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Title: What are you currently listening to?
Post by: Cantarella on October 25, 2013, 01:25:13 AM
La Catholique - Choeur Montjoie Saint-Denis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-llKxAbag&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: IllyricumSacrum on October 25, 2013, 07:58:30 AM
'Mozarabic Chant' performed by Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum.
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Post by: Frances on October 25, 2013, 04:57:23 PM
 :dancing-banana: :roll-laugh1:Blasting and drilling caused by construction of the 2nd Avenue subway line in NYC.  
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Post by: Mabel on October 25, 2013, 05:02:30 PM
A disagreeable toddler.
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Post by: songbird on October 25, 2013, 05:15:12 PM
Mabel: your disagreeable toddler out beats the drilling!
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Post by: Hyperdox Nick on October 25, 2013, 05:52:04 PM
Bach's Cantata BWV 147 :)

In iTunes, look up the 100 Supreme Masterpieces of Classical Music... you won't regret it!

I think I'll listen to Rachmaninoff's Vespers soon, but I don't want to burn out on it...
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Post by: Cantarella on October 25, 2013, 07:39:31 PM
Agni Parthene - Russian version

by Valaam Brethren Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vvPXz-Qes
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Post by: Hyperdox Nick on October 25, 2013, 07:46:56 PM
Quote from: Cantarella
Agni Parthene - Russian version

by Valaam Brethren Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vvPXz-Qes



Good choice! :)

Here are some other good ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujZiZ3ZRXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3iYnHx8P0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9aFb7iOTtI
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Post by: PereJoseph on October 25, 2013, 08:00:40 PM
Ancient Greek lyre music.
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Post by: John on October 25, 2013, 08:12:19 PM
http://librivox.org/history-of-the-catholic-church-from-the-renaissance-to-the-french-revolution-volume-1-by-rev-james-maccaffrey/

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Post by: IllyricumSacrum on October 25, 2013, 08:12:30 PM
Quote from: Frances
:dancing-banana: :roll-laugh1:Blasting and drilling caused by construction of the 2nd Avenue subway line in NYC.  


I hear Astoria, Queens is happening now. Rent's cheaper, too.
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Post by: Sigismund on October 25, 2013, 09:11:11 PM
Some music by St. Hildegard of Bingen.
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Post by: StCeciliasGirl on October 25, 2013, 09:24:07 PM
Der Ring des Nibelungen  (on the second one now; I could fall over I'm in such bliss.)
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Post by: Matthew on October 25, 2013, 09:31:22 PM
A few free music CDs you can download here:

http://open.commonly.cc/unlocked

Download all 3 CDs by "Halcyonic Falcon X"

Don't scroll down to anything else; I can tell you right now it's all either poorly done game graphics, or a CD cover (representing very crappy music -- I already sampled it) that makes Sailor Moon look modest. Just trust me.

The music by Halcyonic Falcon X is absolutely incredible though. There are probably 2 or 3 tracks out of the 20 that you might want to delete or set aside; the rest are amazing.

I guess it depends on what kind of music you like. But, objectively speaking, it's very melodious and good music.
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Post by: Frances on October 25, 2013, 10:11:25 PM
Quote from: IllyricuмSacrum
Quote from: Frances
:dancing-banana: :roll-laugh1:Blasting and drilling caused by construction of the 2nd Avenue subway line in NYC.  


I hear Astoria, Queens is happening now. Rent's cheaper, too.


You got that one right!  Since I moved in, Astoria is THE place to be happening!  Rent is less than Manhattan, but has gone up since it's now "happening!"
:dancing-banana:
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Post by: InfiniteFaith on October 25, 2013, 10:17:02 PM
Probably something I shouldn't be listening to. I like Heavy Metal. But really I like all kinds of music.
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Post by: Gaudium in Space on October 27, 2013, 01:33:33 PM
Palestrina, Missa Tu Es Petrus (Westminster Cathedral Choir)

And

Beethoven String Quartets, Complete (Guarneri String Quartet)

Trying to get other garbage noise out of my mind
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Post by: Cantarella on October 27, 2013, 10:10:48 PM
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM&list=LLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: Neil Obstat on October 28, 2013, 04:03:58 AM
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Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66.  

Again and again and again.   I can't get enough.  


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Post by: Cantarella on November 01, 2013, 01:22:21 AM
Russian Kalinka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAT3G-1mdBw
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Post by: Neil Obstat on November 01, 2013, 02:49:50 AM
Quote from: InfiniteFaith
Probably something I shouldn't be listening to. I like Heavy Metal.


