Who on the org enjoys listening to classical music? From Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, to Wagner, Puccini, and Stravinsky? Who are some of your favorite composers? Which work of these composers do you listen to all the time?

These days I have been listening to Schubert a lot.

And contrary to the opinion of some, classical music is not boring or dull at all!

Who here thinks operas are just as awesome as (or more so than) rock concerts? Even better, you are guaranteed to have vocalists who know what they are doing! No lipsynching! Instead of Mariah Carey, you can hear people who can actually SING!

I know I would like alot of the music from those artists you listed, but I don't have any. I do listen to alot of movie and game soundtracks though that are classical in style.

Rodya24 said:

No, it is far from boring....

My favorites: Telemann, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Bach, Debussy, Copland.....ad infinitum.....too many to list!

Classical music bores the hell out of me. However, even though classical ain't my thing, I will say that I fully respect the music and it's artists because they are very talented. I know of a certain genre that I can't say the same thing about.

vainandy said:

Shit hop, perhaps?

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Good answer!!! Good answer!!!

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I'm a fan , but I like the more Impressionistic - Post Impressionistic/Contemporary stuff....some of my favorite classical pieces:

Aaron Copeland - Appalachian Spring; El Salon, Mexico; Fanfare for the Common Man; Rodeo; Billy The Kid;

Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin; Pavane pour une infante défunte; La Valse;

Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune; La Mer; Children's Corner; Gradus ad Parnassum (with Golliwog's Cakewalk); La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

Anton Liadov - The Enchanted Lake

Erik Satie - Gymnopedies

Fredrick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; Brigg Fair; A Song Before Sunrise; In A Summer Garden; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Summer Night on the River;

Ottorino Respighi - Fountains Of Rome; Pines Of Rome

Gustav Holst- The Planets

Gabriel Faure - Sicilienne

Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'été, Napoleon

Peter Shickele - Pentangle









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A lot the greats have been mentioned. Rachmaninoff -- one of the most brilliant musicians to have graced this planet. An example of how classical music -- or music period -- can bring light to the darkest places is a clip of a North Korean child playing Rachmaninoff on his piano in the dark -- because the North Korean government cannot afford to provide electricity to its people in the evening.

BUMP.

There must be more orgers who enjoy classical music!
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Here is a YouTube link to a clip of Vladimir Horowitz playing Rachmaninoff:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...h26Ui1TAmU


Classical music lives on! Even through YouTube!

Here is a YouTube link to a clip of Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...AqA2E5D0lI

Brilliant!

Here is a YouTube link to a clip of Mozart's Requiem:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...zjv3AwLoqc

Beautiful. If music is able to touch the soul, I would argue that Mozart created some of the most beautiful, soul-touching music. His music has TRULY transcended time. I wonder if the same can be said for the music created in the last fifty years.

fan of BACH's cello suites, also... Pablo Casals, Carlos Montoya, Romeros, Carl Orff.
i love blasting it when i'm driving.

CHIC0 said:

Bach and cello: SIMPLY DIVINE.

Here is a YoutTube link to a clip of Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...hnRIuGZ_dc

Not my favorite interpretation of this piece, but Vladimir Horowitz is wonderful nonetheless.

I'm quite selective over 'classical' music, and while I like all the usual masters, I have a preference for what is amusingly called 'Early Music' - ie. pre-classical sounds, before Mozart, before the Baroque sounds of Bach, Telemann etc. Real old, way back over yonder funk .

I dig Josquin du Prez. He's cool. I also like various ancient pieces by some dude called 'Anon' .

Beyond 'Early Music' - a title which makes it sound either more primitive than later stuff, or to be played first thing in the morning or by children - I like Benjamin Britten, Gershwin's more orchestral stuff, like 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'An American in Paris' and Vaughn Williams' 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis', which is probably my all-time fav piece of 'classical' music.

And like Gershwin, I also like music which attempts to mix classical and jazz into the same mix, like in William Grant Still's symphonies, some things by Ravel and obviously much of Duke Ellington's output.

And good old Cole Porter drew heavily on both classical music, jazz and even Arabic music in his songs, as well as being probably the greatest lyricist in the English language. For me, even great lyricists like Dylan, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell kneel before the great Cole:-).

Reading this post, I now realise I have more bizarrely wide tastes than even I thought I did.

I listen to classical music on a daily basis but it's on the radio and I have no idea whom I'm listening to. However when I am conscious of my choices I usually pick compositions that are sentimental, melancholic or dark.

Some of my recent picks:

Chopin - Nocturnes no. 2, 6, and 9
Debussy - Sonata Allegro Vivo,
Paganini - Violin Sonata 6
Bach - Arioso
Mozart - Lacrimosa

I also highly value the work of Michael Nyman even though he's more of a score writer.

My first classical love was Rachmanninoff's 2nd piano concerto, then all the romantic era copmposers, like Mendellsohn, Schumann, Schubert, Tchaikovski, then Modern stuff like Satie, Debussey, Berg, Webern.

Then came Beethoven, then Mozart, and finally, Bach. The Brandenberg concertos are currently my favorite. I strayed a bit earlier, even, into Monteverdi, but it didn't stick like Bach.

Bach, and the pre-classical stuff reminds me of jazz.
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Rodya24 said:

I love ABBA.

That Money Money Money song is the shit.

I dig some of it but I have to be in the mood to listen to classical. My fave Euro classical artist is Strauss. "Perpetual Motion" is great..I also like Paginni, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and a little Schubert. (hope I spelled their names right)

Rodya24 said:

opera was like the ultimate art form. It had music, drama, sometimes dancing, staging, costumes, etc.

Movies are similar today, being the creation of several artisic minds and lots of workers.

i can't name pieces or composers but i love it.

Rodya24 said:

isn't it though?!

Sorry I just to Prince

Where to start?

I am a classical violinist by training, so I am most familiar with the violin concertos by Mendelssohn, Anton Dvorak, Tchiakovsky, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Max Bruch, Samuel Barber, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. Not to mention Paganini. All those I love.

I grew up playing in orchestras, and some of my favorites to play were Unfinished Symphony by Franz Shubert, March to the Scaffold by Hector Berlioz, Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, Concerto Grosso No. 2 by Ernst Bloch and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich.

As a listener, I have had profound moments with the works of John Adams, Lukas Foss, the Shostakovich string quartets, John Zorn and many 20th century modern classical composers.

As an instrumentalist, I can infinitely enjoy noodling around on Bach and Mozart. As a listener, I am drawn toward very modern, experimental stuff. As a listener, I can get bored by traditional classical music, but feel very stimulated by really "out there" challenging stuff.

I have lately been listening to The Barber of Seville by Rossini.

Miles said:

Years ago, I heard the San Francisco Symphony play this and it took my breath away. I ran out and bought a recording. Also one of my favorite pieces and listening experiences.

NDRU said:

What I find fascinating about opera, that movies can't quite achieve, is the simultaneaity of different characters expressing their points of view. I love the moments when three or so characters sing at the same time, all from their own point of view. The interlacing of such musical notes, and also the lyrics, can be spellbinding.

I love a lot of it although I don't listen to it much anymore.

It's how I learned to play music in the first place, so it was very formative for me.

GangstaFam said:

What instrument?