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Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

I will have to listen to that

Hi nicki_flute
I love the Adagio (2nd movement) in Rachmaninov Concerto No 2. It's a Romantic piece.
My friend is playing it in his Diploma. I am grade one taking grade 2 in March. I am an adult learner and hope to reach that level one day.....but for now will just have to listen to it. ....I also like Le Onde by Einaudi who seems very pouplar on this site and Michael Nymans the Piano.
I have the sheet music for both but can't seem to even get started on them....too difficult at the moment......one day......
On the other side of the coin I like the Boogie Woogie sound and would love to play that type of music one day...
BFN Mike

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I love the Adagio (2nd movement) in Rachmaninov Concerto No 2. It's a Romantic piece.

Haven't heard that again, will have to go looking for all these wonderful pieces!

Believe in yourself and you will achieve your goals! I have improved so much in 2 years, practice, work hard and believe in yourself and you will get there!

Good luck

Nicki

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini- Rachmaninoff
Amazing amazing amazing.

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Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis Maggie

We studied that for AS last year and I hated it! Didn't mind the Norfolk Rhapsody though.
There's a bit not too far into the second movement of the Gershwin piano concerto which I love!

Hey!

Everytime I hear any Maroon 5 song I just want to run to my piano and start playing. When I was sitting on a train and their album came on my iPod i just wanted to start playing!

Lots of Love

Teabag


xxxxx

QUOTE (Teabag @ Feb 1 2005, 07:37 PM)

Hey! Everytime I hear any Maroon 5 song I just want to run to my piano and start playing. When I was sitting on a train and their album came on my iPod i just wanted to start playing!

No offence Teabag, and I would not dare to offend the thing that feeds my caffeine needs, but ENOUGH ABOUT iPODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maroon 5 are pretty cool though, although the lead singer's voice is a tad strange...

Ah The Divine Patrick Gallois - a phenomenal flautist....frankly listening to him play Scrabble would inspire me!

Rachmaninoff, Glenn Miller, anything by Emma Kirkby and B.B. King.

How's that for eclectic!

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QUOTE I love the Adagio (2nd movement) in Rachmaninov Concerto No 2. It's a Romantic piece. Haven't heard that again, will have to go looking for all these wonderful pieces!

nicki! I can't believe you've not heard it! it's sooooooooooooooooooo fabulous!

the Rhapsody is also pretty fabulous.

Bagpuss... gotta watch out for that guy, sounds like he plays a mean scrabble game...

Amber: funny, that's what people always say about my cd collection...

..annnnnnnnnnnnnnd now I have Rachmaninov's 2nd piano conerto whirling around in my head... played by Stephen Hough with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Who needs cds, eh?

Rachmaniov's 2nd piano concerto and rhapsody on a theme of paganini

and of course Le Onde!

There are too many to list that inspire me, but here are a few:

FINZI: Clarinet Concerto (2nd Movement)
ELGAR: Symphony No.1 (4th Movement)
BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin
RUTTER: Benedictus (from 'Mass of the Children')
BRYARS: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
DURUFLE: Kyrie (from Requiem)
HOWELLS: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks
HOWELLS: Sweetest of Sweets
SUMSION: They that go down to the sea
WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down

I could go on....and on..........
David

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Feb 1 2005, 07:08 PM)

I also like Le Onde by Einaudi

congratulations plinkplonkman! another Einaudi fan!

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DURUFLE: Kyrie (from Requiem)

ahhh that's a gorgeous piece - the whole requiem. have a cd of it with the Faure... fab...

Lots of Ravel and Janacek; some Suk (esp. String Serenade, but I just heard the Fantastic Scherzo and that's super too); Sibelius 7; Shostakovich 6 & 10; Poulenc Oboe Sonata; all the duo sonatas with strings (unfortunately, I can't play them properly, and probably never will) and lots more by Brahms; Howard Ferguson's Sonata No 2 for violin and piano, and his Octet (same group as the Schubert) etc....

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Live version)

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DURUFLE: Kyrie (from Requiem)   ahhh that's a gorgeous piece - the whole requiem. have a cd of it with the Faure... fab...

yes - fantastic, and wonderful to sing.

We may have the same cd here - I have I think 3 recordings of the Durufle, and one of them is paired with the Faure.

Maggie

ps anyone singing the Allegri Miserere next week ??

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another one I love as long as the blighters don't sing operatically - lovely with boy sopranos

weeell ....... I have to agree really, although we are gals (no !!) and we don't sing operatically at all.

The first time I ever heard that I had escaped from school early to get home in time to hear Kings on choral evensong. Not allowed in those days - even though I was missing a free period !!

