What piece of music sets you remembering?

Niccar

Go here for "Mama" : Mamma - Mama - Cesare Andrea Bixio; Bruno Cherubini -

Cheers

Ron

 

metallica's enter sandman gets me remebering back to when i was a baby and i was just getting into heavy metal

 

Ron - I recall being told off by Peter G - the expert - for my version of Mama - apparently I used the words Mama SOL tanto felice - which meana that ONLY mama is happy !
This is not the correct version as yours is !
Cheers

 

dbf -
The "fuss" as you say was enjoyed by many in Italy in those days including Niccar - Ron and myself - I too enjoyed Cavaleria Rusticana as I landed in Naples and bought a box at the San Carlo all to myself to enjoy in comfort - then saddened to see the composer's funeral Cortege on my 21st brithday celebrations in Rome - and also to enjioy a Brigade concert by Gigli with his daughter accompanying him on the piano - and to listen for free when near Rome to the fantastic voice of Renata Tebaldi - who kept Callas out of the limelight for years at La Scala - Covent Garden and The Met . set against Gigli - Pavoratti - Domingo - Gobbi - Bergonzi -Bjorling - Bocelli is a popsinger and Alaghni is a joke - in my view of course ....

Now if you can stand more fuss -

Try Monserrat Caballe singing "Casta Diva" - from Norma

Or Renata Tebaldi singing "Ebben" - from La Wally - or anything from Cavaleria Rusticana

either one will knock your socks off...
Cheers

 

Hmm. Whilst I'm a bit young to have 'memories' to be brought back ~ in the sense of WW2, at least ~ and Classical Opera is way over my head and not to my tastes; I thought 'On Topic', as it were .....

For me, it simply Has to be a track / scene from Pink Floyds " The Wall ". And the particular part of that, effectively 'rock opera' is " Bring The Boys Back Home! ". Nothing quite gets my spine tingling and chest tightening like the vision of all those period dressed, stoney faced people. All stood on a railway station, staring into camera and ..... oh god, I had to pause there, to catch my breath at the memory of it!

The orchesteral accompaniment to those beautifully strong voices. Male and female, perfectly blended and co complimentary. Those superbly held and drawn notes.

F*ck! That does it for me!


I'd love to show ye all that clip, on YouTube or something. But it doesn't exist - that I can find - as an extract from the film. And no other visualisation quite fits the bill.


Does anybody else remember Vera Lynn ....?

 

Steve G -
us old 'uns might be ahead of you still as we do remember Vera Lynn - Anne Shelton - Alma Gogen and a few more including Marlene Dietrich and Lisa Andersen of "Lili Marlene" fame - not forgetting Henry Hall - Jack Payne - Geraldo - and Ray Noble !
Cheers

 

dbf -
you tube doesn't do either Caballe or the aria justice - her best was in France around 1974 when she stopped the Opera and the audience went berserk as they had never heard it sung so beautifully - you really should buy a disc of her best - especially Anne Boleyn's farewell in the tower the night before her death. Fabulous stuff !

Your Father is a good judge as Robeson was the finest voice in years - pity he was ignored in the States causing him to defect to Russia to study with Chaliapin - another who had the same treatment was Marion Anderson whose "Samson and Delilah ( not the Tom Jones version) is unforgettable when she stood on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington to sing it - helped as she was then allowed small parts at the Met - but what a loss....idiotic segregation !
Cheers

 

this is a song that gets me thinking of my gran and grandad dancing at a dance hall in glasgow the lacarno or something like that it was originaly done by the amazing peter green then the amazing gary moore who coverd it
you can hear the beautiful drum roll at about 1:27 1:28 that is so 40s for me i close my eyes and picture it all
the 40s music was so good but the war was so bad
YouTube - Gary Moore- Need your love so bad

 

Once a week I visit my old friend ("old" in every sense !) Lew aka Larry Fox and we always spend a very pleasant few hours together while I strive to make him even more computerate.

I'd already sent him a link to "Italia sempre" L'Italia in Brasile - Alcune tra le più belle canzoni italiane del passato and I was showing him how to access virtually any of the Italian songs that we enjoyed during our wartime years together.

Before we knew where we were, we were bellowing out together such classics as O Mari, O Sole Mio and Strada nel Bosco and the house rocked while these two ancient warriors travelled back in time to Sunny Italy.

Aint the internet wonderful !!!!

Ron

 

Giving this thread a bump because i've just posted something about Italian cinemas on another thread and subsequently found another version of Gino Bechi singing Strada dell Bosco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1gCxU2sUIk

Every time I hear this song I am back in wartime Italy. !

Ron

 

Just finished listening to Elisabeth Schwartzkopf sing the soprano for the Choral of Beethoven's 9th Symphony - takes me right back to Vienna in '46 when I sneaked into the bombed out

Statsopernhaus on hearing this fabulous voice rehearsing with the Vienna philly with Karajan conducting - not a clue who she was until two years later back in the UK where she rightly became a

Dame - sadly they don't appear to make them like her anymore…..the new sopranos are nowhere near her quality - thought Sissel might make it but she is making CD's so avoids the drudgery of

daily concerts...

Cheers

 

Hi Tom,

You have possibly already seen this - but if not. A 9 year old on Hollands got Talent,

Brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBMfgLvRZJs

Cheers

Geoff

 

geoff

did catch this girl a few weeks ago - but like lots of others and I am thinking Aled Jones - they don't seem to last too long before another interest takes them away..just another reason for the

shortage of GOOD singers…..saw this in my late brother at 14 when he won a silver medal and was due to sing for the Gold but he failed to tell our parents and preferred to play football that day,

never won any medals for that...

Cheers

 

Tom you mentioned Ray Noble, and a number of others, but here is my all time favorite song and singer from that period, you have heard it many many times, Al Bowlly . Come To Me My Melancholy Baby. reminds me of my childhood,
http://youtu.be/6-ZHpkJfRpM
Another favorite is March of the Peers by the Treorchy Male Voice,-- (organ accompaniment version) my Welsh roots I suppose, as has been mentioned we are all different.
can't find that one on Youtube.

 

For the benefit of anyone who has yet to dicover the joys of Spotify.com.

This particular program has never let me down and if you don't mind the adverts is completely free.

Ron

 

Lofty

Many times I listened to Al Bowilly sing that song - way back in the 30's - especially when Father was out as he never did take to Jack Band and his Paynes 0r Henry Hall et al in much the same way as I can't stand the modern yeller

of incomprehensible lyrics - how much talent does it take to write Oh Oh Oh Oh to music….I much prefer Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Schillers "Ode to Joy"..now that has meaning that ALL men be brothers.." Your spells unite - what

convention rigorously parted, - all men become brothers, - where your gentle wing tarries " to me that sure beats " Oh Oh Oh Oh - I missed you last night " before they swallow the mike..as hopefully one will do so one day...

Cheers

 

Came across this yesterday sung by a nine year old.

http://distractify.com/default-category/a-shy-9-year-old-girl-takes-the-stage-these-people-will-never-forget-what-follows/

 

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YnfCH7LNcM