Classical Music Question

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This isnt classic rock n roll mind you, what I'm talking about is the likes of brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Hayden Tchaikovsky etc

What is your fine list of your Favorite Classical music, composition and concertos, operas etc?

mebbe a list of ten would be good to start with, not limited to ten you can be shorter or longer if you like.

I'm curious.

I love
Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Bach
Vivaldi
Chopin

etc

Anyone wanna answer?

[DoctorDoom]

Mozart is The Man. His music is exquisite, aetherial, transcendental. I don't believe he ever wrote a mediocre piece, it it were even possible. But then, a fellow who wrote his first symphony when he was eight just to keep himself occupied was destined for greatness. Factoids on him can be found here (http://www.geocities.com/ilian73/composers/mozart.html).

Beethoven was a very close second. I'd like to go back to the premiere performance of his magnificent Ninth Symphony, which he conducted. At the end, the audience gave him a standing ovation. He apparently ignored it. It wasn't until someone on stage directed him to turn aroung that they realized that he couldn't hear them. He was stone deaf.

I just wish he had found a way to clip the ending of the Fifth Symphony. It was as though he couldn't figure out how to finish it. It's a musical equivalent of waiting for the second shoe to drop.

Haydn's 104 symphonies are a joy to listen to, although I have yet to find them all in one collection (if I could afford that many CDs).

Bach's organ pieces are my favorites. The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a thundering church pipe organ is awesome. He was another prolific composer, as evinced by his composing a new cantata each week for a church to use on Sunday.

There are specific works that I listen to again and again. The Hebrew Slaves' Chorus from Verdi's Nabucco is glorious (Nana Mouskouri did an English version that blows me away). Rossini's various overtures are well worth having. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is always a good way to spend some quality listening time. Chopin's Les Sylphides is wonderful. Pachelbel's Canon is beautiful.

Although they may not be classical in the sense of Mozart, Beethoven, etc., I've always had a love of Viennese waltzes, particularly by Strauss. The scene in 2001 where the shuttle was moving in on the space station while the Blue Danube Waltz played was inspired film-making.

And on and on it goes.

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heres a link for you I found the other night, you might be able to find all of Hayden on there, I used to get LP's drm Deutsche grammaphon records, and I Have to date these:

Schubert - the 10 symphonies (by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Neville Marriner)

Beethoven Edition (9 symphonien by the Wiener Philharmoniker - Karl Bohm)

Mendelssohn 5 symphonien - London Symphony Orchestra - Claudio Abbado)

Artu Rubenstein - The Chopin Collection ( the Ballades; the scherzos; the sonatas)

George Frideric Handel 12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6 - The English Concert - Trevor Pinnock

Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites 1&2 - By the Berliner Philharmoniker - Herbert von Karajan

Brahms 21 Hungarian Dances - Wiener Philharmoniker - Claudio Abbado

Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Christian Ferras - Herbert von Karrajan by the Berlin Philharmonic (Concerto for Violin and orchestra in D Major, Op.61)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No4. by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti.

I Have more round here, need to find them these are ALL in LP form and I used to get these through that company.

Mught be worth looking through.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I'm trying to learn Ludwig's Moonlight Sonata on my Yamaha classical acoustic guitar. Its difficult becuase it wasn't made for guitar, apparently(I wouldn't know) the piano version is much easier. I've always loved the seriousness of that song. I can hear Jesus in Gesthemane in that song, preparing to meet His Father again. Absolutely glorious.

Actually, I love all of Beethoven.

On another note, check out Adagio for Strings. There's an excellent version of it on the Platoon soundtrack. That song kills.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons makes me feel manic. Its the closest classical piece that comes to out-n-out speed metal. And not those 80's hair bands either. The real deal. I could see Slayer remake the FS. All good classical music is transitional. You can rock out pretty hard to good classical music, wearing spiked leather armbands with 2 inch nails. I have no patience for the monocled aristocracy. Vivaldi doesn't merit a golfer's putting clap. It merits an all out riot. All good classical music has a strain of purging violence running through it. Here's a good barometer: Your inner child should always be thoroughly bloodied after the cathartic rush of listening to whatever it is you've chosen to experiment with.

The Doc's right about Bach's Fugue in D minor. That's the starter piece for all goths. Excellent. I'd love to hear it in a graveyard with the Crypt Keeper conducting underneath a full and hearty Harvest Moon.

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I'm startin to really dig Tchaikovsky, the more I listen to it the more I like the style.

I need to get more Bach, i have one album round here somewhere of JS Bach, cant find it yet, but all my music is in LP form heh

[JonECat]

I think I have a grand total of 3 lps, on the other hand I have (at last count) over 300 CD's. My dad's the record collector, about 400 in his personal collection, impressive stuff too. (Elvis' first record, Near Mint condition)

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ow thats priceless, hope he has that Elvis LP well guarded!!!

I'd put it in the bank's safe deposit box (if they made em big enough for those).

[DesertFox]

My favorites are still "She Loves You, yeah yeah yeah" and "Since I Fell for You." :halo:

[DoctorDoom]

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I need to get more Bach, i have one album round here somewhere of JS Bach, cant find it yet, but all my music is in LP form heh

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I have 300-400 LPs (never counted them) ranging from Beethoven to Lawrence Welk to Allen Sherman (of "Hello Muddah" fame). I just bought a $150 Stanton turntable to go through the LPs and convert my favorite tracks to MP3s. I foresee at least a couple of gigabytes coming up.

BTW, I highly recommend GoldWave (http://www.goldwave.com/) for converting any audio signal to MP3 or other formats. And, it records on the fly for archiving streaming audio off of the Web.

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kewl I'd love to convert some of my music to mp3 format, but i dunno one thing about how to do such a thing.

Got more LP's than CD's sooooo it would definitely come in handy for me when i want good music to listen to when I go to and from school.

[EveningStar]

Well, classical music is my favorite musical genre - by far. I like nearly all of what has already been listed on this thread.

Even if you don't care for opera you might like the exquisite duet (for tenor and baritone), Au fond du temple saint (In the depths of the temple) from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.

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heh I like opera, Guiseppe Verdi's Operatas I like hehe

[EveningStar]

I'm not an expert on classical music but I could go on and on about it for hours. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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kewl