Classical Music

[LukkyKnight]

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.

Um... are you describing classical music or wines?

"...as only the Austrian composers can achieve. Very richly polished yet subtle, nuances of oak and spice, perfectly balanced, all finesse; serve with pastas and lamb, or seafood. Round, with a lingering, elegant finish."

 

[dancinvixen]

I didn't know that Korsakov had composed so many things. I'm gonna have do my MIDI search again and find half of these composers. My parents gave me an excellent education in the classic and I really have to thank them. <I am currently listening to Bach's Brandenbug Concerto No. 3>

As to Gershwin, I do believe he falls under classical title. So does anyone have any idea on how to go about finding much more variety in the MIDI world?????

 

[Lost Cause]

Wagner. "Ride of the Valkeries"
Or anything from, "The Ring"
Must be the Norse in me.

 

[dancinvixen]

Wagner. "Ride of the Valkeries"
Or anything from, "The Ring"
Must be the Norse in me.

OMG, I so cannot believe I left that one out. It is so hard hitting when I'm in the right mood. Wagner is an awesome composer.

 

[fantac64]

It depends on the mood I'm in. Mozarts clarinet concerto in A flat is one of my favorites but almost anything by Mozart, Dvoraks new world is fantastic and the swan (not Swan Lake)

 

[Guest]

Baroque= Bach, Purcell, Vivaldi, Handel; any and all works, really. I enjoy organ works, harpsicord, and chamber orchestrations.
Classical= Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert
Wagner that straddled both the classical and romantic period.
Romantic= Brahms, Faure, Chopin, Lizst, Balfe


I would take up too many posts to name specific works. I love too, too many!

 

[StondTmplPilot]

I love classical music...

...my favorite is Elmer Fudd's "Kill da Wabbit"

 

[celiaKitten]

Mozarts oboe, clarinet or bassoon concertos
Beethoven's Pastoral
Holst's Planets
Bach - pretty much anything from him, but especially Tocatta

and I also LOVE the Grand March from Aida, Verde
And of course Greig's Peer Gynt
and Finlandia ..

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

I don't know who what or when i like.

but Harps, Violins, soft Piano, and flutes i like from classical music.
If it's got the right sound I listen. as i've said before music has to touch me

 

[modest mouse]

Tchaikovsky - pretty much anything
Beethoven's 9th
Brahms - 1st symphony and tragic overture
Rachel's - the "classical" modern grouping
John Cage - learning his titles is pointless(for me)
John Cale -this is really pushing the definition of classical but some of his work has been in a classical setting, great stuff.

 

[Ezzy]

Re: Re: Classical Music classic wine

Um... are you describing classical music or wines?

"...as only the Austrian composers can achieve. Very richly polished yet subtle, nuances of oak and spice, perfectly balanced, all finesse; serve with pastas and lamb, or seafood. Round, with a lingering, elegant finish."

Lol, well I had a very discordant Claret the other day with to many notes in it, where it should have been smooth and fruity it was jingly and bland. Fine wines, fine music; fine anything the descriptive terms all intertwine.

Just ask the Music and Wine critics on your local paper to describe their favorite and the terms will surprise you in their closeness.

As I like classical music (available free on a radio near you) and I like classic wines of the world (not yet found free on a radio or anywhere else other than at tasting sessions or friends houses) my choice of terms blends the best of them that I have experienced. Though along with fine wines I like single malt scotch, and in this I at least stay away from the blends.




EZ

 

[MizTabby]

When I'm in the mood

my faves are Beethoven's 5th and Fur Elise
and Vivaldi's Four Seasons

 

[carrie-on]

Pachelbel ~~~Canon (Over a basso-ostinato)
My grandson asked me when the cannon shots were gong to come...after I told him the name of the piece.

 

[kiwiwolf]

In the Hall of the Mountain Kings by Grieg

Anything by Beethoven

Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsikov, Vivaldi, Shostakovitch,Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius.

My absolute favourite is Orff's Carmina Burana

 

[dancinvixen]

It's really cool to see so many people who still enjoy classical music. I had thought it was a dying art, for when I would ask people, they would just look at me like stepped off the alien mother ship. <g>

 

[StondTmplPilot]

bump

 

[lavender]

 

[La Principessa]

ah classical music, my first love

I could go on and on about classical music. Let me try to be brief though:

Rhespigi - Pines of Rome
Holst - The Planets
Bach - Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould has to be playing)
Ravel - Pavane pour Infante Dufant
Verdi - requiem
Stravinski - Firebird
Tchaikovsky - 4th Symphony
Handel - Water Music
Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C# minor

Oh heck I could go on and on and on. But I do love the Russian composers especially! And Gregorian chant, how could I forget the mesmerizing form of vocal music? I love it!

 

[Glyndwr]

Music for me has to fit in with my mood

The Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner - Good for dark moods
Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci) - Leoncavallo - Can bring tears to my eyes, it has pure despair in it.
The Overture from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart - Guaranteed to pick me up again

 

[La Principessa]

musical trivia time!

Music for me has to fit in with my mood

The Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner - Good for dark moods
Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci) - Leoncavallo - Can bring tears to my eyes, it has pure despair in it.
The Overture from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart - Guaranteed to pick me up again

Smokey Robinson's hit "Tears of a Clown" was inspired by him hearing the Vesti La Giubba aria for the first time.

 

[Glyndwr]

Re: musical trivia time!

Smokey Robinson's hit "Tears of a Clown" was inspired by him hearing the Vesti La Giubba aria for the first time.

Another great piece of music.

Do you have to be dead for a few years for your music to count as classical or just have it played by an orchestra. In which case Freddy Mercury and Monserrat Caballe - Barcelona - should count.

 

[scrymettet]

all above

and german leiders and all the Richard Strauss scores. I discovered the symphony 1 of Brahms in concert last week. You can add it too.

 

[Weird Harold]

Handel's Messiah has been mentioned, but not Tchaicovski's Nutcracker Suite. Both are magnificent pieces that are particulary popular at this time of the year. (Although the Messiah is more popular around Easter than around Christmas.)

Christmas and Easter do seem to bring a lot more interest to "Classical" music -- there are so many compositions written for the celebration of those two religious occasions.

What other (Christmas oriented) compostions do especially enjoy at this time of the year?

 

[carrie-on]

well...I already mentioned Pachelbel's Canon. The first time I ever heard it, was when I was in college and we had been singing Christmas songs in choir and The First Noel was one of them. The version we did had Pachelbel's Canon as the background music and it was amazing. Now everytime I hear Canon I also hear The First Noel as we sang it then.

 

[~justin]

My favourite composers are both pianists at heart... Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Probaby got something to do with the fact that I'm a pianist myself

My favourite pieces are quite frequently the ones I play myself... Rachmaninoff's Prélude in C# Minor, Chopin's Raindrop (Prélude in Db Major), Nocturne in Eb Major...

I'm also partial to Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude..." and Rachmaninoff's second and third piano concertos.

Edvard Grieg, on the orchestral side... the Peer Gynt Suite...

Débussy... in particular, Arabesque and Claire de Lune.

But Chopin and Rachmaninoff are, I think, my all-time favourites.