Fun poll: what should I buy?

[DavidW]

What composer should I dig into with a new purchase tomorrow?  And what work?

[North Star]

I just wanted to avoid the hammer.

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn (of course);

"The Heart of Invention" by the Trio Goya.

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Download album MP3 = $8.99

Very enjoyable.

[Mirror Image]

Shostakovich: The Golden Age. Not the ballet suite, the full work. I recommend this recording:

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[Leon]

Yes, Haydn - if you don't already have it, this is a nice recording

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Also available as d/l for $8.99

[mc ukrneal]

A fantastic album:
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[madaboutmahler]

MAHLER!

I just wanted to avoid the hammer.

[knight66]

I have been enjoying the symphonies of Alfven, I got a five disc set of his orchestral must conducted by Jarvis on Brilliant for £6. Lovely music, rather like Sibelius, but less austere. An individual voice, not challenging, but well worth exploring.

Mike

[Dancing Divertimentian]

If there isn't a lot of Berlioz in your collection Dave I'd say get something like his Requiem or Romeo and Juliette. If you have those try this:




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[George]

What composer should I dig into with a new purchase tomorrow?  And what work?

Mahler 6 - Barbirolli.

[petrarch]

Charpentier.

This is lovely:

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http://www.outhere-music.com/store-Alpha_138

[ibanezmonster]

Other

specifically:

Ubloobideega- op.1453d Universe Fart Attack for 75 bagpipes

[George]

Other

specifically:

Ubloobideega- op.1453d Universe Fart Attack for 75 bagpipes

Is that on original instruments?

[Lethevich]

All dem Mahler votes - they're trying to ruin you

Fwiw: Pettersson (CPO), either 10/11, or 14

[mahler10th]

Other
specifically:
Ubloobideega- op.1453d Universe Fart Attack for 75 bagpipes

I protest at your use of the words 'bagpipes' and 'fart' in the same sentence.  Kindly pipe down with that or I will have to burst you.            

[ibanezmonster]

Is that on original instruments?

Well, Master Ubloobideega is lenient at times, and it doesn't matter too much. The original Universe Fart Attack (op.1453a) is actually scored for a choir of 15 elephants and an evil, laughing, maniac, self-pleasuring baritone, who stares audience members in the eyes while touching himself.

Usually, op.1453d (the one for bagpipes) is performed on future bagpipes, called "Penipes," named by someone in the future who had unusual thoughts about bagpipes...    the resulting style is referred to as "FAP," aka "Future-informed Artistic Performance."

Trust me, you don't want to know what the future pipes and bags look like...

You could buy a DVD set on how to draw Manga.   lololol   

I STRONGLY suggest this.
Actually, nah, you can find free pdfs of How to Draw Manga... I still have Vol.1 of that series back in the days when they didn't have pdfs of everything floating around.

[ibanezmonster]

I protest at your use of the words 'bagpipes' and 'fart' in the same sentence.  Kindly pipe down with that or I will have to burst you.            

Do you really like bagpipes or is it just because your Scottish? Because I have Scottish blood in me, too! 

[mahler10th]

Do you really like bagpipes or is it just because your Scottish? Because I have Scottish blood in me, too! 

Mate.  That is a crazy thing to ask.  Bring that Scottish blood of yours out to the front and you'll know why.  The only people who don't like the bagpipes are one of two things:
a) Not Scottish.
b) Not Scottish.
Even if you are Scottish and you don't like the bagpipes, you are not Scottish.  If you like the bagpipes and you're not Scottish, then you're Scottish.  Of course I like the bagpipes.  They are the sound under our feet.

PS  Sorry about that, the manga post was for elsewhere and it ended up in here.  I was in the wrong place when I posted it, and now I forgot where it was to be posted to.   lolololol   :-)

[ibanezmonster]

Mate.  That is a crazy thing to ask.  Bring that Scottish blood of yours out to the front and you'll know why.  The only people who don't like the bagpipes are one of two things:
a) Not Scottish.
b) Not Scottish.
Even if you are Scottish and you don't like the bagpipes, you are not Scottish.  If you like the bagpipes and you're not Scottish, then you're Scottish.  Of course I like the bagpipes.  They are the sound under our feet.

Gotcha 

[DavidW]

Non-Scot reaction to Mahler's 8th: holy cow this has like every music instrument imaginable, it's crazy!!

Scotsman reaction to Mahler's 8th: symphony of a 1,000 and no bag pipes!?   What a rip!

Scottish avant garde composers are furiously composing atonal bagpipe pieces as we speak.