| Classical music
Posted: 5/6/2007 8:38:39 AM | Adore it, and have the pleasure of owning lots on glorious vinyl. I really believe Motzart was classical music's greatest genius...just fabulous. Beethoven is very good, but not quite as versatile. Some fave's;
Motzart...K550 in particular.
Borodin...Polovetsian Dances.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons...amazing.
Beethoven...Pastoral.
Pagliacci... Cavalieri Rusticana...impossible not to be moved.
Rimsky-Korsakov...Sheherazade.
Debussy...Afternoon of a Faun.
Tchaikovsky is also a favourite of mine. His personal pain really shines through into his music and reveals itself beautifully. 'Andante Cantibille' is simply gorgeous. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2007 9:30:50 AM | | My favourite composers are mainly for the classical guitar; Rodrigo, Franciso Tarrega & Isaac Albéniz and my favourite piece of all time is definitely Concerto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo, such beautiful music to escape into. Spanish guitar music just hits the right spot for me. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2007 11:14:45 AM | Bach!
Beethoven
Debussy
Saint Saens
Copeland
some Mozart. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2007 9:16:19 PM | nipoleon,
It's too bad that so few people have the appreciation of the history of western music from Baroque through the modern age.
I fully agree with your sentiments, but if you'll read my earlier post (Msg: 175) you'll see this question coming:
Why Baroque through to modern? Do you mean Bach? Handel? The music that has survived from earlier periods (whether by proliferation or sheer luck in a forgotten drawer) includes some easily of equal quality to, say, Bach's Matthäus-Passion.
Not specifially directed at nipoleon:
Nothing in Western music is without precedent. Even the chromaticism of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has precedents, in late Bach and much earlier, in the music of the Italian Renaissance composer Gesualdo. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2007 8:01:16 AM | "Nothing in Western music is without precedent. Even the chromaticism of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has precedents, in late Bach and much earlier, in the music of the Italian Renaissance composer Gesualdo."
That Gesualdo-what piece of work he was!
multiple murders and diabalos in musica.
Give him cause, he'd stab you right in the sacbut. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2007 9:46:05 PM | Classical music is my passion. There are certain pieces that prove to me there is beauty in the world. Examples include:
~ Bach's Cello Sonatas (especially the opening mov't of the first one - always gives me chills!)
~ the Piu Jesu from John Rutter's Requiem
~ Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto
~ Ravel's Pavane pour une enfante defunt (sp?)
~ Smetana's The Moldau
Listening to Glenn Gould play the Bach Inventions - simple pieces that I've taught to my students numerous times - reminds me that genius comes in many forms.
Connecting to Mozart is a humbling experience. A few years back, I heard his "Rondo in A minor" on the radio, and immediately went out and purchased the music for it. As I sat at my piano, playing this piece, I was struck that I was then the same age Mozart was when he wrote that piece.
Last month, I watch Stephen Hough perform Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto - oh how I love Brahms. There is a passion, an unrequited yearning, in all of Brahms' music that makes me glad to be a musician. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music
Posted: 5/13/2007 1:27:34 PM | I don't love it and I'm not really that familiar. I did however attend a traditional Ballet, The Nutcracker and thorougly enjoyed it
I also have to say I made the most glorious love to a lovely man to the sound of classical music not so long ago  | |
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Posted: 5/13/2007 2:39:43 PM | I have lots of music in my collection. I have cassettes I haven't listened to since the 70's. But my favorite music is classical. especially Bach )what can you expesct, I'm Lutheran). When I am at home I listen primarily to Tango or Classical music. I won't list what my fsvorites are because that varies from week to week. At the end of June I will be in Cement Park southwest of Denver providing concussion for the '1812 Overture' by Tchaikovsky, It's a blast. normally I fire a three inch rifle . Last time we had 25 pieces of Artillery on line, and yes the music was fantastic even through the ear plugs. As a Pyrotechnician, the absolute bliss would be the firing of the mortars for Handels 'Music for Royal Fireworks'.
You can call me a snob if you like, but I do consider classical music more refined, elegant and classier then the filth you hear walking down the street these days. Now let me make lunch and settle down to some nice 'Gregorian chants'. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2007 3:59:32 PM | My favourite piece of classical music is, Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major.
