LG's Recommendation Thread

[LyricalLaurel]

LG, what a great thread. I'm looking forward to testing the waters with some of these "unknowns" --- to me anyway! I especially like that you've pointed out that the music that I will hear is that which I've been hearing and just never knew it.

 

[LG]

Been a long time since I had a visitor in this dusty old thread Laurel...thanks for stopping by.

 

[cyggy]

Although I didn't post any samples all the information is on the covers CP/M, and classical just doesn't sound very good on most youtube videos generally. Go to Grooveshark and see if they have a streaming version the sound quality they have is usually better. And Allegri used to post dl links which I am not going to do.

Thanks for this thread LG , and double thanks for the Grooveshark tip

 

[LG]

^^Grooveshark is somewhat dodgy these days Cyggy, a couple years ago it was really good and dependable, now it's just not the same. Magic is the one who told me about it years ago as an alternative to YT vids, but I haven't looked at it in some time.

Still thanks for stopping in for a visit Cyggy.

 

[SteveB]

Something mellow. Gerald Finzi - Eclogue.
Also check out his Clarinet Concerto.

Aw shucks, some Beatnik closed their YT a/c.
The recom info is still good though.

 

[TheSound]

I posted some Delius on here a few weeks ago, and Gerald Finzi probably comes somewhere between Delius and Vaughan Williams stylistically, he composed some beautifully scored and sumptuous orchestral works, and also several nice song-cycle settings of words by Thomas Hardy, sorry your link to the Eclogue didn't work StevenB, but here's an (I think) superb work by Finzi, an excerpt from I guess his best known work, the beautiful Dies Natalis, which is clearly very influenced by Vaughan Williams...

 

[CREAM'd]

Hey LG.
I have been listening to a bit of classical guitar on YouTube. Could You recommend an album.
This is right up my street, very relaxing.

 

[LG]

^^My classical guitar collection is woefully inadequate CREAM'd...but I can recommend just about anything by Andres Segovia, he is a legend.

Liona Boyd is another who comes to mind, she's very talented and more contemporary.

I'll dig through my collection and get back to you with a specific album rec.

 

[CREAM'd]

^^My classical guitar collection is woefully inadequate CREAM'd...but I can recommend just about anything by Andres Segovia, he is a legend.

Liona Boyd is another who comes to mind, she's very talented and more contemporary.

I'll dig through my collection and get back to you with a specific album rec.

Thank you.