Don't know if this is a fair question, but would mr. Geiginni happen to know which performance of Jenkins' "Palladio" features in this compilation (first song)? The piece became a favourite of mine, and this recording has speed and bounce and a rough sparseness which is not there in other uploaded versions.

biscuitdough wrote: Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:24 pm Did we not, on the old forum, have a "modern classical music" thread?

Gotchu
OG Geiginni
https://www.premierrockforum.com/viewto ... =4&t=17228

Capnreverb's post was really good too
https://www.premierrockforum.com/viewto ... f=4&t=4026

When the forum went down, this was the thread I was the saddest about being gone because delving into this can be difficult for me. Sorry if these were posted already. Skimmed through pretty quick so as to not lose my day to the thread but looking forward to spending time listening to everything a little later.

Most of my knowledge stems from childhood piano lessons and attempting to copy my mom's virtuosity as she played "War March of the Priests," so don't any of you pedants come for me if I use the wrong terminology; I'm sensitive.

A couple of nights ago I discovered Vivaldi's Filiae Maestae Jerusalem, RV 638 and would love to be pointed towards the direction of sacred choral music. Not sure if that correctly applies to this thread, but I have no other choice. Doesn't have to be choral. Apparently I guess I'm into Vivaldi since I've been trawling through playlists. Deeply rousing and melodic baroque music.

Thank you!

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:45 pmwould love to be pointed towards the direction of sacred choral music

"Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis is one of my favourite pieces ever.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:17 am "Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis is one of my favourite pieces ever.

Thank you! This led me to "Ye Sacred Muses" from William Byrd, which was just as beautiful. Heavy and sad. This music has me wondering what I consider to be a fairly dumb question, but since Tallis' music was published and performed primarily for royalty did commoners have access to it. Did folk or secular music exist alongside the sacred or was there a demarcation. It'd be a pity if there wasn't full access to such beautiful music.

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:25 am

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:17 am "Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis is one of my favourite pieces ever.

Thank you! This led me to "Ye Sacred Muses" from William Byrd, which was just as beautiful. Heavy and sad. This music has me wondering what I consider to be a fairly dumb question, but since Tallis' music was published and performed primarily for royalty did commoners have access to it. Did folk or secular music exist alongside the sacred or was there a demarcation. It'd be a pity if there wasn't full access to such beautiful music.

I can't speak to Tallis specifically, but in the case of Bach, most of the sacred music he wrote in Leipzig was meant to be performed at masses, feast holidays and special public gatherings - such as the seating of a new city council. So yes, any members of the public attendant at Thomaskirche or St Paul's church during a performance would have heard it. If you hung out at Cafe Zimmerman in Leipzig, you might have the chance to witness a performance of secular work by the Collegium of which Bach was a member and performer.

He was a dedicated coffee drinker, and composed a secular cantata in its honor, which received performance at Zimmerman (coffee house).

Most of this music was written to be performed once and was never published. Bach cranked out over 300 cantatas in his years working in Leipzig, at least one per week for 3 years. These works were not published until the mid-19th century or later.

I enjoy this cantata:
Mainly because he adapted the Sinfonia from the 3rd Violin Partita.

I'm probably not much help otherwise. I tend to avoid dour, sad music. 18th century Lutherans were pretty good at writing more uplifting stuff than their predecessors and contemporaries elsewhere.

I'm enjoying the BWV.66 cantata this afternoon, my first time listening. Again, uplifting music - not the sad stuff I tend to avoid.

rsmurphy wrote: Most of my knowledge stems from childhood piano lessons....

Lucky you (seriously!). I was denied piano lessons as a child and picked up guitar instead. Had I gotten those piano lessons, at the very least I'd be good at sight reading piano music now, and at best might have changed my entire life's arc.

I've been working on this on-and-off for the past 4-5 months. Maybe in another 3-4 months it will be ready to play for other humans.



I've almost nailed the fugue, which feels good. Maybe someday, I'll be able to try a 4-voice fugue!

EDIT: This is a little gem of 8-bit magic:

I played the cello for around 10 years growing up. I stopped when I was in my late teens to play guitar. I recently had my cello refurbished, and have found a teacher. My initial feedback from her was that my technique is pretty close to perfect (somehow), and that I just need to spend some time knocking the rust off.

Part of the process is picking pieces for solo cello that I'd like to learn. So far, I have Romberg's Sonata in E-minor on my list. I tend to enjoy more modern, occasionally dissonant pieces.

Any suggestions for pieces for solo cello that don't sound insanely difficult? A lot of what I've found poking around online sounds great, but seems way too challenging to learn at this point.