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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture 12:52 - May 14 with 2815 viewsKeno

Favourite classical or orchestral piece

To start two very different ones




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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:40 - May 14 with 604 viewsBlueBoots


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:41 - May 14 with 604 viewsjudespiveyg

This is impossible, Western art music has such a breadth of beautiful and ingenious works, both inside and outside of the canon. I'll stick to three even if that can't remotely do it justice. I should add that strictly speaking 'classical' music is generally music composed between 1730 and 1820, but I'll take it in this instance to mean Western art music.

Some Baroque to start, the third movement especially:


Next, a more romantically styled piece, still with some Germanic, Classical ideas (also one of my favourite pieces I ever performed with my high school orchestra):


Finally, a very traditionally romantic piece:

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:47 - May 14 with 595 viewsStokieBlue

I wouldn't say favourite but this seems apt given the turmoil on the boards at the moment:



And because it's Friday:



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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:12 - May 14 with 581 viewsYou_Bloo_Right


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:29 - May 14 with 574 viewsYou_Bloo_Right

Compare this bit of Vivaldi



with this from Pete Sinfield


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:31 - May 14 with 572 viewsRyorry

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:04 - May 14 by docklandsblue

Then you'll probably enjoy this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r9p89
FWIW I had never heard of it until about 10 years ago when I found myself working with Wayne Coyne who wouldn't stop raving about it - I found the Tom W version and didn't get it at all, then he sent me a link to this version and I've been a convert ever since. I think of it with alarming regularity for such an awkward piece.


Brilliant! Many thanks, downloaded for listening later :) 👍

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:34 - May 14 with 569 viewsRyorry

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:30 - May 14 by hoppy

I'm slightly surprised about that last line - or that anybody liked it, to be honest.

I thought it was a case of Tom Waits for no-one?


Obviously we're all different! Tho tbf, the Tom Waits version was the only one I knew of for about 20 years, so didn't exactly have a choice

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:44 - May 14 with 560 viewsMoriarty


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 18:07 - May 14 with 544 viewsdominiciawful


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 18:18 - May 14 with 541 viewscatch74

Find it hard to listen to this and it’s the first time I have in ages- my stepdad playing - RIP - he’d been around most of my life but sadly passed away 6 months after my mum and a year after my dad, horrendous period of my life. Great piece of music.


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 18:34 - May 14 with 537 viewssolemio

Serenade for Tenor, French Horn and Strings by the Suffolk boy, Ben Britten.
It has to be played by the greatest horn player ever, Dennis Brain.

Went through Hatfield on the bus one day in 1957. The remains of a sports car were attached to a tree. I found out later that it belonged to Dennis Brain who had played the evening before at the Edinburgh Festival. He had fallen asleep at the wheel. For months on my bus journey to school I passed the tree which had a small piece of metal sticking out of it. Tragic death so young.
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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 18:50 - May 14 with 529 viewsBlueBoots

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez + Rod McKuen's Lyrics + Petula Clark's Voice + Johnny Harris's Production =


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 19:14 - May 14 with 512 viewsStochesStotasBlewe



[Post edited 14 May 2021 19:18]

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 21:52 - May 14 with 470 viewshoppy

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:34 - May 14 by Ryorry

Obviously we're all different! Tho tbf, the Tom Waits version was the only one I knew of for about 20 years, so didn't exactly have a choice


I have no feelings either way on it, it was just an opportunity to get a slightly poorly executed pun in...

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 22:03 - May 14 with 466 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 22:56 - May 14 with 447 viewsMelford


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 00:27 - May 15 with 436 viewshoppy



and another that is a well known contemporary song but with an orchestral arrangement...


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 00:34 - May 15 with 432 viewsRyorry

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 21:52 - May 14 by hoppy

I have no feelings either way on it, it was just an opportunity to get a slightly poorly executed pun in...


Having said on another thread that my brain's on a bit of a go-slow, I'd like to thank you for now enabling me to time that accurately at 8hrs & 4 mins 👍

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 07:17 - May 15 with 401 viewsKeno

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:32 - May 14 by Pendejo

I had that LP!


So did I!!

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 22:56 - May 14 by Melford



"Just one Cornetto,
Give it to me,
Not fuc@ing likely,
They're 50p"

Are Cornetto still going?

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 09:46 - May 15 with 377 viewsKeno

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 19:14 - May 14 by StochesStotasBlewe



[Post edited 14 May 2021 19:18]


this deserves a mention


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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 10:05 - May 15 with 367 viewsWeWereZombies

How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:44 - May 14 by Moriarty



Worth noting that if FolkEast goes ahead this August the Afro Celts are topping the bill, and anyone who complains that this music is not Classical or Cultural I will have you know that their one tine vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird is studying for a PhD in traditional music...

I think that is a young Ewan Henderson on fiddle in your clip, his sister Megan was with Breabach on fiddle in the last gig I saw before the Pandemic closed them all down.

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