I Hear A Symphony: A "classical" music topic?

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Sibelius: Symphony No.5 - Vänskä/LPO(2010Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RwOxQBpVyg

I'm trying this.

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Nope.

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Nope.

You can't win 'em all, gh. Try this instead:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_of_Tuonela

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8pVaQVJuY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8pVaQVJuY

Wow, Erich Kleiber! Great choice there, gh. Better than Sibelius, eh?

Listening to it now. Thanks for sharing!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8pVaQVJuY

Wow, Erich Kleiber! Great choice there, gh. Better than Sibelius, eh?

My preferences tend towards perfection of the warhorse .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8pVaQVJuY

Wow, Erich Kleiber! Great choice there, gh. Better than Sibelius, eh?

My preferences tend towards perfection of the warhorse .

Aha. Are you familiar with the nine Beethoven symphonies under René Leibowitz? Fantastic!

You'll find them here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=leibowitz+beethoven

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Heard this today as the background music to a scene from Mr. Robot. Holst's The Planets suite has always afforded rich pickings for makers of films and TV programmes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G272M77N0

https://songsfromsodeep.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/space-music-holsts-neptune-the-mystic/

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The soprano whom I used to help with her parts (she sings in a semi-professional choir) has resumed singing again after a bout of illness. One of the pieces I helped her with today was this incredibly moving Requiem by Herbert Howells:

Another work on that programme is Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater. (Not to be confused with the one written by his father Allessandro.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmmM-sgvXQk

https://www.stabatmater.info/componist/scarlatti-2/

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This spectacular sequence is from part two of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible. Prokofiev supplies the equally spectacular music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tcPBx3O_H4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(1944_film)#Part_2

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Michael Nyman's Music After a While narrowly avoided being unceremoniously dumped in the ambient thread. It was the association with Henry Purcell's Music For a While that saved the day (see details in link):

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

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8546907--if-michael-nyman-henry-purcell

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This is for you, zosobird. You know why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cd3Mt2SDCw

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My last major project at the Endless Harmony forum was a seven-post rundown of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets.

That mini-series was prompted by the unexpected inclusion of the final movement, "Neptune, the Mystic", as background music in a TV show, where it represented alienation rather than the hush of concentration Holst intended. You'll need to crank up the volume considerably as I believe the loudest it gets is mezzo-piano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26tYwaTFOzA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets

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It's that day again. This rendition of Wagner's "Good Friday Music" is for halblaineisgood aka Treatzapiza, who I hope is doing well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb9sx5G3YZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb9sx5G3YZw

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It's that other day again, folks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoGMgA3wR0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Easter_Festival_Overture