General Chat

LOL TIna I'm a frustrated opera singer too glad it's not just me !!! lolxx

Love The Romance from ~The Gadfly suite by Shostakovich - so beautiful
Albinoni, Barber, Chopin, Liszt

the flower duet had it played at our wedding beautiful xxx

Caz,
Another Classical music fan!
I am a pianist and got my A.R.C.M and L.R.A.M way back in the 1950's.
Do you play the piano or another instrument?
We have Classic FM on all day as my O.H doesn't play but is very knowledgeable,and we have stacks of old vynil records that he bought a machine to put them all on to CD's,but it's still in the box.

Brenda x x

My favourite composers are Beethoven Chopin and Mozart.

p.s. and of course anything with a harp being played!

ooh, someone has just knocked on our glass in the door hubby thinks I am imagining it! But I have just come in and closed the front gate and now it is open. Probably some drunk OH has gone out and shut the gate and shouted out hello to ever is out there, but its given me a right fright!

Glad Im not totally alone. Sorry have changed the subject.
Tina

Good for you Brenda!!


I studied music at Sheffield uni, got grade 8 clarinet and singing and Grade 7 piano,

I love to sing, choral music is something I adore,


Caz xxx

Tina, are you ok love?


Caz xxx

my lovely OH was a lifetime member of Pendyrus Male Choir - toured all over the world with them - have just bought their latest CD and it has Bring Him Home from Les Mis on it - superb

Yes, thanks Caz - I was quite frightened by it, as we would never have anybody call at this time of night and if it was my sister coming back for some unknown reason would use the door knocker or ring me first to say she was outside.

Panic over! But it will unsettle me for the rest of the night, the rotten person who ever it was.

Tina xxx

Love to you Tina and wishing you calm,


Ann, I love welsh choirs, when I was at uni there were several Welsh members, one became a close mate,


Caz xxxxxxxx

I had to delete one of my posts because I had repeated it because I didn't think it had gone through the first time......does music make anyone else cry because they find it beautiful ?

yes Sally often xx

if I was away from home and heard a Welsh Choir singing, particularly Myfanwy, I would be awash

Sally love, for sure it does,


Too many pieces to mention but two in particular are Faures Pavane and Elgars Enigma variations set chorally,


Caz xxxx

Gosh Sally, yes, and you can always tell a good singer when you get goosebumps and they make you well up.

There is one Christmas Carol I cannot sing or listen to - Silent Night - I have no idea why but I burst out into tears - odd?

Tina xx

I also love the haunting ballroom theme from Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet,

I think Vltava by Smetana is great,

the Rondeau from Abdelazer by Purcell (we had this played on the organ as we walked back down the aisle at our wedding......it was amazing and sounded wonderful).

I also really love the Dead Princess by Ravel.

These are all pieces which give me a shiver down my spine.

Sue

Sue,


I too love Pavane for a dead infanta by Ravel, it is utterly haunting and evocative,


Caz xxx

Can I say I am most impressed with you all knowing all these things. I like music but could not tell you who played 90%of them. LOL

This seems an appropriate thread to have a moan. 8 months ago we went to great expense + monthly rental to install satellite communication, every day was bliss listening all day to classic FM. alas they´ve discontinued it. After writing to them they replied that the "government" has stopped them from downloading to everyone without a UK phone number. (No probs with BBC of course) The ironic thing is that my PC/phone connection has a UK phone number, so how do they know my PC is out in Spain?