Well, this is not something I ever thought I'd hear.
#Piano covers of #orchestral / vocal /whatever pieces? Fairly common.
Doing the opposite, orchestrating a piece that was originally written for solo piano, is decidely less so. But this is what happens when a film composer gets his hands on Beethoven.
Music for orchestra and large ensemble by Enrico Chapela, Nova Pon & Michael Torke - featuring Portland Symphony Orchestra, Michael Torke Orchestra & East Coast Chamber Orchestra, & Turning Point Ensemble - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/1/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org
I'm very late again today for #SymphonicMonday, here is an #orchestral instrumental version of 黄泉より聴こゆ、皇国の燈と焔の少女。 by Imperial Circus Dead Decadence from Japan 🤩
We were afraid of that. Minion is playing PDQ Bach 1712 Oveture. Like other PDQ Bach music, the score was found in a bin not far from one of New York’s lesser schools of music. As was PDQ’s tradition, liberal sampling (plagiarism) is present in the score and baroque musical idioms are abused ad nauseam!
Playing and recording are first rate. Somehow PDQ managed to attract the City’s finest starving musicians to play and to land a recording contract with drab classical label Telarc! #music
https://songwhip.com/peter-schickele/1712-overture-s-1712
No doubt, astute readers noticed the work’s catalog number S. 1712! Professor Peter Schickele, discoverer of the PDQ Bach oeuvre, administers the catalog. He’s also PDQ’s posthumous promoter arranging these performances and recordings.
This is a fun #recording Telarc’s PDQ Bach 1712 Oveture. Prof Schickele (actual composer) put together 40 minutes of classical mashups. You’ll hear things you’ve heard before in a new way. Players make it through all the foolishness with polish and a sense of humor.
Telarc got it all down on disk with a good sense of space and dynamics.
A year ago I started a little personal #Fedi project to every week share #newRelease music + a variety of other tracks from all sorts of eras & genres too.
I called it #BearTracks for my own humour & just to sort of see what I was doing.
It's over 500 tracks now. Lots of good music, quite a bit you might not have heard.
I seem to have had a little surge in new connections. Hello everyone! I look forward to checking out your music soon. TOS has new music coming, but, in the meantime, a follow and some listens on #Bandcamp would be appreciated.
It's #instrumental slightly #orchestral but also slightly noisey #ElectronicMusic that's been described as 'filmic' by a couple of people now. https://thisoccasionalsociety.bandcamp.com/
Oh, and if you like it, please boost. Always keen to connect with more folx. Fanx!
This week's Disquiet Junto theme is very interesting:
Think of two words that mean "quiet", think about the nuanced differences between the definitions of the two words and, through sound, render the two different definitions.
It's not every day that a show, presumably for a YA audience, hits it out of the park. Am having a lot of fun watching The Boardiing School: Las Cumbres. It's dark, its mysterious, moody and intriguing.
Troubled teens who are so much trouble nobody else will take them are sent to this place. They're in an old and isolated boarding school, sits isolated on top of a cliff with rules that are far too rigid and mean. There are secrets everywhere. Monks in white robes roam the halls. People disappear (some show up dead), and there are mysteries, ravens, dark woods and ancient texts. After watching several episodes, I'm still not sure if this is going in a supernatural direction, or it's about people doing weird cultish things.
The storytelling is quite good, characters are fairly well developed.
And if you #orchestral#soundtracks, there's a lot of really nice music by composer Victor Reyes.
This is a show from Brazil and has subtitles. I stumbled into it on Prime. #streaming#Prime#TV#series#YA#fiction#horror#adventure
Sample of the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mPY2xPpneE
Another #SymphonicMonday is here! Join in and post symphonic/orchestral music you like, from rock/metal or any other genre, symphonies, soundtracks etc 😍
My pick for today, the great Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) and the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt playing Jethro Tull's Aqualung❣️
Hello new connections! I ❤️ the supportive community vibe here. New music is coming but, in the meantime, please check out and give me a follow on #Bandcamp and here. I'd be very appreciative.
It's #instrumental slightly #orchestral but also slightly noisey #ElectronicMusic that's been described as 'filmic' by a couple of people now. https://thisoccasionalsociety.bandcamp.com/
Oh, and if you like it, please boost. Fanx!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVsKnCNvcE New piece of music by the Gloom and myself. If you like quirky dark murderous music you might enjoy. If you don't, you probably won't.
Orchestral music by Sergio Cervetti, Paul Frehner, Reynaliz Herrera & Rae Howell - featuring Hamilton Philharmonic, Ideas, Not Theories Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Sunwrae String Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/28/23) 4-5:30 pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
Curtis Schweitzer - Starbound [Starbound] (www.youtube.com)
'Children Of The Sun' - Anastasis - Dead Can Dance - 2012 (www.youtube.com)
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