Listening to Bach's "Missa Brevis," BWV 233-236. Obviously I love the Mass in B Minor, but these lesser-known ones are equally amazing!
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Seriously!! Everyone go listen to this! I have the Collegium Vocale Gent version on my hard drive, but I'm sure there are other good versions. I honestly think the Kyrie from the Mass in F is better than the much better-known Mass in B Minor. Something about it is just much more flowing I feel. Been listening to the first two minutes of it on repeat for most of the day (I know that's weird, and don't ask how I do it, cause I literally don't know lol).
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Canario - by G G Kapsberger (played by Brandon Acker on theorbo).
A few from The Lightning Seeds:
Sugar Coated Iceberg;
Waiting For Today To Happen;
All I Want;
Perfect;
What If......;
and,
Sense.
Sugar Coated Iceberg;
Waiting For Today To Happen;
All I Want;
Perfect;
What If......;
and,
Sense.
A classic that anyone who watched the (football) World Cup from Italy in 1990 on the BBC may well recall (with a strange nostalgia), as this was the selected soundtrack to accompany the coverage of the BBC:
The (unforgettable) piece of music in question was (is) from an opera that goes by the name of Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini, while the actual piece of music is called Nessun Dorma, and was sung by Luciano Pavarotti.
At the time, it was electrifying......
The (unforgettable) piece of music in question was (is) from an opera that goes by the name of Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini, while the actual piece of music is called Nessun Dorma, and was sung by Luciano Pavarotti.
At the time, it was electrifying......
If I may recommend two:
1) Brothers in Arms. Their best-selling album, and I just saw a "best of All Time" list somewhere and BiA was in the top ten or fifteen. Glorious album, and I'm blessed to have a 5.1 Surround remix disk. Along with the songwriting and Mark's guitar, the Hammond just cries on this album, part of the reason I coughed up the dough for a Nord Electro keyboard decades ago (of course, I can't caress the keys like that, not even close).
2) Love Over Gold. Their worst-selling album, a full-length vinyl LP with only five songs on it. Side 1 starts with Telegraph Road, which I consider the greatest rock song, recording, guitar solo, and one of the best vocals, of all time (screw Stairway, Freebird, U2 and all that other BS!) The 15-minute song builds on a theme, both musically (classical) and lyrically (captures the American Story, in just 3 (4?) verses, like nothing else). It builds up to the first guitar solo, absolute fire, and then calms down again, for the remaining verse. The atmosphere is sustained, then builds, just a bit, and the rhythm starts picking up, Mark lights the fuze (at 11:00), and the most glorious guitar solo of all time hits you in the forehead with a brick!
Can you tell I love this record??
Side 1 ends with a standard-length track, Private Investigations, with incredible dynamic range, including breaths and a champaign glass being thrown against the wall (barely audible), to incredible full-band power chords, and is my speaker demo track. Side 2 has three longer songs, all good, but Side 1 is what makes this album for me. Very Highly Recommended!
EDIT: I had forgotten to mention, on Telegraph Road, how Roy Bittan's (E-Street Band) piano just stitches this whole song together, so masterfully. Can you tell I love this record?
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Dunno why cause it's cringe 60s/70s stock music, but I LOVE THIS!!
Superb choices and some incredible music.If I may recommend two:
1) Brothers in Arms. Their best-selling album, and I just saw a "best of All Time" list somewhere and BiA was in the top ten or fifteen. Glorious album, and I'm blessed to have a 5.1 Surround remix disk. Along with the songwriting and Mark's guitar, the Hammond just cries on this album, part of the reason I coughed up the dough for a Nord Electro keyboard decades ago (of course, I can't caress the keys like that, not even close).
2) Love Over Gold. Their worst-selling album, a full-length vinyl LP with only five songs on it. Side 1 starts with Telegraph Road, which I consider the greatest rock song, recording, guitar solo, and one of the best vocals, of all time (screw Stairway, Freebird, U2 and all that other BS!) The 15-minute song builds on a theme, both musically (classical) and lyrically (captures the American Story, in just 3 (4?) verses, like nothing else). It builds up to the first guitar solo, absolute fire, and then calms down again, for the remaining verse. The atmosphere is sustained, then builds, just a bit, and the rhythm starts picking up, Mark lights the fuze (at 11:00), and the most glorious guitar solo of all time hits you in the forehead with a brick!
Can you tell I love this record??
Side 1 ends with a standard-length track, Private Investigations, with incredible dynamic range, including breaths and a champaign glass being thrown against the wall (barely audible), to incredible full-band power chords, and is my speaker demo track. Side 2 has three longer songs, all good, but Side 1 is what makes this album for me. Very Highly Recommended!
EDIT: I had forgotten to mention, on Telegraph Road, how Roy Bittan's (E-Street Band) piano just stitches this whole song together, so masterfully. Can you tell I love this record?
One of my favs. I still have the vinyl record I bought in 1982.
That was an Apple Music link, it’s not displaying for some reason. I guess I’ll link Spotify…
Edit: And now the Apple Music link is displaying in your reply lol. Maybe the issue was on Apple’s end
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ahhh...
Just found out our wifi is a mess due to all the residual hurricane weather we are getting.
I hope everything’s already over there.
But it wasn’t just your WiFi, the Apple Music link wasn’t displaying for me temporarily either. But now is seems like it’s working.