minim

*pushes toy off the curb*

@(f)politics? wrote:

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Symphony No.3 – Sorrowful Songs – 2nd Mov. Lento e largo—Tranquillissimo

Composed by Henryk Gorecki

Performed by Sinfonietta Cracovia
Conducted by John Axelrod
Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian

Sad and sorrowful, but i dont like the vocals i love classical music passionately but Operatic really doesnt do it for m…

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The one always reminds me of last night of the Proms.

cheapskate

Victor Borge taking the pish as usual, had to add this…

Minute Waltz by Chopin

@(f)politics? wrote:

Fur Elise

Beethoven

Loving this thread :D keep em coming

I was taught how to make sure you played the right amount of notes by singing…..go and wash your knickers in the bath, in the bath in the bath, oh go and wash your knickers in the bath in the bath in the bath

it worked most of the time :)

@Esmeralda wrote:

Breathtaking choices, Sgt. of different intakes and for different reasons.
Only an aumaton would remain unmoved by both the Beethoven and the Gorecki, or fail to weep lengthily at the latter.

agreed on both counts… I hadn’t heard the Gorecki before, sorrowful indeed.

And can’t leave out my favourite bit from Mozart’s Requiem Mass:

Firstly.. a link to mozart and salieri writing the Confutatis part (which I love) from the film Amadeus. Salieri was jealous of Mozart, but loved his work….he helped Mozart write it all down as Mozart was dying….a cruel irony of fate.

Confutatis

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whilst on favourites….. got to share this one

Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor

I did find some stuffed shirts waving sticks around, but thought this was more serene as a backdrop to the sound.

Carmena Burana

Not sure about the associated video, but it was the best recording I could find on Youtube. Have loved this since I was about 5 years old. Its by a guy called Carl Orf and is early last century although it is all sung in Latin. Its very ribald actually, if you read the translation. :wink: This particular bit has been used in…[Read more]

Oh it must be so romantic
When the fighting’s over there
And they’re passing round the shamrock
And you’re all filled up with tears
“For the love of dear old Ireland”
That you’ve never even seen
You throw in twenty dollars
And sing “Wearing of the Green

[Chorus:]
Each dollar a bullet
Each victim someone’s son
And Americans kill Irishmen
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You are living in the wrong place sunny, I was lying on the beach last night.

Big issue anyone?

Happy Birthday giddy, hope you have a wonderful day xxxx

The mind of a monster is a terrible place.

Its all Greek to me.

Well unless you can prove that statement, I’d say it was a theory. :)

Chaos theory is all very well, but I prefer Murphy’s law.

Just had it here Sharon, didn’t last nearly long enough, but it watered my tomatoes. :)

@Pete wrote:

Are they big butterflys and should i be worried should the wind pick up

The size of the butterfly is immaterial, and worrying is a waste of time.

on second thoughts…. be afraid, be very afraid.

Sniffing is for nasal drips.