That's right.  You shouldn't listen to the devil's music!



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But really I like all kinds of music.



I know someone who actually said this, and was quite serious:


I like BOTH kinds of music:  Country AND Western!!



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Post by: Stubborn on November 01, 2013, 09:55:42 AM
In honor of All Saints Day, The Litany of the Saints (http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/litania.mp3) Gregorian Chant.

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Post by: StCeciliasGirl on November 01, 2013, 10:34:43 AM
"Hail Holy Queen"

Because of:

Triumph, all ye cherubim
Sing with us, ye seraphim,
Heaven and earth resound the hymn:
Salve, salve, salve Regina!

Just love that part. It seems pretty good for today.

But I've got a good copy of Litany of the Saints (no new saints) I'll listen to tomorrow (All Souls) and the rest of the Octave. I hope I don't have it backwards. I probably do, don't I?

 :confused1:
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Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on November 01, 2013, 11:10:15 AM
Quote from: Stubborn
In honor of All Saints Day, The Litany of the Saints (http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/litania.mp3) Gregorian Chant.



My favorite.  Thank you for the link.

At this moment I am listening to Vince Finelli via my laptop.  He has a show M-F called "USA Prepares", which usually consists of very thoughtful commentary, a wide ranging assortment of guests, and non hysterical discussions about the very dire circuмstances of the day, and what measures one can take to protect self and family.  It's typically an empowering (vs fear mongering) show, despite the serious topics.

Today, he is interviewing a John Ragan re: spy/black ops, digital footprints, black boxes in cars, and his new book "Financial State of the Union".

I'm now switching to Stubborn's link!

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Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66.

Again and again and again. I can't get enough.


I'm like that with Beetoven's 9th for some reason.
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Post by: LoverOfTradition on November 01, 2013, 11:42:35 AM
I listen to Gregorian Chant while I'm on the internet. So beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYU6WWCm2Hw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYU6WWCm2Hw)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYQWKCqxEE#t=18
Title: What are you currently listening to?
Post by: Neil Obstat on November 01, 2013, 11:47:37 AM
Quote from: Stubborn
In honor of All Saints Day, The Litany of the Saints (http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/litania.mp3) Gregorian Chant.




Try explaining to young people today that just 50 years ago, all the
Catholic parishes in the world sang the Litany of Saints just like this
on All Saints' Day, in Latin.  This is still within living memory.  But
how long will that be the case?  What we are seeing is the deliberate
extinguishing of the flame;  the flame of the Faith is being treated as
if it were a fire to be put out by the Fire Department.


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Post by: Frances on November 02, 2013, 08:44:50 PM
 :dancing-banana:Listening to Benedictines sing Compline, recording from 1952.
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Post by: Sigismund on November 02, 2013, 08:56:26 PM
A collection of Dvorak symphonies.
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Post by: Cantarella on November 03, 2013, 07:29:52 PM
Sacramentals - The Armor of God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PDhwEGNbb4&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: Kazimierz on November 04, 2013, 06:30:11 PM
Lord of the Rings BBC audio dramatized version...for probably the 20th or 30th time.....try to listen to this I does, at least once a year.
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Post by: Sigismund on November 04, 2013, 08:09:35 PM
Quote from: Kazimierz
Lord of the Rings BBC audio dramatized version...for probably the 20th or 30th time.....try to listen to this I does, at least once a year.


That is really good.

Have you ever heard the American (NPR) version?  Their rendition of The Hobbit is fine, but their LOTR is just unbearable.  
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Post by: Kazimierz on November 05, 2013, 01:28:54 PM
Yes Sigismund. I have the Mind's Eye production of the Hobbit, and it is very good. I wish the BBC would re-do The Hobbit. The 60s version out there is a bit woeful in spots.

The unabridged readings of the Hobbit and LOTR are excellent. As is Martin Shaw's reading of The Silmarillion.

I try to listen to all the audio I have of Tolkien's works, on a regular basis. I think I have all the audio (of every version) of his works, as I have been able to research.

Children of Hurin read by Christopher Lee is another gem. Same for the dramatized versions of Tales from the Perilous Realm.

