TMT Special! Nominations: Electronic Music

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Welcome to the nomination thread for the 2022 TMT special edition!

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The first category is Classical music to have dinner to in the last day of Earth

Nominations are now open.

We are looking for 25 nominations.

Each person may nominate two pieces of music now with a deadline of 48 hours. (Please include a youtube link)
If we're not full after 48 hours everyone gets another nomination 24 hours after their last nomination.

I would normally warn against nominating songs that are too long, but I suspect that is gonna happen anyway in this category...

As usual we are voting on the written composer + title. That means unless you specify an exact version in the title we are voting on the concept of the piece rather than a specific performance and voters can decide for themselves on which version they decide their vote (the youtube link posted by the nominator will get posted in the voting thread of course, but if you don't think that is the best performance feel free to share another one). If you want votes to only count for a specific performance you need to specify that performance in the title, though in most cases I would advise against that. This will also mean ideally that we have 25 different pieces and no two competing performances of the same piece.

Nominated so far:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2
Guiseppe Torelli - Concerto for Guitar & Violin in A Major: I. Allegro
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D
Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes Passion) [Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki]
Johann Sebastian Bach - Kommt, ihr Töchter (Matthäus Passion) [Collegium Vocale Gent; Philipp Herreweghe]
Ludwig van Beethoven - Für Elise
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, 2nd Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Ralph Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending
Sergei Rachmaninoff - 3rd Piano Concerto, 1st Movement
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - A Little Night Music Serenade No 13 in G Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lacrimosa (Requiem)

12 spots left

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

This is probably a bit on the nose if you are at all familiar with the book. This classical piece was used in the Sci-Fi adaptation of one of my favorite books by Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End. The piece is entitled "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughn Williams.

https://youtu.be/IOWN5fQnzGk

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My own nominations:

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lacrimosa (Requiem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs

2. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 3rd Piano Concerto, 1st Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwDYWwWGKAw

Kinda predictable obvious picks, but whatever.

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

For me it has to be Bach:

The opening chorus from the St. Matthew Passion, "Kommt, ihr Töchter", Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philipp Herreweghe, St. Matthew Passion

The closing chorus from the St. John Passion, "Ach herr, laß dein lieb Engelein", Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki, St. John Passion

Personally, if it were my last day on earth, I would like to hear both of the full works from which these two choruses come.... but I don't suppose I will get that choice.  But these two as dinner-time accompaniment - not bad. (I would be in tears - but that's part of the power of JSB).

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

   

[Gjermund Higraff]

This is my first posting in any of these threads, so I hope I don't misunderstand the rules and that I'm allowed 🙂

In any case. within the topic, I'd like a little bit sad, a little bit of joy of celebration of what was. And for that reason I go for Beethoven, specifically the 7th symphony's 2nd movement, allegretto.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

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I see the 7th, but the 9th is actually part of the narrative of the book Seveneves https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Seveneves in the story a section is about as the moon is disintegrating various orchestras are continuously performing it until they are silenced by bolides crashing down.  (This specific performance as the Berlin wall was erased)

and in a nod to a crossover to a pop cover played to an empty stadium, perhaps on the last day ala Logan's Run

[Alexandreu Prominè]

Definitively this piece of Chopin

[Glüc]

and in a nod to a crossover to a pop cover played to an empty stadium, perhaps on the last day ala Logan's Run

Not sure I'd count a pop cover of a classical piece as itself being classical music. I don't want to be too strict though, so I will add it to the list unless @Bråneu Excelsio (who proposed the category) objects.

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

My nominations for Classical music to have dinner to in the last day of Earth are:

From Mexican composer Enrique Mora: "Alejandra".

And from legendary Mexican composer Juventino Rosas: "Sobre las olas". (Over the waves)

I believe the Berliner Symphonike sounds better than London Orchestra in this situation BUT the piano version from Nadia Shostakovic is amazing too.

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

https://youtu.be/IOWN5fQnzGk

I feel this specific piece is made to have dinner to with someone in the last day of Earth and that's not how I imagined it at first but listening to it opened my mind to the idea haha (: nice

My own nominations:
2. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 3rd Piano Concerto, 1st Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwDYWwWGKAw

That's beautiful.

The closing chorus from the St. John Passion, "Ach herr, laß dein lieb Engelein", Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki, St. John Passion

Glorious.

I'll listen to the others tomorrow :)

[Sir Lüc]

I tried not to be too obvious with my nominations. I ended up with both my second and a potential third nomination being rather obvious. Oh well :p

1. Rondò Veneziano - Sinfonia per un Addio ("Symphony for a Farewell")

2. Gustav Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War (...of course I did)

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There are 8 spots left. Everyone who wants to nominate now gets another nomination every 24 hours after their previous nomination(s).