Baroque? Harpsichord?

[Nihilism]

Does anyone else here enjoy listening to Baroque?

Particularly Harpsichord works?

I like Rameau, Couperin, D. Scarlatti and Bach. I have never found another person who actually listens to baroque music in my everyday life. Or actually even know's what the hell I am talking about when I say baroque for that matter. :grin:

[Dodo]

I love baroque music. I listen to everything produced by Jordi Savall. Check him out if you don't know already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uf2z-5FnI8

He literally have masses of albums on reneissnace-baroque era. He even has works for around the world around the same era.

[bill]

I can't get enough of the baroque stuff. I took piano lessons as a kid, but never really with much interest till I was a teenager and heard the wonderful Glenn Gould for the first time. I went and learnt the Goldberg Variation aria and haven't look back since then, haha.

If you play guitar--there is a website called classtab.org that has hundreds of classical pieces transcribed in easy-to-read tablature, including lots of Bach, Scarlatti, Telemann and so on.

[Sea]

The most wonderful musical hoax. Pseudo-Albinoni's adagio in g minor....

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I like stuff from the baroque period but it's never been an area of particularly intense musical exploration for me, in terms of classical music I usually go for medieval choral stuff, russian romantics or waily atonal modern stuff.

[ChangeAndChance]

I enjoy the slightly tinny sound of the harpsichord. It's an instrument that is sadly often left out of modern compositions. However, I did enjoy Philip Glass's relatively recent Harpsichord Concerto.

[CaptainCool309]

I love a wide variety of music, but from a classical standpoint, the Baroque style is probably my favorite classical style.

I was introduced to baroque through Iowa Public Radio's "Sunday Baroque" sessions on sunday morning. Since then I've taken a great interest towards the works of Bach, and I try to learn as many Bach pieces I can on the piano (At least the easier ones anyway, because Bach can get pretty hardcore) Personally I prefer the harpsichord sound to the piano sound, so whenever I'm on a keyboard I'll immediately change it to the harpsichord setting and play to my hearts content.

It's nice to know others who like Baroque music and classical music in general, out of all the people I know I only think there's about a couple people like me who listen to or play classical music on a regular basis.

[RyeN]

Baroque music is a blast. Its style and timing is scattered in a way that it uses multiple parts of the brain while listening to it. It stimulates multiple brain wave patterns and increases brain activity. The Harpsichord is a beautiful instrument. I really like any string instruments, they really have the ability to make the harmonic and vibrational nature of our universe apparent. I really like analog recordings best because it represents a fuller range of the music. Digital recordings only play the music produced on the audible range, where vinyl records put out the full harmonic spectrum.