Agnostic.com

World Music

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

By Marionville (Page 17 / 181) Posts by members only

World Music
Jan 13, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I thought we hadn’t had anything from my favourite violinist for quite a while ..so to remedy that here is David Garrett performing Antonio Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons concerti for violin…composed in 1723…
3 comments
World Music
Jan 10, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
Something a wee bit different today…a song composed by Carlos Macia and sung by Levi Cavalcante, both of whom are Brazilian. The song sung in English is called - Your Ghost, and the accompanying video is full of Japanese imagery…pethaps from a ...
1 comment
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....
4 comments
World Music
Jan 8, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I just read that there are more Metal Rock Bands in Finland per capita than in any other country in the world…one of them called Lordi even won the Eurovision Song Contest for Finland with their hard rock song Hallelujah in 2006. Here they perform...
7 comments
World Music
Jan 7, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
You already know I love Laura Pausini…this Italian superstar has long been a favourite, and here she’s teamed up in a duet with Josh Groban …it’s so good I’ve put it on one of my playlists - E Ti Promettero…(I Promise You)
1 comment
World Music
Jan 6, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
Dance To Your Daddy…is a well known folk song from the Northumberland coast In the northeast of England…popularised in the 1970s when it was used as the theme from a BBC drama series When The Boat Comes In, in an arrangement by the composer David...
1 comment
World Music
Jan 5, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’ve got another excerpt from the New Year’s Eve concert from Amsterdam by Spiegelzaal Afscheids Orkest, this time performing Haydn’s Symphony 45 (IV) the finale…
3 comments
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...
4 comments
World Music
Jan 3, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
Does anyone remember Englebert Humperdinck, the British singer who had no success under his own name…Gerry Dorsey, but when he took the name of a 19th century classical German composer his career took off with a string of hits in the 1960s & 70s....
5 comments
World Music
Jan 2, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
James Thornton was an Irish-American songwriter and vaudeville performer who is primarily remembered today for the 1898 song - When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The song was sung & recorded by many artists throughout last century, the most memorable ...
3 comments
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 ...
4 comments
World Music
Dec 31, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
I love musical theatre and many of the stars from the big Broadway & London West End Stage shows, especially from the latter half of last century. One of my favourites was Robert Goulet the powerful French Canadian/American baritone with a 3 octave...
2 comments
World Music
Dec 30, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Icelandic multitalented percussionist, arranger and record producer Gulli Briem spent two years on the first chapter of his musical journey of the senses, pulling in talented fellow musicians from across Northern Europe & Scandinavia. “Earth ...
1 comment
World Music
Dec 29, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Paul Brady is a very talented musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer from here in Northern Ireland, a local boy born in Belfast, and now living right on the border between N.I. & The Irish Republic, in Strabane, Co.Tyrone…which is the same...
3 comments
World Music
Dec 28, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
A few years ago, in 2010, a bunch of young hopefuls entered XFactor UK talent competition as individuals and Simon Cowell put 5 of them together into one group and signed them up to his own label thus creating the pop phenomenon which became One ...
4 comments
World Music
Dec 27, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
There’s a new biopic movie out “Bernstein” which is controversial due to actor Bradley Cooper wearing a prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein. Well as his family have confirmed that they are not offended, nor do they think it ...
8 comments
World Music
Dec 26, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Last night I watched this concert on YouTube on my new 43” Toshiba TV - The Nobel Peace Prize concert, Oslo 2015. I’ve watched it many times already on my IPad, but it was the first time on the larger HD screen…marvellous! The Nobel ...
2 comments
World Music
Dec 25, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
🎄On Christmas Day I couldn’t not post something from Handel’s Messiah which was first performed in Dublin in April 1742, but is now a Christmas Day essential. I’ve decided not to post the Hallelujah Chorus but my own favourite chorus from ...
5 comments
World Music
Dec 24, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
I sing a lot of Christmas music, over the years I’ve sung most of the classical, traditional and contemporary songs written in celebration of both the Christian and the older Yule festivals. This carol with words written by English poet ...
1 comment
World Music
Dec 23, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Joy To The World…the 1719 interpretation of Psalm 98 set to music by English minister & hymnist Isaac Watts, is one of the most popular hymns at Christmas, it’s uplifting and literally a “joy” to sing. I’ve chosen this concert version by ...
2 comments
World Music
Dec 22, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
On what is the Winter Solstice I thought I post a couple of traditional English wassailing songs…really not carols but pre Christian songs in praise of the natural world and the changing seasons, accompanied by much merriment and drinking of mead, ...
1 comment
World Music
Dec 21, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Two of the most beautiful voices combine in this song written by Benny Andersson of ABBA…that of renowned Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel and sublime Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebo. The song itself is a masterpiece by the Swedish maestro and it’s...
3 comments
World Music
Dec 20, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
The BBC’s Dance show Strictly Come Dancing has just concluded its weekly run since September with the winners TV soap actress Ellie Leach and her professional partner Italian born Vito Coppola lifting the Glitterball Trophy last Saturday. Here ...
4 comments
World Music
Dec 19, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
The Bocelli family ….father Andrea and son Matteo & daughter Virginia singing on Monte Bianco in Italy ….(another one, I posted a different song a few weeks ago). This time it’s John Lennon’s ode to peace and an end to wars…still a vain ...
2 comments
World Music
Dec 18, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Because we’re only I week away I’ve decided to post some seasonal festive music this week…both secular and religious…starting today with Adolphe Adam’s well loved Christmas song O Holy Night sung also in the original French (Cantique de ...
3 comments

Photos 63 More

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

Posted by kocasYou will face a hurdle in the daily weaving game that you must overcome.

Posted by Zoewees[shp.ee] SALDO SHOPEE GRATIS LANGSUNG CAIR 2022

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

  • Top tags#video #Song #world #musicians #traditional #Norway #sing #films #dance #NewYork #videos #Australia #Christmas #wife #celebrate #languages #Canada #BBC #moon #dream #rain #lyrics #movies #Mentalhealth #funeral #Europe #Present #jazz #university #plays #money #hospital #earth #friends #USA #mother #magic #created #ClassicalMusic #dogs #college #Russian #celebrity #children #flowers #death #cultural #parents #culture #academic ...

    Members 1,361Top

    Moderator