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  1. Identifying Non-Classical music
    Hello, I'd like your help with Pamir songs please. I have chosen three Pamiri songs, but I do not know their meanings or words. I do not know for instances, if they are laments, epics, happy or sad songs etc. Could you please help me? The three songs can be heard on Youtube or on Amazon.com Here...
  2. Opera
    : I heard him on Sirius today in a live broadcast recording of Massenet's Esclarmonde. The announcer said that Sutherland remarked that his singing gave her chill bumps. That is high praise indeed, and it is justified to me from what i heard. I don't hear his name mentioned in lists of favorite...
  3. Opera
    Are any of you familar with the simply gorgeous contralto Jean Madeira? Check out her Erda:. I have heard her mostly on historic broadcasts from the Met from the middle of the last century. The only other contralto I have heard with such a huge, rich, low voice is Ewa Podles. She sounds like she...
  4. Orchestral Music
    Thought I'd do a simple poll today for fun. I would like to know: Which Beethoven Overtures do you feel are "truly great" or what some might call "essential listening"? If you think they are all great and absolutely need to be heard by everyone than vote for all of them. If you think only a...
  5. Opera
    I have heard her a couple of times on Sirius and was impressed. Her Abigaille was pretty riveting. Has anyone heard her live? It sounds like an enormous voice but recordings can be deceptive. My disappointment in her is from what I heard, her high C tends to be flat. Chime in on your opinions...
  6. Composer Guestbooks
    Cipriano (or Cypriano) de Rore was a member of the Franco-Flemish school who moved to Italy and initially became famous for his madrigals, especially his 1542 book. He may have studied with Willaert. He spent his most productive years in Ferrara, serving Duke Ercole II d'Este. Although his...
  7. Opera
    I don't ever remember anyone trying to classify Caballe's voice in my reading over the years. She sang most of the big coloratura roles Sutherland and Callas sang and did so very well, despite having just a so so trill. Her L'Orange Norma is by far one of the finest ever recorded. She even had a...
  8. Solved Cases (archive)
    Dear forum members, could you please identify music starting from 4:12. since the beginning of this video it's Schubert's 8, first movement, but what is second piece of music I forgot, I do remember I've heard it before, but now, can't figure it out and it keeps plating " in my ears. Please, help!
  9. Vocal Music
    Well Thomas Tallis spem in alium is perhaps among the greatest motet ever, the oxford camerata did a wonderfull job, wow a 40 voices motet, you can feel the power of sutch tremendeous masterpiece The motet usually bored me, but this one was so grandiose it blew me away. Than i might had...
  10. Identifying Non-Classical music
    hello is there anyone for helping me to find the title and the composer of the piano piece whe can heard on this short video ? thanks a lot from France Gauthier
  11. Solved Cases (archive)
    hello is there anyone for helping me to fond the title et the composer of the piano piece whe can heard on this short video ? thanks a lot from France Gauthier
  12. Solved Cases (archive)
    I have been searching for years to find the name of a certain piece of music. My only recollection of it is from old movies or movie trailers. However out of all the threads and lists for "common", "top", or "most played" classical movie pieces, I have yet to find it. One piece of reference in...
  13. Classical Music Discussion
    So dreamy and Debussy-esque:
  14. Classical Music Discussion
    Please understand that I have no ulterior motive in posing this question. I'm pretty new to non-operatic "classical" music and am not trying either to build Mendelssohn up or tear him down. I have heard a couple of his Songs without Words and like them very much indeed, but beyond that I have...
  15. Non-Classical Music
    Please help me identify this instrumental music/album . I heard this tune in some movie and I know it's from an old instrumental album . Appreciate your help !
  16. Solo & Chamber Music
    I have just got into Dvorak's chamber music, I am a bit of a beginner but I love the American and the E flat Major quintet which I found on a bargain cd of the Janacek Quartet/Vienna Octet. I have heard the 13 & 14 are brilliant quartets and want to get a good recommendation for a nice pairing...
  17. Classical Music Discussion Polls
    What I mean is, are the warhorses, those pieces that supposedly everyone knows and has heard to death, the pieces you know well enough or have heard often enough to be worthy of the label warhorse?
  18. Classical Music Discussion
    I've got to admit I have a problem with having a "guilty till proven innocent" attitude with any classical music I haven't heard. Maybe it's due to the fact that getting to know a composer's works is so time-consuming that I've developed a natural defense mechanism which wants to subliminally...
  19. Opera
    What is your favorite aria that you've never seen get any love? Extra points if it is actually an aria that nobody here has ever heard of! I'm probably not going to win with this one, but it's so gorgeous and I never see it done in recitals (except, obviously, the recital this is from!) or on...
  20. Classical Music Discussion
    Have any of you ever heard of the composer David Borden? As I understand, he's a little obscure but was composing New Music in New York in the 70s around the same time as Glass, Reich and all the rest. He founded the Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, one of the first Moog...
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