Anyone listen to classical, orchastal music?

[MiDnIgHtMaRaUdEr]

Well? Do you, and what are your favorites? I happen to be rather fond of Vivaldi...

[MysticArcher]

Bach, tocotta and fugue in d minor

good stuff

[ComradeRed]

Okay, I listen to it and i'll tell u all of the songs i have, i'll put * in front of the excellent ones. It's organized composer - piece
*1812 overture
bach - air on g string
*bach - concerto no. 3 - allegro
*bach - minuet
bach - prelude in c
*bach - tocotta & fugue in D minor
bach/vivaldi - baroque violin in d minor
Beethoven - fur elise
*Beethoven - minuet in G
beethoven - moonlight sonata
*beethoven - romance in F
beethoven - symphony no. 5
bizet - carmen opera
*brahms - hungarian dance no. 5
brahms - waltz in A flat
chopin - fantasie impromptu
chopin -minute waltz
*chopin - praelude in A
chopin - raindrop prelude
chopin - waltz in A flat
chopin - waltz in C# Major
chopin - etude in D op. 10 no. 3
chopin - nocturne in B flat minor
debussy- 1st arabesque
debussy - claire de lune
debussy - girl with flaxen hair
Delibes - coppelia suite
dvorak - humoresque
*Dvork- new world symphony
faure - song without words
glinka - russian and ludmilla
*gossec- gavotte in D
grieg - anitra's dance
Grieg - solveig's song peer-gyn
*handel- passaccaglia
*hadyn- emperor's hymn
*hadyn - trumpet concerto
hadyn - surprise symphony (2nd mov't is good)
holst - the planets
liszt - consolation no. 5
massanet - meditation from thai
massanet - wedding march
*mozart - don giovani
*mozart - hungarian rhapsody
*mozart - marriage of figaro
*mozart - pachabel cannon in D
*mozart - requiem this is perfection, no joke, this is the best
*mozart - the magic flute
*mozart - turkish march
mozart - fantasia
rossini - william tell overture
rubinstein - melody in F
saint-sains - the swan
schubert - moments musical
schubert - serenade
schubert - trout quintet
schumann - pleading child
schumann - traumerie
schumann - warum
*strauss - blue danube
strauss - pizzicato polka
*strauss - radetzky march
strauss - thunder and lightning
strauss - die fledermaus overture
*suppe - light brigade overture
*tchaikovsky - swan lake
*tchaikovsky - chanson triste
tchaikovsky - dance of the sugarplum fairies
*vivaldi - concerto in A minor
*vivaldi - concerto in C

those are great songs! enjoy!

[El Brujo]

I like some classical. Particularly Beethoven, Mozart, Salieri and Dvorak. Ive recently been listening to Vaugn Williams' (sp?) "English Folk Song Suite" a lot. I played it in high school and really enjoyed it.

Oh yeah, and theres the Red Army Choir. :D

[monkeydust]

Orchestral music's great. I like Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and several others very much.

And obviously Penderecki
If anyone's not heard it download Penderecki's Threnody for the vixtims of Hiroshima, classic song.

[Felicia]

I only own classical CDs. Hmm, I have some compilations and then some Bach, Mozart, Dvorak and some others that I can't spell the names of :lol:

[ComradeRed]

hey you guys might like "the four seasons" by vivaldi, it is excellent!

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2004, 07:44 PM
Orchestral music's great. I like Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and several others very much.

And obviously Penderecki
If anyone's not heard it download Penderecki's Threnody for the vixtims of Hiroshima, classic song.
That is close to my taste, I love Mendelsson, but as I have said a few times, Stravinsky is one of my idols in music. Along with queen and pink flloyd I hold this guy in the highest esteem. He was great, and is undervalued, because he was nuts, and not as mainstream as some ofthe easier listening more classical composers. This guy to romantic onto another level...

Rachmaninov is probably my next favourite orchestral composer after Stravinsky.

I also find my self appreciating the power in some Wagner <_< pity he was a nationalist, fascist pig. Still his music lives on as a result.

ComradeRed; the four seasons is a great piece, actually I thin I will go to sleep to that tonight, still not what I would listen in everyday listening, I prefer slightly later music.

[FatFreeMilk]

Beethoven is awesome, I like that one song, or piece :huh: , it&#39;s got a number nine in it. And that one song (piece?) called flight of the bumblebee :D I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s considered classical music but it&#39;s still pretty tight. Most the the only classical music I ever hear is on NPR late at night and they barely ever say the composer cus the DJ is a slacker, so I don&#39;t know any names. But I like what I hear :)

[Al Creed]

9th Symphony, FFM, I bet you&#39;re thinking of Ode De Joy, a GOOD song.

