Classical Music

[dancinvixen]

How many of you like classical, and if so, who is you favorite composer/composers and/or pieces?

Myself?? Teehee there's just to many to count.
I like Handel's Water Music
Brahm's lullaby
Bald Mountain--cannot remember the composer
Beethevon's Fur Elise, and 5th Symphony
And last but not least Tchiaschosky<sp?>

 

[lilminx]

I *love* Mozart's Requiem.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Favourit piece overall is Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

Love Bachs organworks...

The rest is just basic background crap for me....

 

[dancinvixen]

Yanno, I don't think I've really heard that one. But I have a question for anyone. Who composed Bald Mountain?????

 

[SciGuy]

Moussorsghy (sic) composed "Night on Bald Mountain"

 

[dancinvixen]

A friend of mine has a son who told me it was Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov who composed A night on Bald Mountain. The one I'm thinking of would be heard on Fantasia. With the demon guy

 

[mig]

Night on a Bare Mountain by Mussorsky(sp)

I like most Classic composers but I suppose,if I had to choose 1
it would be Miserere by Allegri.

And Bach's Toccata and Fugue,and and...

 

[SciGuy]

Yep, it's Moussorsghy who wrote the demonic one in Fantasia, and also "Pictures at an Exhibition".

 

[mig]

Back to Night on the Bare Mountain

Composed by Mussorsky,orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov.

 

[Weird Harold]

How many of you like classical, and if so, who is you favorite composer/composers and/or pieces?

A toss-up between Dvorak's New World Symphony

And The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Also from Fantasia) The composer's name escapes me at the moment though.

 

[mig]

Paul Dukas.

 

[SciGuy]

Sorcerers Apprentice is good. I like The Planets by Holst and anything by Respigi.

 

[Demian]

Mozart

Don Giovanni

 

[Emeraldtryst]

Oh yes!!

Russian Easter Overture by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dvorak's 9th Symphony "The New World"
Bach- Tocatta And Fugue in D minor
Scheherezade--Also Rimsky-Korsakov
and Beethoven's 9th symphony--not just the overplayed final movement.


And I believe it's "St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain" Mussorgsky.

 

[christophe]

carl orf....carmna burana (o fortuna)
motzart

 

[ExLimey]

Dvorak's New World
Beethoven's 9th (I'm a big fan of A Clockwork Orange)
Vivaldi - Four Seasons

 

[MunchinMark]

Jupiter, from the planet suite by Holst.

The Grand March from Aida, by Verde.

A lot of the work of Edward Elgar. The last night of the proms is an unashamedly patriotic recital of some damn good music.

The word 'patriotic' there having bugger all to do with the Americans, although there was a night of American music this time around.

I don't know if Classical really stretches to this, but George Gershwin. Even as I type this I am listening to Rhapsody in Blue.
One of the true greats of the 20th Century. A sort of half way house between classical and jazz though.

 

[erosman]

love adagios

Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings"
Tomaso Albinoni's 'Adagio in G minor for organ and strings'

I've listening enthusiastically to an album of light classical guitar.
Some of the selections are 'classics' and others are the artists own compositions. It's all very well done. I don't know if you can sample off of his sight, but here it is:
www.darrencurtisskanson.com

 

[Pan718]

I love...

The intensity of Mahler... especially the non-choral pieces (generally the odd numbered symphonies).
The entire range of Mozart (Don Giovanni is my favorite operatic piece by him).
The middle period of the Rolling Stones (oh, sorry... not that classical music).
Various Baroque pieces.

 

[JazzManJim]

Just a few Faves

From my collection of over 150 classical CDs and tapes...

Gustav Holst - The Planets (Especially the Mars and Jupiter movements).

Elgar - Enigma Variations (friends, family, and a beloved pet each get a variation. The last Variation features the blending of several earlier variations in an amazing finish. Also, he brings in a pipe organ for one note...just to accent the bass downbeat.)

Bach - A Musical Offering and Art of the Fugue (Just see what a master composer can do when he challenges himself to excel and keeps his playfulness)

Beethoven - Symphony No 5 in C Minor (The transition into the last movement always, always gives me goosebumps); Symphony No 6 (A short work, but very light and with incredible dramatic turns where it counts).

Bizet - Carmen Suites 1 and 2 ( A great opera and great incidental music. The March of the Toreadores is still the toughest piece I've ever played).

I have a few more. If y'all have any more interest, I'll give you some of my lesser-known favorites.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is grand

Other highlights from my list of wonderful composers:

J.S. Bach (sometimes classed as Baroque, not Classical...)
Pachebel (I think he's even older than JSB, what are we calling classical?)
Mozart
Mussorgsky
Tchaikovsky
Monteverdi (or is he pre-classical?)
Obrecht (Hmmm... another that is probably pre-classical, I suppose.)

Holst (yes, he's from the 20th century, so are the next rest to some degree)
Copland (Appalachian Spring is so cool)
Francis Poulenc
DeBussy
Stravinsky

But then, I like gregorian chant, too...
Are Strauss Waltzes classical? How can you not like waltzes?

 

[druce19]

Classical "loves"....

Hmmmm....so many that I can't count !

Some absolute favorites include:

Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" -- can't beat that driving tempo and sound

Gustav Holst's, "The Planets" -- takes you from nice easy relaxing "Venus" to the forceful beat of "Mars" and war

Rimsky-Korsokov's, "The Procession of the Nobles" -- always loved that piece ever since playing it in high school

Handel's, "Messiah" -- No Christmas season is complete without singing/hearing it at least once

Bach's, "Brandenburg Concertos" -- could (and have) listen to those all night long

And of course, most anything else by the 3 B's

I don't know if you'd consider it "Classical" music, but I could listen to Gregorian Chant at any time and in any place.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I listen to classical music a lot. However, I don't pay much attention to titles or composers. I listen to it on a radio station. I know the basics, the popular Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms stuff.

 

[Guest]

Mahler, Britten, Purcell etc, Haydn and loads of others, but the greatest must be Rite of Spring - Stravinsky. If you haven't heard it put it next on your list. It caused a riot at its first performance. Amazing stuff!

 

[Ezzy]

I like most of those already mentioned.

I enjoy Italian Baroque music for it's lively nature, the Russian composers for their strident tones, the grandeur of the Germans and Austrian's, the clarity of the Polish and Czech, the delicacy of the French, the darkness of the Scandinavian's.
The drive and energy of composers from South America, especially those who composed for strings and guitars.

With an eclectic taste in classical music I can enjoy just about any of it, there are a few favorites of cause, some mentioned already some not.

There are a few I don't enjoy, Mahler for one, something of his depressive nature comes through and forces me to change the station if I hear it on the radio.





EZ