It was my first experience of deliberately doing something against the rules and it felt very guilty ...... it was only when the Allegri started up that I knew without any shadow of doubt that I'd been right to go. Never forgotten the feeling of vindication.

I have an old Kings recording ...... Still sounds good.

M

QUOTE (maggiemay @ Feb 1 2005, 07:05 PM)

Vaughan Williams  Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis Maggie

That is so brilliant. I love all Vaughan Williams but I wish they would not play him so often on stations like Classic FM. Symphony #2 "London" is my favourite.

I suppose the answer to that is not to listen to classic FM!!

The pieces that are inspiring me at the moment are two pieces taken from the Grade 5 Piano Exam (2005-2006.) They are:


Burgmiller - La Tarentelle No 20
Shostakovich - Gavotte no 2 form Dances of the Dolls.

They are absolutely wonderful to hear and play. Finally exam pieces that I enjoy playing, should get a good score if my playing matches my enthusiam for the pieces.

Cheers,
Craig

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Talking of boys voices vs ladies, one of the best choral evensongs I've been to was in Durham Cathedral, and the choir was the normal Cathedral choir plus the top university singers. One piece they sang is probably not so well known - a John Tavener piece written especially for the Cathedral called "The Ikon Of St Cuthbert" (I think! I have the cd somewhere...) - it was the St Cuth's evensong. Quite modern and dramatic. And the combination of the sweetness of the boys' voices and the greater power from the ladies voices was quite mind blowing.... it seemed to get the best of both worlds (especially in the relatively confined space at that poitn)... I have a cd recording of a St Cuth's evensong but with only the normal cathedral choir - and it's good, but it doesn't have the same wow factor!

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Oops, me and putting my big feet in again

not at all Rhaps - my reference to it was quite oblique after all ....

Palestrina - yes, also Victoria and Lassus.

Missa bel' amfrit altera (Lassus) is also a favourite.

Not sure if I've spelt that right - the Latin is less familar than many titles and I've seen it spelt different ways in different places. For months I was convinced it translated as something to do with having to let out my clothes if I eat any more of these lovely chips ...

M

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(There is one, however: Ein Aude by Leondi but I want to keep that secret really)

oooh dont let that get out or Nat might get excited!

QUOTE (dcmbarton @ Feb 1 2005, 10:21 PM)

FINZI: Clarinet Concerto (2nd Movement) ELGAR: Symphony No.1 (4th Movement) BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin RUTTER: Benedictus (from 'Mass of the Children') BRYARS: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet DURUFLE: Kyrie (from Requiem) HOWELLS: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks HOWELLS: Sweetest of Sweets SUMSION: They that go down to the sea WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down

Oh, wow! What a list - and as you say, so many more to choose...

All of Vaughan Williams - Silver Pianist, have you heard the 1913 version of Symphony No 2?

All of Tournemire
Dunstable motets
Faure melodies sung by Gerard Souzay

These are a few of my obsessions...

Jen

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All of Vaughan Williams - Silver Pianist, have you heard the 1913 version of Symphony No 2? Jen

Yes, think it is the 1913 version. Who conducts it? I like the Babirolli.

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Yes, think it is the 1913 version.  Who conducts it?  I like the Babirolli.

I meant the original 1913 score, recently rediscovered (lost in 1914 & RVW constructed it).

The world premiere recording is by the LSO/Hickox (on Chandos) - well worth a listen.

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one of the best choral evensongs I've been to was in Durham Cathedral,

Sarah, your evensong sounds quite marvellous.

I have just been listening to this afternoon's bbc broadast of choral evensong from - guess where ...

Durham!

A good full-blooded sound. They sang Howells and Byrd.
I spent a week in Durham at the summer school there when I was in the sixth form - great place.

Maggie

It was marvellous! One of the best ones I've ever been to - even in Durham.

I went to the recordings a couple of times when evensong came from Durham Cathedral... that was very cool. And in 1st and 4th year I was literally a few minutes' walk away so I could go as often as I liked. You should hear it when you're actually in the Cathedral... wonderful. I've even sung a fair few times in the Cathedral (not on my own though!!) - we did evensong their ourselves a couple of times too, our college choir... not broadcast though!

the only problem with evensong was if you had exams in the rooms on Palace Green, because afternoon exams run from 2.30 to 5.30, and having the bells ringing for evensong from 5 till 5.15 is NOT the best thing to get you in the frame of mind for your last spurt of work in an exam...

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the only problem with evensong was if you had exams in the rooms on Palace Green, because afternoon exams run from 2.30 to 5.30, and having the bells ringing for evensong from 5 till 5.15 is NOT the best thing to get you in the frame of mind for your last spurt of work in an exam...

That and the Cathedral bells ringing every 15 minutes, which supposedly the University has arranged for to be stopped during the exams ...