I LOVE the 1812 Overure, William Tell Overture, Sparch Zarathusta (by Strauss), and this one which name escapes me:S.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I&#39;m particularly fond of the Rmantical era composers, such as Beethoven, Dvorak, etc.
I love Dvorak.
He&#39;s underated, I think.
Tchaikovsky is great too, eh?

[ComradeRed]

Beethoven is WAY overrated. I write OK stuff, but people make him out to be a musical genius that was never seen before. I don&#39;t have any taste for his music, yet I do listen to some of it.
Mozart is better :P

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2004, 05:45 PM
Mozart is better :P
than Beethoven?
I disagree.

[FatFreeMilk]

Ode de joy? Hey man that rings a bell. I think I used to play that on the violin. Or maybe that just sounds like the name of something I used to play? Damn, I wish I wouldn&#39;t have quit :(

[ComradeRed]

RZ, I play the violin, mozart is faar more melodic than beethoven.
Ode to joy is just one famous song whereas Mozart has more than a dozen&#33; I just named a few&#33; Whereas Beethoven put melodies togather, yet he couldn&#39;t hear them, for he was deaf.
Mozart created master pieces such as the magic flute, turkish march, and his requiem. Listen to the requiem and it blows beethoven out of the water.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2004, 12:51 AM
RZ, I play the violin, mozart is faar more melodic than beethoven.
Ode to joy is just one famous song whereas Mozart has more than a dozen&#33; I just named a few&#33; Whereas Beethoven put melodies togather, yet he couldn&#39;t hear them, for he was deaf.
Mozart created master pieces such as the magic flute, turkish march, and his requiem. Listen to the requiem and it blows beethoven out of the water.
Beethoven&#39;s music may be a little overated, but then so I would have to say the same for Mozart. I actually think that most the greats are underated, because the music is not as mainstream, and even the not- so mainstream stuff has less mainstream stuff.

Beetoven dragged music kicking and screaming, from Classical era into the Romantic period in 1803 with his 3rd....everyone still knows his 3rd and 5th and that is because they are timeless. Mozart was the definition of the Classical era imo. Beetoven started a period I like more. The music is more emotive, exploritive, developed, virtuosic, and progressive than that of the Classical period..even if it is sometimes less melodical. Less comformost even...yes I would say that the romantic period is more left-wing than classical :P

[Mano Dayak]

I rarely listen to classical, and if yes, I prefer harp music (because I played the harp for 8 years) or Mozart, especially the "Jupiter symphony".

[DSCH]

Dvorak - Symphony No.9 "From the New World"

Bartok - Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok - Two Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra
Bartok - 6 Roumanian Folk Dances

Shostakovich - String Quartet No.8
Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 "Stalingrad"
Shostakovich - Symphony No.10
Shostakovich - Symphony No.5
Shostakovich - Symphony No.4
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.1
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.2
Shostakovich - String Quartet No.3

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2004, 05:51 AM
Beethoven&#39;s music may be a little overated, but then so I would have to say the same for Mozart. I actually think that most the greats are underated, because the music is not as mainstream, and even the not- so mainstream stuff has less mainstream stuff.

Beetoven dragged music kicking and screaming, from Classical era into the Romantic period in 1803 with his 3rd....everyone still knows his 3rd and 5th and that is because they are timeless. Mozart was the definition of the Classical era imo. Beetoven started a period I like more. The music is more emotive, exploritive, developed, virtuosic, and progressive than that of the Classical period..even if it is sometimes less melodical. Less comformost even...yes I would say that the romantic period is more left-wing than classical :P
I coudn&#39;t agree more&#33;

[dark fairy]

i like bach...i like classical music because it is just relaxing and doesn&#39;t give you something to think in particular you kind of make it your own :unsure:

[The Feral Underclass]

I listen to it more so than I did...My favourite composers at the moment are Eric Satie, Chopin and Joaquin Rodrigo...I also like Vivaldi and of course the pops like Beehoven and Tchaikovsky.

I also like Gustov Holst and Willian Orf and great modern classics like John Williams and Michael Nyman.

I can&#39;t stand Mozart. I bought a box collection of Piano pieces and the entire lot is just a load of pretentious crap. His music is just too flouncy for my liking. I like it hard, loud and fast with lots of emotion like Holst&#39;s Mars or Tchaikovsky&#39;s Russian symphony, or if it is going to be slow I like really hard hittingly emotional pieces like Satie&#39;s Gnossienne number 1 or Chopin&#39;s Piano sonata No2 (the funeral march)..Mozart makes me want to through myself under a tram&#33;

EDIT: I just noticed there that all these composers are men...Does anyone know of Claccical or moder classical composers who are women?

