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Pappawas1975
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I have a couple of John Cage cds, and they are good, keep meaning to get into more....This week I bought a Conlon Nancarrow cd, which is very good,
not a world apart from Zappas classical music actually....
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Do you have Amores? I love Amores!
I'm more of a Berio-fan personally. And Saint-Saëns.
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Pappawas1975
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No.........Havent Berio or Saint Saens either?
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Berio is a recent composer, died in 2003, right after I'd adopted him as my favourite still living composer. I was broken stiff.
He's best known for Symfonia, a work with a very unusual atmosphere, fairy-tale like almost.
Saint-Saëns lived from 1835 to 1921, pianist, composer, childhood prodigy. Often considered archaic. Best known works are his 3rd symphony (Organ)
which has been prominently placed in a film about a pig called Babe in the city.
Also well-known are his Danse Macabre (theme to Jonathan Creek) and the Dying Swan from Carnival of the Animals.
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Pappawas1975
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Cool, thanks for the info.....My classical doesnt really stretch too far at the moment, namely Steve Reich, Cage, some Phillip Glass, John Zorn,
Conlon Nancarrow, Tod Dockstader, Edgar Varese, Stravinsky and of course Zappa
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Zorn is classified "Jazz" with us.
No Webern in your list? Webern is cool.
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Pappawas1975
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Zorn is unclassifiable!! Thats why hes an absolute genius! For his clasical stuff, Angelus Novus, Rituals, Elegy, Magick and Masada String Trio
albums, among others are well worth checking out.....But hes classical one release, then Hardcore for the next, then jazz, then this, then
that....covers every damn thing...I do have some Webern actually, on a Pierre Boulez / Ensemble Intercontemperain cd.....Havent heard that in years
though, so cant really comment...
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We've just analysed Webern's piano variations last Thursday, picking out the series. I'm afraid I was the only one who liked them.
Same thing with listening to Varèse in class: there's always some bastards who can't keep their mouth shut.
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Thats maybe cos they just dont get it....Sounds like an interesting class though...
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It was, it was. A year ago, we'd treated Webern's Concert in class (the very short bits of Klangfarbe), and the teacher we had then, was a total
Webern freak. He played the same 40 second bit for seven times on end. "It gets better every time you hear it!"
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Ha! Sounds like fun.....
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That guy was fantastic... He liked Zappa as well.
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Hi BBP,
I like Webern...I like to try to blow up stereos with his funeral march
(I think he wrote that after his mother died)
I also like his earlier 'Passacaglia'...that's nice
I found a sheet of his music if you need a scan
It's 'Drei Kleine Stucke' OP.11
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Thanks, but I have those already.
I agree with you on Passacaglia, it's one of my favourites.
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Just got this little beauty...
Great stuff!
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Pappawas1975
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Saw some of their stuff recently in London....didnt have the dough to buy it, but it wasnt until we were leaving that HMV in London have this great
new system - To hear whatever album you want, you just go up to one of the listening posts, put the bar code over the senser and you can check out any
cd before you buy. Pretty fucking good idea if you ask me! If Id had more time, I wouldve checked out alotta albums I think......
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We've had that for years... Our local classical CD dealer has a listening corner with a very comfortable bank and free candy.
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Mediamarkt has that system as well. Pretty neat, but they only allow you to listen to 30 second samples, that doesn't really work well with 20+ minute
compositions...
We don't have a decent record store in the town I live in, I buy most of my stuff online or go on a spending spree in Amsterdam. The only fairly
decent record shop here doesn't even have a proper listening post, you even have to ask the guy behind the counter to skip to the next track. 
Hey kids! Do you hear that sound? . . . Freaks will be coming from miles around!
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Pappawas1975
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I very seldom go into those sort of places now either, apart from the stores in London, which are ridiculously massive, and when the local stores have
sales on.......All my music shopping is done online......Hence those bar code readers being a novel shock....
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...The only time I got a record on-line it was because it wasn't available in Dutch stores here yet. That was the sound track to the South Park Movie.
Either way, just listened to my Gojira CD again, reading along with the lyrics this time. Man those lyrics suck. Shame, spoils the music here and
there. Though the words are unintelligible most the time.
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