a : made gentle by age or experience
b : rich and full but free from garishness or stridency
c : warmed and relaxed by or as if by liquor
:)
Satie?
Delius. Too mellow, if you listen to some of his haters. :)
Penderecki, of course! :)
Feldman! I love his "Piano and String Quartet" and "Rothko Chapel", among many others.
Feldman is INTENSE!
Penderecki can be instense as well.
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 07:44:52 AM
Penderecki can be instense as well.
Indeed. I definitely should have put this smiley instead: :D, or :laugh:, or >:D
Quote from: ChamberNut on July 01, 2014, 07:45:41 AM
Indeed. I definitely should have put this smiley instead: :D, or :laugh:, or >:D
You jokester.
a : made gentle by age or experience >>>>>>>>>>>>>Late Brahms
b : rich and full but free from garishness or stridency >>>>Delius
c : warmed and relaxed by or as if by liquor>>>>>>>>>>Rossini
Quote from: springrite on July 01, 2014, 07:54:51 AM
a : made gentle by age or experience >>>>>>>>>>>>>Late Brahms
b : rich and full but free from garishness or stridency >>>>Delius
c : warmed and relaxed by or as if by liquor>>>>>>>>>>Rossini
Nice!
Mompou. Or Deliuzzzz.
Quote from: Todd on July 01, 2014, 07:58:50 AM
Deliuzzzz.
That's got to be one of the oldest composer jokes in the book, right? :D
[ :o I just ordered an 18-disc Delius box set.]
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 08:00:19 AM
[ :o I just ordered an 18-disc Delius box set.]
You will never suffer from insomnia again.
Quote from: Brian on July 01, 2014, 07:38:28 AM
Delius. Too mellow, if you listen to some of his haters. :)
Delius. He is too mellow. :blank:
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 08:00:19 AM
[ :o I just ordered an 18-disc Delius box set.]
Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Quote from: Ken B on July 01, 2014, 08:45:45 AM
Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Whatever doesn't kill us puts us on life support
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 07:47:20 AM
You jokester.
Canada Day has gone straight to
Ray's head with nationalistic giddiness! 8)
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 08:00:19 AM
That's got to be one of the oldest composer jokes in the book, right? :D
[ :o I just ordered an 18-disc Delius box set.]
You just out-pranked
Ray! :)
Quote from: karlhenning on July 01, 2014, 09:15:20 AM
Canada Day has gone straight to Ray's head with nationalistic giddiness! 8)
He's not that much better without it, though.
Let us say, I hoped so ;)
Quote from: Mn Dave on July 01, 2014, 09:44:54 AM
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May I say, I hope you enjoy it!
Quote from: karlhenning on July 01, 2014, 09:45:36 AM
May I say, I hope you enjoy it!
In MN, Delius is almost too hip (and I don't mean Historically Informed).
Quote from: springrite on July 01, 2014, 09:55:02 AM
In MN, Delius is almost too hip (and I don't mean Historically Informed).
>:(
Quote from: springrite on July 01, 2014, 08:52:41 AM
Whatever doesn't kill us puts us on life support
Comatose is a best case scenario when talking 18 discs of Delius.
Satie and Debussy.
Quote from: Ken B on July 01, 2014, 11:03:39 AM
Comatose is a best case scenario when talking 18 discs of Delius.
I stopped at a dozen.
PS: I actually like Delius, when the mood is right, which is about twice a year.
Quote from: springrite on July 01, 2014, 11:10:51 AM
I stopped at a dozen.
PS: I actually like Delius, when the mood is right, which is about twice a year.
I can see listening to one Delius once in a while, as penance mostly. I can imagine 3 or 4 discs might be endured without permanent damage. 7 or 8 must surely leave deep scars. I'd recommend a few Petterssons immediately afterward, to try to cheer oneself up.
Quote from: Ken B on July 01, 2014, 11:20:33 AM
I can see listening to one Delius once in a while, as penance mostly. I can imagine 3 or 4 discs might be endured without permanent damage. 7 or 8 must surely leave deep scars. I'd recommend a few Petterssons immediately afterward, to try to cheer oneself up.
Now you know why I am a Pettersson completist!
Quote from: ChamberNut on July 01, 2014, 07:40:26 AM
Penderecki, of course! :)
:o >:D :laugh:
Seriously, I'd go for Fauré.
Based solely on compositions, I'm going to have to go with Debussy.
Did I misunderstand the OP's question?
marvin
I reckon mellowness is in the eye of the hibernator. It's hard to beat Delius in this dept., though I count myself as a fan. (BTW, Kate Bush's homage to him "he's a moody old man" is well worth the listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmADS0sFCGA )
Some of the other suggests I frankly can't see (hear) as mellow. Fauré, for example, seemingly transparent on the surface of things, has in many of his works a passion, if not dark undercurrent (eg: his Nocturnes), that keeps him from being doux.
Quote from: marvinbrown on July 03, 2014, 11:21:26 AM
Based solely on compositions, I'm going to have to go with Debussy...
Hmmm...Even with the end of La Mer, Images and Jeux to reckon with? :o
Quote from: jochanaan on July 04, 2014, 02:07:52 PM
Hmmm...Even with the end of La Mer, Images and Jeux to reckon with? :o
One is habitually asleep for the latter parts of those pieces.
>:D :laugh:
But Debussy is not mellow. Too many of his harmonies are
unsettling in vague ways.
Feldman, Debussy. 8)
Quote from: jochanaan on July 04, 2014, 02:07:52 PM
Hmmm...Even with the end of La Mer, Images and Jeux to reckon with? :o
Considering thiose 2 pieces you are right. But I was thinking solely about Pelleas et Melisande. Now that wins the award for mellowest opera ever composed.
marvin
Mompou?
It was just brought to my attention- TAKEMITSU ftw- hands down, there IS NO Composer even close. For those of you who picked Debussy, keep in mind that takemitsu is Debussy with ALL the testosterone drained out. Takemitsu's Your Man.
Satie definitely not. Debussy and Delius indeed. Albinoni. Bach's Goldberg Variations.
I agree with Feldman as well, in the most positive sense.
Quote from: snyprrr on July 07, 2014, 08:43:46 AM
It was just brought to my attention- TAKEMITSU ftw- hands down, there IS NO Composer even close. For those of you who picked Debussy, keep in mind that takemitsu is Debussy with ALL the testosterone drained out. Takemitsu's Your Man.
I think you have missed the "Zen factor" in his works.
With meditation one doesn't get into Zen. With Takemitsu one does.
Quote from: Henk on July 07, 2014, 09:16:45 AM
With meditation one doesn't get into Zen. With Takemitsu one does.
?
... but who wants mellow when you can get edgy?
Tchaikovsky
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Quote from: johnshade on July 08, 2014, 02:46:35 PM
Tchaikovsky
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Yes indeed, the soothing cannons..
This thread is keeping me up nights. ;)
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anything by finzi and brahms third 8)
Quote from: offbeat on July 12, 2014, 04:14:13 AM
anything by finzi and brahms third 8)
Can't comment on Finzi's music, but I respectfully disagree about Brahms 3; only the very ending is mellow. (But many conductors take the first movement too slow for my tastes; it is Allegro con brio, after all.)