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Just returned from the Sydney Opera House .... Symphony #8 by Mahler.

ChorusOz set it up, with 800 singers from across Aust to make a powerful choir. 8 soloists, an orchestra of 100.

Not familiar with the piece prior, but the experience was magnificent.
 
From Handel's Messiah. Not this bit, but part of which was played at bros funeral over forty years ago.

Would be nice to get some more sharing of beautiful classical music here.

 
Britain's got talent has unearthed a young future star IMO, stumbled on it while testing a new headphone cable.



 
went to Sydney Opera House last night for ChorusOz and Sydney Symphonia performance of
The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace
by Karl Jenkins.

And a rousing all-join-in Jerusalem at the end
 
The latest from my favourite A Cappella group, Voces8. Their rendition of Agnus Dei:



... And from a while ago, Bach's Jesu Joy in the original German:



The comments from each day more than I can.
 
Good news for classical music fans & movie buffs.

The movie Amadeus (1982) is being released on 4k Blu Ray around October 2024.

That date is for the US but hopefully it will be released in AUS. I'll import if I have to.

Hopefully you're all like me & are set up for watching 4K with a proper 4k Blu Ray player & don't watch streaming, which would be vastly inferior.

This movie is a favourite of mine with the some of the best classical music of all time.

I've been waiting for this movie to be re-mastered for years & I'm confident the transfer won't be a let down.


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am listening to Become Ocean by John Luther Adams on ABC Classic FM.

Modern and minimalist, in one movement, it has been described as "the first masterpiece of the twenty first Century" and I'll give it points for creating a landscape/ seascape, and easier on the ear than Cage, probably more longevity in it than Steven Reich or Phillip Glass, among others.

But there is naivity, when the composer describes the work this way:
"Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean."
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yeah right, 3 billion years, and a few hundred thousand.
 
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: Violin Concerto in D
Composer: Wynton Marsalis

Movement 1, Rhapsody, is a complex dream that becomes a nightmare, progresses into peacefulness and dissolves into ancestral memory.

Movement 2, Rondo Burlesque, is a syncopated, New Orleans jazz, calliope, circus clown, African gumbo, Mardi Gras party in odd meters.

Movement 3, Blues, is the progression of flirtation, courtship, intimacy, sermonizing, final loss and abject loneliness that is out there to claim us all.

Movement 4, Hootenanny, is a raucous, stomping and whimsical barnyard throw-down. She excites us with all types of virtuosic chicanery and gets us intoxicated with revelry and then… goes on down the Good King’s highway to other places yet to be seen or even foretold. As in the blues and jazz tradition, our journey ends with the jubilance and uplift of an optimistic conclusion
 
I love classical music. There is no way I could pick a favourite.

just a few that I really enjoy and listen to over and over again:

Mendelssohn -




Elgar -


Rimsky-Korsakov -
 
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