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Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:32 pm
by iKon
If so, why, and when did you first listen to it?

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:46 pm
by The Xeno
...?
This is headed for a lock unless it is suddenly revealed just what that post constitutes.

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:53 pm
by agapooka
I'd say music section.

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:58 pm
by The Xeno
I figured it was either a girls name, music group, music style, or some manner of albino bohemian fern fungus... just couldn't decide. :P

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:02 pm
by iKon
sorry. wasn't aware we had a music section

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:26 pm
by Spam Bot
Yes. The Aria from the first movement of Gorecki's Third Symphony. It was taken from a wall at Dachau, and was a lament from someone who had lost their entire family. To this day it brings tears to my eyes, not just the words (which are in Polish anyway) but the beauty of the aria. I have 2 versions of it - Joanna Kowzlowska's and Dawn Upshaw's. Both intense.

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:33 pm
by iKon
Spam Bot wrote:Yes. The Aria from the first movement of Gorecki's Third Symphony. It was taken from a wall at Dachau, and was a lament from someone who had lost their entire family. To this day it brings tears to my eyes, not just the words (which are in Polish anyway) but the beauty of the aria. I have 2 versions of it - Joanna Kowzlowska's and Dawn Upshaw's. Both intense.


I know exactly what you're talking about, I have that very version on remastered CD, and I agree - there is something about Gorecki's music that just reverberates through the soul, and not just the contect of the symphony; a very passionate composer indeed.

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:34 am
by Apollo
What do you think them of Lamb's song Gorecki? I love it, but not for it's ties to the Symphony. I love it for it's own sake. :D Unlike when most Classics are violated for the pop market - Vitamin C, for your crimes against Canon you are hereby sentenced to death by.... well, by cannon.

Re: Do you have a favourite aria?

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:47 pm
by iKon
I think lamb has a certain hypnotic quality about her anyway which, when she really focuses on her music transcends pop trend anyway, for example, gabriel is absolutely beautiful to listen to when you're trying to wind down.

I actually like faithless for the same reason