Mike Oldfield, Clannad/electric folk, classical organ, Satriani, Dire Straits/Knopfler, any recorder music, anything early/baroque, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull, Vaughn Williams, Elgar, some Techno, Mahler, Andrea Bocelli, Phil Collins, Clapton, Mussorgski, Bartok, Gregorian chants, Randy Crawford, early Joan Armatrading, Mozart, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, The Cars, Bach, Vierne, The Pretty Things, Metallica, Blue Man Group, Supertramp, Eagles, Apocalyptica, Pink Floyd, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Jeff Beck, Norah Jones, Rammstein, Sort Sol....this is getting silly...I haven't even scratched the surface yet...

Okay, I've shown you mine.
Now you show me yours.

Nime

What played in that order? No wonder you''re always going off to bed!

Seriously I think the word you need for your music tastes is eclectic.

Geoff

The boring old fart

Dear Nime
OK, the list is long. I will make it short.
Anything between the year 900 and 1750
except Palestrina and opera.
Beethoven, some Mozart, some Brahms, some Carl Nielsen, some Stravinsky, some Hindemith, Bartok, some Martin.
Beatles, Gary Brooker, Gary Wright, J.J. Cale,
Colin Blunstone, Kate Bush, The Alan Parsons Project, Cockney Rebel, Roxy Music, Brian Ferry,
Wishbone Ash, John Wetton,Eric Clapton,Steffen Brandt
to name some of the most important.
Venlig hilsen

Eclectic seems to be quite fashionable.

I should have included Ferry, Roxy Music and Stravinsky in my own abbreviated list. Vivaldi of course. I've been enjoying his 2nd Oboe Concerto today. A rare piece of classical music that my wife enjoyed too. I love woodwind.

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto K622 has been a lifelong favorite that I never tire of. Jack Brymer was the first soloist I ever heard playing it on our Armstrong valve radio when I was 14 or 15. My father recorded it on his old Philips mono tape recorder for me. I listened to it like some kids listened to pop records. Over and over again. Mozart's tunes were so infectious.

It's surprisingly difficult to remember everybody we like. I make such use of the free music CD library. Including many CDs ordered online from other libraries. That I don't need a vast collection of CDs. The nation's library shelves are so easily accessible from my desk!

My record collection includes many more classical works by other composers I haven't listed. (and rock music too) But my LP12 sits unused and the records are now inaccessible.

You are another Beatles fan? Having lived through the Beatles era (live as it it were) I really cannot get excited by their work now. Clever as they may have been.

Only "Imagine" by Lennon still moves me. The lyrics are so incredibly powerful. The music simply carries the message without obtrusive clutter.

Ozzy's "Dreamer" wasn't a bad try. But his unique voice robbed it of much of the impact of the lyrics.

I suppose you had to be there to know what Lennon was talking about. It still seems to sum up our times in a nutshell.

Med venlig hilsen
Nime

Dear Nime

I dont think I am a Beatlesfan in your sense. Actually I dont listen to them any more.
My preferred listening is Bach and medieval music, but in between many other things witin the span I mentioned.

Have you tried trouveresongs or Machaut fx,
or the Ars subtilis-composers?

The text of Imagine is in my opinion still actual and will probably be actual as long as
human beings exist.

Venlig hilsen

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Originally posted by pe-zulu:
Have you tried trouveresongs or Machaut fx,
or the Ars subtilis-composers?

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I really haven't come across any of these on my musical travels. But a quick CD search on bibliotek.dk offers a considerable range of possibilities.

Would you be kind enough to recommend some of your favorite CDs to help narrow my choice a little? Or should I just take pot-luck and order anything that sounds interesting?

Regards
Nime

Dear Nime
Yes certainly.
It is about music from ca.1200 to 1400.
The double CD "The art of courtly love"
(EMI) by David Munrow is an anthology
from Machaut through the Ars Subtilior to
Dufay. It is marvellous and engaging even if it was made 1972 or so.
The Orlando Consort (four english gentlemen - one countertenor,two tenors and a bass) has made twoCDs for DG Archive , one with Ars Subtiliorand one with works by Machaut (and one with works of Perotin also), all three very fine.
But one of the most important works from this period, the Mass of Machaut, exists in more fine versions. I prefer personally the recording by The Taverner Consort led by Andrew Parrot (EMI), but the versions by The Binchois Ensemble led by Dominique Vellard (Cantus) or the version led by Rene Clemencic (Arte Nova Classics) are very fine too. You will surely find the style foreign, ma c'est la peine.
Venlig hilsen

pe-zulu

I have ordered online from bibliotek.dk.

About six CDs in all. Including "Dreams from the pleasure garden" amongst others.

I'll post my impressions when they arrive.

Many thanks for the kind suggestions.

Best regards
Nime

I think the answer to this was nailed early on with "Because she can"

If you can sing higher, lower etc etc than normal then you are inclined to take advantage of that and show off the fact. The same thing applys to other instruments, if you are as techncally gifted as Joe Satriani (for example) then it is difficult not to try to show this off on almost every track you play on.

Excellent example greeny! Which raises another point. The use of musical instruments to achieve high notes. Logic suggests that the piccolo or garklein would be our favorite instruments if only the high notes were desirable.

But in fact it seems to be the contrast between low and high which is important. The sense of soaring above the normal register. It excites the senses. It seems important to have sung (or played) lower and then to swoop higher to obtain maximum effect.

Céline Dion reminded me of this only today on the radio with "Learn to fly". She really soars near the end of this track.

Nime

Dear Nime (strange name, pronounced name, naime,or what, naijm (cockney english) or what.

I hope the 1300-style will appeal to you, and I am interested to hear about your reaction. You have to listen to it many times before answering.

Venlig hilsen (danish for friendly greetings)

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Originally posted by pe-zulu:
Dear Nime (strange name, pronounced name, naime,or what, naijm (cockney english) or what.

I hope the 1300-style will appeal to you, and I am interested to hear about your reaction. You have to listen to it many times before answering.

Venlig hilsen (danish for friendly greetings)

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I call myelf Nime simply because that was the pronunciation I used in my head for "Naim" for years. Until I finally heard it pronounced correctly at a Naim dealers. Previously, I had only read the 'naim' in Hifi mags.

Thanks again for the CD suggestions.

Med venlig hilsen

Nime