Re: things of sad beauty

[kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com]

One of the my favorite melancholy works is the fourth movement  
(Adagio) from Mahler's 9th Symphony.

-- Kevin

Quoting Todd Matthews <gtmatthews@gmail.com>:

> I didn't mention the Gorecki. I think that might have been Richard but 
>its a
> strange coincidence because I just got the score to that piece about a 
>month
> ago and I've been working out a looping arrangement for bass.
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> More pieces on my achingly beautiful classical list include:
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> Verklärte Nacht by Schoenberg
> 3rd Movement of Pines of Rome
> and even another Copland's Nonet for strings, 1st movement
> Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen
> Arvo Pärt, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (fitting for the looping
> community:))
> Ravel, Gaspard De La Nuit (Piano) this piece never gets old to me. I 
>could
> listen over and over.
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> Todd
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
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>> Richard and Todd both recommended
>> Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Sir Ralph Vaughn Williams
>>
>> That was my father's favorite piece of Vaughn Williams (in addition to 
>his
>> beautiful and masterful 3rd Symphony).............so I love it very 
>much as
>> well.
>>
>> Also,  Todd recommended the Gorecki 3rd (what is it about 3rd 
>symphonies,
>>  I think
>> Coplands and Vaughn Williams best symphonies were their 3rds).
>>
>> so, again,  in the melancholic or sad mode,
>>
>> It is very simple but I also love ADAGIO FOR STRINGS by Samuel Barber
>> and REQUIEM by Garbiel Faure
>>
>> I love a lot of the piano works of Debussy and Satie.
>>
>> I love that one famous aria from LAKME by Delibes.
>>
>> They are more complex, harmonically, (so , to my mind it adds both
>> bittersweet and menace emotionally)   but I love the
>> Cello Suites by Bartok
>> his amazing Concerto for Orchestra,   with the quietest pianissimo in 
>the
>> entire classical repertoire at
>> it's beginning.......................maybe one of the few times where 
>the
>> dynamic range of CDs excelled
>> over the warmth of Vinyl and Tape..............hard to get the entire
>> dynamics of that piece onto vinyl properly
>> (if you've ever heard it performed live).
>>
>> what else?
>>
>> Le Tombeau de Couperin   by Maurice Ravel (still one of my favorite
>> composers..........I'm still
>> marvelling at his use of suspended chords that do NOT resolve.)
>>
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