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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 6 Posts: 25,441
    I purchased A Clockwork Orange soundtrack on CD today.

    Gioacchino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie (Abridged)


    Sir Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. I


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    I recently bought this cassette and CD, I had quite a few tapes from this particular collection in the early 90's...

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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    I purchased A Clockwork Orange soundtrack on CD today.

    Gioacchino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie (Abridged)


    Sir Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. I


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    I recently bought this cassette and CD, I had quite a few tapes from this particular collection in the early 90's...

    2Kuujwm.jpeg

    Childhood favourite. The soundtrack I mean. I didn't watch the movie until I was 16. But it made me discover Beethoven
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 7 Posts: 25,441
    Kubrick made great use of classical music in his films...

    Krzysztof Penderecki - De Natura Sonoris No. 1
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Watching this at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2024/38/mozart-rise-of-a-genius
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Here's something from Gounod's Faust, one of my go-to operas round Halloween:
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Wow! What ... a.... voice..
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Wow! What ... a.... voice..

    She's amazing.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited November 23 Posts: 25,441
    Just bought the Tchaikovsky Masterpiece Collection on CD.

    Swan Lake Suite, Op 20: Scene: Enchanted Lake


    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathetique | Dresden Philharmonic & Marek Janowski

    Not listened to this in its entirety for over 30 years., i once owned this symphony on LP, outstanding music.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Because today is the anniversary of the death of Mozart:
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited December 11 Posts: 25,441
    Just purchased this 10 CD boxset, I had a similar collection on vinyl many years ago.1182x1200.jpg
    Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Grieg, Ravel/Bizet, Strauss, Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven and Tschaikowsky.

    It is an impressive collection.

    Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty - Introduction - Part 1/5

  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Julie Fusch, for the reopening of Notre Dame. She sings Mozart. Well, of course.

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