Sound Science Music Thread: Pass it on!

[bigshot]

Chandos's web site had a huge sale on them a couple of months ago. They were about $8 an opera. I ordered about 15 of them and combined shipping.

 

[Steve999]

Chandos's web site had a huge sale on them a couple of months ago. They were about $8 an opera. I ordered about 15 of them and combined shipping.

Thanks. Some of it's available to me via my Apple Music and Spotify subscriptions so I've begun digging in.

Edit: Listening to Mozart's Magic Flute from the Chandos Opera in English series on Apple Music. Wonderful!! The harmonies among the voices and the quality of the voices are really quite something. The symphonic writing is breathtaking, as one would expect. And the two flutes seem to add a novel and interesting touch.

Here it is on Amazon music in three different formats:

https://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Zauberflöte-Magic-Flute-English/dp/B001180RBW/ref=sr_1_1_atc_badge_A2N1U4I2KOS032?ie=UTF8&qid=1543464485&sr=8-1&keywords=magic+flute+english

With user reviews, etc.

 

[taffy2207]

Who doesn't love a good opera! ...or do they?

I don't know if you've heard it or not but Pearl Jams cover is pretty sweet.

 

[GearMe]

I don't know if you've heard it or not but Pearl Jams cover is pretty sweet.

Thanks! Yeah...Pearl Jam's done some good covers over the years.

 

[bigshot]

Thanks. Some of it's available to me via my Apple Music and Spotify subscriptions so I've begun digging in.

Check out Trovatore. It is the equal of any other recording of that opera.

 

[Steve999]

Check out Trovatore. It is the equal of any other recording of that opera.

I'll do that. The Magic Flute by itself is a huge undertaking for me though. I have to change the way I listen. I have to be satisfied with getting less of the music as it goes by or else listen over and over to snippets of the story. I think being satisfied I am "getting" one of these will be a two week endeavor or so, even when they are in English. Maybe it will get easier as I get used to the genre.

 

[bigshot]

With operas the story is rarely the most important thing. If you just know the overall beats of the libretto, you don't have to follow all the words. A general knowledge of what is happening in the scene is really all you need. (Except for Wagner where the book is as important as the music.)

 

[Glmoneydawg]

I don't know if you've heard it or not but Pearl Jams cover is pretty sweet.

Eddy Vedder is a huge Who fan...lots of concert footage out there with Eddie doing guest spots at Who concerts.

 

[Glmoneydawg]

 

[bigshot]

I recently got a big set of bootleg video performances on French TV that has two full discs of the Who, including a live performance in a documentary on the Mods where they appear to be in their teens. The Who ain't The Who without Keith Moon. He was an irresistible force.

 

[Glmoneydawg]

I recently got a big set of bootleg video performances on French TV that has two full discs of the Who, including a live performance in a documentary on the Mods where they appear to be in their teens. The Who ain't The Who without Keith Moon. He was an irresistible force.

Keith seemed like one of those lost soul/artists that knew what we wanted....but not what he needed

 

[Steve999]

A Bob Dylan cover.

I wonder if we’ve already reimagined Bob Dylan like we have MLK or Helen Keller—a smooth saintly glossy socially acceptable version, overlooking the tremendous power and abrasiveness that their actual thorny and complex and socially nettlesome messages carry to this day.

 

[Steve999]

With operas the story is rarely the most important thing. If you just know the overall beats of the libretto, you don't have to follow all the words. A general knowledge of what is happening in the scene is really all you need. (Except for Wagner where the book is as important as the music.)

Thanks

FWIW, there's another English version of The Magic Flute on Apple Music-Itunes. Here's a screen clip:

It is listed as "excerpts," which it seems to be. It gives me entry points or landmarks into the music though. The recording is nicely balanced but with tons of live classical music rustling, breathing, etc.

 

[bigshot]

If it's the Met, there's probably a video version out there where all the stage noises make sense because you can see them.

 

[GearMe]

I recently got a big set of bootleg video performances on French TV that has two full discs of the Who, including a live performance in a documentary on the Mods where they appear to be in their teens. The Who ain't The Who without Keith Moon. He was an irresistible force.

Moon for sure...and I'd even throw in Entwistle. They really 'drove' the band from an energy/rhythm/etc. standpoint.

I can remember cranking My Generation, The Real Me, 5:15, etc. on my system as a kid -- speakers blasting! They were quite a combo

Still smile every time those songs come through on shuffle...