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1066familyman

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Jan 15, 2008
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During my occasional remembering to search for any more releases of Georg Pelecis compositions, I found this fairly recent album:

Latvian Radio Archive: Georgs Pelēcis.

Take your pick really, the whole album is superb! Here's a flavour of the gorgeousness to be found within...

 


Guinness Boy

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Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
My Dad ran the Music Library in Church Street in the 70s-90s (Cote Brassiere last time I was in town), so I grew up with it. I used to babysit for next door from when I was about 12, mainly so I could listen to their Bowie collection!

Still enjoy it, but veer towards CDs and Radio 3 more then Classic FM, as the adverts drive me nuts, and the same pieces come round. But it's different music for different occasions, last week a Mahler symphony was an excellent accompaniment to a drive to work right through the heart of the Lake District, with Marconi Union on the way back.

I’m similar yet opposite. My Dad played and taught guitar, mainly classical but also flamenco, jazz and folk and my mum relentlessly had Radio 3 on round the house. It bored me silly and I still can’t abide it. It’s possible I’ll grow up at some point in my life but right now I’m in my late 40s and still mainly playing reggae, house, soul, indie and stuff like Idles and Fontaine’s DC.


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1066familyman

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Jan 15, 2008
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I’m similar yet opposite. My Dad played and taught guitar, mainly classical but also flamenco, jazz and folk and my mum relentlessly had Radio 3 on round the house. It bored me silly and I still can’t abide it. It’s possible I’ll grow up at some point in my life but right now I’m in my late 40s and still mainly playing reggae, house, soul, indie and stuff like Idles and Fontaine’s DC.


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What you need is the Radio 3 gateway drugs of Late Junction, Night Tracks, Unclassified, World Routes, Night Tracks mix.

You'll be hooked before you know it :thumbsup: And still be young at heart.
 


Is it PotG?

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Feb 20, 2017
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Sussex by the Sea
A stunning new offering from soprano Anna Netrebko comes out on DG soon.

Featuring stuff from R. Strauss, Verdi, Wagner, Cilea, Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Purcell.

Niiice.

In the meantime.....the one some Bolsheviks tried to ban and controversial gem.

 










Raleigh Chopper

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Sep 1, 2011
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Plymouth
I was watching Venice; a concert for our climate, from The Teatro de Fenice on Sky Arts yesterday and this was the last classical piece of the evening.
A piece that I have heard many time before but not for a long time.
Anyway I found it on YouTube the perfect antidote to a poor Albion performance.
The composer like Beethoven was stone deaf.
Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/l6kqu2mk-Kw
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
Get this in Hi Res on your home system, it doesn't get any better.... honestly.



That's stunning. Despite my normal pompous and hoity toity demeanour, 'classical' music has passed me by, and my musical preferences (as with literature) are idiosyncratic. I have 20 odd classical CDs (lots of Beethoven) but nothing on the iPod and almost a fear of engaging properly with it. Weird. Anyway :thumbsup:
 


1066familyman

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Lyndhurst 14

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Jan 16, 2008
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Spine tingling duet from Anna Netrebko & Elīna Garanča

 


Brightonfan1983

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Jul 5, 2003
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UK
Quite by accident whilst listening to The Planets...

Rather like the time years ago when I watched A Streetcar Named Desire and thought to myself "Ahhh, that's why Marlon Brando is so famous", I listened to The Planets all the way through for the first time last year to see what all the 'fuss' is about. Wow, it's ruddy good. And if it wasn't for his Mars, John Williams wouldn't have had a career!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXOanvv4plU
 






Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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Cumbria
I was watching Venice; a concert for our climate, from The Teatro de Fenice on Sky Arts yesterday and this was the last classical piece of the evening.
A piece that I have heard many time before but not for a long time.
Anyway I found it on YouTube the perfect antidote to a poor Albion performance.
The composer like Beethoven was stone deaf.
Enjoy.

Try the whole piece (or collection of poems) - it's great.
 


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