classical

does ANYONE have a love for classical musical? by classical, i'm including all baroque, renaissance, classical, early & late romantic etc... for orchestra, piano, guitar or whatever...
anyone?

 

YES YES YES!!!!
I literally JUST put on Mahler's 6th Symphony, i'm a romantic i love the romantic composers, Mahler, Wagner, late Brahms etc... I find it inspiring, exciting and amazing music to listen to, i just get totally involved...
ahh, it's fantastic!

 

wo0o0o - i love the romantic stuff best too for orchestra. mainly the stuff round about the middle. later on it gets a bit too awkward to listen to - they tend to focus on more emotions than audibility.
for guitar i love the renaissance period, though quite a lot of southern asian is really cool (sitar, tabla etc..)

 

Yes

Can't really give you much more information, I only mainly know Mozart and besides him there's a few compilations containing all the other superstar 'posers. That little bit of violin noodeling on Vivaldi's "Spring" is superb!

The compo's have taught me I like it in most forms though. The big orchestra and brass bands, or just a piano and a flute. Aye it's good stuff.

 

its good enough to just know mozart - to be honest, the best composers are the main ones that people know of. they're known because they're good. though other composers can produce some good stuff, mozart, haydn, beethoven and the like wrote the best music

 

Not my the best genre in my opinion, happens when raised on rock (older rock like The Beatles, The Doors, Donovan, so on), but was one of the first I played on the piano. Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss, Pachabel. Wonderful wonderful artists. Imortal as well as long as the music is played and heard.

 

Okay so now I have three peices,,, no four in my head. Claire d'lune, Air for G string, Requirum Mass Dies Irae, and Fur Elsie.

 

Forgot one. Handel. How could anyone not enjoy a person wh can write a four hour opera?

 

Oh yes. I play sax and fag, and you can't play fag without doing a fair bit of classical music, and there's some really good classical sax repertoire if you know where to look


Let's see, my favourite composers are:

Bach,
Beethoven
Brahms
Fauré
Bartók
Stravinsky
Shostakovich
Rachmaninov
Ravel

and maybe Tchaikovsky if i'm in the right mood.

Composers I absolutely CANNOT stand, include Vivaldi, Mozart and Britten.

My favourite orchestral work EVER, has got to be Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

Anyone do any classical or neo-classical or modern-classical style compositions?

I do a fair bit even though my biggest influence in composition is jazz. Got a few bits and bobs up on my sibelius music page as well, http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/bendonnelly - have a look if you're interested, you will need to download install the scorch plugin for your browser in order to play the sibelius files - ie look through the scores and listen to MIDI playback.

 

beethoven writes some technical hideous choral pieces! like his 5th symphony. doing that soon in a concert and it leaps stupidly and seriously it's a joke. sounds nice though. mozart is a lovely writer of music.

 

Sorrow, i absolutely adore the Requiem Mass Dies Irae, if you mean Verdi's! It's probably my favourite work, apart from Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition...

 

i write quite a bit of classical, but i do more romantic. classical can be quite restrictive

 

haha yeah.... "no parellel fifths, no parallell octaves, leading note must always rise a semitone!"
i'm not surprised Bach broke all his own rules in the end

 

As a rule of thumb, I'll listen to "Old dead german composers", Bach, Beethoven, etc. Generally, I prefer smaller chamber music, such as Quartets, Senarades, etc.
I'm just a little wierd like that.

Just remembered, a few years ago, when the portable CD disc players came on the market, I used to worked alone during the graveyard shift. My relief was one of my bosses whom I didn't like too much. Whenever She was expected to arrive, I would change whatever was playing in the CD Walkman (with external speakers) and put on Hanel's Concerti Grossi Op.3 played by the The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock conducting. I figured Handel was an aquired taste. I also never varied the selection. All she got to hear until I was scheduled to leave was Handel's Concerti Grossi Op. 3 and never anything else.

 

Erm, there're no choral elements in Beethoven's 5th, as kickarse a piece as it is. I think you're confusing it with the 9th, which is even MORE kickarse! Fantastic Megafag (contrabassoon) part in both as well. Even if you do have to sit out the first three movements of each!

 

ok we'll call it his 9th, but i still reckon it's his 5th....


oh pooballs it IS his 9th!


haha verdis reqieum is amusing...teehee

 

haha sax i love your term for the contrabassoon tis brilliant

 

Verdi's requiem is cool. And while on the theme of big in your face choral works, how about Bernstein's Chichester Pslams and Lambert's The Rio Grande! Oh and I'm rather fond of the Poulenc Gloria as well.

I'm not really a singing person though. I can sing, and I do sing in choirs and write for them as well, but I find choirs just aren't as fun as playing in instrumental ensembles.

 

Looove classical! So many composers... my absolute favourites being Beethoven, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky... especially Sibelius... (surprise surprise)

 

haha megafag! did u know that the bassoon family is actually the 'Oon' family. apparently so.
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