[The Feral Underclass]

I tried to upload Sati&#39;es Gnossienne nr 1, but failed...

[Jesus Sanchez]

As a fan of A Clockwork Orange, of course I do&#33;

[LuZhiming]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2004, 11:45 PM
Beethoven is WAY overrated.
That&#39;s the truth. I&#39;m surprised I haven&#39;t seen more than one person mention Richard Wagner. I love his music, the atmosphere in it is incredibly catchy to me. I always tend to think of the movie Excalibur when I hear Wagner, which has some of his best work.(Not to mention it fits in with the movie perfectly.)

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2004, 02:34 AM
That&#39;s the truth

Incredible...Beethoven composed Moonligh Sonata, deaf&#33;&#33;&#33;...that&#39;s not just overrated, that&#39;s genius...


I&#39;m surprised I haven&#39;t seen more than one person mention Richard Wagner.

Wagner was a nazi fucker, in the classical sense. Of course Nazism wasnt around then...if it was, he would have been one...Anyway, he does make some good pieces, The Valkyrie is a very good piece as is the one with the wedding march..dont remember its name..


I always tend to think of the movie Excalibur when I hear Wagner,

If you&#39;re talking about the title track that was William Orf&#39;s &#39;O Fortuna.&#39;

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Seeing this thread made me want to seek out some classical...

I&#39;m listening to Mahler - Symphony No.1 - Titan

[SittingBull47]

ahh man Fugue in D minor. I forgot all about that. I used to be able to play that on piano, but it&#39;s been forever.

Bach
Beethoven (5, 9, moonlight, aria, etc.)
Mozart
Vivaldi
Dvorak
Pachelbel
Mussorgski

[monkeydust]

Perhaps unfortunately, there&#39;s been something of a backlash against Wagner after his association with Nazi Germany. As we know, Hitler made his grave something of a shrine.

He may have been an anti-Semitic fucker but his music&#39;s still good. For me that&#39;s what matters.


What about Mendelssohn? His hebrides overture is excellent. I&#39;m surprised he hasn&#39;t yet been mentioned.

[LuZhiming]

Incredible...Beethoven composed Moonligh Sonata, deaf&#33;&#33;&#33;...that&#39;s not just overrated, that&#39;s genius...

Disabilities have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of music. And it&#39;s not genius, it&#39;s called memorization. Moonlight Sonata is crap by the way.


Wagner was a nazi fucker, in the classical sense. Of course Nazism wasnt around then...if it was, he would have been one...Anyway, he does make some good pieces, The Valkyrie is a very good piece as is the one with the wedding march..dont remember its name..

Eck, I hate Ride of the Valkyries.. Heh, we have different tastes.


If you&#39;re talking about the title track that was William Orf&#39;s &#39;O Fortuna.&#39;

I am not referring to that one. I always forget the titles, I believe the one that comes to mind is called Siegfried&#39;s Death? Or Funeral March? Heh, I have a poor memory, it&#39;s the one that is the intro to the movie and appears in it numerous times. The other one in the movie, which is basically Parcifal&#39;s theme song (I forget the title of this one too.) is also a favorite of mine. Also, I like &#39;Elsa&#39;s Procession to the Cathedral.&#39;


Perhaps unfortunately, there&#39;s been something of a backlash against Wagner after his association with Nazi Germany. As we know, Hitler made his grave something of a shrine.

He may have been an anti-Semitic fucker but his music&#39;s still good. For me that&#39;s what matters.

Hitler wasn&#39;t the only one. The Swan King of Bavaria also admired him, and built castles in honor of Wagner&#39;s music.

[monkeydust]

Disabilities have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of music. And it&#39;s not genius, it&#39;s called memorization. Moonlight Sonata is crap by the way.


It&#39;s not memorization, it&#39;s perfect pitch.

In a sense, perfect pitch is a genius ability.
To be able to hear how something sounds in your head, simply by looking at the notation is most difficult.

Myself, I could tell you perhaps what note you were playing on a piano, without looking at it. I might be able to notate something without seeing it previously.

But to be able to write pieces of such sophistication, to notate chords, entire scores etc without actually physically hearing what you can play, that takes considerable genius.

[Postteen]

My favourite is Mazart and Tsaikofski(wrong spelling,i know).I also like Bach but because I play the piano,I think he&#39;s pretty difficult.My Gosh,I have French suites and 3 voices.(and fuges.)He&#39;s terribly difficult.hehe..now I have Alla Tourka.What a nice piece eh? :D
to be honest I love&#39;em all.(and Vivaldi&#33;4 seasons&#33;)