If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On: The Music Thread: What Are You Listening To?

[lizkat]

Soundtrack from The Blues Brothers (1980 film). So fine.

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[lizkat]

And most recently Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Used them to stay awake while letting a batch of lentil soup cool enough to put away in the fridge... can't believe I went on a cooking spree so late into the evening. Anyway the Brandenburgs are jaunty works indeed and served well to keep me entertained as long as necessary. G'night all!

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[Scepticalscribe]

Soundtrack from The Blues Brothers (1980 film). So fine.

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Ah, my brother - Other Brother on these threads - loves that soundtrack (and movie), which he introduced me to.

And most recently Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Used them to stay awake while letting a batch of lentil soup cool enough to put away in the fridge... can't believe I went on a cooking spree so late into the evening. Anyway the Brandenburgs are jaunty works indeed and served well to keep me entertained as long as necessary. G'night all!

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Always superb.

The Days Of Pearly Spencer - David McWilliams is currently playing as I type this.

 

[lizkat]

The Days Of Pearly Spencer - David McWilliams is currently playing as I type this.

from Working for the Government? Love it.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

from Working for the Government? Love it.

As do I.

Haunting track, isn't it?

 

[lizkat]

Tonight, Fauré's complete nocturnes, thirteen of them, written between 1875 and 1921 with opus numbers ranging from 33 to 119. I like collections like that, where one can hear how the composer has taken the form up over a very long timeline. The performances are by British pianist Charles Owen. For some reason I have never played these myself and still don't know them well, so it's a different sort of listening experience.

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[SuperMatt]

Tonight, Fauré's complete nocturnes, thirteen of them, written between 1875 and 1921 with opus numbers ranging from 33 to 119. I like collections like that, where one can hear how the composer has taken the form up over a very long timeline. The performances are by British pianist Charles Owen. For some reason I have never played these myself and still don't know them well, so it's a different sort of listening experience.

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I used to have an LP of Chopin nocturnes that I loved to listen to in the evenings. I am not familiar with Fauré’s though. Thanks - I will take a listen.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Jordi Savall.

 

[lizkat]

Jordi Savall.

Guy has a discography one couldn't even dream of 50 years ago. Who said "classical" music is dead?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Guy has a discography one couldn't even dream of 50 years ago. Who said "classical" music is dead?

An amazing and quite wonderful catalogue of music; and one I return to again and again. Music for the soul.

Actually, I should have been more precise: Just now, I am listening to a superb concert (recorded on May 13, 2015 in Amsterdam) which was given by Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) & Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Renaissance guitar and theorbo).

Anyway, I could happily die and head to whatever afterlife exists (or doesn't, as the case may be) with this exquisite music echoing in my ears.

 

[DT]

Soundtrack from The Blues Brothers (1980 film). So fine.

Our little G was surprisingly into this movie. It's a fave of mine, my peer group (the folks around my age, film geeks, etc.), but a 13 year little girl into K-pop? Hahaha, outstanding!

"Who's that? OMG, I love her!"

(It was Aretha Franklin )

 

[lizkat]

Our little G was surprisingly into this movie. It's a fave of mine, my peer group (the folks around my age, film geeks, etc.), but a 13 year little girl into K-pop? Hahaha, outstanding!

"Who's that? OMG, I love her!"

(It was Aretha Franklin )

They sure help her roll out an unforgettable performance of Think in that film. Heh, lyrics for our time too.

 

[DT]

Hahaha, she's now also hip to why I sometimes say I'm going to order "4 fried chickens and a Coke" (usually the wife chimes in with, "I'll probably have some dry, white toast ..."

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Rod Stewart's One Night Only! Live at Royal Albert Hall.



Amazing!

 

[MarkusL]

I can't escape the political controversies even when I am trying to relax to some music.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Lute Duo (a very accomplished pair of musicians, who play, respectively, a Renaissance guitar and a theorbo) with their gorgeous sequence Baroque Insight.

 

[lizkat]

Soundtrack from the film Syriana (Alexandre Desplat)

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[Scepticalscribe]

Soundtrack from the film Syriana (Alexandre Desplat)

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Ah, wonderful.

I love the music of Alexandre Desplat (and have the soundtracks of Fantastic Mr Fox and Grand Hotel Budapest on CD, and on my computer and my mp3 player).

 

[lizkat]

Ah, wonderful.

I love the music of Alexandre Desplat (and have the soundtracks of Fantastic Mr Fox and Grand Hotel Budapest on CD, and on my computer and my mp3 player).

I'm really quite a fan of Desplat's soundtracks. So far I've collected The Painted Veil, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Queen, The Special Relationship and Syriana.

I like that I can either listen to them with full attention or as background when I'm reading or working in my studio.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I'm really quite a fan of Desplat's soundtracks. So far I've collected The Painted Veil, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Queen, The Special Relationship and Syriana.

I like that I can either listen to them with full attention or as background when I'm reading or working in my studio.

Absolutely spot on, and very well said.

Which of those soundtracks would you especially recommend?