Oh my goodness. That's just ALL KINDS OF wrong.
Oh my goodness. That's just ALL KINDS OF wrong.
Satie-most everything
J.S.Bach-everything
Bartok- Divertimento for Strings
Bartok- Concerto for Orchestra
Copland- Appalachian Spring
Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring
My 2 favorite pieces are probably:
Delius - Brigg Fair
Banks - Blade
I also am fond of:
Sinding - Rustles of Spring
Holst - The Planets
and many pieces by Ravel, Vaughan-Williams, Debussy, Stravinsky and Mahler.
I agree with you Peter, of all the major composers, Mozart is my least favorite. Very seldom has he ever surprised me-very predictable music from my point of view, although some adore him, so its just a taste thing. Mind you, Bach is typically predictable to some degree too, but I love his music for its strong mood that works well for me late fall/winter. But my favorite composers are Delius, Vaughan-Williams and Ravel, and I love the last Banks (six) which is to me like a bit more complex channeling of Delius. Funny, I just saw an interview of Banks the other day where he mentions Delius and Vaughan-Williams. No surprise. Six will go down as one of my favorite overall albums ever recorded.
Buckner - symphony no. 8
Mahler - symphony no. 3
Beethoven - symphony no. 9
Poulenc - organ concerto
Stravinsky - le sacre du primtemps
Dvorak - symphony no. 6
Strauss - ein alpine symphonie
Nielsen - symphony no. 3
Vaughan Williams - symphony no. 7
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Puccini - tosca
Mussorgsky - borus Godunov
Verdi - otello
Schubert - symphony no. 9
That's a start but the list could get very big if I really thought about it.
Even though here I'm obviously selecting only some pieces from these composers, I've actually enjoyed everything I heard from these composers except 1) some opera works (because even though I enjoy some opera I'm not an opera fan) and 2) some caprices of Paganini.
chopin -- piano concerto no. 1 & no. 2 (especially no. 1), several nocturnes (especially e.g. no. 20 in C#m), ballades (especially e.g. ballade no. 1) -- his 'fantasy impromptu' has moments but meanders/strays a little
liszt - piano concerto 1
dvorak - slovanic dance 2, rusalka (the "song to the moon" part), humoresque
satie - few gnosiennes and gymnopedies
mozart - requiem, symphony no. 40, eine kleine nacht musik
haydn - symphonies 6,7,8
tchaikovsky - violin concerto, swan lake
bach - brandenburg concerto no. 3, toccata and fugue in d minor, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", Air on the G String
schubert - "Death and the Maiden"
beethoven - symphony no. 5 & no. 9, moonlight sonata, fur elise
hackett - cavalcanti
paganini - caprice 5, caprice 24
vivaldi - four seasons
albinoni - adagio
rodrigo - guitar concerto
albeniz - asturias
strauss - various waltzes
bizet - l'arlessiene (sp?) suites
orff - carmina burana
rachmaninov - piano concerto 3
ravel -- bolero
I think that's a pretty good initial (incomplete) list for me.
Last edited by Yaman Aksu; 07-09-2014 at 07:36 PM.
Sibelius - 2nd Symphony
Prokoffiev - 1st Symphony
Beethoven - 6th Symphony
I'll play.
Bach
Concerto for Two Violins
St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4
Symphony No. 9
Part
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Stravinsky
The Firebird
Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Wagner
Der Ring Des Nibulungen
Great idea for a thread. And count me in among those who are not completely enthused with Mozart, whom I respect more than love.
Stravinsky - Firebird, Rites of Spring, Petrouchka
Ravel - Tombeau de Couperin, La Valse, bunch of solo piano music
Debussy - La Mer, bunch of solo piano music
Respighi - Pines of Rome
Brahms - Symphony #4, German Requiem
Dutilleux - Symphony #2, Piano Sonata
Rimsky Korsakoff - Sheherazade
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Wagner - overtures and preludes (once the singing starts, I'm out)
Berio- Sinfonia, Berg- Wozzeck, Ligeti- Ionization, Stravinski- Rite of Spring, Harrison- Oboe and Javanese Gamelan, Bartok- Miraculous Mandarin
I must admit that my approach to classical music was rather shallow to begin with, only because of Disney, Zappa, and some other movie references. My first records were soundtracks to movies such as West Side Story, Ben Hur, El Cid, Thunderball, Pink Panther, How the West Was Won. Miklos Roza, John Barry, Henri Mancini, Alfred Newman were my composers. I was ignorant of Shostakovich until my daughter participated in a ballet based on Alice in Wonderland; The choreographer spliced sections of various compositions into scenes that fit the dancing perfectly. I asked for a tape of the Shostakovich 'collage' and have it enjoyed it immensely! It's like what Teo Macero did for Miles Davis' music.
