ABBA

[Adaryn]

Hello Luthien,

Maybe you'd enjoy another weirdo, who I really like, Michael Gira (he was in the Swans back then, check out some early release also maybe.) and his other band called The Angels of light. It's folk somehow with sombre elements in it.

_http://younggodrecords.com/index.asp?

Fwiw.

Thanks, I checked it out and I might have wanted to give it a try a few years ago. I used to like darker things (like dark folk or goth), but I think I began to naturally shift to something else some years ago (Wovenhand is about as far as I want to go now, as far as darker/weirdo music is concerned). I enjoy "lighter" or happier rock better now, like Franz Ferdinand, Muse, etc., neo folk, or great soundtracks like The Lord of the Rings'.

BTW, I also like Albinoni's Adaggio and Sheherazade. I'm no expert in classical pieces, but I DO Love Debussy's La Mer. And I think one of my favourites is Rachmaninov's piano concerto n°2. So intense emotionally.

Himself playing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8l37utZxMQ

 

[vinny]

Well, if you can bring in Scheherezade, I can bring in my favorite ballet number: Balanchine's Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux, and a particularly stylish version at that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QfWXXfJt8M&feature=PlayList&p=1443EE68DA296602&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=31

the original music video!

I never quite 'got it' with ballet in the past, my eyes (heart?) must have been closed tight shut, but something's changed (maybe learning the piano had something to do with it), because - wow. that was... amazing.

 

[Gertrudes]

(and if a person is looking for "impressions" that feed the soul, there's nothing that beats ballet!)

Well, I agree that ballet does look beautiful, and it does feel great to do if you are lucky enough to be in a healthy environment. As an "ex-dancer" myself, it has been my experience that environment doesn't walk hand in hand with what you see on stage....Unfortunately, the beauty sometimes (more like often) hides a very sinister dynamic going on on the backround.
Sadly or not, I can no longer see a piece of dance the same way I used to as a child

[quote author=Laura] Ark - a Bach and Mozart lover - really makes an effort to enjoy some of my more "out there" music, like Pink Floyd, but I can tell when something really agitates his nerves and de-concentrates him.

I have to agree with Ark. Bach and Mozart wrote soul calming music and when I feel stressed out the music from Bach or Mozart can take me to somewhere when there is no time and no frustration. Chopin too.
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU&feature=related
[/quote]

Pink Floyd, love em!
And thank you for that anothermagyar, Chopin is one of my very favorites!

 

[vinny]

Thanks, I checked it out and I might have wanted to give it a try a few years ago. I used to like darker things (like dark folk or goth), but I think I began to naturally shift to something else some years ago (Wovenhand is about as far as I want to go now, as far as darker/weirdo music is concerned). I enjoy "lighter" or happier rock better now, like Franz Ferdinand, Muse, etc., neo folk, or great soundtracks like The Lord of the Rings'.

BTW, I also like Albinoni's Adaggio and Sheherazade. I'm no expert in classical pieces, but I DO Love Debussy's La Mer. And I think one of my favourites is Rachmaninov's piano concerto n°2. So intense emotionally.

I love Debussy too - have been learning to play Claire De Lune which was a real challenge, but so enjoyable to play now I can hit most of the notes ;)

I also like Muse, though I wouldn't exactly call them 'lighter happier' just because they're quite melodic - they can get pretty intense, especially live.

 

[ana]

Well, if you can bring in Scheherezade, I can bring in my favorite ballet number: Balanchine's Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux, and a particularly stylish version at that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QfWXXfJt8M&feature=PlayList&p=1443EE68DA296602&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=31

the original music video!

(and if a person is looking for "impressions" that feed the soul, there's nothing that beats ballet!)

Oh yes! I love it

 

[mkrnhr]

Goodness! the final (of "pas de deux") gave me shivers! I donwloaded it. The dancers are definitively not from this world, do they have some anti-gravity stuff on stage? Very very beautiful music, with somewhat of "je ne sais quoi" of melancolic no?

 

[Adaryn]

I love Debussy too - have been learning to play Claire De Lune which was a real challenge, but so enjoyable to play now I can hit most of the notes ;)

Ah yes, Clair de Lune is wonderful.
Now Satie's Gymnopedie comes to mind too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5U1WJ48rM&feature=fvw
Beautiful, and sad too

I also like Muse, though I wouldn't exactly call them 'lighter happier' just because they're quite melodic - they can get pretty intense, especially live.