Itzhak Perlman plays it fantastically. | |
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| Does anyone else appreciate Classical music?:)
Posted: 5/17/2007 8:47:31 PM |
Just listened to one of my favorites! Percy Aldridge Grainger! Love it
That's the composer. What was the piece?
My favorite of his is the Lincolnshire Posy. Awesome stuff! | |
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Posted: 5/17/2007 8:53:04 PM | With regard to liking or disliking Wagner: I love Wagner, and I think it probably boils down to a preference for the thicker, less transparent harmonies, and the extensive use of the horns, something not much done before he did it.
I love most "classical" music, though. I especially love both the Mozart and Brahms requiems. I really wish I could hear what Mozart had in mind for the parts he never got to complete. I'm sure it would really have been awesome.
VanGrad | |
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Posted: 10/4/2008 12:57:32 AM | | I was raised with classical music. Literally from the cradle. I have been listening to the Goldberg Variations before I could walk. I have therefore developed an healthy appreciation for it. My taste seems to run the gamut from Beethoven to Wagner. I think ANYONE who thinks that classical music is boring should listen to any thing by Wagner or the 1812 Overture. | |
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Posted: 10/4/2008 1:02:56 AM | | I started playing classical guitar when I was 22. I LOVE IT! I love playing J.S. Bach lute pieces. Gavotte in A minor is one of my favorites to play. But I been listening to classical all my life pretty much. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2008 3:44:30 PM | | Music class was my favorite class in college because I got to listen to classical music everyday. We bought a 4-disc cd compilation that went with the text. It had almost everyone. I loved every second of that set. My MP3 player came with a bunch of classical music in it, too. No need to transfer anything. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2008 4:09:27 PM | OP:
To answer your question, I love classical music too. I'm a pianist and I love the fact that music can show such emotion without ever opening one mouth.
Just a technicality though, and I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, not all of your composers you listed are classical. For example, Bach was actually a baroque period composer.
Some composers that I like:
Bach-Organ Fugues
Beethovan
Mozart
Vivaldi
Chopin
Debussy
Tchaikovski (spelling?!)
I also like some of the more modern instrumental pieces:
Yanni
Glass
Barrage
And a few more I can't think of right now
And finally, my favorite of all time:
Nobuo Uematsu | |
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Posted: 12/2/2008 3:28:21 AM | I've not been on the forums for a while. I was thinking recently how few of the guys I've met over the last few years (haven't been hundreds! But a few) even KNOW about classical music, let alone listen to it. And to my surprise I've realised that it's pretty near to becoming a bit of a 'deal-breaker' for me.
Why is that? Well, because to me, someone who can appreciate classical music is someone who has a type of intelligence which is likely to match mine. They are likely to be someone who is happy just to sit and be tranquil at times. They are likely to have a sense of history, and of the fact that we are interlinked down the centuries without really knowing why or how.
I have to say though, if somebody loved Wagner I would find that hard. Before I ever knew about Hitler's love for Wagner, I had decided that it was 'too strong' for me. Not that it doesn't have a beauty, but it feels as though it's ripping my soul apart.
I think there is a 'spirituality' in music. Even for people who make no claim to being spritual... (after all, what IS that?!) There is certainly a soul-searching to it, whether or not one believes in the soul.
Having said all that, I do love a lot of modern stuff - you have to when you bring up teenagers! - but for me my desert island discs would be:-
Vivaldi... Four Seasons (not Kennedy though!) Mandolin Concerto etc
Chopin... oooh, how to choose?
Bach... ditto
Most Baroque music - especially string-heavy stuff
Vaughan Williams
Both early 'Orfeo's - Monteverdi and Gluck
The duet from the Pearl Fishers, which I hadn't ever heard until it was played on the radio as I was driving to an appointment, and I had to pull over to the side of the road to sob!
Stravinsky's jazz suite
Chaminade's 'Autumn'
Smetana's Vltava
Brahms' Fourth Symphony
Wow, I can't list 'em all. A few years ago I was teaching a class of 5 and 6 year olds, and found that their only word for how classical music made them feel was 'sad'. I tried to give them a vocabulary to use, to help them to understand a bit of the Numinous... It scares me that we are leaving our children so unable to access this side of life. My love of Smetana came from a PE lesson when I was 10, when the teacher explained the concept of Programme Music and helped us work out movements to Vltava. I feel an inexpressible sense of joy whenever I hear that piece.
