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04-14-2014, 12:42 AM | #1 |
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Favourite "classical" pieces/composers
You know what I mean - baroque, romantic etc.
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04-14-2014, 01:13 AM | #2 |
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Muse when they use a string section
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04-14-2014, 01:17 AM | #3 |
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I really like Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes.
I'm unfamiliar with most of anything else though, except for the ones that everyone knows from advertisements and pop culture and stuff. |
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04-14-2014, 01:18 AM | #4 |
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i like beethoven 4, 7 and 9. chopan and handel's water music
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04-14-2014, 01:19 AM | #5 |
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Beethoven (symphonies, piano sonatas)
Copland (everything) Chopin (preludes) Rachmaninoff (concertos, symphonies, various short piano studies) Holst (symphonies, wind band, choral works) Vaughn Williams (ditto) Shostakovich (symphonies, string quartets) Debussy (piano works) Stravinsky (firebird and rites) Wagner (highlights of his operas are staggering) Mussorgsky (pictures at an exhibition, night on bald mountain) Not including anything newer than Copland/Shostakovich (like Ligeti, Reich, etc) Last edited by TuralyonW3 : 04-14-2014 at 01:25 AM. |
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04-14-2014, 01:19 AM | #6 |
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Chopin, anyone? in that Muse song by the United Kingdom of Ameurope
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04-14-2014, 01:26 AM | #7 |
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Beethoven technically and aesthetically basically towers over everything until the modern era
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04-14-2014, 01:37 AM | #8 |
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Copland's Appalachian Spring suite destroys me
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04-14-2014, 01:40 AM | #9 |
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The Saturn movement of Holst's Planets is staggering and underrated
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04-14-2014, 01:52 AM | #10 |
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copland's rodeo is admittedly a favorite
and i forgot Tchaikovsky, especially the 1812 overture. |
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04-14-2014, 01:52 AM | #11 | |
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My friend who practised for 8 hours a day during high school ( which I can't fathom, I could barely manage 1) prefers Chopin - Chopin to me is beautiful but it doesn't make me tear up like Beethoven - too clever maybe, not enough sentimentality. I heard a Russian pianist play Beethoven once and it was a strange experience. During the encore he played Tchaikovsky and the piano came alive - Beethoven doesn't require a lot technically - a lot of physical grunt work for the jumps and runs, but not so much head work with difficult fingering...but it takes a huge amount of emotional presence to bring it to life - it drags without a huge broken heart to drive the hands. Not music for technicians I don't reckon. |
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04-14-2014, 01:56 AM | #12 |
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04-14-2014, 01:57 AM | #13 |
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i feel like while popular opinion thinks of mozart first, beethoven has a very special place in popular and esteemed opinion
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04-14-2014, 01:58 AM | #14 |
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Sorry I forget he was an orchestral composer!!! He's a piano composer to me. So I'm only talking about his sonatas.
The sonatas are so different depending on who plays them. My favourite is the Waldstein...but I don't often enjoy performances of it - the tempo is never quite right. I enjoy Daniel Barenboim's expression the most I think. |
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04-14-2014, 01:59 AM | #15 |
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04-14-2014, 02:04 AM | #16 |
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Yes Beethoven is very highly regarded...but not universally as one who towers above the rest...a lot of people I know would probably name Bach as the greatest...
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04-14-2014, 02:08 AM | #17 |
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It's true, I actually forget!! Seems ridiculous but I do - I never played an orchestral instrument (bar one miserable term of cello which I couldn't stand)...but I played a lot of Beethoven as a piano student and listened fairly obsessively to the sonatas - I didn't discover orchestral music until much later...so when I think of Beethoven my first and strongest association is with the piano.
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04-14-2014, 02:12 AM | #18 |
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Bach's St. John Passion - conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Schubert's Trout Quintet Handel's Messiah Prokofiev's music for children Faure's Requiem |
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04-14-2014, 02:29 AM | #19 |
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Haydn, Bach, Mozart, and Handel paved the way. Beethoven rose to the peak. His most difficult piano sonatas are beasts to perform properly and are much better pieces of music than Lizt's crazy pieces. I love Chopin but he owed much to Beethoven and had a much more limited range and body of work.
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04-14-2014, 02:33 AM | #20 |
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All this is just hot air though...just enjoy the tunes
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04-14-2014, 08:23 AM | #21 |
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I would not put Haydn, Mozart & Handel on the same level as Bach...Bach is near universally acknowledged as a game changer. Every music student in the western world learns about the counterpoint that he pioneered...
Beethoven also is regarded as a game changer and the beginning of the romantic period - but in terms of great works, his orchestral compositions don't stand out more than say Mahler, and his piano works are not enough to win the universal love of pianists though he is probably the most popular among players. Among the general population it's hard to tell - if you played most people Beethoven and then say Michael Nyman or Eric Satie, they would probably choose something more contemporary... |
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04-14-2014, 09:02 AM | #22 |
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04-14-2014, 09:36 AM | #23 |
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04-14-2014, 09:07 PM | #24 | |
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04-14-2014, 09:10 PM | #25 |
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I just like chopin, béla bartók, villa-lobos and carmina burama (carl off- idon't even know if this is the name of a person)
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04-14-2014, 09:54 PM | #26 |
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i've loved debussy ever since high school and i put him up there with my favorite bands. love almost everything he's composed.
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04-14-2014, 10:11 PM | #27 |
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I don't know much about classical music. But one time I heard some on the way home in the car and I liked it. I had to Google what they used in the music, it was like light guitar I think. Classical guitar? I dunno. I meant to look some up to see if that's what they were using? I don't really know.
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04-15-2014, 05:50 AM | #28 |
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I've never listened to a lot of classical guitar D., but I listen to the classical music station here pretty much nonstop and Heiter Villa-Lobos is a classical guitar composer I hear a lot of, played most often by Julian Bream on our station here...might be a starting place?
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04-15-2014, 09:16 AM | #29 |
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Thanks!!
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