i'd just like to post that after 159 pages... one of my favorites has been from the OP, 'i'm more metal than you' is one of the best things ever posted on the internet. any i found through this tread. Many Thanks.
Beethoven's 6th symphony (pastorale).
Brilliant, simply sublime. (You've given me an idea for this evening).
Actually, all of Beethoven's symphonies from No 5 on, right up until the magisterial No 9, are excellent, to my mind. Oddly, I've always thought LvB to be a winter composer - meaning that I don't much feel like listening to him in summer, but for the dark days of deepest winter, there is nothing which plumbs the depths quite like a Beethoven symphony.
Yes, listening to Beethoven is a sound idea.
But I'm not sure if I follow your winter composer experience. I find No 6 quite cheerful and uprising, like a lengthy walk in the forest at early springtime...
Thus, I am now listening to Luciano Pavarotti singing Caruso by Dalla. Fantastic.
Earlier songs included LP singing 'L'Eliser D'Amore Una Furtiva Lagrima' by Donizetti, 'Recondita Armonia' and 'E Lucevan Le Stelle' both by Tosca, and, of course, the immortal 'Nessun Dorma' by Turandot.
Anonymous 4 - An English Ladymass
4 ladies singing some of the most beautiful music ever.
^ You've seen the movie, scepticalscribe? Assuming you liked it...
I'm revisiting my old CD collection, can't get over Kool Keith. Got even better by time.
God bless youtube and what passes the German censorship.
No, actually, perhaps surprisingly, I have not yet managed to see it, but I enjoyed the soundtrack. Both 'Django' and 'Lincoln' are on my list of movies to see sometime fairly soon, when circumstances and time permit.
However, I did enjoy a much needed week away, though. There were no phone calls (made or received), until my return earlier this week, and I had stressed, in advance, that my email would be checked, at best, intermittently, and responded to only if exceedingly urgent.........
Sounds like a great opportunity to refill ones own accumulator(s) and keep the system running sane. Good that you're back though, either. I found the soundtrack of Django somehow distracting at times during the movie, but it works anyway, so who am I to complain. Haven't seen Lincoln though, but am eyeing Anna Karenina by Ang Lee. Heard good things by friends - must be a stylish piece of cinema.