Classical music
- Thread starter RedLagoon
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Hollywood.
I like Classical music its good for the soul and makes me think about higher and more noble things, I have good memories of both my grandfathers playing classical music in their homes and cars when they were still alive, this is also a good playlist.
If you've lived in Europe a few decades ago, you will have recognized that piece as the TV intro to European sporting events and song contests. The version used is a slower one, but with hard hitting French horns:
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Some more selections, focused on vocal and orchestral arrangements, to make the heart stir and the soul soar.
Beautiful and Touching
Powerful and Inspiring
The harp player looks like an angel, which fits the character of the piece, but whenever I see a female conductor it turns my stomach.
Here is a version by the boss of conductors, Herbert von Karajan:
One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul.
Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire.
Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream.
In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire.
Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream.
In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
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