For any Narnia fans here, Focus on the Family did an excellent dramatized version of all the Chronicles of Narnia.
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Post by: GottmitunsAlex on November 06, 2013, 11:16:46 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6VZmMQkhE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6VZmMQkhE)
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Post by: Cantarella on November 07, 2013, 10:27:57 PM
Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poSw7tFLB4
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Post by: BitDudeX on November 08, 2013, 08:48:20 PM
Black Metal for NBBMN(Nothing but black metal November.)


amazing genre
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Post by: Frances on November 09, 2013, 01:02:36 PM
Raise your mind, Bitdude!  Satanic music can't help but destroy your soul.  How would it be if you die suddenly while listening to this?  
I'm currently not listening to music.  I am babysitting for my eight year old nephew and his two friends, so I hear the sounds of mock-combat from the backyard.  They're infiltrating an enemy outpost and blasting away at the invisible foe.
Title: What are you currently listening to?
Post by: BitDudeX on November 09, 2013, 10:35:28 PM
Quote from: Frances
Raise your mind, Bitdude!  Satanic music can't help but destroy your soul.  How would it be if you die suddenly while listening to this?  
I'm currently not listening to music.  I am babysitting for my eight year old nephew and his two friends, so I hear the sounds of mock-combat from the backyard.  They're infiltrating an enemy outpost and blasting away at the invisible foe.


>How would it be if you die suddenly while listening to this?  

Dunno. I highly doubt me listening to black metal/raw bm will get me to hell.
 :laugh1:
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Post by: Cantarella on November 10, 2013, 10:09:18 PM
Beowulf soundtrack - 4 what we need is a hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucrK1Z__MQ8&list=PL92BCF66F482EA6DD
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Post by: Cantarella on November 15, 2013, 12:31:14 AM
Husaria - Polska Duma / The Winged Hussars - Polish Pride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeaQzfE2kHw&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: Stella on November 15, 2013, 03:59:23 AM
Tomas Luis de Victoria is my man.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/br0weaJgrnw[/youtube]
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Post by: Cantarella on November 22, 2013, 10:58:59 PM
Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJE0kI6loU&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: Frances on November 22, 2013, 11:46:03 PM
Doc Watson and Kruger Bros. rendition of Shady Grove, Appalachian Fest, West Virginia, 2002.
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Post by: Cantarella on December 04, 2013, 10:14:24 PM
Anima Christi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr0u_uxus5I
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Post by: soulguard on December 05, 2013, 12:16:29 PM
Quote from: Cantarella
La Catholique - Choeur Montjoie Saint-Denis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-llKxAbag&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA


This gave me great joy!
 :sign-surrender:  ( white flag of the burbons)
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Post by: Frances on December 06, 2013, 09:54:04 PM
 :sleep:Brother in law is asleep on couch.  Otherwise, no noise except for gurgling of water in heater.
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Post by: Petertherock on December 07, 2013, 12:08:46 AM
Just got back from the Big Band Syndrome and it was an incredible show. But right now I was watching Warren Haynes with Brad Whitford and Joe Bonamassa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdllcrGfmE
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Post by: Neil Obstat on December 07, 2013, 03:16:37 AM
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My wife is singing in a chorus, for Handel's Messiah.  

The problem with that is, she has been playing it every waking moment, and going over her part.  The Messiah is long enough without having certain parts repeated several times.  

What I mean to say is, I am, and have been, listening to Handel's Messiah.  And I probably will be in the future as well.

...And He shall glorify-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y, and He shall glorify-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y, etc., etc.


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Post by: Neil Obstat on December 07, 2013, 10:06:31 AM
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Post (http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=27951&min=35#p4)
Quote from: Stella
Tomas Luis de Victoria is my man.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/br0weaJgrnw[/youtube]



Thank you, Stella, for a great video.  BBC, A.D. 2011.

Four things come to mind seeing and hearing this:

1)  How could it be that this great composer, arguably the greatest of all the Renaissance Composers, is not referred to as "venerable?"  According to this BBC presentation his life was one of holiness, deep devotion, and dedication to the practice of the Faith, to which he always applied his talents in the art and practice of choral music to the best of his great ability.  Where, then is the cause for his beatification, after 400 years?

2)  The great mystic and foundress of the Discalced Carmelites, St. Theresa of Avila, was not only his contemporary with whom he shared the very village of his birth (Avila, Spain), but her friendship was perhaps the key inspiration for the tremendous mystical depth of his compositions, and even today we can hear in his works the voice of her ecstasies.  This BBC production refers to her as his "mentor," yet he was the priest, and she was the nun!  I am left wondering if the mentorship was not reciprocal!  Who is to say for sure that it was not hearing the heavenly harmonies of this music that was the impetus behind the mystical ecstasies of St. Theresa of Avila?!

3)  The lifelong patron of Tomas Luis de Victoria, King Philipp II of Spain, was the same person after whom the Philippines are named.  It was his patronage that funded de Victoria's education and development, and without which the world might well have been deprived of the effects of his genius.

