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Favourite Classical music
by Guest with Questions 111 Replies latest jw friends
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mouthy
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pratt1
I don't know the name of the music but it was used in the movie the Mission with Robert Deniro - I think a young undian boy played on a flute.
Also Beethoven 5th Sympony?, with Robin Thicke rapping behind it. Back when he had long hair.
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faundy
Fabulous thread- classical music is a passion of mine. I have to listen to Chopin whenever I'm working on an essay. It's so relaxing. I adore the 19th Nocturne in E minor, and also Nocturne no.1 in B flat major. Both are just stunning.
Recently I downloaded Fingal's cave, as it is used on an advert for washing powder over here in England. My all time favourite pieces must also include the third movement from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and Strauss's 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube.'
But Chopin every time. Without a doubt. If anyone knows o any exceptionally good recordings of Chopin, please let me know.
Great thread, I just wish I had thought of it myself!!! -
R.Crusoe
Like good sex, it passed me by till I got to the point where I'm too worn to appreciate it anymore!
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Farkel
dobbie:
: Chopin Polonaise in A Flat Major have loved this since i was young
I played that one in 6th grade. His F Minor polanaise is much better.
: Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart is divine. That piece is trivial, however.
nvrgmbk,
:Chopin
Piano music doesn't get better than that. Chopin was not called the "poet of the piano" for no reason.
serotonin_wraith:
Ah, the Planets, by Gustov Holtz. Fun and awesome! I love the Mars part.
Hubert:
: Beethoven will probably always be at the top ....
You couldn't find a better choice, but apples are apples and oranges are oranges. There are no finer moments in music than the Beethoven Emperor #5 Concerto or his #9 Choral Symphony. But don't forget Chopin, or Mozart or Bach, or Brahms, or Schumann, or Schubert, et. al.
changeling,
Vivaldi is for wimps. These are all my opinions, by the way. Bach is a skyscraper. Vivaldi is a flat on the first floor. Without heat or water.
Tyrone van leyen,
I played the Moonlight Sonata when I was 14 and still do. The third movement is difficult. I watched Lee Liberace on TV in the late 1958's. He was brilliant and he inspired me. Then he sold his soul to go commercial after that. He played the Chopin A Flat Major Polanaise and butchered it on stage, although he could have played it the way it was meant to be played. He knew how to play it properly, but he sold out to the audience. I would guess he also played the Moonlight Sonata in the same sappy audience-serving style he did the Polanaise, but I haven't listened to it yet. I will.
Guest with Questions,
: for you, Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
All the experts that I know consider Beethoven's 9th to be the greatest Symphony ever written. I concur. Not Mahler, mind you, but Beethoven.
Terry,
: Rachmaninoff!
Rachmaninoff was the greatest Romantic era composer ever, IMNSO. I'm still working on his Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.
drew sagan,
: ravel's bolero!
Actually, that was a chain on Ravel's neck. He wrote that as a teaching tool for kids so they could hear and understand the various instruments in the orchestra! That's why it starts out with a piccolo and instruments are added one-by-one. He hated that fact that that piece was his most popular, when he offered so many other and better ones later. La Valse, for example. Or Pavanne for the piano.
mouthy,
:Tchaikovsky's Warsaw Concerto
That was not written by Tchaikovsky. It was written by a brit Richard Addinsell for a 1941 war movie.
I'm not going to go through this whole thread. I would take more time than I have. Here are my favorites and not in any order: Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Gershwin, Mozart, Mozart, Beethoven, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, more LOTS more Beethoven, lots more Bach and or course, Karl Klein, the dead GB member who wrote the most melodious and haunting song called "From House to House" which I sang and barfed doing so.
Ah, yes. Karl Klein, the musical genius. Born braindead from birth, but still the musical genuis who gave us all that beautiful melody "From House to House." (I'll bet that tune will ring in your mind for the next three days and quite possibly make you go insane).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Farkel
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JK666
The most beautiful classical music for me is Mozart's Symphony No. 40.
Here is the first movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2ePGkmopg&feature=related
JK
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Mincan
Piano music doesn't get better than that. Chopin was not called the "poet of the piano" for no reason.
Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich, many more, all have moments greater or equal to Chopin on the piano... especially Liszt.
Ah, the Planets, by Gustov Holtz. Fun and awesome! I love the Mars part.
Erm, it's Gustav Holst, not Gustov Holtz.
Vivaldi is for wimps.
No, Vivaldi is for mathematicians.
although he could have played it the way it was meant to be played. He knew how to play it properly, but he sold out to the audience.
oh great, a purist (of sorts, not a consistent one). Things such as this are making the artform a museum piece.All the experts that I know consider Beethoven's 9th to be the greatest Symphony ever written.
Those experts aren't worth your time. The greatest experts will concur that Beethoven is neither greater or lesser than Ralph Vaughan Williams.I concur. Not Mahler, mind you, but Beethoven.
Mahler has good reason to protest, for he was one able to produce symphonies each as great and unique from each other as Beethoven's.Rachmaninoff was the greatest Romantic era composer ever
Come now, surely you can't say this. The true Romantic era was 1830s-1860s, Rachmaninov, althought technically being in the far reaches of the Romantic descript, was writing in a much more archaic style than his contemperaries, who were composing modern, impressionist, avante-garde, and neo-classical stuff. -
mouthy
Tchaikovsky's Warsaw Concerto
That was not written by Tchaikovsky. It was written by a brit Richard Addinsell for a 1941 war movie
Thank you Farkel I stand to be corrected I LOVE IT THOUGH!!!! -
Farkel
mincannot,
Doncha just love the pedants, with their beady eyes and round glasses and their infinite wisdom?
You know, I spent quite a while commenting on all your comments, and then I just decided to delete them, It just dawned on me that I don't even know if you can play music or not. Can you? I can. I can play Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Shumann, Brahms, Listz, Ravel, Bach and many others.
If you can play those and others, maybe we can dialogue. But first, show me what you've got. I can show you what I've got. If you cannot, they you are just a beady--eyed pedant who can't do, but who can be a critic. Anyone can be a critic. Try to figure out how to read between the lines on a Chopin Ballade, e.g. and you have lived in the trenches of music and might just have some insight. Read books about that and you don't know shit.
Farkel