Coeur7
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Joined: 11/7/2006
Msg: 151 | |
| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/22/2006 6:23:46 PM | I sure do...I am currently in piano for my ....eep...grade 9. I promised myself I would learn The minute waltz (without it taking me 5 mins)...and so far so good.
My favorite of all time is Moonlit Sonata. Beautiful. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/22/2006 7:13:06 PM | | i love the 'piano puzzler' on npr. i can almost always guess the composer, but the song typically eludes me. 9 times out of 10, it's a song i'm not familiar with. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/24/2006 11:52:49 PM | yup, just love it. All of it.
I've discovered that I've re-found my love in opera.
My all-time favourite hands down - Bach, JS.
Other favourites: CPE Bach, Telemann, Dvorak, Elgar, Chopin, Rachmaninoff...
I probably should've finished my degree in music history, but alas, science beckoned to me... | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/25/2006 12:08:01 AM | Telemann Daniels Trauerkantate (I've no doubt misspelled this) Totally wonderful.
There's a passage in that that stops your heart. I have a recording of this on an old 33. No longer have anything to play it on. I guess I should go get a CD. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/27/2006 10:34:06 AM | brolga:
check with your local npr station. i get the piano puzzler on wed. evenings, but i'm not sure if all stations air it then.
it's so cool. they play a familiar melody in the style of a particular composer and you have to guess the song and the composer.
hope you can find it because it's a classical music lover's dream challenge. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 11/27/2006 1:57:40 PM | | Love it. I may not recognize every piece or composer when I hear it, but sometimes... Am crazy for Andrea Bocelli and Sara Brightman - Love the 3 Tenors... Amazing story that Irish (?) fellow has - Tiernan? Is that his name? Rowan? But I can't listen to it to fall asleep by - I stay awake to listen. I'll listen to current pop - they play the same 10 songs over and over and over... | |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 12:36:12 AM |
Posted By: GypsyGirl29 on 9/21/2006 7  15 PM Subject: Classical music Message: I've studied classical piano for 24 + years....you could say I'm a fan. Debussy is one of my favorite composers. As an organist, I have a new found appreciation for Bach - I'm determined to master the Toccata and Fugue in D.
As a Juilliard graduate concert pianist and composer who has played professionally all his life, I can tell you that there are also a number of wonderful transcriptions of that work for the piano. Classical music is my life and I share it freely and with a passion. I would love to sit down and play something for all the people on this topic forum and to have a nice conversation about what we love. This is something that I do as much as I can - that is give 19C style Salons. To love and to make classical music is to hear the divine in one's life. | |
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Posted: 11/28/2006 7:03:59 AM | ^^^
My piano teacher does something similar: all of his adult students meet once a month to play and discuss music. I am currently learning a Schubert sonatina (a duet with a violist) so hopefully one month we can have a "Schubertiad".
Besides Schubert, I really like playing Bach (mostly Inventions and Little Preludes), Grieg (Lyric Pieces), and some of the easier Chopin pieces (mostly posthumously published stuff -- heh, my theory is that he died before he had time to make the pieces really difficult). I like listening to Debussy, but there is very little of it that I can play yet.
Chris | |
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calaf
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Joined: 2/27/2006
Msg: 162 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 1/22/2007 11:01:41 AM | | I went to a concert in Albany Saturday and found out that their former coductor, Julius Hegyi, died on New Year's day. He is the one who is credited with building that orchestra into the very fine group that it has become. They played Nimorod from Elgar's Enigma Variations in his honor. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 5:27:13 AM | I went to Orchestra Hall the other night for a performance of Tchaikowsky by our local Minnesota Orchestra. I enjoy Dvorak the most, been tinkering with some Brahm's on my piano, and Holst's The Planets is one of the more interesting pieces because of the extreme variations I've heard.
Also a big fan of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer who have been sued for reusing classical music and reworking it into interesting rock music. I saw them in concert during their Black Moon release, but I didn't find that work their best by far. Keith played incredibly, though. Upside down, laying down... every which way imaginable!
I'm intrigued by Rachmaninoff lately.