Ooops, getting on my sopabox there! ;) | |
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Posted: 12/2/2008 3:31:04 AM | Argh!! How did I miss Mozart??? And some of the wonderful Christmas Music we roll out every year...
Oooh, also anything by my nephew, who is studying for his Masters in Composition at the Royal School of Music, and I think may have a great future. Althouh I hope, unlike most great composers, it takes off before he's dead...
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Posted: 12/2/2008 7:15:10 AM | | ....Mozart 41 is great....also Mendelssohn...Sarah Chang.....Debussy...fantastic.....Beethoven has a birthday this month.... | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 12/2/2008 11:56:11 PM | | Mozart's k550...symphony #40, namely 3 rd and 4th movements, alegretto and allegro assai,,,,riveting. and as Alis Kat said, it's more about emotion conveyed without words, when it comes to classical and baroque music (save for operas, which, being a Mozart lover, I should appreiate, but don't) Check this symphony out if you haven't...it';s one of the last things he wrote, and knowing his life at the time, it is a mirror reflection of both his creative maturity and his personal desperation. The last movement, to me, beats any dramatic effort that Beethoven may have come up with, despite that man's deafness and his fame for the 9th. Moart was a carefree and honest being. The Movie Amadeus is a Hollywood approach, and speculated grossly. I love classical and some baroque. Bach was simply incredible, and very mathematical towards music. There is another post about modern day musicians "selling out" but this is not a new idea...the great composers really gave little thought to the idea that their music would exceed their generations to any great length...they wrote for the audiences of the day. It was their pure genious that made it timeless. Just as many modern artists can cross the threshold between pure art and commercial viability...but that's another topic. Classical rocks! | |
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Posted: 12/3/2008 12:51:53 AM | Lots of composers had to write what their patrons wanted.
Haydn was closeted away with the Esterhazys for years. Interestingly, he said that he didn't like to hear other people's music, fearing that it would contaminate his own.
My nephew has to apply for funding and to get it he has to be hitting the spot people want him to hit - so funding dictates what is produced to a certain extent. Right now he is all for integrity and doing what he wants and if he's in penury who cares???
But with age comes... well, it used to be a mortgage, these days let's just settle for food shopping. Who knows what he'll need to do in the future? I hope he can keep his own way of working but I can see how it might go. And as you say, that's nothing new.
No surprise that there's a history of women grounding their artistic menfolk, who would otherwise have starved! | |
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Posted: 12/3/2008 4:19:54 AM | | Love Bach and I did see Amadeus......Did you ever see "The Immortal Beloved"?? It was amazing to know that Beethoven was deaf and such a wonderful composer.....sad..... | |
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| Classical music
Posted: 12/7/2008 7:26:01 AM | Yes, I love that movie: "Immortal Beloved." But it's not all true. Only parts of it. "Amadeus" is really good too.
Yes, classical music was my first love
Beethoven sonatas esp. his 'moonlight' (love playing its 3rd movement! it's so much fun) and his 'pathetique.'
Scriabin's etude No. 12 just drives me crazy in love when I play it.
Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto is beautiful, but I haven't played it accompanied by orchestra, so I'm sure I would enjoy that even more.
Chopin's ballade in gm I really enjoy...makes me pensive. Also, his preludes esp. Op. 28, No. 4 in em. Can't express in words what I feel when I play his revolutionary etude....
Bach's prelude & fuga VI, XVI and XX are difficult, yet were actually fun to learn each layered voice.
I love playing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, esp. No. 11, No. 13, No. 2 and No.5. These are probably the pieces I most enjoy playing.
Brahm's ballade in g minor has always been one of my favorites.
I had a Russian teacher in Dom. Rep. who introduced me to Stravinsky's piano pieces...they are really fun.
There's something about playing octaves on the piano that I love
Don't get me started on all the orchestral, violin, cello, flute, and opera I love! I'm really into choral music...The works I've enjoyed singing are Cherubini's Requiem, Tosca, Britten's War Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth.
I'm learning the guitar and so far love the guitar music from Spain, esp. Rodrigo and flamenco music. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2008 12:05:33 PM | does beethoven's ninth bring to mind a clockwork orange for anyone else? i loved that symphony until i saw that film. which, i suppose was one of the film's main points. i still find it an amazing piece, but now i bring a 'condition' to it.
thank goodness prokofiev and gottschalk didn't have work in that film.they're my favorites right now and have no negative connotations for me. | |
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