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Post by TJ on Apr 23, 2007 8:22:36 GMT -8
Listening to Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 right now.
Anyone else a fan?
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Post by Armin on Apr 23, 2007 12:01:55 GMT -8
I like it, even though it's one of those pieces I get really sick of since it is on every classical favourites compilation. The opening (morning) I like most, good tune.
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Apr 23, 2007 17:37:11 GMT -8
I like it; grew up with a version of it in fact. There's an old musical version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (with Claude Rains) where all the songs are adapted from Grieg...it was funny when I finally heard Peer Gynt and all the lyrics were gone. Yavar
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Post by Brendan Anderson on Apr 23, 2007 19:19:06 GMT -8
Listen to "Morning" from Peer Gynt, then listen to "Buckbeak's Flight" from Harry Potter 3. The two have a remarkably similar contour. Same notes? Not even close, but the feel is all there but in the Potter it's in a very moody minor. Almost like a very complex variation.
Grieg is awesome.
-Brendan
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Apr 23, 2007 21:48:17 GMT -8
In terms of interesting orchestration, Grieg's pal Svendsen beats him handily.
Yavar
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Post by sdtom on Apr 25, 2007 8:18:59 GMT -8
No conversation about Grieg's Peer Gynt is complete without a discussion about the use of it in films especially M. I have a book that devotes an entire chapter called The Troll Among Us and talks about the use in films starting with The Birth of a Nation.
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Apr 26, 2007 15:40:03 GMT -8
Listening to Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 right now. Anyone else a fan? I haven't listened to this one in awhile. I also haven't mailed out your package yet, since I have to find out where I put the Rozsa cd's. (I have the music in my Windows Media Player, but the tracks are incorrectly listed.) I'll probably do it sometime this weekend. Speaking of classical works, have you heard Gorecki's "Third Symphony," Bloch's "From Jewish Life," Schubert's "Death and the Maiden Quartet," or Bantock's "Celtic Symphony?" These are some of my favorites. I'll have to make a comp if you are unfamilar with any of these. -CG
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Apr 26, 2007 15:52:22 GMT -8
I only have one movement from the Bloch piece, entitled Prayer, and it is gorgeous.
Yavar
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Apr 26, 2007 16:12:56 GMT -8
I only have one movement from the Bloch piece, entitled Prayer, and it is gorgeous. You know, I believe Chistopher Plamer described some of Rozsa's music as being "Bloch-ish." I feel in love with Bloch's "From Jewish Life" suite the first time I heard, which happened to be at an Art Library, where some Russian cello player was giving a concert. Wow, I still remember being blown away by it. I also remember that I was one of the youngest people at this concert (I didn't have grey hair) and I wasn't properly attired. Oh well. Overall, the suite isn't that long. Bloch's Meditation Hébraïque peice is great too. Would you like to hear it? I just don't know what else to send with it. Maybe an Alan Ridout cello concerto? Perhaps we should do a trade. I don't have any of Bruch's Symphonies.
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Post by TJ on Apr 29, 2007 14:08:54 GMT -8
Still waiting for a decently priced copy of that disc on hyperion to show up on amazon marketplace. I have the disc with his Pagan Symphony ($6.99 at broinc.com) but I haven't listened to it in a while, don't really remember if I liked it---gonna have to listen to it again.
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Post by sdtom on Apr 29, 2007 19:34:11 GMT -8
Hmm? Grieg to Block to Bantock. Need to figure this one out.
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Apr 29, 2007 19:42:15 GMT -8
Not Block. Bloch. We may go from Bantock to Bartok next. I remember Carlton once telling me about Bartok's Gaelic Symphony and I was really going "HUH?" for a while. Yavar
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Post by sdtom on Apr 30, 2007 20:30:40 GMT -8
Never got very interested in Bloch. But I remember Ray Block. Betcha you don't know who he is? tom
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Apr 30, 2007 20:40:22 GMT -8
Ummm...a trumpet player?
Yavar
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