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Anyone obsessed with violin music?

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I am through the first minute, and so far it sounds like a symphony of chalkboard scratching and mosquitoes.
 

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Great, it gets better. I just need to skip the first minute and thirty seconds.
 

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It goes back to chalkboard scratching and mosquitoes in the last 2 minutes, apparently.
 

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You sir, have bad taste. Fine, here: have an acoustic violin song. Equally good in my opinion:

YouTube- La Folia - Emilie Autumn

And yes, this is a cover of a really old Baroque song.
 

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It was very enjoyable music for its day. Today, it is boring, the sort of music you would listen to if you were focusing your attention on something else, like paperwork. You know how film critics often rate black and white movies from your grandfather's generation very highly? But you have to force yourself to keep your attention? I had that experience when I rented the film, "M." I thought: everything in this film seems to have been done right, according to the standards that existed in the 1930's (or whenever it was). And yet it comes off to me as a storyline that is forced, boring and cliched. I would much rather watch Hairspray, or Schindler's List, or WALL-E.
 

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Fair enough, you are not moved by it. Not everyone is a lover of the violin.
 

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You know how I knew I'd love those without listening to them? ;)

EDIT: Oh my gosh! They have Misery Business with violin! Vitamin String Quartet is now officially awesome.

EDIT2: And yes, I listened to all of them, despite knowing in advance I would love them.
 

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I'm actually obsessed with cello music, but the stuff above is still pretty awesome. Another reccomendation would be Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet. Apocalyptica anyone?
 

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ApostateAbe said:
It was very enjoyable music for its day. Today, it is boring, the sort of music you would listen to if you were focusing your attention on something else, like paperwork. You know how film critics often rate black and white movies from your grandfather's generation very highly? But you have to force yourself to keep your attention? I had that experience when I rented the film, "M." I thought: everything in this film seems to have been done right, according to the standards that existed in the 1930's (or whenever it was). And yet it comes off to me as a storyline that is forced, boring and cliched. I would much rather watch Hairspray, or Schindler's List, or WALL-E.
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Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
 

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Vanessa Mae's Classical Gas = winner. I have always liked Classical Gas. I am going to add it to my Favorites.
 

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Thanks Rubber. I only recently realized that the violin was what I loved about most music (until then, it was all hit or miss for me), so I haven't a large base of good examples of violin music.

I though Death of Blonde was particularly good.
 

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I was just introduced to Andrew Bird and was blown away. He's an incredible violinist, lyricist, and whistler. Ducky already put up a video, but I'm going to put up a few more.

YouTube- ‪andrew bird - lull (daytrotter version)‬‎
I may have cried a little when I first heard this one. :o
It's been awhile......

lyrics:
Being alone
It can be quite romantic
Like Jacques Cousteau
Underneath the atlantic
A fantastic voyage
To parts unknown
Going to depths were the suns never shown
And I fasinate myself
When I'm alone

So I go a little overboard
But hang onto the hull
While I'm airbrushing fantasy art on my life
That's really kinda dull
Oh, I'm in a lull

I'm all for moderation
But somtimes it seems
Moderation itself can be kind of extreme
So I join the congregation
Join the softball team
I went in for my conformation
Where incense looks like steam
I start conjugating proverbs
Where there once were nouns
This whole damn rhyme scheme's
Starting to get me down...

Oh, I'm in a lull
I'm in a lull

(repeat first verse)

I'm rambling on rather self consciously
While I'm stirring these condements into my tea
And I'm so lame
I bet I think this song is about me
Don't I, don't I, don't I,

I'm in a lull

YouTube- ‪Andrew Bird - Heretics‬‎

YouTube- ‪"Fake Palindromes"- Andrew Bird‬‎

YouTube- ‪Andrew Bird - "Imitosis"‬‎

YouTube- ‪Andrew Bird - Action/Adventure‬‎
 

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Adaire said:
I was just introduced to Andrew Bird and was blown away. He's an incredible violinist, lyricist, and whistler. Ducky already put up a video, but I'm going to put up a few more.
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Cool. Heretics was particularly good.

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I was going to recommend Jean-Luc Ponty but then I checked out the video you posted. To put it bluntly, it was terrible.
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I'm not at all surprised. Especially since what you've posted sounds like smooth jazz. FWIW, I find hard to be anything but indifferent to jazz.

That being said, if I had to put an objective value on Emilie Autumn's work, I wouldn't classify it as good. I love it all the same.
 

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I find stringed instruments in particular can 'break' people with far greater ease than all musical families I've encountered: seemingly capable of the widest dynamics of expression likewise (although piano, for me, comes close but that could just be confirmation bias!). Usually great for Fi.

That said, I do prefer the fuller timbre of a stringed group as opposed to solo; and this is reflected in my choices:

YouTube - Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

If I had to choose a favourite skin-melting moment...: 5:20.
YouTube - Children Of Men Soundtrack [The Lamb (For String Orchestra)]
 

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Did anyone say... VIOLIN?