I took a music class in high school and, for the final exam, the teacher played music and the students had a multiple choice- When I heard sirens, I knew it was Ligeti!
Not uncommon. The composers Uncle Frank cited in the liner notes to Freak Out! were subsequently checked out by many of us then.
Go stand in the corner. It's Varese!Ligeti- Ionization......I took a music class in high school and, for the final exam, the teacher played music and the students had a multiple choice- When I heard sirens, I knew it was Ligeti!
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I wrote & recorded a piece of music with my old band that I called Edgar & Frank, and after hearing it people usually didn't have many questions about the title. For those that still did I just answered, "Varese & Zappa".
Anything involving a concerto for classical guitar and orchestra.
Number one on that list is the four biggies from Joaquin Rodrigo -- "Aranjuez", "Gentilhombre", "Andaluz" and "Madrigal". This stuff moves me so much, so joyous.
After that is two concertos from Vivaldi, in A and D. Also one from Villa-Lobos.
This stuff is practically prog to me, the way it moves through different sections and moods.
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I'm not well-versed on how to describe pieces of classical music, But I really enjoy Alexander Borodin's Symphony No 2, In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor. I have Delos CD called Russian Soul (I know pretty lame title) that has in incredible version of "Chorus of The Peasants" by The Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Also, recently purchase an Argo CD of Ralph Vaughn Williams Orchestral Works played by The New Queen's Hall Orchestra. Great stuff if you like him. The version of Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" gets me every time. So I guess I like more contemplative and brooding classical music.
Last edited by Dave; 07-11-2014 at 02:37 PM.
I forgot to mention Ravel's "Bolero". I first heard this as the backdrop to a time-lapse film that showed plants growing and flowers opening - think it might have been a Disney episode, maybe it was part of Fantasia.
A theory:
I think the reason that high Baroque music elicits such polarised opinion is probably for the same reaosn that the national romantic period evolved as it did and then later the folkloric 20th century classical i.e. if there is no connexion culturally between a people and their "serious" music then it is worthless.
So it was a long battle in the late 1800s for "British" and other "Anglo" composers to create a template that wasn't based on the Germanic styles, a template that reflected the composer's own people.
i.e. I feel a cultural connexion to Vaughan Williams, Delius, Warlock, Bax, Bridge, Britten, Harty etc. because I grew up in the 60s hearing it on the radio and on TV and it being used in schools in music and dance and play lessons for instructive purposes, it resonated with and throughout the British and Irish cultures and folk music and rural idyll, in simple terms, it was ours, and it sounded correct for our ears and our cultures.
And Mozart for example was as far removed from that (playing his "entertainment music" in fine palaces for nobility and the landed gentry) as Bing Crosby is from Death Metal. I feel as far removed culturally from the music of Mozart and his ilk as I'm sure Mozart did from 12th century Arabic music.
Last edited by bob_32_116; 07-12-2014 at 08:01 AM.
Debussy:
Clair de Lune
Hommage a Rameau
Sarabande
Beau Soir
Chanson de Bilitis
Noctures
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade
Ravel:
Bolero
Holst:
Mars
Mike Oldfield
Music of the Spheres
Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of Rome
My Music
https://rateyourmusic.com/~jim1961
My Listening Room
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/studi...ning-room.html
Oh yeah, I forgot the topic!!! :
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, Winter
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2
Grieg - In The Hall of The Mountain King
Strauss - The Blue Danube
Williams - Star Wars Rebel Blockade Runner ( don't laugh, i think its brilliant) and other select cuts off the soundtrack
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