Because one of the greatest melodicists in the history of the whole fuckin' world deserves his own thread on a board called I Love Music.
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)
put off listening to Turandot til it came time to make dinner - got an old school CD player I can haul into the kitchen. Rocking the Mehta version with Sutherland and Pavarotti - P in the full flower of that voice. And, like, the busy parts, the aggravated-action-onstage parts, they're distracting, because cooking-and-listening-to-music isn't really a situation that was even in Puccini's mindset. (Oddly, though, non-vocal classical adapts really well to the accompany-you-on-your-rounds role.) But then he goes into these ritardando settling-in melodic passages that are his most sublime strength, a gift unmatched in my opinion by really anyone in the history of music - we'd wait until electronic dance music for similarly wait-for-it-you-won't-believe-this moments of resolve. But here, they are so grand, and they involve characters, even if you're not following the aria you can feel their personae and then they settle into one of those slowing-down moments and it's like, wow, this is the most sublime music imaginable.
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)
not an opera aficionado by any means, but i am going to try to go see la boheme when it is playing near me next month ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
I'm not a great fan of opera, generally, but Puccini is quite lovely. Don't forget Tosca.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:51 (fifteen years ago)
watched "the killing fields" today which uses "nessun dorma!" from turandot. i assume the whole thing is this good?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 April 2013 02:24 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDc9OksaDE
:)
― k3vin k., Friday, 5 April 2013 16:58 (twelve years ago)
1:16:40 - 1:17:20
wow
― k3vin k., Friday, 5 April 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)
^ placido domingo as calaf, james levine conducting, this is good stuff
― k3vin k., Friday, 5 April 2013 20:03 (twelve years ago)
Puccini has been tracked into a surprising number of films, going all the way back to the Golden Age. Just yesterday I was listening to the score album from a new medieval fantasy BBC show and there was a track of Puccini in amongst the original cues.
― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 April 2013 20:13 (twelve years ago)
la boheme or madama butterfly tonight?
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 September 2013 01:37 (twelve years ago)
the former
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 September 2013 01:38 (twelve years ago)
ok that's where i was leaning, i've heard neither but adore turandot and tosca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVZoQwu0pKM
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 September 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)
The bit between 2:09 and 5:34 is currently my favorite piece of music in the WORLD:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YhAqo5aT3A
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:13 (three years ago)