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At night in bed I always have the radio on , LBC or radio 3 , 3 is excellent at settling me after a busy/stressful day
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I still love folk music and listen to the Folk on Foot podcast ( just about to listen to this months folk music chart).Johnny Flynn and Lankum being current favourites.Used to find a new favourite band when Glastonbury was on each year but that hasn’t happened in recent years. I did find Hazel Winters video for The Candyman Walks on utube; it still had a huge emotional effect on me but was not an optimist one. I think that podcasts have taken over from listening to music as there are so many good ones ( mainly history ones) to listen to. I’ve always meant to listen to more classical music, if only to enable me to answer more questions on University Challenge.But don’t know where to start.
I’ve always meant to listen to more classical music, if only to enable me to answer more questions on University Challenge.But don’t know where to start.
These are my usual choices:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014r87y
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxfPiano is my favourite: either solo, such as Schubert’s Impromptus and Chopin’s Nocturnes, or accompanied, such as Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos
Plenty on Youtube
Moe as a start I’d suggest Vivaldi esp Four seasons , Prokofiev also , classical music is a great soother , also good for concentration , I have it on when doing my work emails in the morning
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I don’t understand the technical/mathemathical bit of music but I thought this was funny
Despite not being able to hold one tune, let alone two, I fell down an internet rabbit hole listening to polyphonic overtone singing. The voice control bends my mind.
I’ve always meant to listen to more classical music, if only to enable me to answer more questions on University Challenge
FWIW Moe, I’ve been on a mission these past few years to see how well I could do in a typical episode of Radio 4’s Counterpoint despite getting almost none of the classical questions right. And I’ll say this much; I haven’t finished last very often.
I passed Grade 8 theory easily enough in my early teens, but always by scoring the maximum number of points available on notation, musical terms, etc. to compensate for the inevitable haemorrhaging of points when asked to name X number of symphonies from old white dead geezer Y.
My relationship with classical music as a whole is… complicated. It was always in the house growing up, and my folks switched to Classic FM from Radio 2 at the earliest opportunity upon launch. You might as well have superglued the dial in place there for all subsequent radios owned.
There was always an element of snob value to it being played quite as much as it was, however, and that also manifested itself in the piano lessons I was obliged to sit for north of a decade. Practising the same three pieces for months on end at the whim of the Associated Board drew all the fun out of the genre and by extension the playing of the instrument.
For all that, I still prefer piano-based classical, or better still solo classical piano pieces, as much to hear how it ought to have been done. I loves me some Satie, some Bach’s Preludes and Fugues and some Baroque (especially any of those madrigals by the likes of Monteverdi which appear to consist of not much more than the same motif on a harpsichord throughout).
Decades of relative neglect, however, have reduced my playing technique to an ugly, uncoordinated stab, not even pub standard. As my perfect pitch has conversely remained intact, I’m essentially a musician who can no longer play music, which is frustrating beyond belief.
I tend to steer clear of full symphony orchestra thingies, especially those with bombastic, dominant, inescapable string sections, which ramp up my tinnitus far worse than the loudest gigs I could possibly attend.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I’ve just seen an old episode of Wogan hosted by Kenneth Williams. The musical guests were The Shadows who performed an instrumental of Mike Oldfield’s Moonlight Shadow. Fantastic. You can tell where Knopfler got his influence from.
Kenneth Williams , sorry if you mention Kenny I have to put up Julian and Sandy ….it’s TRF rules
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I just had to Google Round the Horne to double check that my memory of it being on the radio on Sundays was correct, and it was. Takes me right back to being in the living room listening to it.
There should be a Bona Cheltenham special , Julian complaint about losing while and Sandy commenting on his best rides of the week …
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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