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Hello to all music fans in Iyouboushi's forum, long time no see! My last music-related post was in May but the last actual update to the classical music thread was in november 2014, yikes.
A lot has changed in the world of music since then! Streaming services are no longer awful and livestreamed performances have become more commonplace. So, time for a new thread!
For this thread I don't plan to keep things restricted to classical music, nor am I going to try to make an encyclopedia of sorts like in my other thread (which I'm going to update before 2024, I swear!).
We start with a "brazilian northern jazz" album by Quarteto Novo!
Spotify link:
https://open.spotify...oE0eK7GZ2dsAXzt
Youtube playlist:
Allmusic.com says:
The sole album by the legendary Quarteto Novo was released by the Odeon label in 1967 and was accorded various coveted Brazilian artistic prizes, including the Troféu Roquette Pinto and the Troféu Imprensa. The band was made up of four now legendary Brazilian musicians: percussionist Airto Moreira; bassist, guitarist, and violinist Theo de Barros; guitarist, violinist, violist, and sometimes banjo player Heraldo do Monte (these three musicians all being members of the previous Trio Novo); and later arrival Hermeto Pascoal. Coming from the northeastern part of the nation, all of these men were intimately familiar with baião music, the danceable rhythmic style comprised of a syncopated 2/4 time signature that could be played on the double-skinned zabumba drum and harmonic and melodic structures written around a Lydian flat seventh scale; it is derived from the tuning of the pÃfano flute, which has a raised fourth and flattened seventh. The chord structure is based on a dominant seventh. And while the style is not well-known outside Brazil, it nonetheless influenced a host of popular songwriters in America, England, and Europe, who scored hits with tunes utilizing the style's elements. (A couple of examples are the Burt Bacharach tune "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" and "Save the Last Dance for Me," written by Doc Pomus and Mort Schulman and recorded by the Drifters.) Quarteto Novo -- and their patron and songwriting collaborator Geraldo Vandré -- had a deep, some would say obsessional, interest in American bebop; combine them and you have something very special indeed. Though in many ways, these eight songs sound somewhat quaint to undisciplined in the 21st century, the opposite is actually quite true. This meld of styles and the deep interest in subtle yet innovative rhythmic interplay, counterpoint, and taut song structures are to this day quite revolutionary. [...]
Posting this way so I can see how the forum deals with the links. I don't have a Spotify account myself but I figure that by offering two links I lessen the chance it'll eventually disappear from the thread like so many links from my classical music thread. What do you guys use? Which streaming service is more popular around here, Spotify, Last.fm or Apple Music?
Second, a classical album by Maurizio Pollini:
https://open.spotify...Stj6jZzm180eKHu
Allmusic.com says:
The concept of Maurizio Pollini's latest Chopin recital albums has been chronological presentation of Chopin's works. Superficially this may seem dull, especially inasmuch as Chopin's output does not fall as easily into early-middle-late categories as that of most other composers. But Pollini's implicit point (made explicit by annotator Paolo Petazzi) is that this is how Chopin himself would often have put together his recital programs: he would have played his latest stuff. Within that framework, he would have varied his moods considerably. That's the hallmark of the latest Pollini: there isn't one "Pollini style" here. The opening Nocturnes, Op. 55, are intimate and emotional, whereas the Berceuse, Op. 57, is classic restrained Pollini. Sample this work, which is often sentimentalized in line with its "Cradle Song" title. But Chopin didn't call it a berceuse; he gave it the title Variantes, which is both original and abstract, and Pollini's remarkable performance catches these qualities. For the Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58, Pollini backs out of the inward world he has created up to that point and turns on the gas (and, it should be noted, the humming along). The end result is an absorbing, constantly changing program that is enhanced by flawless sound engineering from Deutsche Grammophon at the Herkulessaal in Munich. Wonderful Chopin, much more than a "for Pollini fans" release.
And finally, the first in a week-long festival of "live" concerts where brazilian artists play music from the 17th and 18th centuries!
Smz, feel free to post albums and covers of video game music as well!
Hope you all enjoy!
*edit* So the end result is that the forum still embeds Youtube videos but it can't deal with Youtube playlists and has no idea what to do with spotify links. Iyou, any ideas on how to improve the formatting for this kind of post if I try to link to a streaming service?
Also, I made a huge post without using a Psyduck emoticon, let's fix that 
