Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.

audio-b-dog07-07-2025 7:05pm

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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,061 posts 09-13-2025 at 05:54pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete i know Kleiber and he is in the video i posted...Thanks for the suggestion ,it is the most universally recommended version among other great one... When i spoke about musical time, i did not refer to measurable duration as in slow or less slow speedy etc... Musical time refer for me to the way the time qualities impressions seems to be born from the musician gesture itself (or the maestro) and not from an external recommendation or even suggestion even by the composer... «Musical time concepts include tempo (speed), meter (organization of beats into measures), time signatures (notation for meter), pulse (the steady underlying beat), and rhythm (the pattern of sounds and silences). These elements create the structured flow and patterns that define a piece of music» The musical time is what tie all these elements and factors together in an organic non measurable qualitative whole. The musical time manifestation by an artist cannot be taught and cannot even be imitated.It is the most precious core of the musical miracle as pure individualisation of the universal as his time dimension. Samson Francois is a cult French pianist. He was legendary and his interpretation of Scriabin sonata no-3 is proof...
bernadie5317 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 34 posts 09-13-2025 at 10:34pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @audio-b-dog ... something that lifts my spirit i can almost understand why you favor the song . it has a certain mood perhaps induced by its slow tempo and the pleasant melody which seems to me to not quite emerge . his voice however i find a bit sharp and common . not quite Luciano Pavarotti particularly at 7:00 . i can not but wonder how the song would fare in the hands of say Cat Stevens the younger . as for lifting spirits Boogie Woogie All Day Long Baby https://youtu.be/Rf9ZJdIDNiM as for but one of my own uplifting Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg also covered amazingly by Leonid & Friends !https://youtu.be/9_torOTK5qc or perhaps Cat Stevens’ Mona Bone Jakon / Teaser and the Firecat / Tea for the Tillerman cheers
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,061 posts 09-14-2025 at 12:24am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Cat Stevens is hard to dislike... I like him all... I will suggest to relax: Cosmo Sheldrake... A poet as Stevens... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ruo7mI4sAA&list=RD8Ruo7mI4sAA&start_radio=1
audio-b-dog OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 883 posts 09-14-2025 at 06:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @mahgister Music can be many things to different people. I don't think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that's all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it's different things for me at different times. I got up very early this morning and played Puccini arias. Here is what I am listening to now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywEByqEVQRk&list=PLOJWuc3CN301JqbcCyHNPdvOSN0JkJ3f_
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,061 posts 09-14-2025 at 06:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @mahgister Music can be many things to different people. I don’t think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that’s all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it’s different things for me at different times. What you just said is common sense and self evident... But if i come here and recommend some music, i generally use the music exemples that move me the most and what move men the most, are what transform them for other reason than killing times with little pleasure or nostalgia.. I enjoy many thing for example i listen Bob Broockmeyer orchestra just right now and in the last week...( i like some of his albums) But it is not of great interest for most, save for me, my taste at the moment, it is some good big bang jazz music thats all ...I did not feel the urge to communicate at all cost that i listen Bob Broockmeyer especially ....Or Cosmo Sheldrake i quoted above only to answer and made an echo for Cat Stevens and welcoming a new participant in this thread... But Beethoven quatuor no 3 which i discovered not long ago that it evocate a fractals, this merit to be communicate to others because i was stunned by this listening and understanding i never enjoy before .. is this makes me a "snob" ? No, an attentive listener ... And many music pieces all along history awaken some spiritual insight in me which i could communicate to others.. Why i will not communicate about the most erotic female singer that i ever listen to today ? Because it has no interest for almost anyone... I will prefer to describe my astonishment when i discovered Hildegard the Bingen a self made universal genius in music and other fields in the 12 th century ...It matter most for me in the long term than my lust for the most erotic singer i ever encounter...This encounter is anecdotal ... Bingen encounter is life changing as the pianist Yudina was... Am i snob because of this preference for an order of priority? /=