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  • az
    Moderator
    • Feb 2001
    • 9336
    #1

    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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    • Drizzt
      Super MURCer
      • Oct 1999
      • 1314
      #2
      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".

      Sat on a pile of deads, I enjoy my oysters.

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        • az
          Moderator
          • Feb 2001
          • 9336
          #3


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

          AZ
          There's an Opera in my macbook.

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            • Umfriend
              Crabby Smurf
              • Mar 2001
              • 7308
              #4
              He wrote a piece named after pizza?
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                • Wulfman
                  Super MURCer
                  • Oct 2000
                  • 1662
                  #5
                  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
                  wulfman
                  Last edited by Wulfman; 26 May 2003, 05:13.
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                    • az
                      Moderator
                      • Feb 2001
                      • 9336
                      #6
                      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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                        • Wulfman
                          Super MURCer
                          • Oct 2000
                          • 1662
                          #7
                          specific? you might know "Sarabande" (Levis TV spot), otherwise his "Messiah" or "Water Music" is quite popular.

                          mfg
                          wulfman
                          "Perhaps they communicate by changing colour? Like those sea creatures .."
                          "Lobsters?"
                          "Really? I didn't know they did that."
                          "Oh yes, red means help!"

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                            • Gurm
                              MS Fanboy
                              • Aug 1999
                              • 11460
                              #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.

                              - Gurm
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                                • Drizzt
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Oct 1999
                                  • 1314
                                  #9
                                  Classical Music for the masses: Rondo' Veneziano.
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                                    • Gurm
                                      MS Fanboy
                                      • Aug 1999
                                      • 11460
                                      #10
                                      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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                                        • Brian Ellis
                                          Super MURCer
                                          • Sep 1999
                                          • 9623
                                          #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.
                                          Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                                            • [GDI]Raptor
                                              Super MURCer
                                              • Jan 2001
                                              • 1045
                                              #12
                                              The whole Peer Gynt Suite from Edvard Grieg is very nice, epecialy "Solveigs Sang"

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                                                • Dilitante1
                                                  Administrator
                                                  • Aug 1999
                                                  • 1829
                                                  #13
                                                  Holst's planet pieces are nice to relax to at dinner.
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                                                    • ZokesPro
                                                      Serial Murcerer
                                                      • Sep 2000
                                                      • 8325
                                                      #14
                                                      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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                                                        • Schorsch
                                                          #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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