Classical music anyone? (page 4)

Madame Quixote

"Aida." I was so embarassed when it moved me to tears in a music appreciation class.

It's very easy to get caught up in the storylines of opera (epecially if it's subtitled); and then the music just takes you away.

I used to hate opera; Aida changed that.

I really love opera, but not in English. Am I the only one who thinks opera is totally weird - (if not effed up) - when done in the English language? I've never heard an English language opera I could take seriously . . . what's the deal with that? I thought it was something silly or weird about me until I heard a famous opera singer - (I think it was Maria Callas) - scoff at the thought of doing opera in English. I was kinda' relieved to realize I wasn't the only one who felt weird about English opera.

I also kinda' hate musicals, but find them charming in some way - just weird, I guess.

Madame Quixote

"Blue Danube."

Clouds - DeBussy fluff.

all fluff for me - no dissonance tolerated .

Who are you?

Rachmaninov 2nd and 3rd Piano Concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Vocalise, and many many others

Chopin too many to mention

Debussy Clare De Lune, Arabesque

Satie Gymnopedies I,II,III

Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Expedition"

Madame Quixote

. . . other then a bit of Mahler.

HAL9000

A rather wide range from Alberto Ginestera's first piano concerto and Aaron Copleland's works (via the 70's group Emerson, Lake and Palmer) through Richard Strauss (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote etc) through to Beethoven & Bach. Not sure where it fits, but I also enjoy the work of Larry Fast (as Synergy) and his works for synthesiser.

h9k

Frannie Banannie

I learned to appreciate opera when my high school choir teacher sang for us. She was Louella Scarpa, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

zagor

WOW, I have to say I'm sincerely humbled and impressed that so many of you have responded. I didn't know there are so many lovers of classical music here. I love classical music, it is the first music I've been introduced to as a kid. For few years have even taken piano lessons, so lately I'm thinking about buying a piano and rekindling that old flame.

Spaky, yes there is actually the real story behind that video and Exodus. I was watching interview with Maxim on telly few years ago. That in background is historic city of Dubrovnik where he grew up. He basically found refuge in piano at the time when Serbs army bombed the city and played it in basement while bombs were falling around.
As for Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve Sarajevo here it is just for ya :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iY4Tom6-wM

A couple more of Maksim's performances http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKBKZ8Cxeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no

One melody I've been trying to find is for several years now, (if anyone remembers) is accompanying tune that was in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" from 1938 with Errol Flynn in staring role. Does anyone remember the melody?

It was the tune that was the turning moment in my life as a kid, I remember listening to it completely captivated. :)

Sparkplug

Z agor~OK now, I am hooked. I have watched, on youtube the Exodus (What a story), Somewhere in Time, Hungarian Rhapsody, Dance of The Baroness, and the first one you posted above of his the "Croatian Rhapsody" and "Nostradamus and Cubana Cubana. I must say I am a bit in awe and have no clue how I have missed him before. I in fact think I have heard this music of his before and did not know who it was. For some of the pieces I recognise such as Flight of the Bumblebee and Nostadamus. I did not know these were his versions of course. Now I am listening to Hana's Eyes.

Lord what did you do? I just got off of my youtube kick and here I am again listening like I have not heard of music before. WOW! Good thing is I can work and listen at the same time except for his videos are pretty detailed and quite easy to lead me astray from my task. thank you. I love something to totally throw me off track such as this music tonight. Thank you. That womans voice in this song is haunting.

And The video of Sarajevo...Wow I just landed back quite a few years and am so happy you posted that link. Thank you. I do recall how much I liked it before. Again it has struck me deep. I always would listen even if I thought I should not to that particular piece any chance I got. Screw this no Xmas crapola...

Decki

Look, there...you now have me checking into all my opera favorites peeps. I am getting nothing done. Aaaagh

Terry

Claus Ogermann creates music which is so weirdly beautiful in its "disturbing" harmonic textures it touches a part of my very being which words cannot express.

I have a slavic soul, alas. Anything minor key will draw me inside and have its way with me.

As a young man I discovered Classical music about the time the rest of my generation was discovering the Beatles and Rock n' Roll. I went one way and my generation went

the other!

For me, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Brahms are a universe apart.

Rachmaninoff's piano concerto #2 in Cminor, Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges Suite and Brahms 3rd Symphony are the be-all/end-all of life itself.

If you ever see a copy (on Ebay or elsewhere) of Claus Ogermann's GATE OF DREAMS ballet suite---you'll never get over it. It has classical, jazz and eclectic dance influences with soloists such as George Benson on guitar. It is quite extraordinary to say the least. I give you this piece as a gift from my heart to yours.

asleif_dufansdottir

Debussy lovers, you MUST check out his Submerged Cathedral.

It's my favorite piano piece *EVER*. Not only can you hear the church bells tolling in it, you can honest-to-god *hear* the water pouring out of the Cathedral as it rises out of the water (at least you can if you're playing it with the piano lid up). Debussy uses a medieval (I think Russian) monks chant melody in it. According to the Benedictine nun who was my piano teacher, the legend said that this city had a glorious cathedral and the barbarian invaders were at the gate and could not be stopped, so what today we'd call a mentally challenged but pure in heart boy went into the cathedral and prayed that it not be desecrated, and God saved it by making it submerge (and taking the boy to heaven).

From Wikipedia: La cathédrale engloutie alludes to the legend of the sunken city of Ys in which the cathedral was allowed to rise once a day as a reminder of the glorious city that was lost, then become submerged again. Debussy's composition reflects this well: one can almost hear monks chanting, and the great bells tolling throughout the piece.

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