Addendum to Listening Journal: November 29-December 6, 2010

I started to sit down to write a review of the Blu-ray version of Fantasia and I realized that I did not include the pieces from this movie in my Listening Journal.  Normally I would not include movie music, but Fantasia is no ordinary movie.  Where as most movie music contains snippets and themes, Fantasia includes entire movements or pieces.

Aside from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 I think another exception I would make for including movie music in the Listening Journal would be for a movie like Psycho.  In Psycho the music plays as much a dramatic role as the actors.

Fantasia - Blu-ray movie
  The Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor
   Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 (1707) arranged for orchestra
   Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a (1892) for orchestra
   Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897) for orchestra
   Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (1913) for orchestra
   Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastorale" (1808)
   Amilcare Ponchielli - La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (1880) for orchestra
   Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain (1886) for orchestra
   Franz Schubert - Ave Maria (1825) for chorus and orchestra

   

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