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Jul 30th, 2003 at 4:07am

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Well after quite a sabatical I'm listening to classical again, one of my ex-students is in the local philarmonic and has given me some mp3s of them performing Beethoven to listen too. I'd forgotten how relaxing or stimulating classical could be. Although I still listen to Wagner a lot.
So who do you like in the classical scene?

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Reply #1 - Jul 30th, 2003 at 4:32am

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Definetly Beethoven.  My favorite is Moonlight Sonata, however one  that comes close is O Fortuna.  It's been in practically every type of commercial, film preview, game preview etc.
 

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Reply #2 - Jul 30th, 2003 at 7:23am

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Anything by Mozart will put me in a state of awe for days, so I have to be careful when I listen to it.  Smiley  From him though, my favorites are 'Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik' and 'Symphony No. 40'.  'Le Nozze de Figaroa' is the only piece of music I consider to be perfect and one of a very few pieces that have moved me to tears from just listening to it.

Other than that, Bach's 'Brandenburg Concertos' get top billing.  Beethoven's Ninth, of course, and Dvorak's 'Symphony for the New World' are right behind.
 

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Reply #3 - Jul 30th, 2003 at 5:50pm

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Beethoven's "Fur Elise"
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Mozart's Symphony No 40
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
 

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Reply #4 - Jul 31st, 2003 at 1:45pm

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My "recent" favourites...
J.S. Bach.
Mozart.
G.F. Handel.
Samual Barber.
Pacabell.
etc...

..but I go back even further...
To Medevil, Baroque, and Elizabethan times... Wink...!

John Dowland.
Henry Purcell.
etc.
...and not forgetting King Henry VIII's efforts... Grin...!

As well as my modern instruments, I also play organ, a classical guitar, a 13 course baroque lute, a baroque wooden flute, dulcimer, and a complete set of recorders, from the tiny sopranino to the big bass recorder...!

It may be a surprise, that the most enthusiastic "old music" players are actually Americans... Shocked...!

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Reply #5 - Jul 31st, 2003 at 2:13pm

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Reply #6 - Jul 31st, 2003 at 2:37pm

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Reply #7 - Aug 1st, 2003 at 1:54am

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Underrated classical pieces:

Beethoven - Symphonies 4 and 7 (7 is awesome).  You thought he only wrote 5 and 9?

Mozart - Piano Concerto 21, 2nd Movement (Will bring tears to your eyes)

Vivaldi - Gloria (Part of a baroque mass, by the guy who wrote "4 Seasons" - makes 4 Seasons sound like crap.  And there's a reason why it's all female voices)

Holst - Planets Suite (The first half is pretty good - would make a good soundtrack for a scf-fi movie)

Wagner - Pretty much any opera, but lets go with Gotterdammerung because that's where it all culminates.

Bach - You can't go wrong here.  Try "Wachet Auf" cantata or the orchestral suites (whence "Air on a G-String")

Bach/Gounod/Schubert - Ave Maria.  No one is sure who really wrote this, but it's in Fantasia.  I love it and I'm not even Catholic.
 
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Reply #8 - Aug 2nd, 2003 at 9:13pm
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um, george gershwin-rasphody in blue
love that music its the best
try listening to jazz! i recomend miles davis
 
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Reply #9 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 1:54am

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From Opera I love;

E Lucevan Le Stelle from Tosca (Puccini) and

Vesti la Gubbia (Leon Cavella).

Mozarts Woodwind Piece is fantastic.

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is crap.
 
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Reply #10 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 4:00am

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Are you trying to be more obscure than me?

I agree, Rite of Spring is crap.

Did Mozart write only only one woodwind piece?  I'm not familiar with it.

I do not like Mozart  in general in the way that I like Bach in general - if you understand my meaning.  I like anything by Bach but I like particular works by Mozart.  In fact I like a great many works by Mozart.

I think Mozart is a musucal genius but not in the same sense as Bach.  Bach had to work, like a Shakesperiean sonnet, to create perfection.  Mozart had beautiful tunes in his head that he could write without thinking.

