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Here are my votes in the ABC Classic 100
- Holst - The Planets
- Wagner - The Ring
- Delibes - Lakme
- Bach - BWV 565 Toccata and Fugue in Dm
- Cheetham Fraillon, Deborah - Eumeralla
- Beethoven - Symphony #5
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op. 74
- Reinhold Glière - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Op. 82
- Franz Schubert - "The Shepherd on the Rock", D. 965
- György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
#Classic100 #ABCClassic
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It's a music weekend here in Australia, with the ABC Classic 100 Countdown in progress.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/countdown/classic100
As expected, many people have gone for their favourites rather than the theme of "Greatest of All Time". Granted that a strong overlap of those concepts is likely.
I know some of my choices won't show up - because I had to enter them manually.
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Just realised my #ABCClassic listening has really dropped off since I made a concerted effort to take public transport rather than driving my car
Years ago I stopped using earphones on public transport, and now sometimes I don’t even have any on me if I want to listen to something on my phone in public
And I’ve stopped really listening to music around the house unless it’s background for a task I’m doing with my hands. I’ve been so slammed with work recently that I haven’t had time to cook or tend my plants or do any of the mending, darning and clothing alterations I’ve meant to do
I prefer to work in monkish silence; my brain tends to get distracted by music and I go off on tangents of what it reminds me of
Exception: long YouTube playlists of unfamiliar baroque music; something about the orderliness of baroque music soothes my mind, but if I know the piece I’ll stop what I’m doing and just listen to it
The car is really where I listen to ABC Classic the most because it combines ‘doing something with my hands’ with short pieces of music that work well with the short drives I tended to do – to the shops, or to visit friends and family, or to film screenings at cinemas where the parking is better than the public transport
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I keep asking myself, what does it mean for a piece to be one of the "greatest of all time"? Should I be thinking of the biggest, the most significant? The ones that I love the most? Maybe the ones I that are best to share with somebody trying to get into classical music?
They have done a lot of themed vote-and-countdowns in the past - https://www.abc.net.au/classic/classic100/archive/ - that could be said to fit those notions better. So I think I had better just go with whatever feels right, without worrying about 'doing it right'. Am sure they didn't specify further so that it would be up to listener interpretation #classic100, #ABCClassic -
Yesterday managed to stumble me across two pieces I had been trying to identify for months for a characteristic repeated sound, in Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cLMK5Y53Yzg - and Philip Glass's Metamorphosis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M73x3O7dhmg
So there's that. #classic100, #ABCClassic -
Can’t quite believe it, but Spring for Twitter still works. That said, it feels like a ghost town. Even the #Classic100 tag doesn’t have the buzz it used to. I remember when it was full of chatter after every piece. Times have changed, clearly.
#Twitter #ClassicMusic #ABCClassic #SocialMediaShift #Classic100
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Today I was listening to #Classic100 on @abcclassic and realised how much I miss Twitter. I used to live-tweet during these events, posting thoughts after each piece and chatting with others in real time. It was such a great way to feel part of the classical music community.
Facebook doesn’t have the same energy for this sort of thing. It’s a pity so many of the accounts I followed aren’t on Mastodon, though I really value the connections I’ve made here.
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Listening to “seasons”
#Boonwurrung Welcome Song [02'35]
Melbourne/Naarm #symphonyorchestra
Don Christopher (#baritone ),
James Henry (vocals & #clapsticks), Leonard Weiss (#conductor)Gifford, Brenda,
Biwaawa [07'12] -
Loving International #Piano Day on #ABCClassic
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/classic -
Now it's a listener requesting Vangelis's "Conquest Of Paradise" cos it gets her in the feels every time.
What? The conquest of the peoples of Sth America by whites?
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#ABCClassic radio sure churning out the crowd favs this afternoon. It's like an old-fashioned barn dance for a Friday night before there was TV to stay home for. #Feelgood overload. They'll be rolling out the musical hugs shortly.
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An early morning drive in the #adelaidehills with all the dams and creeks full and flowing, the sun shining and #ABCClassic playing #HansZimmer has lifted my soul 😊
#music #pennyshill #kuitpo #roos -
The big question is do you actually own the Number 1 instrument? #Classic100
If you don't, they might become more expensive after this weekend 😜 #ABCClassic -
CW: TERF associated, not important, swearing #1
Listening to Australia's #ABCClassic (FM) in the car.
Pretty bloody sure of the station. Got Beethoven' s Eroica there this morning too with a little background re Napoleon and Beethoven and deafness.And what should start playing but an all too familiar tune on the ****ing celeste, but then a solo violin joins in - discordantly and poorly in my non-expert opinion.
Yep its ****ing Hedwig's Theme from the HP movies. -
If I had enemies I'm doing a good job of confusing them. The #ABCClassic Listen App thinks I'm in Queensland and #TheGuardian thinks I'm in Dolans Bay - wherever that is 😆
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Every time I pressed the G# key I heard an 'owl 😆
Nice story, 👏 volunteers and #ABCClassic
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/news/barn-owl-rescued-from-cathedrals-organ-pipe/102382388?utm_campaign=abc_classic&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_classic -
Far out! Can #ABCClassic stick to just playing music for a while? rather than this relentless chatter from presenters who think they are actually entertaining when NOT playing an instrument?
Put the focus back on the music and less on yourselves.
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@siftinsand I’m looking forward to an evening of classic concertos tonight from 8pm on #ABCClassic. I tuned in last night by chance and spent the evening with Beethoven 5 and Rach 2.
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"What happens to musicians when they have or acquire disabilities." A very special piece by Ria Andriani published on ABC Classic FM.
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/music-reads/what-happens-to-musicians-with-or-who-acquire-disabilities/101684738
#neurodivergent #musician #musicians #Braille #Music #RiaAndriani #ABCClassic #ClassicalMusic #Viola #Cello #Piano #AnkylosingSpondylitis #spondylolisthesis #blind #Australia -
Last weekend, Australia's #ABCClassic radio station ran a Top100 #MusicForTheScreen which features the best #music in #film and #videogames as voted by Australians.
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/2022/
Despite being #taxPayerFunded, their #websiteFails to load the audio via a privacy browser. The US-served (#Akamai) javascript fails to load it and appears to use a protocol "coremedia://" which appears to be some kind of bizarre proprietary thing.
Weird.
How can aware Australian's enjoy it?