Classical music

[danielcan]

I love it - I often prefer it to more modern music. It's much better as background music when working or reading.

Some of my favourite composers are Bach, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Elgar, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Handel, Holst, Tchaikovsky. I particularly like Baroque.

Plenty of individual pieces really stand out for me, like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Canteloube's Bailero, Albinoni's Adagio, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto No 3, Beethoven's Symphony No 7, Borondin's Polovtsian Dances, Khatchaturian's Spartacus Adagio, Orff's Carmina Burana, Vivaldi's Four Season, Pachelbel's Canon.

I like opera - Puccini, Verdi and Mozart are some of my favourite composers.

You would recognise a lot of classical music from movies, such as the superb and moving Barber's adagio for strings, used in Platoon, part of Verdi's Rigoletto in Wall Street, O'Fortuna from Carmina Burana in Conan, and in Fatal Attraction "One Fine Day" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly (an amazing piece of music).

You have great taste there. I love Barber, Khatchaturian (have a few of his). Baroque is great.

Nothing beats going to the opera at the Sydney Opera House. La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, and Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) are great for beginners. Carmen, everybody recognises the music, though it is rather long. I love La Traviata (the set is amazing).

For the well versed, Lucia di Lammermoor is excellent.

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is also excellent (it's a ballet, though).

There is an amazing range out there. Try it all...

 

[cats56]

The Ride of the Valkryies by Wagner is pretty cool.

It's the one played before the attack on the village in Apocalypse Now.

Wagner was the Black Sabbath of the classical era.

 

[John]

I love it - I often prefer it to more modern music. It's much better as background music when working or reading.

Some of my favourite composers are Bach, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Elgar, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Handel, Holst, Tchaikovsky. I particularly like Baroque.

Plenty of individual pieces really stand out for me, like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Canteloube's Bailero, Albinoni's Adagio, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto No 3, Beethoven's Symphony No 7, Borondin's Polovtsian Dances, Khatchaturian's Spartacus Adagio, Orff's Carmina Burana, Vivaldi's Four Season, Pachelbel's Canon.

I like opera - Puccini, Verdi and Mozart are some of my favourite composers.

You would recognise a lot of classical music from movies, such as the superb and moving Barber's adagio for strings, used in Platoon, part of Verdi's Rigoletto in Wall Street, O'Fortuna from Carmina Burana in Conan, and in Fatal Attraction "One Fine Day" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly (an amazing piece of music).

You have great taste there. I love Barber, Khatchaturian (have a few of his). Baroque is great.

Nothing beats going to the opera at the Sydney Opera House. La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, and Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) are great for beginners. Carmen, everybody recognises the music, though it is rather long. I love La Traviata (the set is amazing).

For the well versed, Lucia di Lammermoor is excellent.

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is also excellent (it's a ballet, though).

There is an amazing range out there. Try it all...

Top posts. Mentioned a hell of a lot that I have had the pleasure of
listening to over the years. I think that Tchaikovsky is a good starting point for anyone who is unsure of classical music. 1812 overture for example. I am keen on modern artists like Phillip Glass and Micheal Nyman for example.
I tend towards the minimalist style.

 

[John]

Also, listen to some Sigur Ros. Might not be classical in the classical sense (haha), but it is amazing. I'm not sure what they'd be classified as. Maybe neo-classical?

Post Rock seems to be a name bandied around.

 

[John]

Yeah...already a big fan of sigur ros....

A wonderful group indeed are Sigur Ros

 

[nicky]

Does anyone here listen to classical music? I've never really got into it but I've seen people in the office with CDs and apparently it increases your thinking power and relaxation.

Is it only for rich, older snobs though?

I've always listened to classical music and i can confirm it does help your thinking, slows your brain waves making it more suseptible to absorbing information.

Common thought says this is the worst period of music, I'm sure this will be way too much for most of big footy posters to digest, but, modern day music artist merely expand on music classic composers invented centuries ago.

Classical music makes me more emotional than modern music can. Get into it guys, its certainly not music for rich snobs. Perhaps it appears that way because of culture and education. Anyone can listen to classical music. Its good for you.

 

[- PC -]

97.7 ABC FM for those in Perth who want to find out

Listened to a clarinet piece the other day. (Crouzelle sp)

 

[krisholio14]

im a huge chopin fan, particularly his waltzes.

noone has mentioned griegs classic 'peer gynt suite' yet.

and even thought most people know swan lake by tchaicovsky, there are still parts in that that really make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. particularly when its turned up to 11.

 

[volcboy]

Classical music is great stuff. Beethoven is my personal favorite composer - his symphonies and piano concertos are just magic.

For anyone who hasn't gone to the opera before, I'd suggest giving it a go at least once. A Verdi opera (La Traviata, Tosca) or The Magic Flute by Mozart would be a good introduction. It wouldn't be possible to see more musical talent in any rock/rap show by a long shot.

 

[krisholio14]

i always tell people who laff at me for listening to classical music that pop music began with mozart, and hed be top of the charts if hed been born in this era.

 

[- PC -]

i always tell people who laff at me for listening to classical music that pop music began with mozart, and hed be top of the charts if hed been born in this era.

He was in the early 80s

 

[TheBloods]

Bach's Toccata and Fugue is pretty modern sounding.

 

[krisholio14]

He was in the early 80s

i do know that, the point i was trying to make rather ambiguously, is that his song structures etc would have seen him as a modern day pop act, possibly in the vein of an ABBA or the likes.

 

[John]

For something differant listen to Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and then Listen to Emerson Lake And Palmers Prog Rock version that is a live recording from the early 70's. Awsome.

Another to check is The Nice's Five Bridges. The Nice was Emersons earlier band. It contains "covers" Sibelius Karelia Suite and also has the Brandenberg Concerto #6 and Dylans Country Pie combined as an
instrumental.

Some of you may have heard The Nice do an amazing version of Bernsteins America from West Side Story. Later Emerson Lake and Palmer "covered" Copelands Fanfare for the Cmmon Man which was used by 7 for the footy, many years back, with good effect.

 

[- PC -]

I agree with ELP John and also check out Jean Michael Jarre Oxygene , if you watched Gallipoli you know the music from Oxygene

 

[patsmith]

I agree with ELP John and also check out Jean Michael Jarre Oxygene , if you watched Gallipoli you know the music from Oxygene

JMJ is incredible. That whole album would have to be the electronic equivalent of classical music.

 

[Arcadion]

Don't mind a bit of classical. My favourite piece is Chopin's Nocturne in E-Flat.

 

[John]

I agree with ELP John and also check out Jean Michael Jarre Oxygene , if you watched Gallipoli you know the music from Oxygene

Indeed I do know JMJ. Superb.

 

[finders]

Ive been into since a teenager and thtas a looong time back.

My favorities are Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler,Wagner,Verdi,+++++++++ many many more. Depends which mood Im in

 

[finders]

Ive been into classical music plus most other types of music except modern jazz and chamber music since I was a teenager and thats a looong time back.

My favorities are Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler,Wagner,Verdi,+++++++++ many many more. Depends which mood Im in

 

[spanna050]

Most of the original footy club theme songs are based on classical songs, so this type of music can't be too bad

 

[- PC -]

Most of the original footy club theme songs are based on classical songs, so this type of music can't be too bad

Your own clubs is a great piece from Carmen
The Crows is the Halls Of Montezuma music by Offenbach

 

[TheBloods]

Isn't Geelong's Carmen?

 

[- PC -]

Isn't Geelong's Carmen?

I thought it was Toreador..ahh from Carmen not Marriage

 

[TheBloods]

No probs!