So I'll check out your posts.  I'm not a big opera  fan but attending one is awesome.  In the meantime here are a couple more.  My tastes are clearly towards the baroque:

Bach (obviously)  - Cantata 140-  "Wachet Auf"
Handel - Chandos Anthems
Brahms (see, I know something besides baroque) - 1st symphony  (but I think I've heard it somewhere before)
Mendelsshon - Reformation Symphony

PS.   You didn't mention Wagner?  Love him or hate him?
 
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Reply #11 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 5:24am
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erm...classical music. often discussed in school,but i don't really like it.
maybe "camina burana" by carl orff,"the moldau" by smetana or vivaldis "four seasons".
 
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Reply #12 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 6:53am

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I've never heard Wagner before.  I don't go out of my way to listen to classical but if it is there i will listen to it.  In Music at school we are studying the Rite of Spring.  There was one distinct woodwind piece that Mozart wrote i cannot remember the name at the moment but they did play it in the film Amadeus.

Opera is amazing live.  I've seen Tosca (brilliant) and Andrea Chenier (it was ok)

I find baroque music to driven which is what it is.  Romantic Music is the best.  Smetana's The Moldau is awesome.
 
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Reply #13 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 1:37pm

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I find baroque music to driven which is what it is.

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Check out the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now.  You'll like Wagner.
 
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Reply #14 - Aug 3rd, 2003 at 6:30pm

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Nice to see that there are some classical fans out there, I can't name my favorite but can hum along with the rest of you Guy's.

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Reply #15 - Aug 4th, 2003 at 1:14am
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Check out the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now.  You'll like Wagner.


yeah,the "ride of the valkyrie".the best scene of the whole movie.
 
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Reply #16 - Aug 4th, 2003 at 6:27am

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Why is baroque music driven?

We studied it in music and that was how the composers wrote it.  Driving out insistent rhythms constantly.
 
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Reply #17 - Aug 4th, 2003 at 4:45pm

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[quote]Check out the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now.  You'll like Wagner.

Some years ago the Vietnam-Vets held a gathering in my hometown's town-square. Sombre faces, medals...
and hundreds of watts of sixties (vietnam era) Rock&Roll music. "Born to be wild..." and other classics.

At the time I was busking nearby inside a railway tunnel
and my unamplified voice and accoustic guitar were drowned out by the thumping beat of the huge speakers outside.
Time for a break and enjoy listening for a while instead
I thought - and as I put my guitar up against the wall, a
lone commuter walked passed and hissing the f-word exlaimed: "...now they're even playing Nazi music!"
   Poor guy just couldn't string it together...

Vietnam War - Wagner - Apocalypse Now - The Ride Of The Valkyries.

 
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well today in music we listened to atonal expressionism by Schoenberg and believe me, he makes Stravinsky look like the flaming nicest music of the century.
 
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Reply #19 - Aug 8th, 2003 at 6:27pm

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well today in music we listened to atonal expressionism by Schoenberg and believe me, he makes Stravinsky look like the flaming nicest music of the century.


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Hey fozzer,

Interesting you said that.  What gets me is they tried to compare Schoenberg, Webern and Berg (what the call the second Vienese School) with Mozart, Hayden and Beethoven (the first Vienese School) and i was like, you cant compare this music that is just wrong to the likes of Mozart and others.

The one thing about the atonal expressionism is the voice doesnt have to hit the note exactly, only approxiamtely and every note is played by a different instrument, and well tonality - what is that?  Its just crap really.
 
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Reply #21 - Aug 10th, 2003 at 10:45am

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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 from Liszt, that piece sounds like a cazy mess.(pronounced "List" if I'm not mistaken).

Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner was pretty neat with the movie. If you see the Showcopters in an air show, their intro music is Ride of the Valkyries, but Showcopters was not worth my time. I guess you cant do stunts with helecopters.

Moonlight Sonata is pretty good too.
 
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Reply #22 - Aug 10th, 2003 at 2:53pm

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Hungarian Rhapsody?  I know Bohemian Rhapsody!  Grin
 

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Finally a post on classical My favorite kind of music! My favorite peice is Adagio for strings by Barber.
 

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Wasn't that the one in "Platoon"?
 
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lol....Bohemian Rhapsody from Queen? If you seen "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" there is a scene where Daffy Duck and some other Duck plays a panio duet, thats Hungarian Rhapsody.
 
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