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SeattleUte · 10-31-2007, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SteelBlue

Anything from Wagner and/or Rachmaninoff that I should specifically request? At 10 cd's per composer I can't imagine I'll miss too much, but if I ask for something I can almost guarantee he owns it and will include it.

Get some selections from the Ring. Remember Apocalypse Now, early on, as the helicopter is descending on the Vietnames village and Robert Duvall turns on Classical music booming out across the skies? That was Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries", at the beginning of Act III of Die Walküre, which is part of the Ring tetrology. That melody is a recurring motif througout the operas.

The melody has been repeatedly ripped off and adapted in various contexts, primarily scores for war scenes.

SeattleUte · 10-31-2007, 08:01 PM

I like Mozart's piano concertos. Murray Pariah is great. For Mozart I love Vladimir Ashkenazy. Murray Pariah's recitals of Schubert are among his best.

UtahDan · 10-31-2007, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The melody has been repeatedly ripped off and adapted in various contexts, primarily scores for war scenes.

Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!!!!

jay santos · 10-31-2007, 08:17 PM

Mozart is my fav.

But I listen to more opera than classical.

10-31-2007, 08:01 PM	#12
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	I like Mozart's piano concertos. Murray Pariah is great. For Mozart I love Vladimir Ashkenazy. Murray Pariah's recitals of Schubert are among his best. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

10-31-2007, 08:17 PM	#14
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	Mozart is my fav. But I listen to more opera than classical.