how to make classical music sexy
Sometimes I'll get hit with an intense desire to hear a particular piece of music. Even with a 30-something gigabyte MP3 library, and even having ripped all of my CDs at one point or another, it turns out I don't always have easy access to the music I already own.My introduction to Richard Wagner (pronounced Ree'khard Vog'ner) was in the movie Excalibur (1981). I asked my dad what that unbelievable music was. A mix of Wagner, he said.
So tonight I'm editing and I come across the name Wagner -- referring to Adolf Wagner the Austrian economist, not Richard Wagner the composer -- and suddenly I need to hear Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung and the prelude to Tristan und Isolde -- they must have been combined or played very close together in the soundtrack to Excalibur because I have a hard time separating them.
I can't find what I need in my iTunes library, and I can't find what I need at the iTunes store, but I do come across this ingenius bit of marketing:
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Yes, it is a nice album cover :-)
In case you haven't found it yet, here is an iTunes link to the prelude to the first act of Tristan and Isolde and another to Sigfried's funeral march from Götterdämmerung.
Per
Thanks, Per!
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get iTunes to play samples from their Danish store and those albums don't seem to be available in the US store.
Thank you for teaching me the iTunes URL trick. Now I know that the Wagner tracks from Excalibur are here and here. And while we're at it, the Excalibur track of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana: O Fortuna" is here.
(Btw, are you the Per?)
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