compilation of my favorite classical music moments bcuz I want to and can
Been a fan of classicla music since early childhood when my grandma played Eine kleine nachtmusik by Mozart (not the biggest fan of him anymore. Presonally i think he's overrated lol)
This will probably be a long post so it's all under the cut
Alexander Borodin - Polovtsian dances from "Prince Igor" 3:37 when the choir comes in. I get chills every time but then at 7:05 the mood changes and it suddenly feels so whimsical
Antonin Dvorak - From the new world .4 0:16 can you hear the brass section giving it their all? you better cuz damn
Camille Saint-Saens - Danse macabre love this whole piece to death one of my faves but 1:30 just hits different
Edvard Grieg - Piano concerto .1 the beginning is just so powerful i love it. But also at 1:39 when the piano picks up and the build up to 3:58 is soooo good
Frederic Chopin - Winter wind You wanna hear a beat drop i classical music? look no further than 0:24
Gustav Holts - Mars, the bringer of war I adore the planets and this is one of my faves. It really is the bringer of war but the build up to 4:19 is amazing
Gustav Holts - Jupiter, the bringer of jolly My absolut favorite planets piece. So fun, so dramatic and dynamic but the part at 4:30 just gets me
Tchikovsky - none but the lonely heart. 6 Hands down, my all time favorite ever. It's so emotional and simply beautiful. But the climax that starts at 2:11 gives me chills every time i listen to it
Tchikovsky - Piano concerto .1 Beatutiful start. I love the begining of this one but listen to 2:22 and tell me you didn't feel something
Tchikovsky - Swan lake, lake in the moonlight everyone has heard this one but it's damn good and the part between 2:00 and 2:30 ish will never not be good
Samule Barber - Adagio for strings this one is so god damn emotional it feels so gutteral in some way. 4:50 to 5:08 ish is such a good climax to this piece
ARTURO MÁRQUES - DANZON NO.2 Its amazing!!!!!. It's so fun it's so good. I've been listening to it non stop for months and just remembered I have this list and it NEEDS to be here.
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Giuseppe Verdi - Dires Ires the only reason I include this is cuz it's my morning alarm. Very effective.
Gregory Sviridov - Snowstorm 9 it's a good ending to Gregory's lil story that kinda hits you in the face towards the end
Dimitri Shostakovich - string quartet no. 3 3rd mvnt very Shostakovich and that's why I like it. I love cleaning to this kind of classical music.
Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps part. 1 another cleaning piece. Try it. It makes you clean lika a maniac
Derek Bourgeois - Trombone quartet 1st mvnt Fun trombone music!!!
Jean Sibelius - Humoresque no.6 I've been listening to a lot of Sibelius lately. Thank you Finland ✊
That's it for now. I really can't draw at all rn soooooo
Whoaaa time to update this one again because I want to
Karl Jenkins - Palladio Perfect balance of dramatic and beautiful. It's not super often I listen to string ensemble stuff but this one's gooooood
Keep reading for more ;)
Rachmaninoff - prelude in g minor n.5 First of all I love Yuja Wang and she's the one playing in this recording (she's so cool ugh). Second, it's just a very beautiful piece
R. Strauss - Death and transfiguration I usually try to only post shorter pieces here but I can't resist this one. It's a bit of a longer one but so fun to listen to. So much happens and it's truly a journey
Casereo - Ballade for trombone and piano I'm always gonna be biased towards trombone music but I feel justified in liking this one. It's a stunning piece
Sarasate - Ziguenerweisen the intro is just DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA
Beethoven - Coriolan overture I don't listen to a lot of Beethoven but this one's cool
Mahler - symphony no. 2 5th mvnt The bells? The choir? Ugh love this one. This is how you end a damn symphony
Puccini - Nessun Dorma I just kind of have to add this one even though it's one of the most famous opera pieces. I just recently started listening to more opera and I mean... This one's popular for a reason. It's great
Ravel - Boléro how have I not added this one already? It's Boléro! All I have to say is I love all the memes about the poor percussionists who have to play this
Alexander Scriabin - fantasy in b minor pretty fuckin epic for solo piano
(there's even more down here. This list is getting long)
Giacomo Puccini - Turandot / "diecimile anni al nostro imperatodre...Padre Augusto" come oooon we all know Nessum Dorme. Let's give a lil love to the other Turandot pieces!
"Ah! Per L'Ultima Volta"
Gelo che ti da foco (this one's a banger)
Figlio del cielo!
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano concerto no.2 3rd mvnt Rach is so good. One of the best and all his piano concertos are stellar
Rach - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini -> Var. 6 / Var. 8 / Var. 13 / Var. 14 / Var. 17 / Var. 18 / Var. 22 /Var. 24 PPFFEEW Yuja Wang MY QUEEN
(speaking of Yuja Wang have you heard this recording of her playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the bumblebee also look up a video of her playing)
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet overture yup I love me some Tchai
Tchai - Slavic march love how the theme is persistent through the whole thing
Tchai - serenade for string orchestra in C major 1st mvnt buu huuu saaad waaah waaa opening. But it gets funner...and then...
