The sands are warm, the beer is cold, the breeze is lovely, and someone is making beach plum jam in the kitchen ....someone is firing up the grill .... so..
......what would you like to hear?
I'd go for Tchakovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' ....
....and anything orchestral?
Dream with me !!
xxx
Darjeeling
2007-06-21 10:53:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Opera- Don Giovanni, Tosca, or Madam Butterfly. You are the hostess, so I'll leave it to you
Orchestral- The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams).
But can we have tea as well, please. Darjeeling would be fine, Earl Grey perfect.
2007-06-21 11:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by nealo d 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mmmmm, summer a la classical...
I'd like to hear (in no particular order):
a. Elgar's Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
b. Delibes' Flower Duet from Lakme
c. Puccini's Un bel di vedremo from Madama Butterfly
d. Beethoven's Symphony no 6: 1st movement
e. Gershwin's Summertime from Porgy and Bess
f. Faure's Requiem
... mmmm... true bliss
2007-06-23 19:14:48 · answer #2 · answered by jarod_jared 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why has no one mentioned La Mer or Prelude a l'Apres Midi d'un Faune by Debussy? Don't they seem a natural choice? Perhaps Trois Gymnopedies by Erik Satie? Those are real 'dreamers' for me. Later, after dark, Poem of Ecstasy by Scriabin to heighten the mood for, well...
Forget the opera though, this doesn't strike me as an operatic setting.
2007-06-27 10:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do like mozart's 40 +41 and Pachelbel's Canon.
I do like Grieg, maybe it is a bit to etheral for heavy heat on the beach.
trying to get though some Berlios at the moment bit heavy at times, but one I never really tire of is Mozart Zauberflöte.
don't know the one you would like to hear. I think.
Another piece if we are to bring the conductor up in me would be the shostakovitz one, where the are going in and smashing up Stalingrad or Leningrad, you know the one that takes ages to get going and ends in an inferno. Or a night on bloksberg. Is it called a night on a mountain. Maybe we need nice moonlight.
It is easier to say what I don't want. Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius aren't my favourites.
2007-06-22 08:58:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
omg...i'm totally with you!!! that'd be my choice too - "Eugene Onegin!"
After seeing it at the Lincoln Center in NYC this past February starring Renee Fleming (my favorite soprano of all time!) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (wut a hottie!), I just can't get enuf! I went and saw it two more times after that in the theatre when they had the live HD broadcast, and then I Tivo-ed it when it was on PBS. So, I'm totally loving your choice!
Then, I would also probably choose La Traviata second, even tho all the operas are great!
2007-06-21 16:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by ♪opera_luvr♫ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opera?.....hmmm...not a big opera buff. Lakme probably - would seem to fit the setting.
Orchestral - like Vaughn-Williams's Symphony Number 6.
Ahhh. Sounds lovely! Ermmm......is it too late to say i don't really like plum jam? Rather have blackcurrant.
And some salt & vinegar chipsticks.
Yum.
2007-06-24 10:31:46 · answer #6 · answered by Tufty Porcupine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to go with Carmen. Although Le Nozze di Figaro might be a good choice.
Orchestral... Hmmm, lets go with something different... Symphony No.3 "Organ" - Camille Saint Saens
2007-06-21 14:25:41 · answer #7 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hawkwind's Space Ritual.
2007-06-21 11:01:08 · answer #8 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to go with my all-time favorite, Beethoven 9. Not only is it the last and greatest of the great Beethoven symphonies, if you like singing, it will also give you a voice fix.
2007-06-21 12:14:35 · answer #9 · answered by trouchpet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With cold beer??? Umm...that doesn't really put me in an opera mood. I guess I'd go with Carmina Burana if there was cold beer...
2007-06-22 06:03:25 · answer #10 · answered by doggy1117 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