Music Monday: Songs of Our Lives Meme

[chomiji]

16: One of your favorite classical songs

Songs? Surely they mean "classical pieces"?

And dude, I don't listen to classical.

It's kind of weird, in retrospect, because I went to the state art and music camp, where I was an art major, for several years, and I was exposed to a lot of music performed by my fellow campers, some of the best young musicians in the state of Maryland. But none of it seems to have stuck.

On the other hand, in college, I used to listen to movie scores, especially by John Williams ("Star Wars" and many others), for hours.

Maybe you all have some pieces to recommend that I try?

Comments

[muccamukk]

I get my classical almost entirely from TV soundtracks, so this might appeal. May I rec the following for true glory of mopey drama (I have them in a play list called Gloomy Classical):

Due South
Antonín Dvořák: Stabat mater - Eja mater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68f6Zeb0RG8

Legends of Tomorrow
Beethoven's Symphony #7 in A Minor - II Allegretto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ

Master and Commander
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY

Dunno
Chopin Nocturine in c-sharp minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyAOYMUVDs

Mozart Piano Concerto No.23 In A Major, II Adagio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf711o8jAQA

John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYiokai3FW4

[chomiji]

THANK YOU!

I will let you know which I liked best once I have a chance to listen to them.

[oracne]

"Gloomy Classical." I resemble that remark.

[muccamukk]

It's great writing music! I'm not tuned in enough to follow the stories of the themes and stuff, but the emotion comes across.

I recently saw my Bro-in-law in Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, which I liked a lot as well. I got the recording of it by The Sixteen. (For context, I have a tendency to go to his things, find they're two hours of atonal chanting, and getting in a really nice nap, but I stayed awake for all of this one!.)

[oracne]

That's an excellent recording. My choir just did Monteverdi Vespers for New Year's Eve - so fun!