*suscribing to thread to see what other people post*
 

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JimHawkins said:
I find stringed instruments in particular can 'break' people with far greater ease than all musical families I've encountered: seemingly capable of the widest dynamics of expression likewise (although piano, for me, comes close but that could just be confirmation bias!). Usually great for Fi.

could this be because that string instruments sound like a human voice and we make that connection subconsciously?
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DesertSmeagle said:
could this be because that string instruments sound like a human voice and we make that connection subconsciously?
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Possibly, kind of like a universal human voice? Without language/persona? I can see why Fi might like that; kind of like the ‘essence’ of the human voice. The strangulated throatal chortles we call the voice does seem kind of linked to the resonance of the string as it’s played. Or maybe the string’s resonance correlates with something more biological? Can one link the vibration of a string with the patterns of one’s neural waves, or nervous system? In a similar fashion to how everyone instinctively starts walking in time with the music in public broadcasts, and the difficultly in walking against the rhythm? Or how you can (allegedly) speed up a person’s heart beat by increasing the tempo?

...Or maybe it doesn’t have to be technical, something more thematic? Hmm, this is immensely frustrating, I’ve got lots of ideas in my head but I’m having real trouble expressing it. Kind of like having your life and experiences drawn out and stretched in front of you, yet, when the pressure is applied still able to create a precise and tuned sound, its own voice? Or maybe it’s the nature of how a stringed instrument is played: whereas other instruments have a definite and sudden starting point (think piano hammers), the stringed instruments almost ‘fade in’ with their notes: thereby making whatever experience/emotion one projects onto it more universal? Hmmm.

YouTube - Final Fantasy 8 (OST) - Fragments of Memories (Orchestral)

Classic tune. I hated it in the original; the village was under attack from massive caterpillars! How is this sound appropriate?! Massive disconnect between trolloping around as Laguna in quaint rural-dom, and then exterminating surprise monsters with machine guns and well, whatever the hell Kiros fights with. Did make the whole sequence rather amusing.
 

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I have been recently presented to Sibelius and I really the lyrical and cold feeling of it.
Ginette Neveu Sibelius
YouTube - Ginette Neveu Sibelius VC 1st Mov. 1st part of two

Tzigane is one of my all time favorites, it has such a powerful effect in me. I always feel like diving into the complexities of the non-sensical nature of an abstract painting:

Tzigane - Heifetz - Starts at 0:33
YouTube - Heifetz plays Tzigane by Ravel

Couldn't really find a good violin video on "rhapsody on a theme of paganini", but well I like the violin version better. It fits better in my opinion, but I feel I am rather biased...
 

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I am obsessed with anything related to Paganini, (e.g. his 1st violin concerto almost made me cry). Here is his 24th caprice, allegedly the most technically difficult piece for a solo violinist:

YouTube - Hilary Hahn performs Paganini Caprice 24

Recently, I've been discovering neo-traditional music from Québec and I came across this band that, on top of incorporating the violin into their music, has some amazing lyrics. They're all in French, of course. But, for the purpose of this thread, here's a track from them that has no words:

YouTube - Break Syndical
 

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I've listened to Yanni as a child! I don't like his new voices thing though.
 

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I've listened to Yanni as a child! I don't like his new voices thing though.
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I don't understand your reference. The violin guy was Issac Stern. What "voices"?
 

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Wow there is some music I really like on this thread, glad I found it.

This is my contribution, found this band at Port Faerie Folk Festival a couple of years ago and are amazing.

I'm going to try to put up a clip, note the violin doesn't start until 30 seconds in.

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http://youtu.be/ex-D9_TmRVg

Okay I'm not sure how to embed right now.

@MoonShadow, I really enjoyed it! I don't know the songs, but the violin carries a lot of drama with it, beautiful.
 

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That piece was very energetic. This one by Saint-Saens I've posted before but this time by the most dramatic violinist I could find. To me the appeal is the emotion (I have yet to figure out what emotion) in the main theme and the difficulty in playing the piece. If she makes a mistake she is wide open so she has to be good. The lady in the red dress ...
YouTube - ‪Janine.Jansen - Saint-Saens.‬&rlm;
 

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I personally prefer the Cello, but the violin is also very amazing, I think the Cello just does darker songs all too well.

I actually heard this at some sports store a few days ago and went home and had to listen to it like 20 times, I couldn't figure out why, I just really liked it. Eventually I learned that for the song they had switched their drums with a cello.

Bush - Glycerine
YouTube - ‪Bush - Glycerine‬&rlm;
 

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Yes, yes, and oh my god yes (not necessarily in that order).

Couldn't help myself but start headbanging to Amon amarth:smiley_emoticons_mr
 

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Ooh hey, a thread about the violin :) I've played the instrument for less than 9 years and I'm absolutely in love with the feel of it but oddly enough I dislike listening to violin pieces. Another thing is, although I'm classically trained and love playing classical music, I'm easily bored listening to classical pieces. Instead, I often headbang to Apocalyptica and Metallica, my favorite being:

YouTube - ‪Apocalyptica - Quutamo live‬&rlm;
 
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