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Walker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:49 pm Lyle Lovett-Simple Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKt9klQm0Y

Nice. Here he's singing with the very underrated and tragic Townes Van Zandt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N10tbEXyaUU

Townes Van Zandt. Amazing live sound, and a tiny audience. I think it's in a bar--I read that somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4XMDOmmjSg

What is his tragic story?


Turtle Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_b0EGLHRk

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:29 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:19 am Going back to the kind of art the human race can no-longer accomplish...

No.3 is especially great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIaLrdOm3G0

Only one person could do it back then too.

Here's one by that "other" super genius of the Baroque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgWzeEII0U

Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:44 pm

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:29 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:19 am Going back to the kind of art the human race can no-longer accomplish...

No.3 is especially great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIaLrdOm3G0

Only one person could do it back then too.

Here's one by that "other" super genius of the Baroque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgWzeEII0U

I love Handel, but there's really no comparison with Bach's mastery of counterpoint.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:18 am

Conde Lucanor wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:02 am Today, it would seem like a parody, but I remember this as a kid, and they took it damn serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjKcsrYCr8

Haha. I couldn't place the tune and then it finally came to me. As a non Spanish speaker I didn't know what he was saying, I just wanted him to hurry up and start the damn song!

There were two or three songs around that time that exploited the same effect. BTW he's just saying that he's got all the time in the world for his lover.

No one compares to Bach, but this overture from Handel is for me one of the most beautiful ever, specially the counterpoint after the first minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNguOV-lKCA

No one makes the best out of it as Colin Davis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r68P8TBWiIQ

Conde Lucanor wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:41 am No one compares to Bach, but this overture from Handel is for me one of the most beautiful ever, specially the counterpoint after the first minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNguOV-lKCA

Lovely. I love those videos that show the score. Really interesting to read it at the same time as listening, especially counterpoint.

Colin Davis recording of The Messiah is one of the best, no question but there are also the original instrument type performances; this one I find exceptional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:30 pm

Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:44 pm

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:29 am

Only one person could do it back then too.

Here's one by that "other" super genius of the Baroque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgWzeEII0U

I love Handel, but there's really no comparison with Bach's mastery of counterpoint.

Bach inspires precision.
Good for crafting this or that.
Sharp-edged pastoral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

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Counterpoint to Bach pastoral.

The Lark Ascending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcTWnV6-K64

The pastoral of nature.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:31 am

Conde Lucanor wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:41 am No one compares to Bach, but this overture from Handel is for me one of the most beautiful ever, specially the counterpoint after the first minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNguOV-lKCA

Lovely. I love those videos that show the score. Really interesting to read it at the same time as listening, especially counterpoint.

Then, you may enjoy this in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHQ2ybTejU

I also love this way of "viewing" music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

Dubious wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:58 am Colin Davis recording of The Messiah is one of the best, no question but there are also the original instrument type performances; this one I find exceptional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI

I went directly to my favorite tunes. No disappointment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI&t=6684s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI&t=7756s

Conde Lucanor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:03 am
I also love this way of "viewing" music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

And this one even better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s49OKp6aE

Conde Lucanor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:11 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:58 am Colin Davis recording of The Messiah is one of the best, no question but there are also the original instrument type performances; this one I find exceptional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI

I went directly to my favorite tunes. No disappointment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI&t=6684s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZpe32M-EI&t=7756s

It must have been one incredible experience to have been among the audience not only for the music but also in being surrounded by the frozen music of cathedral architecture each in harmony with the other.

Dubious wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:33 am
It must have been one incredible experience to have been among the audience not only for the music but also in being surrounded by the frozen music of cathedral architecture each in harmony with the other.

We don't find choral works performed around here too often, but the Christmas before the last one we were lucky to have the Messiah performed at our modest Metropolitan Cathedral, which was being built around the time Handel wrote it. It was the perfect setting and what a delightful night it was.