What are you listening to?
- Thread starter redjade
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Jesus, these historic recordings from Karajan's time with the Berliner Philharmonics are breathtaking on every level. I'm almost tempted to buy their subscription to get access to the whole archive. Amazing film crews back then as well.
Check this out:
And this:
And a full recording of the "Moldau":
Check this out:
And this:
And a full recording of the "Moldau":
Beautiful.
Mike Oldfields 'Tubular Bells' has been mentioned earlier in the thread. I thought I'd link it again because I liked it a lot when I was younger. It was a piece of music that was introduced by my 8th grade music teacher and it had a big impact on me. I remember the music teacher saying that Mike Oldfield played every instrument in the piece.
One of the things that I found out about Tubular Bells much later is that some of the musical score was used for the movie 'The Exorcist'. I've thought about it again since this post of Laura's and wondered if the reason why I was so impressed by the music was because, as an instrumental, maybe it speaks to wordless experiences and some of the crescendos in the piece can bring me to tears, no mean feat since I don't cry easily, and give me goose bumps. The ringing of the tubular bells towards the end has also felt deeply satisfying as the back ground music and rhythm smoothes and becomes gentler upon his announcement of the tubular bells.
Oldfield also had a family break up when he was 7, his mother became addicted to barbiturates after the death of his younger brother and she was institutionalised for the most of the rest of her life. When he was 10 his father bought him his first guitar. I feel as though this piece, written when he was 19, was his own artistic expression of both the hurt and his attempt at healing his early experiences.
"Think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music."
-George Herbert
This is the original and unfortunately it has advertisements.
One of the things that I found out about Tubular Bells much later is that some of the musical score was used for the movie 'The Exorcist'. I've thought about it again since this post of Laura's and wondered if the reason why I was so impressed by the music was because, as an instrumental, maybe it speaks to wordless experiences and some of the crescendos in the piece can bring me to tears, no mean feat since I don't cry easily, and give me goose bumps. The ringing of the tubular bells towards the end has also felt deeply satisfying as the back ground music and rhythm smoothes and becomes gentler upon his announcement of the tubular bells.
Oldfield also had a family break up when he was 7, his mother became addicted to barbiturates after the death of his younger brother and she was institutionalised for the most of the rest of her life. When he was 10 his father bought him his first guitar. I feel as though this piece, written when he was 19, was his own artistic expression of both the hurt and his attempt at healing his early experiences.
"Think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music."
-George Herbert
This is the original and unfortunately it has advertisements.
