A bit of Vangelis doesn't go amiss now and then:
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Probably most famous as the docking music for Elite for any geeks round hereOriginally posted by BolshieBastard View PostDoing the needful since 1827Comment
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WXSOriginally posted by xoggoth View Post
Stunningly good.
Also like Prokofiev "Montagues & Capulets"
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Antonio Soler, Sonata No. 10 in B Minor
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Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
although I can't resist posting this one too.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. LewisComment
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Beat me to it - a beautiful pieceOriginally posted by Cliphead View Post
As that one's been taken, I'll add The Lark Ascending by the same composer.
Back in, IIRC, 1982 my brother had the good fortune to obtain two free seats at the Last Night of the Proms through the law firm he then worked for (who are trustees of the Royal Albert Hall) but, finding that the occasion clashed with a previously arranged holiday, he gave them to my father and myself. The Lark Ascending was one of the pieces in the first half of the concert (the bit they have on BBC 2 before the rowdy jingoism) and I shall never forget the exquisite beauty of that performance.
<snobbery>FWIW, the Last Night is actually tremendous fun when you're in the best seats in the house and can observe the promenaders with smug tolerance
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WZSOriginally posted by Zippy View PostGood choice.
Nimrod - Elgar (always raises a tear)
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Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro.Comment
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