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Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Hap 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,

hap
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: soda72 on February 08, 2007, 04:30:28 PM: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

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

:D
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Vulcan on February 08, 2007, 04:37:21 PM: Can't you afford new music?
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Gunthr 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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Post by: soda72 on February 08, 2007, 04:53:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Gunthr

Motzart

"to many notes"..

:)
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Post by: Shuckins 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
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Gunthr on February 08, 2007, 05:13:59 PM: Quote
"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.
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Ripsnort 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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Post by: Mark Luper 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.

Mark
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Post by: E25280 on February 08, 2007, 08:19:02 PM: Sibelius: Finlandia.
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: lasersailor184 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
Title: Who's A Classical Music Buff?
Post by: Halo 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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Post by: Vulcan on February 08, 2007, 11:22:06 PM: Quote
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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Post by: BluKitty 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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Post by: Hap on February 09, 2007, 01:02:06 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Halo
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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Post by: Halo on February 09, 2007, 07:58:47 PM: Yeah, that Pearl Fishers duet gets to me every time. I think it was featured in the movie Gallipoli.

Funny thing about opera -- there I especially enjoy the voices because when I don't understand the language, the voices are like musical instruments, universal in appeal.

Problem with lyrics is sometimes they can ruin the music or just get outdated. Worst thing is if you hate what the lyrics say but love the music.

Most extreme example probably is Deutschland Uber Alles when it became a symbol of the Nazis who, like so many music hijackers, applied their lyrics to previous favorite music (from Haydn, I think).

Dixie was written in Ohio as a vaudeville tune but became the anthem of the Confederacy, offending some people while rallying others.

Often composers are eclipsed by lyricists, e.g., Amazing Grace, America the Beautiful, and Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Once in awhile great music and words are written by the same person, e.g., The Rose by Amanda McBroom.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where music really comes from, e.g., old folk melodies supposedly incorporated into some classical music. At least the melodies are preserved no matter who originated them (and sometimes they are improved by subsequent interpretations).

Whatever and whichever, music is the gift of the gods.
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Post by: Shuckins on February 09, 2007, 08:28:19 PM: E25280's choice of Finlandia is a great one. In my humble opinion it is THE most beautiful national anthem.
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Post by: Gunthr on February 09, 2007, 08:55:16 PM: Compliments on the post, Hap - useful for somebody like me who doesn't know what to look for. I'll eventually listen to all these selections. I tend towards martial themes, so I first sampled Sibelius' Finlandia and I really like it. I will buy it on cd this weekend. The best I have at home to listen with is Grado 150 headphones but i really enjoy the music. i listen with some good in-ear plugs for bike riding. Music like Handel's Messiah shares my Ipod with music like "In-House Drive By" by Rage Against The Machine and "Made in Japan" by Buck Owens. I agree music is wonderful. :)