Anyone into classical music?

[epicous]

Does anyone like classical music?
I watch tv transmissions of orchestras, listen classical music radio stations and collect cds.
My favourite period is Baroque (Vivaldi, JS Bach, Händel, Couperin).

 

[Skippy]

I'm a big fan of classical music, Adagio for Strings is my faveourite peice, although i forget the composer right now. i know its played at the end of the movie 'platoon' thoug

can you reccomend any pieces? im very interested in hearing more

 

[lord667]

Does anyone like classical music?
I watch tv transmissions of orchestras, listen classical music radio stations and collect cds.
My favourite period is Baroque (Vivaldi, JS Bach, Händel, Couperin).

Not an expert, but I like a lot of what I hear. I have only a small collection tho: a little Beethoven, some Rachmaninoff, the Brandenburg Concertos, and "Pelleas und Melisande" by Schoenberg. Of course, I've "heard" that ubiquitous John Cage number, and listened to some Bartok and Vivaldi. My favourite piece right now is Beethoven's "Fur Elise".

 

[Phrozenspite]

Does anyone like classical music?
I watch tv transmissions of orchestras, listen classical music radio stations and collect cds.
My favourite period is Baroque (Vivaldi, JS Bach, Händel, Couperin).

can't really name a period(my knowledge of classical is limited haha)... but i listen to some classical... Wagner, Dvorak, Vivaldi... a few others...

 

[Abou]

Definately. A lot of the bands that I listen to have classical elements. It is great stuff.

 

[SchismForTheSoul]

i dont knwo much about classical or anything. but there are a lot of songs that i think someone should make a cover on....they would so bad ass. but yea, i tend to listen to classical i its on tv....mainly cause i love piano...piano is like my favorite instrument other then like guitars....or the infamous....TRIANGLE! :hotjump: :hotjump: :hotjump: :hotjump:

 

[diabolical vengeance]

I love classical as well, my favourite period is the romanntic period so Wagner and Beethoven are my favourite composers. I'm not too fond of Baroque 'cause i find it too happy sounding most of the time (i make an exception for Vivaldi) Other composers i like Tchaivoksky, Stravinksy, Debussy, Rachmaninov, some Mozart etc. I think that classical, jazz and extreme metal are the most advanced forms of western music.

 

[epicous]

Adagio for Strings is my faveourite peice, although i forget the composer right now.

Giazotto "reconstructed" the now-famous Adagio in about 1945, based on the surviving fragment of Tomaso Albinoni. To him it suggested a piece that would be played in church, so he added an organ. It is perhaps ironic that Albinoni's rediscovery by the wider public in our own times was largely based on this ever-popular piece which Albinoni would only barely recognize.

I think that classical, jazz and extreme metal are the most advanced forms of western music.

I thought jazz was a blend of afroamerican and western music...

 

[Kate Bush Rules!]

Yeah my favourite period is the Romantic and my favourites are Berlioz and Tchiakovsky.

 

[chemicalburn]

I really like Gustav Holst, Tchaikovsky, Carl Orf, and also a lot of the more modern classical stuff.

 

[ouagadougou]

yes! classical music has always been a big part of my life, and surely it always will be

my current favorite composer is probably Carl Orff. seeing Carmina Burana is the greatest thing ever happened to me. this may sound weird, but it's true. it was better than seeing Amorphis 4 times (my favorite band who i love more than almost anything)

i also enjoy Jean Sibelius, especially Valse Triste. Finlandia is cool too and Karelia Suite.

and Vivaldi!! Four Seasons is brilliant! he captured the atmospheres of different seasons damn well. beautiful music <3

i also like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Händel, Haydn, Wagner, Tsaikovsky, Grieg, Gounod and Dvorak.. and a bunch of other composers whose names i don't recall atm

Operas i like also. Faust by Charles Gounod (or how the hell do you spell his name) is probably my favorite. The Flying Dutchman is nice too, and Juha.

 

[Ayeka]

Errrm...I started listening to Deep Purple's Concerto For Group & Orchestra today!

I'd like to check out some Wagner though but I suppose you don't 'check out' classical music the same way you 'check out' Metal bands though

 

[NAD]

Sure you can! Cheaper CDs too!

Bach is my favorite, but I also thoroughly enjoy Stravinsky, Beethoven, and many others.

 

[Ayeka]

So what Wagner should one 'check out'?

 

[Benzine]

Beethovens 9th.

 

[Neon Nights]

Sibelius and Wagner...... Then there's a total killer aria by Bach, called "Erbarme Dich, mein Gott". If you find it sung by a counter-tenor called Michael Chance, I can promise you'll never be the same again.

 

[Ayeka]

Ooooooh but what about some Wagner? Or have I got crossed wires?

 

[NAD]

So what Wagner should one 'check out'?

NONE!

(NAD hates Wagner, that fucking Nazi )