I'm also lucky enough to be in a city with a good classical program so often I bike over to the outdoor concerts pavillion and with my blanket lay back and watch the clouds go by while the whole orchestra plays. They had some interesting guests last year, from Japan with rare instruments. It's right by a lake,too. Gorgeous. Watch the sailboats go by, take in the fresh air. Get an excercise high, the music and with cookies&milk and I'm in heaven! | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 1:06:43 PM | Being a former University Music Major, I'm pretty hard core.
As a piano student, I was only good enough to know what good is supposed to sound like.
The great thing about classical music is listening to all the different ways different artists play the same pieces. Being able to listen to the difference between say Arturo Michelangeli and Murray Perahia or Martha Argerich play Beethoven, Liszt, or Chopin.
The wonderful thing about listening to classical music is that is gives you a fine appreciation of talent in other areas of music.
Benny Goodman was a fantasic artist, so was Louis Armstrong.
The Beatles are undoubtedly the Mozarts of our era.
It's too bad that so few people have the appreciation of the history of western music from Baroque through the modern age.
It's too bad that so much trash today gets pawned off as music.
It seems popular music just gets cheaper and cheaper every day. | |
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Gae41
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Joined: 8/12/2006
Msg: 165 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 3/6/2007 6:20:53 PM | I'm a big fan of orchestral music and I would say that my heart lies in the Romantic to Modern era.
Favourite Classical composers and some pieces off the top of my head are:-
Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 2, Isle of the Dead
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Holst The Planets Suite
Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Symphony No.5 and 6 Romeo and Juliet Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Peer Gynt Suite
Beethoven Symphonies, Piano Concertos and Sonatas
Elgar Enigma Variations Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Vaughn Williams The Lark Ascending 5 variants on a them of Dives and Lazarus
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring etc
Debussy Piano Music Claire de Lune The Girl with the Flaxen Hair Prelude L'apres midi d'une faune Nuages Images
Adinsell Warsaw Concerto
Shostakovich Symphonies The Gadfly
Chopin Piano Works
Puccini Madam Butterfly
Verdi Dies Irae from the Requiem
Mendlessohn Violin Concerto
Prokofiev Piano Concertos Romeo and Juliet
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F An American in Paris Rhapsody in Blue etc
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade
Mozart Piano Concertos Symphony No. 40 etc
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues Toccata and Fugue
Love Film composers like John Williams, Ennio Morricone, John Barry and the Golden Age composers like Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman etc etc
Gae41 | |
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calaf
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Joined: 2/27/2006
Msg: 166 | |
| Classical music
Posted: 3/7/2007 11:46:40 AM | | I like going to Glens Falls to hear concerts by their orchestra. They play the National Anthem before every concert. I have never heard any other orchestra do this. Does anyone else know an orchestra that does that? | |
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Posted: 3/8/2007 7:25:02 PM | | I actually don't listen to classical music much, but since someone mentioned Four Seasons, I have to say that is one of the most beautiful pieces put together. | |
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Posted: 3/9/2007 8:01:33 PM | I saw someone else mention Holst -- I was watching a movie a while back, and I recognized one of the movements from the Planets - Jupiter, I think. I wasn't expecting to have that show up in a sound track.
BTW, I saw one or two Mahler fans out there - the Columbus Symphony is doing Mahler's 2nd next season (2008), so make your plans now! I was beginning to think I'd have to go to London to see the 2nd done live. I'm *very* stoked. | |
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Posted: 5/2/2007 7:13:47 PM | Absolutely! But then, I'm a composer by (off-hours) trade, so it's kind of natural.
But I'm much more an enthusiast of the more recent music. Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varése, George Crumb, Carl Ruggles, Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho, Steve Reich, Darius Milhaud, Thea Musgrave, them cats are the ones I'm most likely to spin up in winamp. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2007 7:27:52 AM | > "Love Film composers like ...Erich Wolfgang Korngold..."
Korngold is equally "known" as a composer of "classical" music, including at least one opera ("Queen of Sheba"). However, his scores for several films - many of them Errol Flynn movies - are some of the best, and music from them appears in some of his non-film compositions.
