artist Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 What's the newest CD you've bought?I just got'The very best of Erasure'Such happy music! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Karl Jenkins** 'The armed man, a mass for peace' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 "Kama Sutra" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Orchestral Suite No. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Travis - "12 Memories"Ordered from CD-WOW Sunday night, arrived this morning ! All incusive £8.49 with 50p off introductory coupon from UK Frenzy :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikef Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Hancocks Half Hour series 5 box set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Oh + just now - The Thrills -"So Much for the City" also £8.49 (with another UK Frenzy voucher) again from CD-WoW :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 Do'nt buy that many last one was "Texas Greatest Hits" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 System of a down and Mudvayne! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Orchestral Suite No. 2Bach is OK I suppose your lordship, but a little primitive. The greatest composer ever was Gustav Mahler. I also have C.D's of all of the symphonies by Bruckner, Sibelius, Shostakovitch, Neilson, Howard Hanson, Tchaikovsky, Prokokiev, Beethoven, Rackmaninov, and several by Havergal Brian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 several by Havergal Brian.Who ? :oOh that Havergal Brian ! :rolleyes: William Havergal Brian was born on 29 January 1876 into a working-class Potteries family in Dresden, Staffordshire. He gained his first musical experience in church choirs and after leaving school at the age of 12 he was in some demand as a church organist. He learned the violin and cello, and played in local bands and orchestras. A local teacher gave him a thorough theoretical grounding, but he was virtually self-taught in composition. Nevertheless he rapidly acquired an invincible desire to be a composer and in the first decade of the twentieth century began to make a name for himself. Some of his music was admired by Elgar, works of his were performed by conductors such as Henry Wood and Thomas Beecham, and for a number of years he and his family were supported by a wealthy Staffordshire businessman so that Brian would be free to compose. All this came to an abrupt end, however, just before the outbreak of World War 1, when various personal crises forced him to leave his home and family. In London he failed to consolidate such musical reputation as he had gained, and for many years he supported a growing second family with a series of menial jobs, often in some poverty. By the late 1920s Brian gained an assistant editorship on the journal Musical Opinion, through which he gained a clearer understanding of and greater sympathy with the latest continental developments than almost any other British composer. The musical establishment however - with the exception of his close friend Sir Granville Bantock - passed him by and his own growing body of mature work remained almost entirely unknown and unperformed. This – although Richard Strauss (to whom the Gothic Symphony is dedicated) took him seriously, and despite Sir Donald Tovey being moved to write in 1934 that 'even for the recognition of his smaller works he is being made to wait... far longer than is good for any country whose musical reputation is worth praying for'. With the death of Bantock in 1946, Brian lost his last advocate for performances of his music until the early 1950s, when his work came to the attention to a young BBC music producer named Robert Simpson, himself destined to become one of Britain's foremost symphonists.Starting with Brian's eighth symphony in 1954 (the first time that Brian, already 78, heard any of his symphonies), Simpson gradually brought about over the next quarter of a century a growing number of performances, mostly in radio broadcasts, which began to initiate a recognition of Brian's achievement. The composer moved from London to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, in 1958, where he embarked upon a final, immensely rich, ten-year Indian Summer of composition which included no fewer than 20 symphonies. He finally ceased original creative work in October 1968 with the completion of his 32nd Symphony, but for the remaining four years of his life he retained full mental vigour and it always seemed possible that he might return to composition. His death came on 28 November 1972 as the result of a fall, two months short of his 97th birthday. Though he knew that the BBC was committed to broadcasting in due course all of his symphonies, not a note of his music was commercially issued on record during his lifetime, and he died without having heard many of his finest works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Orchestral Suite No. 2Bach is OK I suppose your lordship, but a little primitive. The greatest composer ever was Gustav Mahler. I also have C.D's of all of the symphonies by Bruckner, Sibelius, Shostakovitch, Neilson, Howard Hanson, Tchaikovsky, Prokokiev, Beethoven, Rackmaninov, and several by Havergal Brian. :D one could only be considered primitive if one is as uncivilised and uneducated as you appear to be!!Bach is quite simply the greatest musical talent that ever lived. I suggest that you re evaluate your musical tastes and train your ears. :D :D :D :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Orchestral Suite No. 2Bach is OK I suppose your lordship, but a little primitive. The greatest composer ever was Gustav Mahler. I also have C.D's of all of the symphonies by Bruckner, Sibelius, Shostakovitch, Neilson, Howard Hanson, Tchaikovsky, Prokokiev, Beethoven, Rackmaninov, and several by Havergal Brian. :D one could only be considered primitive if one is as uncivilised and uneducated as you appear to be!!Bach is quite simply the greatest musical talent that ever lived. I suggest that you re evaluate your musical tastes and train your ears. :D :D :D :P If only you could pop round to my house and listen to Mahler, now that is MUSIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 one must also question why you are on here instead of with your jaile...wife on this momentus occasion?!?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 one must also question why you are on here instead of with your jaile...wife on this momentus occasion?!?!?!?I am with her, she's dusting round me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I was going to make a contribution to this thread but as so much passion has been aroused in the last few posts, I don't think I will.C'mon gentlemen, music appeals to the higher senses and there shouldn't be a best or worst. Tastes vary and whatever I feel about a particular composer may be in complete opposition to your own thoughts. We are both entitled to our own opinion and words like "primitive" don't fit well into the enjoyment of one of life's ultimate pleasures - good music. There is another but we don't mention that in polite company.Remember that some people enjoy the music of Carlheinz Stockhausen and appreciate the artistic talents and the beauty of Tracy Emin. :wacko: :blink: ;) ;) ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 You can say whatever you like, Pops - we can all hold our own!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 You can say whatever you like, Pops - we can all hold our own!! :DI don't go in for holding my own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 You can say whatever you like, Pops - we can all hold our own!! :DI don't go in for holding my own gotta agree there andsome....always better when someone holds it for you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I was SO innocent until I joined this forum!! :huh: :rolleyes: :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I was SO innocent until I joined this forum!! :huh:Â :rolleyes:Â :blush:i do believe that this forum was so innocent before you joined actually!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 You've all read me wrong!! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 She's a naughty blonde, but it's probably true that the naughty ones get more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted October 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 Well we do get our fair share. :lol: But wait - I reckon christmascracker is the dark horse! She'll surprise us all yet!!! ;) :) ( Loooong name!!! :( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 Last CD- 'Extrapolation' John McLaughlin. Some very impressive musical tastes here. Anybody play ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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