I agree, and actually that's what I was telling myself before hitting the "send" button. A more accurate term would be "more positive" in terms of intent (even if the themes can be dark, their intent seems positively oriented), as opposed to the "heavy", twisted stuff I used to listen (with ambiguous imagery and lyrics), and which is definitely negatively oriented (negative dissociation).

 

[Gaby]

Here is some of my favorites :)

Debussy - Clair de lune (violin), David Oistrakh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKd0VII-l3A&feature=related

Grande Polonaise Brillante Chopin - By Yundi Li
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOARCF-ZfE&feature=rec-HM-r2

Romeo and Juliet-time for us (violin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D3nnRd50jE

Pavarotti "caruso"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8A61eY1Efg

Pavarotti "nessun dorma"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTBml4oOZ8&feature=related

Una Furtiva Lagrima -L'Elisir d'Amore, Donizetti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Funp7JTWp2A&feature=related

E lucevan le stelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBaYL8ZnrM

Gluck "Melody" from Orfeo ed Euridice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmG3OAjBXs&feature=related

I also like all the classics posted so far, I'm in love with classical music. But I also like ABBA ;)

 

[Laura]

Mmmm... speaking of talent:

Anne-Sophie Mutter at 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L49-c3LEdtI&feature=related

 

[John G]

Well, I agree that ballet does look beautiful, and it does feel great to do if you are lucky enough to be in a healthy environment. As an "ex-dancer" myself, it has been my experience that environment doesn't walk hand in hand with what you see on stage....Unfortunately, the beauty sometimes (more like often) hides a very sinister dynamic going on on the backround.

Or maybe sometimes the sinister rock concert on stage hides the ballet bar and ballet shoes backstage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNsqDwqIMo

http://www.inherownwords.com/ballet_dance.htm

 

[vinny]

Now Satie's Gymnopedie comes to mind too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5U1WJ48rM&feature=fvw
Beautiful, and sad too

oh yes! I'm learning that at the moment! And Faure's Pavane.

I also like Muse, though I wouldn't exactly call them 'lighter happier' just because they're quite melodic - they can get pretty intense, especially live.

I agree, and actually that's what I was telling myself before hitting the "send" button. A more accurate term would be "more positive" in terms of intent (even if the themes can be dark, their intent seems positively oriented), as opposed to the "heavy", twisted stuff I used to listen (with ambiguous imagery and lyrics), and which is definitely negatively oriented (negative dissociation).

makes sense to me. And there's some heart-wrenching human emotion in there, a reaction to seeing a glimpse of the world as it really is. (rather than negative self-indulgent stuff.)

ok, everyone's posting some favourites so here's one of mine: Eva Cassidy. what a voice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXYu-3r1S8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G860hkE0Tc

 

[Beau]

ok, everyone's posting some favourites so here's one of mine: Eva Cassidy. what a voice...

Yeah, she's really great. Here's a few of my favorites, going a tad away from the more classical genre...

Jenny Lewis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5PZLk4x8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kllyPnkLxY&feature=related

Bon Iver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-zmQ3XEc0

Feist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1w0vxCC2w

Beck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZg4ure9zw

 

[Gertrudes]

Or maybe sometimes the sinister rock concert on stage hides the ballet bar and ballet shoes backstage!

True, stage arts are often connected and we will find multi skilled artists. Most of the times we will only come to know one of their skills
I didn't know who Stevie Nicks was until your post though

ok, everyone's posting some favourites so here's one of mine: Eva Cassidy. what a voice...

Really enjoyed this Nomad! More to add to my list of music.

And for a bit of oldies one of my favorites, for the ones who like Ella Fitzerald and Armstrong:
http://video.tiscali.it/canali/truveo/1088036077.html

 

[Windmill knight]

For rock fans, Sheherazade by Rimski/Korzakov :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1c7Xa1AqM&feature=fvw

Scheherazade!! Thanks for this mkrnhr; I loved it when I was younger and then kinda forgot about it.

I also love 'The Swan Lake' and 'The Nutcracker'. I've watched them both quite a number of times. And this is an essentially rock-person speaking. (Hmm... we've come a long way from ABBA, haven't we? ;))

 

[John G]

I didn't know who Stevie Nicks was until your post though

Yeah her twirling ballerina Welsh Witch Gypsy persona days were like a quarter of a century ago... she's not a child anymore, old enough to reach for the stars...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOV1YVtnEW4&feature=related