| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 3/11/2006 2:46:08 PM | Some recent discoveries, and old favorites…
Ben Heppner’s Ideale, singing Paolo Tosti
Marjan Mozetich’s Affairs of the Heart contemporary Canadian composer
Scriabin’s piano preludes
Thomas Tallis’ Spem In Alium (speaking of groups of voices surrounding an audience [above])
On order:
Elgar Cello Concerto (Jaqueline DuPres’ live recording)
best to all,
od | |
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calaf
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 3/11/2006 9:05:57 PM | | I love classical too. My favorites are the late romantics. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, Sibelius, Mahler. I am always looking for composers from that era who are being rediscovered. There are lots of scandinavian composers like Madetoja and Melartin who wrote excellent music. A real Russian treat is Kalinnikov. | |
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Posted: 5/29/2006 8:32:37 AM | | Rachmaninoff's choral works are sublime. I have sung some of them. The choral works of the Russian masters like him don't get as much notice because they are almost all written for the Russian Orthodox Church. But if you can get any recordings of his works or works of people like Bortniansky, Gretchaninoff, Tchesnokov (my favorite) and others, it would be well worth your while. A good place for Russian choral sheet music is musicarussica.com. | |
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Posted: 5/30/2006 10:29:38 AM |
If anyone's anywhere near Sheffield (UK) this weekend, I'm singing in a Bach CHoir and we are doing all sorts of wonderful pieces. Well, I hope they're going to be wonderful, anyway. If they aren't, it won't be the composers' faults.
Good luck! You are in the UK, have you ever done any of John Rutter's work? Love his choral music, especially his Requiem. And speaking of British Requiems, try singing Andrew Lloyd Webber's! Extremely difficult! We tried to get Sarah Brightman (the original soprano soloist he had in mind and who did it on the most popular recording of this work) to perform it with our group but she wasn't available.
Someone on this thread also mentioned Saint-Saens. For a change of pace during the Christmas holidays, listen to (or perform) his Christmas Oratorio instead of the usual Bach or Handel. He wrote it when he was only 22 years old. GORGEOUS piece of music! | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 5/30/2006 1:48:01 PM | Alis Kat,
Brahms Piano Concerto #2 is one of my favourites, however, by far, the most moving piece for me is Beethovens Moonlight Sonata. The emotion he instilled throughout this piece depicts his journey as he became deaf. Good to know that there are ppl who appreciate Classical Music. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 5/30/2006 5:58:14 PM | | Yes, Rutter is terrific. A Goddess told me about a fellow named Srul Irving Glick and he is excellent too. I just discovered a modern composter named Torke. I wrote a thread about him but it is unanswered. You know the Saint-Saens Chistmas Oratorio! That is quite rare. | |
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Posted: 6/26/2006 7:44:28 AM | I found a really ancient message from you. I too love classical music and I just wish I lived in Ohio !
Peter (London, England) XXX | |
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Posted: 7/31/2006 4:08:43 PM | Dvorak
Mozart
Beethoven
Rachmaninof | |
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Posted: 7/31/2006 6:58:15 PM | i've always loved all classical!Bela Bartok,stravinski,schoenberg,ives.mozarts kyrie elaison in his great mass in c is powerful.reich,wagner,barber.prockofiev.shastackovich.greg lake | |
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Posted: 8/1/2006 2:50:38 PM | I absolutely love all forms of music,classical included.
For me a true music lover is one who knows no categorization,but loves music on the sole basis that it moves you and there is a connection to it.
As someone who plays musical instruments,you tend to gain a better appreciation and understanding for the technical aspects as time goes on,due to knowing the skill that's involved.But pure emotional connection will always win out first for me as the main priority.
There are far too many to list here as far as classical is concerned,but a few of my faves are:
Bach...Air on the G string,Toccata and fugue in d minor,"The little" fugue,Cello suite #1 in G,Bourree in e minor.
Beethoven...Moonlight sonata,Fur elise,Symphony#3,Symphony#5,Symphony#9.
Barber...Adagio for strings
Debussy...Claire de lune,1st arabesque.
Mozart...Oh Fortuna,The magic flute,Elvira Madigan,Eine kleine Nachtmusik("A little night music"),Jupiter symphony.
Paganini...Caprice #5.
Rachmaninoff...Piano concerto#2 & 3,Preludes in C#minor and G minor.
Rossini...William Tell overture.
Satie...Gymnopedies.
Stravinsky...Rite of spring.
Strauss...Blue Danube,Also sprach zarathustra.
Tchaikovsky...Swan Lake,Romeo and Juliet,Nutcracker suite,Pathetique symphony,1812 overture.
Wagner...Die Walkure("Ride of the Valkyries")
I listed those above because most people have actually heard of all of them sometime in their lives,without possibly knowing who,or what they were called.
They are somewhat of a "Classical Greatest hits" for me.
If it counts as classical,I would also like to mention John Williams,who today seems to be the modern master of orchestrated movie scores,both memorable and complex at once.
(E.T,Superman,Starwars,Schindlers list,Indiana Jones,Jaws etc.)
Oh...Sorry about mentioning Wagner Alis Kat LOL. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 12:44:58 PM |
Paganini...Caprice #5.
Great choice, music full of zest | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 7:58:23 PM | It is still amazing to me that a human voice can even do that. The person (sorry, don't remember her name) who performed that bit in the movie "Amadeus" was incredible... Of course that whole movie was tops.
