Ditto for me on Vivaldi's Four Seasons, it's a CD I listen to about once a week. I also like anything by George Frideric Handel...
Classical music fans who are your favorite composers or artists or compositions or al
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Ditto for me on Vivaldi's Four Seasons, it's a CD I listen to about once a week. I also like anything by George Frideric Handel...
Anybody that's read me.....
Anybody reading my posts knows I'm an opera nut.
Anybody reading my posts knows I'm an opera nut.
snowman
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I like most anything from the Renaissance Period to midway through the Romantic Period. Compositions after 1870 or so, not so much.
Beethoven's symphonies are pretty hard to beat for my artistic temperament, especially the 3rd, 5th, and 9th. The Pastoral(6th) is good too, especially the part just after the storm -what a beautiful melody.
Can't forget Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for pipe organ.
Handel's Messiah of course is fantastic, especially the choral parts.
Regards,
Andy
Beethoven's symphonies are pretty hard to beat for my artistic temperament, especially the 3rd, 5th, and 9th. The Pastoral(6th) is good too, especially the part just after the storm -what a beautiful melody.
Can't forget Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for pipe organ.
Handel's Messiah of course is fantastic, especially the choral parts.
Regards,
Andy
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Marie13
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Bach - Violin Concertos (Hilary Hahn has a gorgeous CD of these)
Beethoven - 9th Symphony
Rachmaninoff - Vespers (Russian Orthodox evening service)
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, 1812 Overture
Bunch of others I don't remember off the top of my head
Beethoven - 9th Symphony
Rachmaninoff - Vespers (Russian Orthodox evening service)
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, 1812 Overture
Bunch of others I don't remember off the top of my head
For mixed media, I'll take Ingmar Bergman's film of "The Magic Flute", sung in the original Swedish. The overture, where the camera focuses in on the faces of the audience, is a treasure.
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yashua-p
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I like both Mozart and Faure Requiem and Most anything Beethoven. Very little that I really dislike.
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yashua
regards,
yashua
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Here's a second for the Faure Requiem. Very powerful.
bill2000
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Handel's "Music For the Royal Fireworks" for me. Also forum appropriate I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vJ2UFbeXA
Lifelong appreciation for classical music developed by a eight year stint playing clarinet in school bands. Didn't keep up with it sadly but still have the instrument. Maybe I'll pick it up one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vJ2UFbeXA
Lifelong appreciation for classical music developed by a eight year stint playing clarinet in school bands. Didn't keep up with it sadly but still have the instrument. Maybe I'll pick it up one day.
scooter123
Member
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Simply the finest piece for organ's ever written.
Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue. a very elegant jazz influenced piece for piano and orchestra.
Two of my most favorite. Won't list all my favorites because I'm greedy and they are mine, mine, mine, HA HA HA. Actually don't have the time and I suspect there is a page limit on posts.
Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue. a very elegant jazz influenced piece for piano and orchestra.
Two of my most favorite. Won't list all my favorites because I'm greedy and they are mine, mine, mine, HA HA HA. Actually don't have the time and I suspect there is a page limit on posts.
I like most all of the "classical" composers but Beethoven is by far my favorite.
Back when I was in HS in the early "70 Time-Life came out with a series of LP record sets of ol' Ludwig's music, Was in celebration of his 200th B-day. I bought the first 10 volumes, 50 LPs in all. Each volume contained a certain type of music: symphony, concertos, sonatas. quartets, stage music, chamber music, etc.
Still have them. Still play them. Lately I've been listening to the lesser known stuff that is rarely played these days; piano trios, sonatas, and string music. Very beautiful. His genius never ceases to amaze me... try opus 1, 20, 70, 97. his last three piano sonatas and the last string quartets, Der Grosse fugue included.
'Course I do like many others. Handle JS Bach, Mozart. There's so much to like. Too many to list.
And the Looney Toons renditions are always a gas! Wonder how many kids were turned onto the classics by watching Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
John
Back when I was in HS in the early "70 Time-Life came out with a series of LP record sets of ol' Ludwig's music, Was in celebration of his 200th B-day. I bought the first 10 volumes, 50 LPs in all. Each volume contained a certain type of music: symphony, concertos, sonatas. quartets, stage music, chamber music, etc.
Still have them. Still play them. Lately I've been listening to the lesser known stuff that is rarely played these days; piano trios, sonatas, and string music. Very beautiful. His genius never ceases to amaze me... try opus 1, 20, 70, 97. his last three piano sonatas and the last string quartets, Der Grosse fugue included.
'Course I do like many others. Handle JS Bach, Mozart. There's so much to like. Too many to list.
And the Looney Toons renditions are always a gas! Wonder how many kids were turned onto the classics by watching Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
John
To me, any music made by instruments which requires electricity to run them, i.e. electric guitars, is not music but pure noise. I think the only exception is the organ which requires electricity to run the blowers.
cmort666
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Listen to the jazz version by Eumir Deodator. It's one of the few such efforts which doesn't destroy the intent of the original.
bobbyd
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Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade is my all time favorite piece of music.
I have it as recorded by several different orchestras just to enjoy the differences in interpretation.
Scheherazade is my all time favorite piece of music.
I have it as recorded by several different orchestras just to enjoy the differences in interpretation.
Along those lines, this 86 CD set is quite a bargain today:
Amazon.com: Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert Blomstedt, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Symphoniker, Minnesota Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Suske Quartette, Zurich String Quartet: Beethoven Complete Edition (New Version): Music@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XdxvVTFML.@@AMEPARAM@@51XdxvVTFML
vigil617
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Not previously mentioned: Pachelbel's "Canon in D". So soothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc
And previously mentioned several times: Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (prominently and so perfectly included in Platoon) So inexpressibly sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc
And previously mentioned several times: Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (prominently and so perfectly included in Platoon) So inexpressibly sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450
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Ogandydancer
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Pachelbels Canon in D is one piece I don't care for but Barber's Adagio for strings is awesome. If you have never seen the Adagio set to the background of the twin towers falling you have missed it. It is on you tube. Once I saw it I have never been able to hear the Adagio in the same frame of mind. It is to say the least awe inspiring.
yashua-p
Member
I like the little Preludes for piano by George Gershwin,
regards
yashua
regards
yashua
Marie13
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I mentioned Rachmaninoff's "Vespers" (Russian Orthodox evening service).
This is "Bless the Lord, O My Soul" (Psalm 103).
Those basses!
http://youtu.be/iCgIswP7jPY
This is "Bless the Lord, O My Soul" (Psalm 103).
Those basses!
http://youtu.be/iCgIswP7jPY
Frank46
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Tachikovskis war of 1812 overture with cannons, Beethoven's 5th and just about any good classical music. Frank
