Holiday-ish Thing Day Two
Dec. 22nd, 2008 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetMusic time!
See, today I was going to share a lot of Christmassy music. Except then I completely failed at finding any (read: very much). I only managed to locate one of my two Xmas-y Quire CDs, and I haven't gotten my hands on the third yet, and in addition, the last five files on the CD I did find gave me ripping issues. On top of that, I accidentally deleted the Quire files I had built up on MediaFire (a selection of my favorite individual songs from various concerts), so I can't even share those. And since the majority of my father's classical music collection stayed with him, I can't even re-rip the Nutcracker Suite.
STILL. I promised myself I would deliver music, and so deliver music I shall. Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on alternate copies of the CDs from Mom over the holidays, and will thus be able to share the missing songs.
In the mean time, here are one and a half Quire concerts, and some bonus Wagner for flavor. (All links are on MediaFire; lemme know if you'd prefer something different.)
The Quire - All the World's a Stage
Personal favorites:
The Lobster Quadrille; from (based on?) Alice in Wonderland, the third most referenced/alluded book in the English language. (No, I don't know what the first two are.) An absolute joy to sing.
Tango to Evora; "instrumental" a capella. No idea what the title means. Definitely fun, though the clapping took more coordination than I usually like.
Cowboy, Take Me Away; a Tenor-Bass piece, which means I'm not actually singing in it, but notable for being a Dixy Chix (Chicks?) song.
The Quire - Frostiana
The thing about this concert is that the first seven songs are Robert Frost poems with music. Winter = frost = Robert Frost. Yeah, I don't know either. My first winter concert with the Quire, IIRC.
Personal favorites:
Good Ale; a feasting song. Or, actually, a drinking-instead-of-feasting song. Screw the food, we want ale!
When I Think of Winter should totally be here, except it's the first song that got screwed over by my computer's inability to rip it. And I also deleted it, so there's double failure here. Triple failure comes in where I think it fits Courting YukiOnna from yesterday reasonably well, sigh.
In December was also one I enjoyed, but less so after it was assigned soloists, so it's not getting an individual link either.
SPECIAL BONUS: Richard Wagner, a Ludwig III selection. Includes Der Ring des Nibelungen (four songs), Lohengrin (three songs), Parsifal, Tannhauser, and Tristan Und Isolde (one song each).
Just for you, here's The Ride of Valchiries (sic) from The Ring Sequence on its own ;)
For the record, I have uploaded what Quire stuff I have before (with the exception of All the World's a Stage, actually, IIRC), so if anyone out there downloaded it last time, would you be so kind as to re-up for me to share again? Pretty please with chocolate sauce on top? ♥?
See, today I was going to share a lot of Christmassy music. Except then I completely failed at finding any (read: very much). I only managed to locate one of my two Xmas-y Quire CDs, and I haven't gotten my hands on the third yet, and in addition, the last five files on the CD I did find gave me ripping issues. On top of that, I accidentally deleted the Quire files I had built up on MediaFire (a selection of my favorite individual songs from various concerts), so I can't even share those. And since the majority of my father's classical music collection stayed with him, I can't even re-rip the Nutcracker Suite.
STILL. I promised myself I would deliver music, and so deliver music I shall. Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on alternate copies of the CDs from Mom over the holidays, and will thus be able to share the missing songs.
In the mean time, here are one and a half Quire concerts, and some bonus Wagner for flavor. (All links are on MediaFire; lemme know if you'd prefer something different.)
The Quire - All the World's a Stage
Personal favorites:
The Lobster Quadrille; from (based on?) Alice in Wonderland, the third most referenced/alluded book in the English language. (No, I don't know what the first two are.) An absolute joy to sing.
Tango to Evora; "instrumental" a capella. No idea what the title means. Definitely fun, though the clapping took more coordination than I usually like.
Cowboy, Take Me Away; a Tenor-Bass piece, which means I'm not actually singing in it, but notable for being a Dixy Chix (Chicks?) song.
The Quire - Frostiana
The thing about this concert is that the first seven songs are Robert Frost poems with music. Winter = frost = Robert Frost. Yeah, I don't know either. My first winter concert with the Quire, IIRC.
Personal favorites:
Good Ale; a feasting song. Or, actually, a drinking-instead-of-feasting song. Screw the food, we want ale!
When I Think of Winter should totally be here, except it's the first song that got screwed over by my computer's inability to rip it. And I also deleted it, so there's double failure here. Triple failure comes in where I think it fits Courting YukiOnna from yesterday reasonably well, sigh.
In December was also one I enjoyed, but less so after it was assigned soloists, so it's not getting an individual link either.
SPECIAL BONUS: Richard Wagner, a Ludwig III selection. Includes Der Ring des Nibelungen (four songs), Lohengrin (three songs), Parsifal, Tannhauser, and Tristan Und Isolde (one song each).
Just for you, here's The Ride of Valchiries (sic) from The Ring Sequence on its own ;)
For the record, I have uploaded what Quire stuff I have before (with the exception of All the World's a Stage, actually, IIRC), so if anyone out there downloaded it last time, would you be so kind as to re-up for me to share again? Pretty please with chocolate sauce on top? ♥?
