#maybe some OST things (although few of those are much longer than one minute)

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After the intermission we'd continue with season 2:

12. Keyboard Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande (Georg Friedrich Händel) Welcome to season 2! The Sarabande heard while Stede fights Izzy is actually the one from the soundtrack, but Händel's shows up too, later in the episode. And again a few more times on the OST and in another version at the end of 2x07. Since it's woven through much of S2 I think it fits at the start of the second half very well.

13. Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 – II. Air (on a G String) (Johann Sebastian Bach) I could have put this in the first half too since it's already heard in 1x02, but since it shows up more often in S2 and is an important part in Stedes letter-writing, I've put it here instead. For more insight go and find an analysis by Tumblr user amuseoffyre! ;)

14. Concerto For Two Violins And Cello In D Minor, Op. 3, No. 11, RV 565: III. Largo e spiccato (Antonio Vivaldi) Seawitch Buttons getting his tools from Auntie in 2x02 - and it's reused in 2x05 in convos between Ed+Fang as well as Lucius+Izzy. Another rather slow and pensive one, this second half of the concert starts a bit like season 2... tough but interesting.

15. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 - II. Allegretto (Ludwig van Beethoven) Speaking of tough and interesting, it gets more intense with this Beethoven that plays in 2x02... Ed+Izzy+gun... whew. The first 20 minutes of this second half... difficult, just like I found the first few eps of S2. But the music's great!

16. Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183 - I. Allegro con brio (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Let's escape the tough part of the concert/season like the crew escapes the Red Flag - with this bit of Mozart. I loved the way this was used in 2x03 and I keep loving the crew. Another long one, but I enjoy Mozart enough to want to have the whole thing here.

17. Kinderszenen, Op. 15 - 7. Träumerei (Robert Schumann) Another one that could have been put in season 1, or at least earlier than here, because it already showed up again in 2x03, but to me the most striking use of this is the 'I love everything about you' scene in 2x04. Most other times after only a few bars of this we went into Satie and never heard much of it. In 2x04 it's really big!

18. "Ständchen/Serenade" - Schwanengesang, D 957 No. 4 (Franz Schubert) This one plays quite a few times in 2x05, mostly to illustrate Lucius' state of mind. I was pretty proud that I recognized it as a Schubert piece on my first watch and without any research. Coming up: again a point where I'd rather not have two pieces of the same composer back to back, but it fits best that way.

19. 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899 - No. 4 in A-Flat Major: Allegretto (Franz Schubert) Ed getting rid of his leathers (confession: I'm not much a fan of them and would have liked him to leave them there...) and getting breakfast in bed for Stede. Lighter than the most of the pieces in this half, and I think that's needed. Like the scene was the main bright spot of 2x07. (I'm only a bit taken out of it, because a part of this piece reminds me of "Wien und der Wein", some Schlager that also stole parts from a Josef Strauss composition...)

20. Waltz Op. 70 No. 2 in F minor (Frédéric Chopin) A short and cute piece that's in the background of Jim getting Olu to talk to Zheng. Mostly on here because I'm a huge fan of waltzes and need one Chopin in this concert.

21. Concerto in E minor per Flautino, RV 445: III. Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi) Another Vivaldi to (almost) finish it off. Here we have Stede and Zheng (and Ed) fighting the English at various points, it scores the hilarious parts on the beach and gets interrupted by Nina Simone for the sweet parts. A nice lively one for the half-finale.

22. (finale, encore, bonus, whatever, it needs to be there!)

Stede Dream / Gnossienne No. 5 I can't have the concert not ending with Gnossienne No. 5. It's so integral to the show and Stede/Ed! So I need a version that's different from the earlier piano-one, and we have that on the OST! Pity that the track is only 58 seconds long, for the finale I need a longer version that includes Ed's cello and lots more of the piano accompanied by strings as we hear it in 2x08 when they read the letter together. Someone would have to compose/arrange that for this all to work...

