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    Recommend classical Music

    Alright, after the success of my "recommend music" thread (please keep it going, it's a great inspiration for me ), here's the "recommend classical music" thread ("classical" of course not only meaning scientifically correct classical, but also including Barock, Gregorian, etc... We want to enjoy the music, not discuss the history )

    I especially enjoy piano music. Some of my favourites (fairly well known, but deservedly so):

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Pour Elise/Für Elise
    Schubert: Ave Maria
    Bach: Ave Maria
    Johann Pachelbel: Kanon und Fuge in D-Dur (Canon and Fugue in D-Major)
    Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (you might know it from the movie "Platoon")

    Others that are good, or that one should have listened to at least once:

    Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
    Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
    Beethoven: Mondscheinsonate (Moonlight Sonata)
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Hummelflug (Dance of the Bumble Bee)
    Suppe: Light Cavalry
    Strauss: Radetzky-Marsch
    Ravel: Bolero
    Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (Well Tempered Clavier)
    Vivaldi: Die Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons)
    Grieg: Morgenstimmung

    And last but not least, one advice:

    NEVER, EVER listen to anything played by Richard Clayderman. He's pure evil!

    AZ
    There's an Opera in my macbook.
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    Re: Recommend classical Music

    Originally posted by az

    Vivaldi: Die Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons)
    Vivaldi has never wrote something called Four Seasons, neither he wrote something called "Die Vier Jahreszeiten".

    But, I'm pretty sure that he wrote something called "Le Quattro Stagioni".

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      You're right. Sorry - I just didn't know the correct title

      AZ
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      • #4
        He wrote a piece named after pizza?
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          Re: Re: Recommend classical Music


          But, I'm pretty sure that he wrote something called "Le Quattro Stagioni".
          he invented PIZZA??





          sorry.
          on topic: I'm all for Orff and G. F. Händel.

          mfg
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            Any specific pieces? I just realized I had nothing from Händel in my list

            AZ
            There's an Opera in my macbook.

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            • #7
              specific? you might know "Sarabande" (Levis TV spot), otherwise his "Messiah" or "Water Music" is quite popular.

              mfg
              wulfman
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              "Lobsters?"
              "Really? I didn't know they did that."
              "Oh yes, red means help!"

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              • #8
                I'm particularly fond of Modest Mussorgsky. I have an EXCELLENT 2-disc set of "Pictures at an Exhibition". One disc is the orchestral reworking by Ravel (which everyone will find familiar), and the other is the original piece... as composed, as written, and played on the Piano - Mussorgsky's instrument of choice.

                Very cool stuff.

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                • #9
                  Classical Music for the masses: Rondo' Veneziano.
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                    Saw Rondo Veneziano a couple years back live. Very good stuff, although I wouldn't really call it "classical" per se.

                    It's more like... err... hard to describe.

                    I'd like to get a more recent album, the stuff they did live hadn't been recorded yet. Hmm...

                    - Gurm
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                    • #11
                      Don't forget Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major K 622. The 2nd movement (adagio) is, for me, his masterpiece and VERY difficult to play for the soloist.

                      I'm also fond of Villa Lobos' guitar music.
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                      • #12
                        The whole Peer Gynt Suite from Edvard Grieg is very nice, epecialy "Solveigs Sang"

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                        • #13
                          Holst's planet pieces are nice to relax to at dinner.
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                            Most of this music is absolutely great to have playing in hte backround on a nice day and leave it on at night and when you sleep too.

                            This is real music.
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                            • #15
                              No piano music here, but some orchestral pieces I can recommend:

                              Haydn: Symphony No. 103 "Drumroll"
                              Schumann: Piano Concerto (okay - there is a piano in here )
                              Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
                              Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
                              Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
                              Brahms: Symphony No. 4

                              And if you want to get to know your neighbours a bit better, just play Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps" at maximum volume - that should work...

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