4)  While musicologists marvel at the "singular" technical prowess of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to the point where Mozart is enshrined in his own special room of commemoration, the skill and incomparable achievement in harmony and unprecedented overall artistic effect of de Victoria's compositions seems to overshadow even Mozart's, in the area of choral music, which is all de Victoria really excelled in (perhaps with the exception of some minor works of voice accompanied by lute).  But de Victoria did not compose for orchestra or string instruments.  Nonetheless, Mozart's choral works, as impressive as they are, do not really come close to the ominous mystical power of de Victoria's.  Both are fine examples of great choral music, and one can tell immediately the difference in style given any pair of examples thereof.


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Title: What are you currently listening to?
Post by: Memento on December 07, 2013, 11:03:54 AM
To add to your listening pleasure-


English: Vespers of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Italiano: Vespro della Beata Vergine.
Claudio Monteverdi.
La Fenice. Director: Jean Tubéry.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/6YmJLIZaFMU.
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Post by: Neil Obstat on December 10, 2013, 04:19:51 AM
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I heard an Irish folk song recently that was utterly captivating.  

The song was about an Irishman in Australia who was homesick, and while he had some family ties or business dealings that demanded his continued presence "down under," he was doing a lot of thinking about how he could somehow bring his fond memories of the Emerald Isle overseas to his new homeland (since he couldn't leave, himself).  It's kind of sad, really, but when you think about how much he loved his native country, it becomes a thing of haunting beauty.  

This is a song you can sing every week and get real happy.


It goes like this:  :guitar:

I was dreaming of old Ireland, of Kilarney's lakes and fells
I was dreaming of the shamrock and the dear old Shannon bells
When my memory suggested in a vision bright and clear
All the strange things that would happen if we had old Ireland here.

If the Blarney Stone stood out on Sydney Harbor
And Dublin town to Melbourne came to stay
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane waters
And Killarney's lakes flowed into Botany Bay

If the Shannon bells rang out in old Freemantle
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear
Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay at home
If we only had old Ireland over here.  

There are lots of lovely fairies dancing on the village green
There are lots of lovely colleens, the finest ever seen
Where the boys are all called Paddy and the girls called Molly dear
Sure we'd wrap the green flag 'round them if we had old Ireland here.

If the Blarney Stone stood out on Sydney Harbor...
And Dublin town to Melbourne came to stay
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane waters
And Killarney's lakes flowed into Botany Bay

If the Shannon bells rang out in old Freemantle
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear
Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay at home
If we only had old Ireland over here.

Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay at home
If we only had old Ireland over here  (quietly...)
Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay at home (big finish...)
If we only had old Ireland over here!



Recording data:  

Barnbrack
Pete St. John
F. Mc Peake
McMaster

Irish Sing-along
ISBN: 0-7396-0053-2
Compose Records
800-738-3747
ppisales@peterpan.com
http://www.peterpan.com  <--- that website is a real DUD!!!!


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Title: What are you currently listening to?
Post by: TheKnightVigilant on December 10, 2013, 07:26:35 AM
An Irish folk song about the passion of Jesus Christ, Caoineadh na dTrí Muire, or the Lament of the Three Mary's.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lUJ-N1652I[/youtube]

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Post by: ihsv on December 10, 2013, 01:08:47 PM
Nothing at all  :guitar:
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Post by: Kazimierz on December 10, 2013, 02:01:48 PM
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Cartoon Christmas Classics (from the Rankin Bass Christmas specials)
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Post by: Sigismund on December 10, 2013, 09:04:02 PM
The news on the radio.
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Post by: Nadir on December 10, 2013, 09:21:13 PM
A brushcutter from the direction of east and a lawnmower from the west. And it's not even Sunday!
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Post by: Cuthbert on December 11, 2013, 03:03:58 PM
There is a recording of portions of a radio broadcast from 1940 of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis conducted by Toscanini on youtube, the channel-name is themfromspace. A recording of Siegfried's Funeral March conducted by Furtwangler in 1933 is also on youtube, the channel-name in this case being shellac1925.
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Post by: Cantarella on December 27, 2013, 10:40:09 PM
Eugen Doga -Gramofon ( - Waltz -)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mkBEru4Os&list=FLisWfbC2weF7iD91yLZvBGA
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Post by: Cantarella on January 03, 2014, 11:32:41 PM
Gregorian Chants - Amazing Grace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HO9-TZh8tA