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25 Dec 2025, 6:34 am

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29 Dec 2025, 9:33 am

And I hope you don't mind me putting this in here man. It's just far too dramatic to place anywhere else. And there is an orchestra involved

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30 Dec 2025, 6:27 pm

Some unusually vigourous Dowland.

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30 Dec 2025, 6:40 pm

So, apparently a lot of Dowland tunes have both a song version and a dance version, and performers like to combine the two. This is "Now O Now / the Frog Galliard," and the previous one I posted was "Can She Excuse My Wrongs / the Earl of Essex Galliard."

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31 Dec 2025, 10:52 am

I really appreciate the Weird Classical :mrgreen: this piece is about as close as I can get to a real contribution, I think.

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31 Dec 2025, 11:46 am

^ I really like that piece, too.

I’m in a Bolero sort of mood, maybe since it’s the last day of December and 2025. Woohoo!

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31 Dec 2025, 12:01 pm

It is lovely to see you, TwilightPrincess :heart: thank you for the Boléro

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31 Dec 2025, 12:28 pm

Thanks! It’s really good to see you, too. :heart:

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31 Dec 2025, 12:30 pm

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Strauss - Four Last Songs

Wow. Just wow.
One of very few performances of such overwhelming beauty and power I'm stopped in my tracks with actual, physical chills.

I think you'd posted this some time ago and as a result of that I bought the CD, wondering why I hadn't done so much earlier.
It includes the Wesendonk Lieder, Wagner, as a nice bonus.

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Music: Strauss' Four Last Songs. For the profundity that is achieved not by complexity but by clarity and simplicity. For the purity of the sentiment about death and parting and loss. For the long melodic line spinning out and the female voice soaring and soaring. For the repose and composure and gracefulness and the intense beauty of the soaring. For the ways one is drawn into the tremendous arc of heartbreak. The composer drops all masks and, at the age of eighty-two, stands before you unveiled. And you dissolve.

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31 Dec 2025, 12:34 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Wow. Just wow.
One of very few performances of such overwhelming beauty and power I'm stopped in my tracks with actual, physical chills.

Yes!! It’s a wonderful performance of one of my favorite pieces of music. Sublime. I listen to it often. I like Richard Strauss’s work in general.

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31 Dec 2025, 4:15 pm

Bolero put me in the mood for Shostakovich’s 7th.