What music are you listening to?

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Carl Michael Ziehrer: Ein Blümchen im Verborgenen, Polka Mazur, Op. 202

very kitsch, I know.

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Carl Michael Ziehrer: Natursänger, Walzer, Op. 415
ZIEHRER: Selected Dances and Marches, Vol. 4
on Classicsonline.com
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/...x?pid=1426

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Also Laura on the radio about the film Laura with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews (who's seen this classic?) It's wonderful.

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Before that, was listening to a new Mozart record:
MOZART, W.A.: Songs (Complete)
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/...pid=553205

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BALLET MUSIC (FAMOUS)
The seasons
Glazunov, Alexander KonstantinoBALLET MUSIC (FAMOUS)

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Hadn't really heard of nor heard any of Shiro FUKAI so I thought I'd share with you. Always worth listening to something a bit different.


The Japanese composer Shiro Fukai allied himself firmly with French musical traditions, absorbing, in particular, the musical language of Ravel. The latter’s Bolero is echoed in the crescendo of Chantes de Java, with its repeated theme, while Ravel, Falla, Stravinsky and Roussel provide the inspiration for the Quatre mouvements parodiques. The ballet Création, an amalgam of ancient Japanese imperial dance music, vaulting rhythms and opulent orchestral sonorities, was commissioned, together with other works by Japanese and foreign composers, to celebrate the 2600th year of Japanese imperial rule.

The birth of human beings 'naissance des êtres humains' starts in chaos and becomes more soothing.

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From there I hopped onto:
JAPANESE ART SONGS
Listen to Cherry Blossoms Lane
most beautiful rendering by the counter tenor, Yoshikazu Mera

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The best of Yoshikazu Mera
Lovely clear voice...

Listen to Mononoke or Vocalise

I'm sure Ang would agree that Japanese song is great.

http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/...x?pid=7779

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summertime
-new kids on the block

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Don't know how I went from Japanese song to Comedy Harmonists...
Love that old sound:
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/...px?pid=636

there was a film made about this group some years ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128133/