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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on March 23, 2005, 04:05:02 pm
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I've recently re-discovered a love for classical music, curiously while watching Master and Commander. Reasons aside I'd like to hear what you good people feel is good classical music.
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Moonlight Sonata is great. But other than that and few other, I'm not into classical music.
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Heh, I love classical music myself. :nod:
And I like Mozart myself, though I do like the other composers (Bach, Beethoven) as well.
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Classical period music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_era) or just classical music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_classical_music)?
If it's the first, then J. Haydn and W.A. Mozart are my favorites (Symphony No. 45 totally rocks).
If it's the second, nothing can beat Vivaldi's The Four Seasons' Spring and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
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i like what they play from the loudspeakers in Apocalypse Now when they come in in the helicopters, I think its Flight of the Valkyries
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Orchestral music is not the same as classical. If it's good orchestral music you want it can be found in many soundtracks, Pirates fo the Caribbean, Gladiator (particualary good), and the OH2S (:D). If it's true classical you want, I like Mozart and Dance Macabre is cool.
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Ah, "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis", I take it? Vaughan Williams is always good but that is magnificent.
Let's see, I'll go chronologically:
Baroque-era music is beautiful because of the way it invokes sort of feeling of calm mathematical precision. My favorites from this period would probably be J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Corelli, (who often sounds a lot like Vivaldi.) Everything Bach wrote was divine, but I particuarly like his flute sonatas and his choral works. Then there's Handel's Messiah, and all of Vivaldi's concerti and sonatas.
From the Classical peiod, I listen to a lot of Mozart, C.P.E Bach, and Devienne. It's not really my favorite musical era overall, but just about anything by Mozart is divine. His operas are beautiful even for some people who don't particularly like opera.
I can't think of many romantic composers I habitually listen to, so I'll move on to the really good stuff: the 19th and 20th centuries. Here, in my opinion, is where much of the most beautiful music ever written is found, (much of it by French composers.) Debussy is probably my favorite composer of all time. Many of his works are tone poems, taking a specific image, often relating to classical mythology, and describing it with an ethereal, dream-like sound. He wrote "Nuages", which is a nocturne describing clouds moving through the night sky, and it is possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever composed. It has one moment that feels to me to be the perfect musical description of complete wonder. But really anything by Debussy is beautiful. For Ravel, some of the best are "Bolero", "La Valse", and "Lever du jour", which is one of the happiest works in the musical world. Khachaturian has some great ballet suites--"Gayane's Adagio" was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey-- and Ibert wrote one particularly insane flute concerto. I'm also a fan of Orff's "Carmina Burana" and of various things by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Gah, there's too much to talk about.
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that song from The Triplets of Bellville (the ship in the storm). Damn, that song is amazing, though I haven't the slightest clue who its by.
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My entire WinAmp playlist is nothing but classical. I've got a lot of American composers (Sousa, Barber, and Herbert being my favorites).
I don't much listen to classical-era music. It's the modern stuff like Barber's Adagio and Stars and Stripes that work for me.
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
If it's the second, nothing can beat Vivaldi's The Four Seasons' Spring
Personally I prefer Winter :D
Mozart of course must be mentioned. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (allegro) (http://www.kunstderfuge.com/mid/mozart/serenade_525_1_(c)ishii.mid) is probably my favourite but there's some great stuff in The Marriage of Figaro (and Rossini's version for that matter).
(The site I got that midi from BTW is excellent as since it's got midi files you can be listening to the song in seconds (which makes it great for identifying songs mentioned here that you don't recognise by name.
You can find it here (http://www.kunstderfuge.com/)
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Try these artists (spelling might be a little off for foreign names)
Elgar
Handel
Bach
Korsikov
Mendellson
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Originally posted by Night Hammer
i like what they play from the loudspeakers in Apocalypse Now when they come in in the helicopters, I think its Flight of the Valkyries
Ride Of The Valkyries By Wagner
Blue Danube is one of my favourties.
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Anything by Chopin.
Any of the ballets by Tchaikovsky (especially Swan Lake).
By J. Strauss, "Roses from the South" op. 388
(Heck, just go for the entire Strauss family. Loads of listening pleasure there.)
Mussorgsky, "Pictures at an Exhibition". (The original piano version, not the fubared orchestrations.)
(Can you tell I love the Romantic period?)
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Oh, I forgot Erik Satie, coincidentally a friend of Debussy.
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I love movie toons personally. Fro example the intro to first contact.
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I like dramatic orchestral music (a la Lord of the Rings soundtrack/In the Hall of the Mountain King/Ride of the Valkyries), but I'm not really a fan of the "bubbly" sort of classical music. There are a few pieces I always hear in movie trailers that I really enjoy, but I usually have absolutely no clue what they are. There was one in the original trailer for the animated horse movie Spirit that I've heard many times, but I'm not sure exactly what it's from. I believe it may be from the American Symphony (I don't even know the name of the composer :p).
