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Old 05-03-2016   #11
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
I've always loved Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead, not just because it's a fine piece of music, but also because of its Weird-Tales-esque title, which makes me think of it as the symphonic equivalent of a great Clark Ashton Smith story.

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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
@miguel: Irreversible, painful ;_;
@Nirvana: That was pretty good, reminds me of BioShock.
@ramonoski: Unshed tears. I didn't know Beethoven until now.
@ChildofLeech: Thank to you I'll have to look into modern opera now.
@Vice: The strings are heavenly and yet somber. Beautiful.
@Pharpetron: Isle of the Dead is also one of my favorite. I believe Rachmaninov was inspired by a black and white painting similar to this


Pavane for A Dead Princess. This is my favorite piano rendition. I believe it suits the title's sentiments more than Ravel's version. (He believed it should be played faster, and that the title had nothing to do with his composition).

There is also this version
"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
---Tears and Saints, E. M. Cioran
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
Speaking of Benjamin Britten, Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten ranks among my favorite pieces of classical music. It's one of those pieces of music that I listen to continuously -- very few weeks pass without me listening to it at least once.

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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4


I have absolutely no interest in atonal music, but I absolutely love this eerie nocturnal string sextet, an early work of Schoenberg. I think many others on this forum would enjoy it as well.
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
Favorite opera would be Puccini's "Turandot."
Let me see if I can find a three hour YouTube video.
Maybe not.
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Re: Your Favorite Classical and Opera
Erik Satie wrote some piano music for the theosophical symbolist art Salon de la Rose + Croix, hosted by mystic and overall weirdo Josef Peladan.

They were enigmatic compositions for piano:
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