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Composers & Music / Re: Mystery

Last post by Alan Howe - Today at 13:40

My guess would be something similar.

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Composers & Music / Re: Mystery

Last post by TerraEpon - Today at 13:11

I wager it was written by Robert Folk for the film. But I could be wrong.

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Composers & Music / Re: Mystery

Last post by semloh - Today at 09:35

This is intriguing. It certainly sounds like VW. and the same or similar music seems to be in the backgrouind of some of the many preliminary cartoon sketches stored in the Internet Archive. It may take some time to identify - unless one of our wonderful UC members recognizes it.

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Composers & Music / Mystery

Last post by Theodore S. - Today at 08:31

Hello everyone,

This is a bit of a silly question, but I can't figure this out - does anyone recognize the piece in this video? It's from the opening of the animated film "The Thief and the Cobbler", but I ask as the soundtrack makes use of a number of existing classical pieces, and this seems like it could be one of them. There are playlists on YouTube that include various pieces from the movie, but this piece isn't really included - also, IMDB provides no information on the classical tracks in the music at all. Initially I thought it might be from Vaughan William's Tallis Fantasia (as the soundtrack includes the piece), but the theme doesn't appear there and woodwinds can be heard towards the end. It's possible this is a really famous piece that I just don't recognize (as there are some more famous composers I don't really listen to), but I'd still like to know. It's clearly a romantic piece, and a very lovely one at that.

If anyone knows, please let me know!
Theodore

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Mario Pilati CD reissue

Last post by Maury - Today at 05:04

These Pilati CDs are very well done and interesting. Another fine composer cut down in his 30s. the cruelest decade for composers. Even though these fall outside the dates limit of the Forum, to me they are still late Romantic music. Pilati seems very talented and it's a shame about his early death, although its unclear musically what would have happened if he had lived 20 or 30 years more. I also enjoy his atmospheric Flute Sonata.

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Composers & Music / Re: Ferdinand Thieriot

Last post by Maury - Today at 02:42

Thanks for this thread. I purchased a CD of Theriot's chamber works (Octet in B flat and a Quintet). Very satisfying music. I hope more of his chamber works can be issued. As for the symphonies the outlook is increasingly dim IMO because of the economics. I did like the Symphony 5.

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Composers & Music / Re: Ferdinand Thieriot

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 16:56

Of Thieriot's contemporaries I'd completely forgotten about Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916) whose terrific 3rd Symphony was first performed in 1911.

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Composers & Music / Re: Music archive of the "Kuro...

Last post by samsonwilliams - Yesterday at 05:31

Really great, thank you.

#9

Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Bowen Syms 1 & 2 from Chan...

Last post by Gareth Vaughan - Sunday 05 May 2024, 05:03

Yes, John. All performance material lost. To be brutally honest, they hadn't really looked after his legacy and one got the impression they weren't (or hadn't been) particularly interested.

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Bowen Syms 1 & 2 from Chan...

Last post by John Boyer - Sunday 05 May 2024, 01:42

Were the parts destroyed too?  Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony was reassembled from the parts.