If you like the last one, there is a 9 min+ version on youtube also which is older but the conductor highlights the gravity of the moments in an incomparable way. I put the newer version up because it is at the Albert Hall.....
Unfortunately I can't see what you've put up as the pesky internet nanny at work blocks youtube etc! Have to wait till I get home
I hadn't heard this before Mike; the last one by Britten. Wow, just wow! I actually had not heard that piece before and now I find it from you 8 years later
A lot of classical works are made up of more than one section. So often a popular passage will be a part or section of a greater whole. Often the popular passages are picked out in isolation which I think makes it hard for a novice enthusiast. When you go to the original score the popular bit is in amongst other not so popular or so recognisable sections. I think that is where classical music can appear onerous to many. One exception to that for me has been Vivaldi’s Four Seasons where I enjoy the whole lot.
Yuna mentioned Beethoven’s 7th. This whole piece was studied by my class. We had the score in front of us and listened to the whole lot, dissecting it etc etc. I grew to like it. Basically we learned it - every nook and cranny. But I never hear it otherwise. It is a great piece of music. As I recall it doesn’t portray a picture or a story and followed a typical kind of symphony format.
I have heard it all the way through, but being the sci-fi nerd that I am the 2nd movement, allegretto, is for me the famous one and my favourite
I have and I own it and I love Kubrick's work but I flinch every time and have watched it, I watch as a patchwork, a little bit at a time but I struggle to watch it from start to finish, it scares me I would be hard pressed to refer to the music
Have you ever watched 'If' ? That is a special movie as well I remember 'Sanctus' a choral piece, and I am sure there were other great works but memory fails me a little
I miss Yuna's (Majah's) contribution here, Yuna is/was her cat, I hope her pet is still alive, to have such a talented Filipino lady here was quite special, not to belittle any of our other special ladies here, I miss all the girls who used to post on the forum, but time moves on and I suspect they are all fully happily integrated into UK life now.
I remember watching it as a kid on videotape, me and one of my mates rented a couple of tapes when his mam and dad went out, we watched them on his rented top loader video machine, clockwork orange was supposed to be violent so we we got it.
