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I have the complete Naxos CD of the score of The Sea Hawk. It's excellent and I'm disappointed Warner Home Video didn't include an isolated score option for that film like it did for Adventures of Robin Hood.
On another note, I'm working on yet ANOTHER "composer's greatest hits" collection, this time, it's Mozart:
[*] Don Giovanni (Furtwangler, 1954 Salzburg)
[*] Cosi Fan Tutti (Bohm, 1959)
[*] The Magic Flute (Bohm, 1962)
[*] Marriage of Figaro (Kleiber, 1955)
[*] Serenades 10-12, with Clarinet Quintet and Wind Quintet suite from Abduction from the Seraglio (Sabine Meyer)
[*] Serenades 6, 7, 9, and 13 (Bohm)
[*] The Great Piano Concertos vol. 1 (Alfred Brendel/Marriner)
[*] Symphonies 29, 35, 38-41 (Klemperer)
[*] String Quartets 14-23 + Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Hagen String Quartet on the Paganini Quartet of Stradivarii)
[*] String Quintets (Grumiaux String Trio)
[*] Requiem (Levin completion, cond. Pearlman)
[*] Mass in C Minor (McCreesh)
[*] Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 11, 13, and 15 (Maria Joao Pires)
[*] Violin Concertos and Sinfonia Concertante (Carmignola/Abbado)
[*] Sonata for Two Pianos (Barenboim/Argerich)
[*] Coronation Mass/Ave Verum Corpus/Exsultate Jubilate (Nethsingha)
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
July 25, 2015 at 11:33 am (This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 11:44 am by Alex K.)
Following the insight that one can best appreciate great artists when one has properly failed at it oneself, I've decided to gather all the hubris I could muster, read a bit about fugue theory and try and construct a three voice one. It turned out better than I expected, on a relative scale, but really gives you a new appreciation of what these people did . I especially botched the stretto at the end. This is the preliminary result, played using the software musescore
I think it is true that one can gain a better appreciation for something if one has done it oneself, as one has a better sense of what it takes to do it. Still, one can appreciate things without that, which is what I do with most artistic things.
But I did play an instrument as a child, and so I have a better appreciation for what Louis Armstrong did than I otherwise would have. He made it sound easy to play things that most would find [literally] impossibly difficult. He was a god.
And your fugue is better than what one would ordinarily expect from some random person online, but as you are a musician and sing regularly in a choir, it is less surprising than it otherwise might be. And you are right, the end is a bit botched. Still, it overall is very listenable.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
July 25, 2015 at 7:02 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 7:17 pm by Alex K.)
Hey, you should know I'm not a random person on the internet
I was rushing it a bit there. I shall rework it in due time to make it work more smoothly in the end, simply copy-pasting the first answer as a new entry of the subject into the base at the end doesn't cut it yet in combination with that answer... I don't get a natural sounding three part harmony out of it yet.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Just spent an hour listening to this glorious performance of Handel's Watermusic and Fireworks Music on period instruments, including valveless trumpets and horns.
Great work by this French group Le Concert Spirituel.
Minimalist said I should check out this thread so I did.
The moment when I first became enchanted with Beethoven's music is when I heard "Fur Elise" on one of these cute little things as a kid. There's just so much beauty and emotion in his works.
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. I especially botched the stretto at the end. This is the preliminary result, played using the software musescore 
