The post here when you want peace and tranquility thread.

[belamyi]

.It's been one of those days, hasn't it?

Yes, the spammer had bumped this thread

 

[Essex Boy]

Sungha Jung. Or if you prefer, Jeong Seongha.

Here's something for all you foot fetishists to listen to while fiddling with your vajankle.

 

[Charon]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

Although I know that modern beasts are allergic to the sound of harpsichords even if it is Saint Davitt Moroney at the keyboard

 

[Vannie]

Thank you guys for all these great responses.

 

[belamyi]

Thank you guys for all these great responses.

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[pat grimshaw]

.... the Korda Bros produced "The Thief of Bagdad 1940" in my opinion the definitive film version, always winging me into a dream world remote from the cares of everyday routine.

The composer is Miklos Rosza.

The first half is programmatic but the second half (at 3.50) has one of Rosza's romantic rich broad Hungarian themes.

 

[belamyi]

^ Miklós Rózsa is Hollywood's Vivaldi: he composed five hundred times the same soundtrack.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Yes, you might complain that Miklós Rózsa wrote the same soundtrack but that's because they're so recognisable.

His love themes reached their apogee here in 1959—

The solo violin and oboe represent the two lovers and their blossoming love swells over the three minutes with the Rózsa trademark touch of hysteria at 1.38.

 

[belamyi]

^ You're so kitsch, camp, poppelgum... all in one, and at the same time..!

One is most definitely recognizable when one is being repetitive.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Miklós Rózsa is Hollywood's Vivaldi..

Bad analogy; Vivaldi was tinny and trivial. Cafe Music.

 

[belamyi]

Bad analogy; Vivaldi was tinny and trivial. Cafe Music.

The opposite of Rózsa and virtually all Hollywood music ever.

 

[Charon]

 

[pat grimshaw]

...The solo violin and oboe represent the two lovers and their blossoming love swells over the three minutes with the Rózsa trademark touch of hysteria at 1.38.

This other quintessential Rózsa has the lavish love theme with a much bigger dose of hysteria.

 

[swerve]

 

[gsdx]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Essex Boy]

The harp guitar comes in all shapes and sizes.

 

[Essex Boy]

And here's the harp ukulele in the hands of the then 15-year-old Sungha Jung. If you keep your eyes peeled you can see him briefly shape-shift into his reptilian form.

https://youtu.be/ZEHqlBb94GQhttps://youtu.be/ZEHqlBb94GQ