My Top Ten Classical

My love of music isn’t just Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and Rolling Stones etc...I also appreciate and have been affected by many kinds but classical music I hold close to my heart as its without doubt the most emotional...so in no particular order, ten of my favourite songs...

The Flower Duet (Lakmé) by Leo Delibes... which as you will remember a certain airline used this music for their advertising...about a lady and her maid collecting flowers by the river... https://youtu.be/uH_zBNIP1Yw Under the thick dome where the white jasmine With the roses entwined together On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning Let us descend together! Gently floating on its charming risings, On the river’s current On the shining waves, One hand reaches, Reaches for the bank, Where the spring sleeps, And the bird, the bird sings. Under the thick dome where the white jasmine Ah! Calling us together! Under the thick dome where white jasmine With the roses entwined together On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning Let us descend together! Gently floating on its charming risings, On the river’s current On the shining waves, One hand reaches, Reaches for the bank, Where the spring sleeps, And the bird, the bird sings. Under the thick dome where the white jasmine Ah! Calling us together!

Pachelbel's Canon in D...A German composer born 1653 and died 1706...another one used for advertising but the life of me I cannot remember what but lambs come to mind,, https://youtu.be/hOA-2hl1Vbc

Vltava by Bedrich Smetana March 1824 – May 1884 is one of my first encounters with classical music, it is also about a stream that turns into a raging river, then calms as it meets the sea and it just reminded me, of me..the trials the pains the angers of life which soon dissipate when one is accepted into something greater, be it God, Death or life, it still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it.. https://youtu.be/exz6zD056zk

Nimrod by Edward Elgar June 1857- May 1934 an English composer, most notably used at funerals but mostly war memorials as its just makes you want to weep...so powerful.. https://youtu.be/x-oSz7pNj5o (With Churchill) https://youtu.be/TMroQrL3Nrw (Just the music)

Samuel Barber 1910-1981...Adagio for strings an American compose and used in the film Platoon, just hauntingly beautiful... https://youtu.be/KylMqxLzNGo

Juliette Pochin, Sposa from the album Venezia...with a voice like melted chocolate. https://youtu.be/2LD45fS_nHE

Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma... from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot  https://youtu.be/rTFUM4Uh_6Y None shall sleep, None shall sleep! Even you, oh Princess, In your cold room, Watch the stars, That tremble with love And with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, My name no one shall know, No... no... On your mouth, I will tell it, When the light shines. And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine! (No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.) Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win! Jerusalem by William Blake and Sir Hubert Parry. For me, this should be our national anthem as I am no royalist but this makes me want to sing my lungs out especially when I watch England play rugby ... https://youtu.be/rT1HEXNI9c4

Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte 1793-1847 https://youtu.be/qTQoPg856Ow JS Bach, born March1685- July1750...Air on a G String.

Procul Harum copied this way back in the sixties... https://youtu.be/EPrKqbctx8U

Hope if nothing else, you are now relaxed...thanks for listening..