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A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

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World Music
Jan 1, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’ve had a wonderful two hours watching the annual New Year’s Day concert from Vienna…a musical treat for both eyes and ears and which now is taking us on a magical journey on one of Europe’s great waterways through 10 countries …with 4 ...
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World Music
Jan 4, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
Bela Bartok was born in 1881 in a small town which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary but due to border changes is now in Romania….descended from Hungarian nobility through his mother, he had German, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian ancestry. He...
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World Music
Jan 9, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’m posting a follow up to my Earth Affair’s post from last week. Just to remind you…Earth Affair is a collective of musicians from across Northern Europe & Scandinavia and is the brainchild of Icelandic percussionist and composer Gulli Briem....
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World Music
Jan 16, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’m a big fan of the “Playing For Change/ Song Around The World” multimedia music project featuring musicians & singers from across the globe. Here we have Marvin Gaye’s - What’s Going On featuring Sara Bareilles in NYC, and many others...
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World Music
Jan 18, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
Malena Ernman is a Swedish classical mezzo-soprano…she’s also mother of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Here she also displays her comedic and athletic qualities as an actress in this concert performance of Rosina’s Cavatina from ...
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World Music
Jan 22, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
MEUTE is an eleven- piece marching band from Hamburg, Germany. Here they perform their reworked version of a track called Anti Loudness…by Italian DJ & record producer Toto Chiavetta in a revived and repurposed industrial hall.
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World Music
Jan 31, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
The Kalmyks are an ethnic Russian group who until recently lived and worked as nomads wandering with their herds on the vast Nogai steppes near the mouth of the Volga river. Their dance and music represents nature and the environment in which they ...
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World Music
Feb 7, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
I thought I’d share with you this new exciting English all girl Indie Rock Band who have recently been crowned the BBC Sound of 2024 and have guested in the last few weeks on high profile late night shows on both sides of the Atlantic with their ...
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World Music
Feb 18, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
In a true melding of genres…The Piano Guys have combined music from Disney’s movie Frozen with Winter by classical composer Antonio Vivaldi….they say they have segued them together to represent freezing and melting of ice in the flow of the ...
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World Music
Feb 24, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Frederic Chopin’s Etude opus 25 1 is commonly known as Aeolian Harp and alternatively The Shepherd Boy. It was German composer and music critic Robert Schumann who coined the first title because the rapidly played notes reminded him of the wind ...
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World Music
May 6, 2024May 2024

Posted by Marionville
French composer and pioneer of electronic music Jean-Michel Jarre, son of veteran composer of cinema music Maurice Jarre, was probably genetically predestined to follow in his father’s footsteps making great music. He has certainly made his name...
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World Music
May 17, 2024May 2024

Posted by Marionville
Today, 17th May is Norway’s National Day…a universal holiday in the Land of the Midnight Sun. I thought in honour of it I’d post this piece of music by Edvard Grieg…In The Hall Of The Mountain King which was written as incidental music for ...
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World Music
May 31, 2024May 2024

Posted by Mitch07102
No introduction needed. Just watch it. It is restricted to YouTube - I can't share it directly. See Macklemore Hind's Hall.
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World Music
Jun 5, 2024Jun 2024

Posted by Marionville
When talent wins out over looks! Kurt Nilsen was nearly eliminated in the audition round of Norway’s Idol singing contest because the judges didn’t think his looks were a good enough fit to win..but his voice was so good they decided to put ...
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World Music
Jun 11, 2024Jun 2024

Posted by FrayedBear
The way Israel has become a Mecca of electronic dance music points clearly to an aching cultural void that its people are trying desperately to fill with empty synthetic pop fluff.
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World Music
Nov 2, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville
It’s hard to beat a great Irish Ceili band to get the feet tapping…and they don’t come better than these winners of Senior Ceili Band competition in 2015….Shanrdrum Ceili Band - The Kilavil Set on Flleadh TV TG4, Irish television. ...
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World Music
Nov 14, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville
Alexander Borodin was a 19th century Georgian-Russian classical composer and chemist (notable for his research on aldehydes). He was also known for his romantic uniquely Russian compositions…in this one he takes us on a journey … In The Steppes...
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World Music
Nov 19, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville
Another post sent to me by Roger…who sadly finds he cannot post anything at present due to a strange malaise that the Agnostics site is currently experiencing. It seems that those members who live in Canada are particularly affected as Patricia is...
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World Music
Jan 3Jan 3

Posted by Marionville
Bollywood meets BC! Just the thing to keep us warm and brighten up the cold chilly days of January….some Indian Bhangra music. A flash mob perform in a train station in Vancouver Canada in support for BC Children’s Hospital in 2012… ...
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World Music
Jul 28, 2024Jul 2024

Posted by Marionville
It’s a sad reflection of how we as humans never seem to learn any lessons from previous wars and keep sacrificing our young men on the altar of some leader’s ambition, greedy expansionism and imperialist ideologies…especially applicable today...
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World Music
Aug 1, 2024Aug 2024

Posted by Marionville
I thought we’d listen to something sung in Greek today…so here is Elpida, performed and played on the piano by Konstantinos Argiros. I don’t understand the words but I’d lay bets that he’s singing for his lost love…
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World Music
Aug 17, 2024Aug 2024

Posted by pedigojr
A piece I heard on a classical station. It’s more popular than classical but I found it a very nice piece. It’s from a large orchestration by Joe Hisaishi Joe Hisaishi - One Summer’s Day (English Version) featuring Grace Davidson ...
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World Music
Aug 21, 2024Aug 2024

Posted by Marionville
In 1887 Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov composed a fantasia based on Spanish themes for violin & orchestra namely…Capriccio Espagnol. It was premiered in Moscow by the Russian Imperial Orchestra conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov himself. ...
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World Music
Sep 17, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by Marionville
Today I thought we’d visit Spain with some traditional Spanish flamenco music with a modern twist….from Kike & Manu. - Fondo Flamenco - Ojala Pudiera Ir….
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World Music
Feb 6, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Marionville
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born into a Russian aristocratic family in 1844 and from an early aged showed prodigious musical talent, however his family believed composing music to be an unsuitable career for him and instead he embarked on a career ...
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Posted by FrayedBearNow the sanctions against Israel spread to the Euroschism Song contest.

Posted by FrayedBearA recording of an interesting broadcast on the subject of coffee by relatively well known but nonetheless superb Australian folk singer Kavisha Mazella

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Posted by ReignmondIt is tough to find sharable music from The Oppossums Of Truth. There are 3 full albums of Scientific Gospel music here. [boomplay.com]

Posted by ReignmondIt is tough to find sharable music from The Oppossums Of Truth. There are 3 full albums of Scientific Gospel music here. [boomplay.com]

Posted by ReignmondIcelandic Folk Music - Tyrkjaránid - YouTube

Posted by ReignmondOk...how about this hauntingly beautiful opera aria? [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondOkay, let's just say this is not like K-pop....and let it go at that. I stumbled on them about 3 years ago. [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondAn Irish song in Gaelic with translation [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondThe song title translates to I Won't Give Up by Hungarian Alternative/Indie band Intim Torna Illegál (Intimate Gymnastics Is Illegal). [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondGet ready for some beautiful music. I have a couple albums by Heartstrings. Sometimes I play them in the office and it is quite popular. [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondJapanglish Song - YouTube

Posted by ReignmondAVA Opera - The Doll's Song from "Tales of Hoffmann" - YouTube

Posted by ReignmondYoshida Brothers - Rising - YouTube

Posted by ReignmondHunnu Guren - Batzorig Vaanchig & Auli - YouTube

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