OFMD Soundtrack Concert

I spent a huge part of my last week looking at the OFMD soundtrack in detail and love the music used in both seasons (OST, post 1920s-songs (Miles From Nowhere is my absolute favourite) and "classical" pieces (mainly for orchestra and/or piano)). It's been a bit of an obsession actually, and I can't stop imagining a big concert of all of my favourite "classical" (and baroque etc, I know) pieces... if only I had an orchestra and venue at my disposal... the 22 tracks (20 really) add up to about 100 minutes. The list of things I'd have them play under the cut:

A Pirate's Life (Mark Mothersbaugh) Yeah, alright, I won't have Joel Fry there to sing it and it isn't a classical piece. But I would want the concert to start like the show, with this. A bit of a gimmick, someone with a guitar just doing this small bit to get everyone in a pirate mood. The last thing all the way down will also be from the OST, more on that when I get to it.

2. Concerto for Recorder and Viola da Gamba in A Minor, TWV 52:A1: I. Grave (Georg Philip Telemann) This is the one piece that always gets me nostalgic for season 1. This is early Stede and his early crew, I always have his voice in my head while listening to this. One of THE OFMD pieces for me, also because it's reused in episodes 1x07 and 2x05.

3. Symphony No. 34 in C, K.338 - 2. Andante di molto (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) This one is used once in 1x02 and twice in 1x03 - I was debating if I should include it since it's so long and only a small part of it is actually heard in the show. I've added it because I really like it and do find it iconic in those scenes - Stede finding his brand! (and because I feel it fits with the flow of the concert)

4. Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 2 No. 2, - III. Scherzo - Allegretto (Ludwig van Beethoven) On to episode 1x04 where we get to hear quite a bit of this one over Stede and Mary having to get married. Another very nice piece that always transports me straight into that episode. Overall the soundtrack mixes orchestra- and piano-pieces quite colourfully, which would be reflected in my concert too (would need a very able pianist for it!).

5. Sonata in E Major, Kk. 380 (Domenico Scarlatti) They've gotten rid of the Spanish! I love the whole lighthouse sequence a lot (Wee John makes me laugh every last time) and the crew's joy is transported very well in this piece. Another one where the quotient "bit played on the show/length of the piece" is not that big, but another one that I just really like and find fitting to include.

6. Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055: III. Allegro ma non tanto (Johann Sebastian Bach) Welcome on the fancy ship of not so fancy people... episode 1x05 is one of my very favourites and that whole environment of the french ship is very well represented in this piece I think. There are loads more pieces in the episode that I haven't been able to identify, but I think this one here is the most striking anyway.

7. Gnossienne No. 5 (Erik Satie) Yes, I'm putting this here. There are more than half a dozen other points in the show where this lovely tune is heard, but I want to place it at the 'you wear fine things well' part. To calm down after the fast paced party from before. To make everyone think of that moon that's way too big. And this is the spot where the piano-version of this is heard for the first time anyway.

8. Concerto for 2 Cellos in G Minor, RV 531: I. Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi) Bit of a jump from 1x05 to 1x09, but the episodes inbetween had little material for a concert like this (where there'd be no one to sing Mozart's "Voi, che sapete", that's also why Verdi's "Dies Irae" isn't there either). I love the crew and their various excuses - and find this to be a fun piece that needs to be there. One thing that I've read several times that irks me: I'm still searching for the piece that's playing in 1x03 where Stede almost dies and Blackbeard attacks the Spanish. People say it's this one here, but I've listened to it so often and am SO sure that that's not it. Don't know what is, though.

9. Arabesque, No. 1 in E Major (Claude Debussy) Mary living her best life! I love that we got to see that and love her and her fellow widows a lot. I'm not quite happy with having two Debussy's back to back, but like this piece and like thinking of Mary too much to leave it out.

10. Rêverie, L. 68 - Rêverie (Claude Debussy) I'm a sucker for 'oh shit, I love them!'-flashback-montages and the one set to this piece is a beauty! Another bit that I've watched so often that I see it all in my mind while listening to this. The part where the show jumps to Ed and his flashback to 'you wear fine things well' (like 2:04) always kills me.

11. The Four Seasons - Summer in G Minor, RV. 315: I. Allegro non molto – Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi) We say goodbye to season 1 with another Vivaldi, one that took ages for me to recognize in the show. I knew it was supposed to be there while Stede starts his Fuckery and Kraken!Ed abandons the crew, but for a very long time was sure that that wasn't really it (and a bit of doubt remains). Well, the slow parts are definitely in the show, just to my ear the fast parts sound different. Anyway, it also shows up in 2x06 and needs to be in my concert.

After this we'd have the intermission - and part two will be in a reblog because I've run out of links in this post.