Classical Music

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simmo

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Now, I know nothing about the ways in which classical music is composed, the stories behind each piece, which actor the composer was courting at the time or anything else like. However, I do like a great deal of classical music, because it sounds good to my ear.

So I wondered, what would people's top three composers be. Mine, in order,would be

1 Rachmaninov
2 Tchaikovsky
3 Faure

Anyone else got a view on this?
 
(1) Mozart ( Arkle of composers )
(2)Beethoven
(3) Schubert

Find this very difficult Bach, Brahms . Mahler and a number of others would be close up there including your top three simmo
 
Hmmm, I wasn't aware that Mozart was the Arkle of composers. He only does it for me in fits and starts - he would have been 4th on my list however.
 
Originally posted by Diamond Geezer@Feb 11 2005, 03:05 PM
Haven't got a clue what they're called or who they're by
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Yes, a common problem. It does seem to require a bit more application than more modern stuff.
 
Originally posted by Diminuendo@Feb 11 2005, 06:22 PM
Mozart here to......he was years ahead of his time.
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as was Edgar Varese whose work was brought to life by Zappa once the technology came about.
 
Im in some very distant way related to Wagner (so my grandad tells me) was he good then?

My favourite all time, and trust me, there are many i could list :brows: ...but if i had to go for one.....ummm......would have to be Charlotte Church
 
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...cant argue with that though can you!!!


On a more serious note, i have absaloutley no clue about any classical music whatsoever! Always thinking i should give it a try, i often need relaxing, specially during these brats holidays!!!
 
take a look at these photos 14 in all...................


Heres the next Welsh DIVA what a voice what a body??? ;) classical in all meanings of the word.... :D

I made a c-d of her recordings last week via KAZAAR..............


Yes I like classic music but not all.............. can listen to the best of classics !! so to speak............. :o :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/tsu...enkins.shtml?14
 
Loved Beethoven since a child - particularly the 'Pastoral'. So much of his is actually whistleable, rollicking stuff.

Wagner, J S Bach, Mozart - all have something to touch the soul or stir the heart... that said, somewhat disappointed in a rather big collection of Debussy's works that I bought recently.

Apart from Eddie Elgar, can't find much among British composers that's to my taste, especially Birtwhistle - come ON! What IS that all about? Even Britten doesn't feel memorable to me, but then, what do I know?

Classical music training aside, it's a bit like art: you might not know much about it, but you know what you like. And why that's a phrase always sneered at by so-called cognoscenti, I don't know. You don't generally buy artwork you can't stand, unless you're Charles Saatchi and just buy the exhibition en bloc in the hope that some of it's going to prove profitable. So why not give credit to popular works and their creators? Just because people love certain works, and they're played a lot, doesn't make them less worthy than some discordant, esoteric piece we're informed by 'experts' is 'exquisitely creative'.

(That's enough. You were just asked what classical music you liked, not to go off on a bleedin' rant. Get back to cleaning the office. Ed.)
 
K I would recommend the Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - whenever I hear them I am on the Suffolk Coast waves crashing , North Sea wind blowing .
 
Okay, Ardles, we've got a fantastic 'classics only' musick shoppe nearby, so I'll ask for a swift listen-in. I'll take Dramamine first, though... :D
 
Originally posted by Ardross@Feb 11 2005, 07:46 PM
K I would recommend the Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - whenever I hear them I am on the Suffolk Coast waves crashing , North Sea wind blowing .
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Sounds like a normal Summers Day at Yarmouth races
 
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