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Offline Hap

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« on: February 08, 2007, 04:05:21 PM »
What have you been listening too lately?

Mahler's 1st here with Ormandy and Philly also their rendition of "An American in Paris."  Gil Johnson was Philadelphia's 1st Trumpet.  He was awesome!

I started practicing trumpet again after 25 years, and began rebuilding my Classical Library.

What are your favs?

Regards,

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Offline soda72

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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2007, 04:30:28 PM »
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/debussy.html


"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"

Of course that was before I started to hate french people....





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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2007, 04:37:21 PM »
Can't you afford new music?
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Offline Gunthr

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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2007, 04:50:02 PM »
on my ipod:

Johan Pachabel - Kanon b minor

Handel - Messiah

Ravel - Bolero

Motzart - Blue Danube

Wagner- Flight/Valkaries

Tchaikovsky - March Slave opus 31 and war of 1812 overture
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2007, 04:53:09 PM »
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Motzart


 "to many notes"..

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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2007, 04:57:35 PM »
I have all of the following downloaded onto a cd which I carry in my car:

Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth Symphonies.

Blue Danube by Strauss.

Flight of the Bumblebee

Hungarian Rhapsody

Ride of the Valkyries
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2007, 05:13:59 PM »
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"to many notes".. - Soda


I'm musically illiterate :)  i just listen to what i like.   i forgot to mention the aria from Marraige of Figaro that winds up being a duet - very nice.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2007, 05:16:31 PM »
I like classical music in the fall when the leaves are turning. Have no idea what I'm listening to (other than the popular ones like Beethoven, Bach, Gershwin, Strauss) but it sure is soothing.
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Offline Mark Luper

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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 05:21:05 PM »
I've always enjoyed classical music. Even as a teen-ager, it was always my favorite.

Lately I have been listening to a lot of John Williams classical guitar music. That guys is awsome on a guitar. He plays a lot of the old master's classical and what he has written himself.  A real treat.

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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2007, 08:19:02 PM »
Sibelius:  Finlandia.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2007, 08:29:28 PM »
Not really a fan of Classical, but I found this hilarious:  http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1731941
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2007, 09:36:53 PM »
Hundreds of great classical music selections, but my favorites are:

Au fond du temple saint (duet) from the Pearl Fishers (Bizet),
Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss II),
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Dance 1, Jazz Suite 2 (Shostakovich),
Dance of the Furies (Gluck),
Di quella pira (duet) from The Troubador (Verdi),
Fantasie-Impromptu (Chopin),
Farandole from L'Arlesienne (Bizet),
O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicci (Puccini),
Piano Concerto No. 3, lst Movement (Rachmaninov)
Rondeau (Moret) -- think Masterpiece Theater,
Sarabande from Suite No 11 (Handel),
Symphony No. 4, 2nd Movement theme (Brahms)
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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2007, 11:22:06 PM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I like classical music in the fall when the leaves are turning. Have no idea what I'm listening to (other than the popular ones like Beethoven, Bach, Gershwin, Strauss) but it sure is soothing.



just lean back a relax rippy....

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« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2007, 12:35:07 AM »
Well I'm a bit of a Romantic you might say.

I can play currently... I've forgotten alot too...: Chopin : prelude's 11,12, some of 13, most of 17, sloppy and need to relearn what I once knew of the Heroic Polonaise, and a nocture, I can't rcall the opus and no. off hand.  I can still play most of  Rachmaninov's 10th prelude opus 32, and still alittle of opus 23, .. no. 5 I think without looking.
Working on Liszt's La Campanella, and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.  I've only learn a page or two of Campanella though, it's quite intense to play properly.  

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody:  I have the Sheet music, might try to learn it once I have some time and finish what I'm working on...but it is a serious undertaking, but so is the Heroic Polinase and La Campanella.

So ya I like what some might call Classical music... about all I still mostly know from the classical era is Mozart's Rondo alla Turc.
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« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2007, 01:02:06 AM »
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Au fond du temple saint (duet) from the Pearl Fishers (Bizet)


Halo,

I've just discovered the Pearl Fishers.  I have Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill from the late 50's or early 60's.

It is so JAW DROPPINGLY beautiful I have to stop everything and just listen!!

Also, those who mentioned Strauss, some beautiful things there.  I'm listening to the Magic Flute right now.

I'm not a big Mozart fan, except the famaliar excerpts.  I've been getting tips on what to listen to.

hap

p.s.  this is great to get to know what y'all like.  Chopin, eh Blu?  I have Glenn Gould from '54 doing the Bach Variations.  I have some Chopin, and need to give another listen.  It's complicated and requires patience -- complicated emotionally at least it seems to me vs. a Beethoven symphony.  I know, an egregious comparison.
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