| Classical music
Posted: 9/13/2006 11:57:36 AM | I love classical, too as well, although I am not much into the history or theory of it. My fav piece would be Moonlight Sonata by Beethoveen. Also, Rach 3 by Rachmaninov is phenominal. :) You guy should look into that piece if you haven't already. :D
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obliq
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Joined: 6/16/2006
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| Classical music
Posted: 9/13/2006 4:21:47 PM | I'm not just a fan, I have a degree in music. As a composer, my tastes tend toward the 20th century.
"Black Angels" by George Crumb will peel the paint of the walls, but what an incredible piece of music.
"Ancient Voices of Children" also by George Crumb
"Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" by Krzysztof Penderecki. An excellent study in percussive strings and cluster harmony.
String Quartet by Witold Lutoslawski
"Desert Music" and "Different Trains" by Steve Reich
"Atlas Eclipticalis" by John Cage. Can last several hours, but it's a fascinating piece.
"Heroes Symphony" and "Koyannisqatsi" by Philip Glass
"The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky. It caused a riot at the premeire. Literally. (Actually the ballet caused the riot.)
Symphony Op. 21 by Anton Webern
Violin Concerto by Alban Berg
"Wozzek" also by Alban Berg. Listen to this opera and all your troubles will disappear.
Chamber Symphony No. 1 by Arnold Schoenberg
"Verklaerte Nacht" also by Arnold Schoenberg
"La Mer" by Claude Debussy
Devil_Chicca,
Rach 3? Do you mean the Piano Concerto or the Symphony? | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 9/15/2006 5:12:33 PM | | A German band named Haggard has always been known for doing an absolutely incredible fusion of classical and extreme metal. Technical perfection with fire and passion in modern interpretation, - the results are truly amazing. Highly recommend. | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 9/15/2006 5:14:32 PM | | btw, does anyone know where I can purchase or download Bach's Fugue in F Minor? Seems to be such an obscure piece to find... | |
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Sentio
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Joined: 9/13/2006
Msg: 131 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 9/16/2006 3:25:12 PM | I collect movie scores so I won't start listing them, way too many composers. My absolute favorite cds are, starting with the best.
This is my favorite cd of any genre. To me the most powerful piece of music is:
Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
1. Symphony No. 3 Op. 36 (1976): I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile
performed by Dawn Upshaw. Its 27 minutes long, but it will blow your mind.
2. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci performed by Luciano Pavarotti. Hard not to shed a tear once you know whats going on. I am talking about the end of the first act, the famous solo.
3. Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle). It used to take 4 days to watch this, but I believe if your lucky enough to find it, its now 3. This is based on an old tale and many of you have already heard bits and pieces from it.
4. Barcarolle- I fell in love with this peice while watching 'Life is Beautiful'
5.Un long dimanche de fiançailles "A Very Long Engagement" composer Angelo Badalamenti. This will be the only score I list, beacuse how often I find it playing in the background while I work. | |
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obliq
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Joined: 6/16/2006
Msg: 132 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 9/17/2006 6:02:17 AM |
LuthienTinuviel: btw, does anyone know where I can purchase or download Bach's Fugue in F Minor? Seems to be such an obscure piece to find...
Other than the two F minor fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, all I could find is a Prelude and Fugue in F minor BWV 534 for organ. I'm marginally familiar with it, although I can't recall the tune.
Try http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bach.htm for MIDIs.
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 9/17/2006 3:14:45 PM | Back in the 70's a girl-friend got me into listening to classical music. I was into rock then well what did I discover? That I knew most of the classical music from watching The Bugs Bunny Show!! Now don't ask me to name the composers or the names of the pieces. But I can play them in my head!
If you're looking for something new yet classical check out Uli Jon Roth (go to www.ulijonroth.com) he was the lead guitarist for Scorpions through the seventies. He left to compose concertos. He's the best guitarist ever and if you don't believe me listen to him. Malsteen, Vai, satriani call him guitar god. He stays low key is very spiritual and non commercial. He worshiped Hendrix and classical music. He has created a 7 string 32 fret guitar that sounds like a violin at one end and a bass cello at the other. He's rendition of Vivaldi four seasons brings tears to my eyes as does everything he does. He deserves more credit then he gets. Van Halen used to cover his songs in the clubs in LA before they made it big! Lot of his stuff can be downloaded so check him out you won't be disappointed! | |
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Sentio
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Joined: 9/13/2006
Msg: 134 | |
| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 9/17/2006 4:47:13 PM | You just reminded me of Mike Oldfield, who is a great composer. This is from wikipedia.
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature.
He is famous for Tubular Bells [Exorcist Theme], but I have enjoyed much of his music. | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 9/17/2006 5:52:29 PM | | I've been playing classical music for over 20 years (piano) and I use to play the viola as well. I put my 2 yr old daughter to sleep everynight listening to the classical station.. Just to name a few of the composers I like: Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Burgmueller, Handel, etc... | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 9/18/2006 3:51:50 PM | AARON COPLAND, is one of my faves..."appalachian spring", and "fanfare for the common man" rocks!....
he was the first composer to incorporate jazz rhythms into symphonic music..
for semi-classical, GERSHWIN'S "rhapsody in blue", does it for me...
