Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: December 11, 2024, 9:40 am
Atheist Forums › Discussion › The Arts v
(western) classical music discussion

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
(western) classical music discussion
bennyboy Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: agnostic
Posts: 9147
Threads: 83
Joined: May 22, 2013
Reputation: 46
#511
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 8:34 am
I was gonna post Mozart's requiem, but I've fallen into the many excellent interpretations. Anyone have a favorite?
Find
Reply
Alex K Offline
Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten
*****
Religious Views: Theism is not plausible
Posts: 18510
Threads: 129
Joined: January 19, 2014
Reputation: 91
#512
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 8:59 am (This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 9:00 am by Alex K.)
(March 16, 2017 at 8:34 am)bennyboy Wrote: I was gonna post Mozart's requiem, but I've fallen into the many excellent interpretations. Anyone have a favorite?

I have Gardiner's version with Bonney and von Otter, he's my favorite conductor in general and to me he can almost do no wrong. Formet AF user pyrrho recommended an eastern German recording by Schreier which is awesome, but I haven't seen it put online anywhere.
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.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

Find
Reply
Alex K Offline
Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten
*****
Religious Views: Theism is not plausible
Posts: 18510
Threads: 129
Joined: January 19, 2014
Reputation: 91
#513
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 9:02 am (This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 9:02 am by Alex K.)
Here's a live version

https://youtu.be/q5Y2B55nKZY
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.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

Find
Reply
bennyboy Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: agnostic
Posts: 9147
Threads: 83
Joined: May 22, 2013
Reputation: 46
#514
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 9:19 am (This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 9:59 am by bennyboy.)
(March 16, 2017 at 9:02 am)Alex K Wrote: Here's a live version

https://youtu.be/q5Y2B55nKZY


That borders on definitive.

I feel I shouldn't like Marriner as much as I do-- maybe it's an association with the movie or something, but:



Find
Reply
pocaracas Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Religious Views: Non-believer
Posts: 19644
Threads: 177
Joined: July 31, 2012
Reputation: 92
#515
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 9:58 am
How I was introduced to Mozart's Requiem! Wink

(there's a cut in the original music at around 1 minute... but... well... still a great intro!)


Find
Reply
Rev. Rye Offline Donators
Donator
*****
Religious Views: Freethinker, ULC Minister
Posts: 12196
Threads: 125
Joined: January 11, 2010
Reputation: 45
#516
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 10:09 am
Here's my personal pick, one of the underdogs with a newer completion, Martin Pearlman's recording:



Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]

I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Find
Reply
bennyboy Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: agnostic
Posts: 9147
Threads: 83
Joined: May 22, 2013
Reputation: 46
#517
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 7:49 pm (This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 8:07 pm by bennyboy.)
At 46:10, that's a pretty snappy interpretation. On listening, it sounds borderline manic. Not much mystery, but an awful lot of fire and brimstone!

Next step. . . Metallica! Big Grin
Find
Reply
Rhondazvous Offline
Help Me, Rhonda
****
Religious Views: Happy Heathen
Posts: 3676
Threads: 354
Joined: April 12, 2015
Reputation: 42
#518
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Okay, do atheists believe in coincidences? For anyone who'd enjoy listening to some Mozart and maybe discussing the conflation of classical music and modern literature, I actually mixed my boy in with the excerpt I was working on.
http://rhondadenisejohnson.com/queen/excerpt.html

What emotions do you feel when you listen to this?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
Find
Reply
Rev. Rye Offline Donators
Donator
*****
Religious Views: Freethinker, ULC Minister
Posts: 12196
Threads: 125
Joined: January 11, 2010
Reputation: 45
#519
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 9:37 pm
(March 16, 2017 at 7:49 pm)bennyboy Wrote: At 46:10, that's a pretty snappy interpretation.  On listening, it sounds borderline manic.  Not much mystery, but an awful lot of fire and brimstone!

Next step. . . Metallica! Big Grin

Of course, that said, that recording is from a different reconstruction than many are used to. Surprisingly, despite being two centuries and several continents separated from Mozart, unlike Sussmayer, Robert Levin somehow managed to do a better Mozart than Sussmayer, who would likely have been, at most, two degrees of separation from him.

Levin is a pianist who is well-known for improvising cadenzas for Mozart's works that do an exceptional job at creating stuff that sounds like authentic Mozart off the top of his head:





And surprisingly, despite the piano concerti and sonatas having extremely different needs from the requiem, he does an exceptional job of pulling this off.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]

I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Find
Reply
bennyboy Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: agnostic
Posts: 9147
Threads: 83
Joined: May 22, 2013
Reputation: 46
#520
RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 16, 2017 at 10:48 pm
Bow Down
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Discussion › The Arts v
(western) classical music discussion

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Looking for country music singers similar to Alan Jackson rado84 5 966 July 31, 2023 at 10:27 am
Last Post: rado84
  Christian music you actually like? JairCrawford 31 3968 June 17, 2022 at 10:58 pm
Last Post: Thumpalumpacus
  New Ahem Music Istvan 1 516 March 20, 2022 at 3:39 am
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  New music, Old music Ahriman 79 9532 November 5, 2021 at 5:12 pm
Last Post: Oldandeasilyconfused
  Listening to music popeyespappy 35 4793 September 27, 2021 at 10:20 pm
Last Post: popeyespappy
  Music Composition FlatAssembler 1 348 May 22, 2020 at 3:08 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  Carrie fans and country music. Brian37 13 1725 May 16, 2020 at 8:54 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  My new favorite song of all time excluding classical music Alex K 1 682 January 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Last Post: Rev. Rye
  Never a flash in the pan. MUSIC. Brian37 19 2221 December 7, 2019 at 3:58 pm
Last Post: no one
  Music videos that rep the POTUS'S idiocy. Brian37 9 2041 October 22, 2019 at 11:58 am
Last Post: Fake Messiah



Users browsing this thread: 3 Guest(s)