George Bizet - Carmen suite no.1 2nd mvnt / 3rd / Suite no. 2 4th I really love this orchestral arrangement of Carmen. I think it's a lovely version when I'm not in the mood for a opera
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: fortune plango vulnera / Ego sum abbas / Floret Silva / ave formosissima I mean, everyone's heard o fortuna but these are fun too
Camille Saint Saëns - cello concerto no. 2 2nd mvnt crazy cello playing going on here
Saint Saëns - symphony no. 3 3rd mvnt pretty cool, love a organ
Richard Strauss - An Alpine symphony the whole thing is a banger. Fun to follow along with the titles of each mvnt cuz it's like youre climbing the mountain hehe
Again if anyone has recommendations id love to hear em :)
Lars-Erik Larsson - pastoralsvit 2nd mvnt Some appreciation of a Swedish compose. I like all the movement of pastoralsvit but the second one is my fav
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Manuell de Falla - El sombrero de tres picos p.1 Danza de la molinera I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but this makes me very excited to
Fanny Mendelssohn - Das Jahr: Characterstucke no.9 Great solo piano piece. Don't listen to a lot of that but I like this one
Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame "Gospod! Prosti yemu!" I know nothing about this opera and I've listened to very little of it except for this. Very nice choir
Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans - concert suite 12 I recommend listening to all of Wild Swans, it's very good and fun. Beautiful singing
Liszt - Totentanz who's slamming the piano? Don't stop
Liszt - Hungarian rhapsody no.2 goes all the places. Very nice intro
Ottorino Respighi - Pines of Rome 4th mvnt a really nice, really slow build up to something big. I like it
That's it for today
I'll say it again, if you have any recommendations please let me know! Would love to hear it
You know we only ever really "learn" how to bathe in our youth as it is taught to us by our parents and from then on most people kinda just bathe the same way right. And like barring actively deciding to do it the only way most people change their bathing habits is if they bathe with a loved one and get convinced to do somethi g different in the bath bc its cleaner/faster/whatever bc of them. Ok heres the thesis statement. The lack of communal bathing in society is holding us back from discovering The Ultimate Bathing
I feel like this Mickey was different in the way he was able to process grief, guilt, and self worth, and that he was able to see he was worthy of being treated as a human rather than a passive object.
Mickey we obviously know felt immense guilt for his mother’s death, even if he was told it wasn’t his fault.
I feel it’s also possible he felt partially responsible for the failure of the macaron business and that he felt in part like he failed Timo.
I think 18 was able to process this grief (pertaining to his mother’s death) and guilt (pertaining both to Timo and his mom) in a way the others hadn’t, and it both gave him peace and enraged him. It made him realize that he did have worth, that he did deserve fair treatment even if he signed up as an expendable.
I feel this is why he’s so passionate, why he’s so murderous. He’s enraged with Timo for screwing him over back on Earth, for being an asshole on Nifilheim, etc. which is why he attempted to kill him.
That realization of self worth led to an intense rage at the systemic dehumanization he faced. This is why he raged against 17 but in the same breath apologized to him, realizing he’s both metaphorically and literally angry at his past self for just who he is. 17 is fundamentally different in that moment from him.
But at the end of the movie, we see 17 growing in a new direction. He asks himself what 18 would’ve done. He tells himself he needs to stop feeling guilt, which 18 told him to stop feeling about their mother. He said he deserved to be happy, no doubt 18’s last thoughts about 17 and Nasha. And that’s just beautiful.
That difference in 18 is his ability to break down and process differently than the other Mickey’s, and that led to rapid growth in a new direction which is why he seemed so aberrational to the others.
Thanks for coming to my yap talk it probably will happen again
Mickey 17: My job sucks since I was trying to avoid loan sharks on earth and now I'm being constantly experimented on, but thankfully I have a loving and supportive girlfriend.
The unapologetic way Nasha always fought for Mickey, for his right to be given the comfort of having someone by his side, for his right to be seen as more than a lab rat, to be seen as a human being, to be seen as Mickey Barnes, will always make me so extremely emotional. She loves him with her entire being, and he loves her the same. They’re such a beautiful, tragic couple that actually gets a happy ending, the happy ending they deserve.
bong joon ho really said "here's a story about how capitalism is designed to exploit the weak however it can. we must break the machine. those at the top cannot be reasoned with and have to be stopped by force. i know you feel expendable. they don't care about you and will beat you into submission at a moment's notice. you're not expendable. our only way out is through compassion. im killing donald trump with a bomb. im showing you that someone will always love you. oh and here's robert pattinson having sex with himself as a treat."
need to string together my thoughts more on this but reeeeeally interesting to see the influx of media - severance, the substance, mickey 17 - centered on the idea of a double/expendable iteration of yourself.
the dehumanization of workers by the way of non-livable wages, unsafe working conditions, and identity based discrimination (and the current removal of dei initiatives), all drive a wedge between our personhood and the value we are prescribed as a member of the workforce. something something the effects of ai and deepfakes already putting people in danger, the way we live and present our lives online vs in reality, there’s a lot to unpack here. but it’s fascinating to see this trope so widely translated as a storytelling vehicle for these ideas, and that this is the story that people are interested in telling.
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