Favourite instrumental music?

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang

Keep on - Touch

Mind Fluid - NuYorican Soul

 

[Parson Henry]

Hyden’s Trumpet Concerto in E flat Major

I would have trumpeted if I had just had my toe broken by a cricket ball..ouch!!

 

[Parson Henry]

Apache

Sukiyaki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_(song)

Song for Guy

Tubular Bells

 

[Trufflehound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKz6XJlI_jk


when you listen to and watch this it makes you think just how bloody lucky we are to live in this green and pleasant land

That's a beautiful piece, but...

There is nothing that gets every hair on my body standing on end, and makes my heart swell with more pride at being English, than this... (especially when you live in a far off land... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ13hgvQWaI

 

[NMH]

John Barry - Somewhere in Time
Michael Nyman - The End of the Affair
John Barry - Out of Africa

I know the bloke who worked on the production of both the above John Barry scores (Danny Wallen) - and they are indeed both excellent soundtracks which I own.

I don't have the others in your list though I've seen some of those films, I'll make a note in case I see the CDs in the cheap bins or a charity shop (soundtracks tend not to be expensive anyway)

 

[Man of Harveys]

It's a very girly film but the soundtrack to Amelie by Yan Tiersen is also brilliant in places. The piano stuff is fantastic, the accordion stuff is a bit boring.

 

[Dave the OAP]

That's a beautiful piece, but...

There is nothing that gets every hair on my body standing on end, and makes my heart swell with more pride at being English, than this... (especially when you live in a far off land... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ13hgvQWaI

or indeed stood at the Cenetaph

 

[Man of Harveys]

Can I blast out a resounding sausage and strong beer-fuelled fart in the middle of this sentimental patriotic piffle and say that, in classical terms, compared to this little lot, England resolutely remains a "land without music", as someone once called it? BOW DOWN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_and_Austrian_composers

Anyway, if you like that "cowpat" English pastoralism (and actually I really do), then DELIUS is the king. On Hearing The First Cuckoo Of Spring is fantastic.

Dave, have you ever sung any Monteverdi? His Vespers ROCKS.

 

[Trufflehound]

It's a very girly film but the soundtrack to Amelie by Yan Tiersen is also brilliant in places. The piano stuff is fantastic, the accordion stuff is a bit boring.

I'd agree, though sometimes he sounds exactly like Michael Nyman puffing on a Gauloise (no bad thing - I got married to Nyman's soundtrack to Wonderland).

 

[Trufflehound]

His Vespers ROCKS.

Poofy mod bike. Should have got himself a Triumph.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I got married to Nyman's soundtrack to Wonderland.

Good job it wasn't his soundtrack to The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

 

[Trufflehound]

Good job it wasn't his soundtrack to The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

You've not my wife Trilby then?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Dave, have you ever sung any Monteverdi? His Vespers ROCKS.

Yes I have, once.

I find he sets the tenor range very high in the register and I am not that good a tenor. but yes, it is very nice to sing


i am currently doing Brahm's German Requiem for easter and the top notes are just beyond my range....luckily we have a couple of decent tenors who can hit the notes, therefore a good mime is the order of the day

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Cant be frigged to read through all this rubbish (I stopped when I saw that someone had put 'great driving music' or some such comment) but has anyone mentioned:



The Shadows!

Toetapper
Apache

etc etc

All fantastic Hank, as opposed to the load of Hank mentioned further up the thread.