I've started to seriously venture into classical music. So far my favorite composers are Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi. I like a lot of piano so Beethoven is my current favorite. I'm looking for good music, artist recommedations, What's you favorites?

I like Mussorgsky, Ravel, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov. I also like the very early "Gregorian" stuff, like Perotin and Leonin. Then there's modern stuff like Philip Glass or Steve Reich, but it's probably not something most people would be into.

I guess that's a bit like pop music though.

Liszt is my personal favorite composer

Look up any work by him!

Gunsnhalen said:

Liszt is my personal favorite composer

Look up any work by him!

he is AMAZING! Transcendent OMG

thank you ...

I'm the type of guy who truly enjoys lenghty anthologies of "Best of Classical Music"

but I'm only a fan of Bach ( ) & Beethoven , and to a lesser extent, Mozart...

I have been a classical music lover, for years!! Chopin, is my favorite.

If you like piano then you should also take a look at Rachmaninov or Debussy

CPest1 said:

If you like piano then you should also take a look at Rachmaninov or Debussy

All ready in my collection.

NONSENSE said:

I've started to seriously venture into classical music. So far my favorite composers are Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi. I like a lot of piano so Beethoven is my current favorite. I'm looking for good music, artist recommedations, What's you favorites?

You've mentioned Bach and Vivaldi (two composers from the Baroque Period) I'd think maybe you'd like these composers from that period, these are my favorties: Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Domenico Scarlatti, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Heinrich Schütz.

Since you like classical piano, my recommendations.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Hob. 33, 36, 42, 45 and 46

Baldassare Galuppi: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

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Gustav Mahler and Nicolo Paganni are sick (in a good way). They were "heavy metal" for their time. For relaxation, Strauss' compositions were pretty ambient and soothing.

i love baroque: bach, vivaldi

i love romantic: schubert

i like secular middle age(medieval music)

paganni..scarletti both father and song

i love basically anything with harpischords and violins..

I'm a huge fan of Nicolo Paganini.

baroque said:

i love baroque: bach, vivaldi

i love romantic: schubert

i like secular middle age(medieval music)

paganni..scarletti both father and song

i love basically anything with harpischords and violins..

My tastes are similar. I love Baroque as well, and I'm a sucker particularly for cantatas and compositions for organ and harpsichord, so Bach is pretty much my go-to guy.

Beyond that era, I prefer to go back rather than forward. Medieval sacred and secular music, courtly love songs, Gregorian and Russian chant and earlier Byzantine work -- I love it all.



CPest1 said:

If you like piano then you should also take a look at Rachmaninov or Debussy

Love his stuff,,,esp the piano solos by Arturo Michelangeli.

Tchaikovsky is my fave composer ever. Leopold Stokowski's performance from 1936 of the Nutcracker Suite is my fave recording, and one of the rarest too.

shorttrini said:

CPest1 said:

If you like piano then you should also take a look at Rachmaninov or Debussy

All ready in my collection.

Rachmanioff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 &3 : Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic is my favorite recording. The record sound quality is sub-par but Bernstein touch shines through nonethe- less. (IMO)

TD3 said:

shorttrini said:

All ready in my collection.

Rachmanioff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 &3 : Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic is my favorite recording. The record sound quality is sub-par but Bernstein touch shines through nonethe- less. (IMO)

I feel the same. You know, although I am a house-music, D.J., people find it funny that I LOVE classical music. I find the two genres have allot in common, if you listen to them.