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WCDT 2-6 May 2011 (1916-1920)
pwhodges:
I have recordings of all Bach's works; but long before I managed that I already had recordings of all the music of Bartók (well, I'm missing a couple of small pieces and juvenilia - but I have paper copies of those).
Carl-E:
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--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 07 May 2011, 11:39 ---I know. Cash's version of "Hurt" made me tear up the first time I heard it. Such subtle power in that voice, even in old age.
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Not to mention just before death as well. I think the music video for "Hurt" aired about...what, three or so weeks before he died?
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I'd heard Hurt, but never know it was a Nine Inch Nails cover. It is truly beatiful and moving, but the one that always gets me is "Aint no Grave", which I recognized as an old pentacostal hymn (I really ran with the wrong crowd in college...).
Unfortunately, some yahoo bad-guy wrestler took it on as his theme song, and the uplifting emotions I feel whenever I hear it got trampled when I visited a friend who had wrestling on the tube. I still love it, and it's not like it was ruined forever, but what has been seen & heard...
Skewbrow:
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--- Quote from: celticgeek on 06 May 2011, 14:20 ---Sibelius, for the win.
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Oddities corner: I have a CD of Sibelius's music for organ. Possibly the most interesting thing on it is a piece that he admitted uses material taken from his eighth symphony, which he destroyed. Buying the CD meant finding the web site of an obscure Finnish recording company and then navigating the site and shop entirely in Finnish...
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Adding to the oddity: Today I met a couple senior colleagues, who are much more knowledgable about this than I will ever be. They told me that a lot of Sibelius' organ music is actually ritual music he composed for the free mason lodge that he joined later in his life. At more or less the same time, when he was working on the abandoned 8th symphony.
pwhodges:
Quite so - I just didn't mention that. But then, some major Mozart is masonic too, like, er: "Masonic Funeral Music, K477". Not to mention The Magic Flute.
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