Vintage Ambient Classical (Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic)

[davidraphael]

I've been listening to Gavin Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic again today and thought I'd recommend it.

It's a dreamy, contemporary classical music piece that gives the impression of the Titanic sinking, using only musical instruments.

There is also the sound of the Titanic band playing as the ship goes down. It's as if they are playing underwater.

As I say, it's very dreamy, ambient and melancholic, but also uplifting with the band playing Amazing Grace in the background. It's equally haunting and beautiful.

here's a sample: [video=youtube;DScTBJ74Q5U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DScTBJ74Q5U[/video]

 

[Espee]

I have that CD. I'm fascinated by a couple of places where you hear conversations, but you can only make out the cadences and probably British accents. You can "invent" the subject matter...
I didn't like some of the "dripping water" sounds because they started sounding like a ping-pong game.
And I never listen to it when I might fall asleep, for fear of having a nightmare!
I also have Ian Whitcomb's CD of music played on the Titanic. Someday I want to see the James Cameron film, but only if I can have one or both of these CD's running so I can bring them up to replace Celine Dion's "contributions" to the soundtrack.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

[video=youtube;PvAP6Wyz6wQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvAP6Wyz6wQ&feature=related[/video]

Something along these lines would probably be played in the "Winter Garden" of many Hotels And Ocean Liners in the Teens and Twenties

http://www.lategreatliners.com/france_normandie.htm

[video=youtube;Q7qSc1eAMDM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qSc1eAMDM[/video]