I think the Vaughan Williams is a marvelous idea. Or you could listen to Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring is love). I'm actually on a Mozart kick right now, but when am I not? I will listen to Mozart's Requiem on a loop (not recommended for now, though). It's pure, unadulterated genius.
Yeah, I agree Vaughan Williams does bring in the mellow. But if I ever hear "Appalachian Spring" again in my life, it will be too soon. It's like the "Stairway to Heaven" of classical music radio stations.
Ahaha. Actually, WGMS (DC classical station) doesn't play much Copland. They do play a lot of Telemann, though. It's not bad so much as unimaginitive. I listen to my Monteverdi, Copland, Bernstein and Mozart CDs. It's an interesting combination.
I sang in the Marian Vespers of 1610 with the Washington Chorus and the NSO when I was a senior in high school. It was amazing, and difficult, and beautiful. It was intimidating, too, because of all the Monteverdi people who go to every performance of the Vespers because they don't get performed very often. The way it was performed was that certain portions of soli and other sections were assigned to a women's chorus and a men's chorus. The men's chorus was the Washington Men's Camerata, one of the best men's choirs in the world. THe women? The Annandale High School women. The girls form the madrigal group and a few from the women's ensemble. It was really quite scary. Then later that year, the madrigals (of which I was one) sang "Io mi songiovinetta" which is sooo pretty!
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I loves me lots of Monteverdi though.
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