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| After almost a year, I'm finally back with a new piece. Rapturous. Enjoy!
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Credits: Music bi Pietro Mascagni |
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Credits: Music by W. A. Mozart |
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| This is probably one of classical music's most recognized themes. It was written by Richard Strauss in 1896, as the opening of a tone poem titled "Also Sprach Zarathustra". The score states that it is "for *Large* Orchestra." |
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Credits: Music by Richard Strauss, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| Yep, this is it! The Hi-Yo Silver Song! (This mix is different from the one I used in the complete William Tell Overture.) |
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Credits: Music by Gioacchino Rossini |
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| From Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung - Twilight of the Gods. This piece is right up there among the crowning achievements of Western Music. It moves from the depths of blackest despair and grief to heartbreakingly transcendent hope of redemption. This music was used extensively in the film "Excalibur." |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| Prelude to Act 3 of Die Walkure. This is quintessential going-to-war music. It tells of the Valkyries - Goddesses, scouring the battlefields of the earth to find noble warriors to slay and take to Valhalla. This music got a lot of airplay in the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now! |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| MP3.COM FEATURED SYMPHONIC SONG 8/3/00 - Some of the most gorgeous, ethereal music ever written, culminating in an orchestral climax that'll take off the top of your skull. Great for romancin'! |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| Wagner at his rip-roaring best. A ghost ship in a thunderous storm at sea, all sung with the full might of a Wagnerian orchestra. Cartoon buffs will recognize this as the opening of the most beloved animated title of all, "What's Opera, Doc?" |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| 08/18/00 - MP3.COM FEATURED SYMPHONIC SONG - The opening music of the Ring cycle. Joyous and powerful, with an incredible 8-part round for horns that demonstrates Wagner as minimalist! |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| A sweet majestic melancholy pervades this opening of Wagner's final opera of the Ring Cycle. The end of the Gods is near; on a mountaintop, the three Norns (Fates) spin their web of destiny and sing of the world as they have known it - a world that is about to go up in flames! |
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| Act II, scenes 2 and 3 from Gotterdammerung. If ever there was a good soundtrack for "The Bad Guys Are Winning", this is it. It begins with a blood-red evocation of dawn, moving into a scene of double-cross and intrigue. The Dark Lord's minion, Hagen, ends the scene by summoning all his vassals - who gather with great barbaric splendor!
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Credits: Music by Richard Wagner, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| MP3.COM FEATURED OPERA SELECTION 6/20/00 -Lush, lyrical and passionate music. The name of the opera from which this prelude is taken, loosely translated, means "Rustic Life." But this isn't any happy pastoral jolly peasant life; this takes place in Sicily! This prelude figured prominently at the end of The Godfather III, as the background music to the film's final operatic orgy of bloodletting. |
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Credits: Music by Pietro Mascagni |
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| My favorite of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. The film Topsy-Turvy was about the creation of this gem. |
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Credits: Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan |
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| A wonderful song for Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Pish-Tush. When I was in Drama school, we used to be tormented by our Voice and Diction teacher, who forced us to repeat the lyrics of this song at very high speed. |
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Credits: Lyrics by W. S. Gilbert, Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan |
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| Aida, enslaved by the Egyptians, sings of her homeland - the land she will see "no more, no more". |
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Credits: Music by: Giuseppe Verdi |
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| A well-known and ground-breaking tone poem by Liszt. Wonderful contrast of warlike and pastoral sections, early impressionistic sounds of nature, cavalry charges, flirtations with dissonance - all these make Les Preludes an essential masterpiece of Romantic music. |
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Credits: Music by Franz Liszt |
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MP3.com CD: Classical Gasses - buy it!
Credits: Music by Franz Liszt |
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| Franz Liszt's Les Preludes was a goldmine of background music for "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", the third Buster Crabbe space epic from the late thirties. This passage always got played when the evil Ming ships began attacking. |
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Credits: Music by Franz Liszt, Artwork by Ernest Stifel |
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| The quintessence of joyful music. |
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Credits: Music by George Frideric Handel |
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| This piece is one of those old chestnuts that reminds us that every cliche' started as something new and incredible. The overture has four main sections, each one a masterpiece in its own right. We open with a lovely cello quintet, leading into music representing a tremendous thunderstorm, familiar to anyone with a taste for Warner Bros. cartoons. The third part, "After the Storm" features a lovely duet for English Horn and Flute. Part four was made famous not only by our friends at Warner's, but also by a certain Masked Man. ENJOY! |
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Credits: Music by Gioacchino Rossini |
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| A charming piece with glockenspiel. This is where Papageno sings about wanting either a maiden or a married woman - "either one will do very nicely". |
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Credits: Music by W. A. Mozart |
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| A joyous romp for harpsichord and string orchestra. |
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Credits: Music by J. S. Bach |
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| MP3.COM FEATURED CLASSICAL SONG - 3/28/00. I learned about this piece in the late sixties, when somebody told me about a composition by Bach that sounded as if he had taken something illegal. This fantasy is played on (synthesized) harpsichord. There are some incredible runs of tiny notes, the like of which drove Frank Zappa to synclavier as the only way of performing a piece "correctly". Another Zappa-esque trait that Johann Sebastian shows off here is music with the "rhythms" of speech - here some very voluble and excited German gentleman! |
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Credits: Music by J. S. Bach |
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| MP3.COM FEATURED BAROQUE SONG - 4/20/00. This three-part fugue gets a non-traditional voicing in this performance. The first voice is taken by harpsichord + flute, the second by clarinet + music box, and the third by church organ + cello. An intriguing mix of tones and timbres! |
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Credits: Music by: J. S. Bach |
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