classical music and spiral

[insaneneko]

I had desperately searched for a piano piece played in the Spiral manga (first played in volume 7, then later to great effect in volume 10). It took some doing to find the proper name of it (I only knew it as 「孤独の中の神の祝福」) but I found out it is "Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude" from "Harmonies poetiques et religieuses" by Franz Liszt. From the Japanese it means "God's blessing in the midst of solitude." In any case, I didn't want to buy a CD for a piece I didn't even know, so I searched for it online, and two other friends ended up looking for it too. Thank goodness for friends of friends who use P2P fire sharing, because I was able to get it. XD He sent it to me via yousendit. It should be good for another day. Any Spiral or classical fans, it's a lovely gentle piano piece. And can't you imagine angtsy gun-toting bishounen genius pianists playing this?

Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

And since this is classical music sharing post, I have links to the Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius played by Jascha Heifetz available as well. I love this piece.

Violin Concerto, Op. 47
Allegro moderato
Adagio di molto
Allegro, ma non tanto

Comments

[xandria.livejournal.com]

*downloads immediately*

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! XD

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

I don't know Spiral, but I love classical music with a passion. I hadn't heard this Liszt piece before. Really beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this. *hugs*

p.s. I tried to download the Sibelius violin pieces, but the link said "error"...?

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the Liszt piece. I've never heard of it, and one of the friends who was looking for it said that it was apparently not that popular. ^_^

Hm, dunno why the links didn't work. Maybe they've expired? And the Sibelius is such a great piece, too. >_< I wonder where my CD went to...

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

Oh, please don't worry about it, if you haven't got it handy. ^^; Although I would love to hear it. ^^;;

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

The classical music rabu must be shared, so here (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17DN1V9MO251U1AY9QPZFWXC00) you (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0S7P4TFW4SBNA2888877XYFEKL) go (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=24UXFSZW8120R3LZJRHH200Z2R). ^_^

[sargraf.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *many hugs*

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

Cheers! ^_^

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

(Belatedly) Thank you for these! ^_^

I'd given up on trying to find out what piece was being played in the manga so yay! for you and your friends. XD *basks in classical music rabu* I pretty much grew up with it and spent most of my teenage years being a devout fan of ABC Classic FM (http://www.abc.net.au/classic/), which I still love dearly though I don't tune in regularly anymore. It's such a shame many people's exposure to classical music is through...furniture ads. *headdesk*

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I get obssessed when a piece is played in an anime or mentioned in a book or manga sometimes...I get this need to find it. :P

It's sad how little kids hear classical music in it's entirety. I certainly didn't get any exposure to it growing up.

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

I'm a research nut about references in books, etc. but that one defeated me. Good thing you didn't give up. ^_^

My dad is a big fan of classical music so I kind of imbibed it by osmosis growing up. Because of my parents, I'm also far more familiar with 60s/70s/80s songs than modern pop stuff (90s onwards). It was just one more thing that made me seem a weird teen to my peers. :P

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

It was actually pretty easy. ^_^; Finding the music was the hard part.

I was weird all on my own. I listened to all kinds of music that normal teens, discovered on my own. :P