TMT Special! Voting: Comedy Music

[Glüc]

Welcome to the voting thread of the 2022 TMT Special Edition!

There are 6 categories

There will be 25 nominations in each category.
These will first be divided into 5 groups.
In every group the two winners will go to the final.

The finals will all be held at the same time (at the end of the group voting for all categories).

[Glüc]

VOTING POSTPONED BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BROKENVOTING MAY NOW COMMENCE

Round 1 of the Talossan Music Top Classical music to have dinner to in the last day of Earth - 2022!

Many thanks to everyone who nominated songs. Of course people who did not so are still very welcome to participate

_{Before we start, a quick note on tactical voting
Tactical voting in this case refers to either giving more points than you would normally have to a song because it would make the difference between going through or getting eliminated OR giving fewer points than you would normally have to a song because it might kick a song you like even more out of the competition. This is hard to prevent, but my very strong request would be: do not do it. Give points to the songs you believe deserve to go through, regardless of how others are voting. Doing otherwise reduces the value of votes that came before you, which is unfair to them. Remember that it's not a competition between voters, but a collective effort to make a nice list of songs we like. Thanks.}

So now to the fun part:

ROUND 1: Five groups total. Two groups simultaneously. 5 songs per group. Best 2 go through to the final.

GIVE 3,2,1 points!
Voting will take 96 hours (4 days). Votes cast after that will not be accepted, with the exception that we will always keep going until we have at least three votes per group.
You must give points to no more or no fewer than 3 songs per group.
You may vote on one or both groups.

GROUP 1
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op.36: IX (Nimrod)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto 1 (B Flat Minor)
Rondò Veneziano - Sinfonia per un Addio
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

GROUP 2
Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes Passion) {Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki}  (video from 1:43:39)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Piano and Cello (A maj): I Allegro ma non tanto
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, 2nd movement
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Ralph Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending

Tiebreakers:
- nr of voters giving 3 points
- nr of voters giving 2 points
- Additional 24 hour tiebreaker round.

Commentary between the voting is very welcome/encouraged.

I do my best with all the links but there's always a chance some are broken or a wrong version or bad audio quality. If a link is broken or you have a suggestion for a better link, please contact me or post the link in the thread.

People who didn't get around to nominating are also very much encouraged to participate during the voting rounds.

[Glüc]

Something is going wrong with the above post. A whole group is missing even though it is in the text if I try to modify it...

Videos group 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iM5dymBBI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWerj8FcprM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKkTMLKhl6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450

[Glüc]

Argh, its like the board is actively trying to troll me. Everytime I try to modify the post all the class=link bits disappear and it shows everything as videos, and then when I restore it it removes one group.

Videos group 2:

From 1:43:39 onwards:
https://youtu.be/ZKYscw-nN8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytEdeD_riU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNGklNz8Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0IS-vlwCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWN5fQnzGk

[Glüc]

It keeps getting worse. I hate this

[Glüc]

I give up. Im going to sleep. The pieces it currently lists arent even supposed to be in one group. Voting is postponed until this is fixed.

[Glüc]

Ok, I posted the descriptions as plain text and the videos in the two posts after.

Voting may now commence

GIVE 3,2,1 points in each group
Voting will take 96 hours (4 days).

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

Group 1

3 Edward Elgar-Enigma Variations, OP. 36 IX (Nimrod)
2 Samuel Barber-Adagio For Strings
1 Rondo Veneziano-Sinfonia Per Un Addio

Group 2

3 Hilary Hahn-V. Williams "The Lark Ascending"
2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Second Movement (Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta)
1 Glenn Gould-Beethoven, Sonata For Piano And Cello (A Maj): I Allegro Ma Non Tanto

My votes (especially in group 1) would likely have been much different but my depression is influencing a lot of my actions today.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Group 1

3 Edward Elgar-Enigma Variations, OP. 36 IX (Nimrod)
2 Samuel Barber-Adagio For Strings
1 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man

Group 2

3 Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
2 Hilary Hahn-V. Williams "The Lark Ascending"
1 Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes Passion)

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

Group 1

3 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man
2 Samuel Barber-Adagio For Strings
1 Edward Elgar-Enigma Variations, OP. 36 IX (Nimrod)

Group 2

3 Johann Sebastian Bach - Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes Passion)
2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Second Movement (Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta)
1 Glenn Gould-Beethoven, Sonata For Piano And Cello (A Maj): I Allegro Ma Non Tanto

"Fanfare for the Common Man" is a splendid - and deep - work whose content overwhelms its title... except that the title itself elevates the common man to his greater level.

Barber's Adagio - if performed well, and not with soupy over-sentimentality - can elicit real tears.

I play "Nimrod" on the organ at church, from time to time. It's not really great music, but not bad. I was very tempted to choose the Veneziano instead, but stuck with the piece I know better (not necessarily the right way to make a decision!)

The second group are all good - apart from putting the Bach first (well, I would, wouldn't I!) the other pieces are all of equally high quality.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

3 - Fanfare for the Common Man
2 - Enigma Variations
1 - Piano Concerto 1

3 - Symphony Number 9
2 - Symphony Number 7
1 - Sonata for Piano and Cello

[Gjermund Higraff]

GROUP 1
3 - Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op.36: IX (Nimrod)
2 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto 1 (B Flat Minor)
1 - Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

GROUP 2
3 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, 2nd movement
2 - Ralph Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending
1 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

[Glüc]

3 - Tchaikovsky
2 - Adagio for Strings
1 - Enigma Variations

3 - Symphony No. 7
2 - The Lark Ascending
1 - Sonata for Piano and Cello

[Placiej]

3 - Fanfare for the Common Man
2 - Enigma Variations
1 - Piano Concerto 1

3 - Symphony Number 9
2 - Sonata for Piano and Cello
1 - Symphony Number 7

[Sir Lüc]

GROUP 1
3 - Piano Concerto 1 (B Flat Minor)
2 - Sinfonia per un Addio
1 - Enigma Variations, Op.36: IX (Nimrod)

GROUP 2
3 - Symphony No. 9
2 - Symphony No. 7, 2nd movement
1 - Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes Passion)