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?

Ozzy

Anything by Mozart will put me in a state of awe for days, so I have to be careful when I listen to it.    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.

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... ...!

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

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... ...!

Cheers all... ...!
Paul.
(England).

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Hi Dread.... ...!
...you hum it....I'll play it... ...!
LOL...LOL...LOL...!

Cheers mate... ...!
Paul....tinkling the ivories... 8)...!
(England).

um, george gershwin-rasphody in blue
love that music its the best
try listening to jazz! i recomend miles davis

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?

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.

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.

Sarah

Why is baroque music driven?

We studied it in music and that was how the composers wrote it.  Driving out insistent rhythms constantly.

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.

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.

Hungarian Rhapsody?  I know Bohemian Rhapsody! 

Wasn't that the one in "Platoon"?

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I think so.