Isobaric,
It was June Anderson who sang the part of the Queen of the Night in the film, Amadeus. She recorded it again a few years later with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus. | |
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Posted: 8/10/2006 9:50:23 PM | | I've always loved it since I was a teen. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2006 3:08:26 AM |
i've always loved all classical!Bela Bartok,stravinski,schoenberg,ives.mozarts kyrie elaison in his great mass in c is powerful.reich,wagner,barber.prockofiev.shastackovich.greg lake
Oh, hell! I love Bartok and Schoenberg! I saw a double bill of Bluebeards Castle and Erwartun last season, and Schoenberg's Erwartung was the most amazing opera I've ever seen! | |
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Posted: 8/11/2006 2:43:54 PM | | Another form of classical music I have come to enjoy is classical guitar, played by Andres Segovia a real master of the instrument. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2006 3:29:32 PM | ^^^^^Good choice.
Awesome guitar player...I have his boxed set.
He does great versions of Bach,Debussy,Mussorgsky,Paganini and the like.
Do you have a favourite?
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Posted: 8/12/2006 1:04:56 PM |
I love all types of music but I absolutely adore classical.To me it isnt just about the technical perfection,but also the emotion that is conveyed without the use of a single word.I love Mozart,Beethoven,Bach,Saint Saens,Copeland,Dvorak,Haydn,Handel,and a myriad of others...Anyone else love classical?
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I wish classical radio stations would more often play non-classics that are more turbulent (like Mahler's 3rd symphony). It was this kind of music that got me excited about classical in my teenaged emo days  and I think more people would be drawn to the genre if classical radio wasn't -always- beethoven 5, various piano concerti, and mozart. Not that these aren't wonderful, but they're harder to appreciate if you're used to 4 minute clips of head banging. 
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Posted: 8/13/2006 5:51:35 PM | My dad was a pianist so I grew up watching him play, and hearing classical music. If I was stranded on a desert island with only 3 composers to listen to . . . that would be a difficult choice. I adore Chopin and Brahms, and the 3rd would be . . .??? Thank goodness that will never happen.
I remember dating someone years ago who said he liked classical music. He said Chopin was good background music when eating dinner. I lost some respect for him at that point.
Nobody has said much about opera. When I first saw Madame Butterfly, I cried. That's what classical music can do. Rock, blues, folk, all music can move someone, put them in a different mood or frame of mind. But classical can reach in and pull your guts out, leave you with a new world view or make you feel like you are hearing true, pure love that you have not, and may never actually find in your lifetime.
When I try to sing along with Handel's Messiah, I am somtimes choked up and cannot sing at all. Tears come to my eyes. I am moved and puzzled. I don't know why my self control fails me. Somehow I think Handel knows. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2006 6:20:13 PM | Chopin as background music? You lost SOME respect for him?!? I would have lopped off his head! Remember that scene in Gladiator where Maximus takes two swords and POP - off goes the head! That's why you should always take a sword along with you on a date.
There is a separate opera thread somewhere. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2006 10:19:16 PM | I'm wierd on my classical. I love it...but in the car, or while working (great music to work to!), or chilling out with a glass of wine.
Concerts are ok...but sometimes they'll get boring. I'd much prefer an opera if I'm going to see it as part of an audience.
Personal favorites are Bach and Beethevon. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2006 11:20:28 AM | \m/BACH\m/
and i love nicolo paginini, hes insane!!
and fernado sor is pretty killer too | |
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Posted: 8/14/2006 11:28:10 AM | \m/BACH\m/
and i love nicolo paganini, hes insane!!
and fernado sor is pretty killer too | |
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Posted: 9/12/2006 1:25:58 PM | | any body who's taken mucous appreciation knows that classical music is but one period in the evo of functional harmony,and surely w.a.mozart is the epitome of that genre.few people even know that mozart changed his middle name to amadeus which was simply the italian form of theodore what ever that actualy happens to be in german.but gettin' back to the subject most of the people alis mentioned do not technicaly fall into the category of "classical".i'll say this though richard wagners(who i think falls into the "romantic period") tristan and soldes liebestod with its upward moving modulation of the leit motif is true inovative genius for it's time!to say mozart who was the epitome of the beauty of simplicity was more complex than R Wagners is reactionary. hey i love the both of them mozarts kyrie elaison in his great mas in c maj is sublime.tannheuser is lovely.has anyone ever heard Gabriel faures"requiem mass"if'n y' haven't give it a listen.you'll catch the "en paradisum"in the movie "the thin red line",he,like mozart,truly understood musical idioms and employed them rather well rendering their imprimatur on them.oh and i'm sure most will agree that liking isn't the same as appreciating. *) | |
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Posted: 9/12/2006 2:18:38 PM | | so some of us dig shtakhuasen?musique concrete?microtonality?pendericki?webern?berg?charles ives?luigi nono?steve reich?i like the idea that computerized music has actualy opened the doors for more than just techno dance d n b and the rest of the main stream schlock which realy ain't so bad ackshully.i think all genres have their place and perhaps we have each to thank for the next like my comp proff said"something doesn't come from nothing"y'know you can't rilly create and innovate in a vacuum.the problem is the purists think if it can't be "codified"it's not legitimate and sadly the majority of those opinionators are the academia so we have to wait for the autopsy for them to declare it a legitmate idiom.*) | |
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