2 responses to “Classicfm, Tallis, and Williams”

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   Carmon

   Tuesday, August 10, 2004

   I LOVE Ralph Vaughan Williams. I even named my iPod “Ralph.” There’s an extensive biography of him in A Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith and Betty Carlson. He also wrote quite a lot of sacred music.

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   Marysue (Maisy)

   Tuesday, August 10, 2004

   Oh, now you’ve done it. I don’t have an iPod, or anything like it. 🙁

   For now I enjoy music the tradional way, via my computer. (Good subwoofer/speaker external setup)

   In the old days it was via my walkman or stereo with little speakers or headphones.

   In the really old days it was via vinyl records on my worse stereo. Loved those cracks and pops with classics!

   Back to point: an mp3 player sort of device would be so versatile and rightly the sort of thing to have. I’m loading all my CD’s onto the computer slowly, so going to the next level: a device to carry them elsewhere.
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   My love of classical music has abounded all my life, but I’ve let much of it lay low the last several years. I’ve been ramping my listening up lately, and so enjoy it!

   My research that was spawned via Classicfm has shown me exactly what I would want to know about any wonderful piece of music. A hint at the inspiration that took hold to write it.

   Thomas Tallis is the focus now, though I love the Williams piece.

   Williams working on hymns came across that Tallis “third mode melody”, and knowing what that piece is like is a phenomenal view into what conspired with Williams to create the Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

   Not having any CD with this work on it, I downloaded the Barbirolli performance via WMP9 Musicmatch service [ www.musicmatch.com/ ].
   This is the CD it came from: www.opuscds.com/cd/26649

   Musicmatch is a Premium Service that can be found in WMP9 on the left-hand side, click the right button so named. One can sign up just for downloading … don’t have to be sucked into their premium radio service. 🙂

   I did that since it’s not so bad to pay $.99 for a wonderful song you can listen to on your computer, burn onto a CD to listen other places … and load onto a device if you have one.

   So for 16 minutes of rapture, over and over again as desired, $.99 is cheap. And it allows one to have just the pieces they want, without getting a CD full of extraneous stuff, though I must be careful not to take the Trepak (Russian Dance) of the Nutcracker idea to it’s fullest extent … a self-burned CD would tend to be explosive after explosive of intense music … my ultimate love musically. Sigh. Must temper my emotions with down to earth music as well.

   Thank you Carmon for the book info. I’ll look it up. 🙂

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