Sunrise Symphonies?

[m_gigena]

So had you heard the work recently, or has it also been decades?

I re-discovered the disc by Vengerov and Abbado last week. But I listened to the Glazunov concerto mostly.

What is curious is that when virtuoso works are playing I get them at a lower speed.

But really, I'm in the group of people who always have some sort of music playing in their inner Winamp (or iTunes, if you want). And the best thing is, you don't really know what you're getting next!

My inner music providers almost go bankrupt with the recent purchase of my digital audio player. I got the music service offshored.

[Cato]

I re-discovered the disc by Vengerov and Abbado last week. But I listened to the Glazunov concerto mostly.

What is curious is that when virtuoso works are playing I get them at a lower speed.

That is the joy of a good musical memory: you can do anything you want with the work, even play it at 16 rpm rather than 33 1/3!

Renfield: Waking up to the opening of Mahler's Eighth or any Bruckner symphony seems very appropriate.

Anybody ever wake up with the Ride of the Valkyries in their inner ears?

Has any waking-up music connected to a dream?  Maybe in your dreams you are conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, or the Boston Symphony, or a really great ensemble like the Cleveland Orchestra, and the music just keeps on truckin'!

[m_gigena]

Has any waking-up music connected to a dream?  Maybe in your dreams you are conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, or the Boston Symphony, or a really great ensemble like the Cleveland Orchestra, and the music just keeps on truckin'!

I already narrated this. The first time I listened to Shostakovich's first violin concerto I was actually sleeping. The alarm clock radio turned on early in the morning but I kept sleeping. The concerto was being broadcasted and I incorporated the music to my dream. I remember in it I really liked the Scherzo. I woke up as soon as the Burleske finished, and heard the announcer reading it was Shostakovich's first violin concerto, played by David Oistrah and Dmitri Mitropoulos.

[karlhenning]

Anybody ever wake up with the Ride of the Valkyries in their inner ears?

Only when the air niffs of napalm.

[Cato]

Only when the air niffs of napalm.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"   

Similar: I have sometimes had a work in my head and that was what the local classical station played during the morning ride.

[Bonehelm]

Shosty's haunting theme from the finale of his 5th.

[marvinbrown]

Anybody ever wake up with the Ride of the Valkyries in their inner ears?

  Yes me of course  !!! The "prize song" and the overture from Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg also stick like glue the following morning after a night spent watching the Levine MET DVD.  Sublime truely sublime  0:).     


  marvin

[12tone.]

Quite lately I've had the desending brass tune of the introduction to Bruckner's 3rd symphony.  I'll be going along and then...

DUHHHH, DUHHHHH, DUH DUH-DUHHHHHHHHH.

[gomro]

Dudes!  Dudettes!

How often do you wake up with the finale of  Bruckner's Fifth Symphony rattling across your corpus callosum?   

Or anything else?   

Very often, but not only classics. In recent weeks I can tell you I've awakened with such music as:

Apprentice of the Universe and Bullitts Dominae by rock band Pure Reason Revolution
All Along the Watchtower...Jimi Hendrix's version
Claude Bolling's Veloce' from the Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
2nd movement of Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta
Stockhausen's Songs of the Days

[val]

Right now, the sun is rising and I have in my mind the beginning of Mozart piano Sonata K 333 (I listened to it, again, yesterday, by Leon McCawley).

[m_gigena]

Today was the Triumphal March from Aida.

[George]

So tell us: which works have you heard while refusing the arms of Morpheus, or Morphea, as the sun also rises? 

LvB's Pastoral. 

[Cato]

Here is something interesting: I began this topic last week, because a part of the funeral march from Beethoven's Third Symphony was playing in my inner ear when I woke up, a work which is not one I choose often.

It turns out that on that exact day my mother (in her 80's) had suffered - and ignored - a mild heart attack. 

When I called her on Friday, she told me about "feeling bad and weak" on Wednesday, and again on Friday, so my sister and I convinced her to check into a hospital, where it was confirmed that she had indeed suffered two mild heart attacks.

Of course, with a parent past 80, one always has that cloud of death hanging expectantly above one's head.  Still, an interesting coincidence that on that specific day Beethoven's gloomy music should parallel my mother's heart attack!

On the other hand a funeral march is still premature!    0:)

Gomro: that is truly an eclectic collage of tunes to hear !

[Kullervo]

I just wanted to say how glad I am that everyone has, so far, had the self-control not to say Grieg's "Morning Mood".

[Cato]

This morning's "head music" (No, not The Monkees     )
was the Dvorak Serenade for Strings, the second movement. 

"One of the greatest works ever composed!"  = I have certain personal memories connected to it    0:)   which make it "one of the greatest works ever composed!" 

[dtwilbanks]

This morning's "head music" (No, not The Monkees     )

The porpoise song is awesome.

[Cato]

The porpoise song is awesome.

Dude!  You're in the club!   

[dtwilbanks]

Dude!  You're in the club!   

[Cato]

Today I woke up with the music from the credit-card commercial showing people with ADHD swirling through a toy store, which comes to halt when a mother starts to write a check, instead of swiping her (Visa?) credit card.

I believe the music comes from Danny Elfman's score to Pee Wee's Big Adventure.  It accompanies a scene in the kitchen where he is racing around like a lunatic.

I thankfully never saw the movie, but recall the music from an excerpt shown in the 80's on Siskel and Ebert, the movie review show. 

Yes, that's the kind of curse my musical memory can be!   

[marvinbrown]

Today was the Triumphal March from Aida.

  Yes and what of the Anvil Chorus (Act 2) from Verdi's Il Trovatore?? That always has a tendency to stick in one's head if you know what I mean....

  marvin