MOZART'S concerto in 21G, is the next best thing to making love...aaaah!, the floating!..
JACQUELINE... | |
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Posted: 9/21/2006 4:21:15 PM | | I've studied classical piano for 24 + years....you could say I'm a fan. Debussy is one of my favourite composers. As an organist, I have a new found appreication for Bach - I'm determined to master the Toccatta and Fugue in D. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2006 9:43:11 PM | A German band named Haggard has always been known for doing an absolutely incredible fusion of classical and extreme metal. Technical perfection with fire and passion in modern interpretation, - the results are truly amazing. Highly recommend.
Hmm. Where did you hear of them? Which album do you like? There is unfortunately no thread for German rock or punk...
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 10/18/2006 8:00:01 AM | | Obliq...what an interesting list...minimalists, serialist and then "La Mer"...what a contrast. I love La Mer...outstanding.....for me...serialism is intellectual music for the sake of being intellectual. I use "Pierrot Lunaire" to scare trick or treaters on Halloween! LOL | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 10/20/2006 12:23:36 PM | | It's been my avocation and my vocation my entire life. Currently I am an opera reviewer and soprano soloist. I don't look on it as appreciation, it's a lifestyle. :) | |
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Posted: 10/22/2006 5:39:51 PM | | Now, I am in my element. Beethoven, named my cat after him. Mozart/Vivaldi/Bach/Vaughan Williams violin by Nigel Kennedy, the quintessential violinist. My favourite soprano Sarah Brightman. She is completing a new cd, not sure when it is suppose to be released. Rumours, around March 2007. {Symphony} it is called... | |
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9hot4u
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Joined: 10/5/2006
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 10/22/2006 6:15:40 PM | Alis Kat...ok. How about Symphony 40, especially the last 3 movements (mozart)
or the Requiem? Sorry, love Amadeus. Anything Bach...that was a rich sound that obeyed different rules, the Baroque. I've tried to duplicate Mozart on Nylon Guitar...it's acxtually very simple (not easy to play, not simple that way) but there are no great stretches between chords. The scales are all the same on guitar, no excessive travelling over the fretboard. I love what he did...I have software that will allow me to compose a symphony...I can hear it played back as much as I want as I write...he had a pen and whatever paper he could find...and he wrote things I could never imagine. So did they all.
It's fascinating I think. | |
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Posted: 10/26/2006 6:04:15 PM | 10 best classical CDs, from the Archiv music web site.
Agreed - every one of these is gold.
http://www.classicalcdguide.com/#7
Another 10 well worth the investment:
http://www.classicalcdguide.com/main/top20.htm
This is just the tip of an enormous iceberg of 900 years of recorded (historical and modern interpretations) classical music. Pity that so many forum members ignore the vast body of early music (recorded before 1750) in favor of the more commonly performed classical period. Early music has glorious examples of secular and sacred works that have stood the test of time. Much of this genre is of quite recent recording vintage and has superlative sound quality.
The comment about the love of classical music being a lifestyle, rather than just a hobby is very true. Its cathartic and theraputic - it has health benefits as both an emotional outlet for expression normally bottled up, and for stress reduction. | |
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Posted: 10/27/2006 8:55:04 PM | | I remember in grad school a class titled..I think..."music before 1650"...We called it music before grass...or how to spend your life in the library....interesting...intellectually...some pleasant to listen too...most just odd to modern ears ....bonus to anyone who knows zarlino or boethius | |
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Posted: 10/31/2006 5:41:59 PM | | Mussorgsky, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Holst are all good, but if you can listen to Mahler's Second without weeping for joy, you'd better have someone check your pulse. I'd love to see this performed live sometime, but I'm not getting my hopes up. | |
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Posted: 10/31/2006 7:28:11 PM | Funnily enough trance has alot of origins from classical music in the way it's composed which is probably why enjoy some classical music as well.
There's no song made that can fill you with the same emotion that a good set of chords will have on you that just sends shivers up your spine!
Ones more popular that i like are
william orbit - barbers adagio for strings
The clockwork orange track
Requiem for a dream (LOTR 2 cover track)
and there's plenty more, infact i reckon some of classical music enthusiasts would like trance, not the crap stuff on the radio but the more underground stuff like armin, tiesto, sasha etc | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 10:44:29 AM | "I remember in grad school a class titled..I think..."music before 1650"...We called it music before grass...or how to spend your life in the library....interesting...intellectually...some pleasant to listen too...most just odd to modern ears ....bonus to anyone who knows zarlino or boethius"
I can't believe some of the stuff I remember from theory (common practice) and history.
Machaut and Landini
the Guidonian hand (Guido of Arezzo)
the Mannheim skyrocket
The preferred inversions and resolutions to german, italian and french sixth chords.
Carlo Gesualdo, a murderous 16th century nobleman whose chromatic experiments weren't tried again for 300 years
It was important at the time. | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 11/5/2006 6:38:33 PM | | classical music is soo good.. :) | |
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musi5
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Joined: 9/14/2004
Msg: 150 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 11/20/2006 6:30:27 PM | Yes Maurice Ravel and Bach are the bomb...Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rachmininoff are some of my favorites...glad to see classical music lovers on board
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