I have the advantage of working for myself, at home, so I listen to "classical" music all day long . . . anything from early Byzantine and Gregorian chant up to the early 20th century. (Don't have much past that era) . . . I greatly enjoy chamber music, especially Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Dvorak, Mozart, et (many) al. . . .
About half of my listening pleasure is opera, of which I have a huge collection, much of it thanks to the great Opera Rara company in England. If you like opera and have not heard of Opera Rara, check them out (can't remember the email offhand, but they can be Googled). Their last three recordings - and these are A-List performances - are of Donizetti's "Dom Sebastien, Roi du Portugal", Mercadente's "Maria Stuarda" (with one of the great whacked out librettos from Hell) and Rossini's "Adelaide de Borgogne" (hope I spelled that right, but it is not very good Rossini).
Travelled to France 4 years ago to get to see two rarely performed Meyerbeer operas ("Les Hugenots" and "L'Africaine") . . .partially an excuse to eat my way across France. I semi-recently moved from NYC, and one of the things I do miss is my subscription to "The Met", especially as I missed a chance to see their production of Halevy's "La Juive".
Music fills one's soul, making you laugh and cry from the beauty of it all . . .
Right now, the marvelous 2nd Act finale of Mercadente's "Emma di Antiochia" is blaring on my system . . . and time to return to what passes as work for me.
RHB | |
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Posted: 5/3/2007 4:37:49 PM |
Korngold is equally "known" as a composer of "classical" music, including at least one opera ("Queen of Sheba").
Another one that comes to mind is Nino Rota, the cat responsible for the soundtrack to The Godfather.
Nino's Trombone Concerto is an absolute standard in the trombone rep, and it often shows up in graduate recitals and once, even, on an orchestral program a few years back, though the specifics evade me. | |
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Posted: 5/5/2007 9:11:57 PM | I dig the really powerful stuff. Dvorak is awesome  | |
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Posted: 5/6/2007 6:56:54 AM | I'm going to buck the trend a little here and throw my lot in with the music of the middle ages and the Renaissance.
While I love Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, etc. as much as anyone else, their music is widespread throughout Western society, in thousands of incarnations. I've always been one to turn my attention to something that I perceive as being relatively obscure. Just one of my quirks, I guess.
And then I was introduced to the twelfth-century Notre Dame school of Léonin and Pérotin and I haven't looked back.
My favourites include the Notre Dame school (however, note* below), Machaut, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Obrecht, Palestrina, Byrd, and Schütz (although he's early Baroque).
* The music of the Notre Dame school can not be definitively identified by composer. It tends to be of a pastiche nature, where segments of contemporary music are interspersed within older passages. Repeating this process over the course of a century results in a rich tapestry of different styles within a singular piece of music, usually unified via common roots in plainchant. Léonin and Pérotin headed the Notre Dame school around 1160 and 1180 respectively, but nobody can know exactly which of the music of the time was their contribution to Western music. As such, music attributed to, say, Léonin is implicitly accepted to be music composed within the Notre Dame school's sphere of influence approximately during his tenure, and may or may not actually have been composed by him.
This unavoidable "uncertainty principle" (to borrow the term from quantum physics!) that comes hand in hand with the music of this era (and undoubtedly the literature and art as well) drives me to love it even more. I urge everyone reading this to explore the amazing music of this era if at all possible. I would advise, however, that you begin with either live performances (rare) or recordings made during the past fifteen-twenty years. (This, notably, excludes David Munrow's adventurous but somewhat misguided performances.)
The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music has included an astonishing performance of Léonin's Alleluia Pascha nostrum (recall what I've just written about this music and authorship, though) since its third edition, in which I first heard it, and possibly earlier. It is performed here by an American vocal ensemble named Lionheart:
http://www.bernsarts.com/lionheart/lionhrt.htm
I am particularly enamoured with the purity of sound they achieve as they sing together, whereas David Munrow and his Early Music Consort, twenty or so years earlier, went for a more abrasive, jarring, "exciting" approach. Don't listen to this. Seek the Lionheart. 
It is music truly worth becoming acquianted with, and if it's not your thing, no matter. If it is, you're taking your first steps into a new world of sound that really deserves to be better known and appreciated as Mozart and Beethoven are. Musical genious didn't just appear around 1700, after all.  | |
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