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Originally posted by Mongoose
I like dramatic orchestral music (a la Lord of the Rings soundtrack/In the Hall of the Mountain King/Ride of the Valkyries), but I'm not really a fan of the "bubbly" sort of classical music. There are a few pieces I always hear in movie trailers that I really enjoy, but I usually have absolutely no clue what they are. There was one in the original trailer for the animated horse movie Spirit that I've heard many times, but I'm not sure exactly what it's from. I believe it may be from the American Symphony (I don't even know the name of the composer :p).
:nod: :nod: :nod: :nod: :nod:
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Schoenberg made some really interesting music if you don't mind more bizarre and expiremental stuff. Try Pierrot Lunaire. Parts of it make me feel like my head is going to explode, but its fun to listen to.
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Holst, The Planets....best ever. But its more 20th Century than strictly Classical in the Beethoven sense.
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Beethoven is hugely overrated, in my opinion. The 20th century has produced a lot of the best classical composers.
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It really depends on what sort of classical music you want to listen to, but these are some classical music highlights I can currently remember:
Bach: Chaconne in D minor
Italian Concerto
Vivaldi: 4 Seasons
Mozart: Sonata K331, 3rd mve. "Rondo alla turca"
Symphony No. 40
Beethoven: Symphonies
Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"
Chopin: "Military" and "Heroic" polonaises
Ballades, Scherzos, Etudes
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet
Piano Trio in B flat
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Piano Trios
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Dante Sonata
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Piano Concertos
Totentanz
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
Symphonies
String Quartet
Brahms: Hungarian Dances
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 and 3
Preludes
Sibelius: Finlandia
There, that should be enough for now. ;)
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Why has nobody yet mentioned Pachlebel's Canon?
That's the front runner for my favorite piece ever. Bach's Air is a close second. :)
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Originally posted by Spicious
It really depends on what sort of classical music you want to listen to, but these are some classical music highlights I can currently remember:
Bach: Chaconne in D minor
Italian Concerto
Vivaldi: 4 Seasons
Mozart: Sonata K331, 3rd mve. "Rondo alla turca"
Symphony No. 40
Beethoven: Symphonies
Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"
Chopin: "Military" and "Heroic" polonaises
Ballades, Scherzos, Etudes
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet
Piano Trio in B flat
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Piano Trios
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Dante Sonata
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Piano Concertos
Totentanz
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
Symphonies
String Quartet
Brahms: Hungarian Dances
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 and 3
Preludes
Sibelius: Finlandia
There, that should be enough for now. ;)
nice list...very good taste I might add...
alltough I would personally add more Mozart...and Bethowen..and otehrs. Just 1-2 works from their entire opus doesn't do them justice!
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I'm not really into classical music as a rule (as evidenced by the "What are you listening to?" thread. Post there, dammit! :D), but there are some pieces I do like a lot. Holst's Planet Suite (and in particular Jupiter and Mars) is excellent, and I do like Barber's Adagio for Strings. Also, there's a guy called John Tavaner who's done some beautiful work. Lots of choral parts, which I am a big fan of. :) And I heard a couple of Stravinsky's ballets recently, and really liked them. Scary stuff...
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I'm not really a fan of Bait-hoover, and the other old stuff. Only a few do I like.
Mostly I love symphonies, and alot of the newer classical music / remixes. There are quite a few songs I love from movies, non-classical included, such as LOTR soundtracks (very inspiring to listen to), some of the songs from Black Hawk Down, Hunt for Red October.
Star Wars music is only good if your playing a game, or watching the movie though, it just doesn't work anywhere else IMO.
But yeah... :D
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I prefer modern composers to the classics. I like epic sounding, as well as softer music.. The kind you could just fall asleep to, you know? Any recommendations?
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It is my guess that if you like the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, you might like Ralph Vaughan Williams. He was a very "English" composer, who wrote grand, bittersweet, and extremely rich orchestral works.
For modern composers with a sweet sound, as I mentioned earlier, there's a whole world of twentieth century French composers who wrote the dreamiest melodies that, in my opinion, make Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" sound like crap. Debussy, Ibert, Ravel, Faure, Poulenc, Durey, and Satie are some of the biggies.
When I listen to Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faune," I can almost believe I'm half asleep on a hazy summer day in mythical Ancient Greece, watching the nymphs run around... until I see the ice on my window.
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Halo 2 Vol. 2 once it's released. No more inspired crap, only Marty O'Donnel and his wonderful in-game music.
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Well.. This is nothing but a biased opinion.. I'll recommend Mozart, Sibelius, Holst :)
But surely, there are lotsa better forums to ask to find the masterpieces of classical music.
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Nonsense! I've been a student of classical music from age 10; I think I may be so bold as to consider myself helpful.
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Fingal's cave, I *think* it's by Mendelssohn
Carmina Burana, Orff
Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky
are a few of my personal favourites, if that means anything.