classical music

Im not into classical music at all, but love progressive music. 

 

I listen to a lot of genres of prog music. 

 

The closest thing I can get to classical music is Renaissance.  I cant listen to violins and violas for five hours, it doesnt appeal to me. I would say im well cultured though, im well traveled have great taste in music and am well read

I love Classical though I have only recently started enjoying it alot.

Winter Wine wrote: Yeah I like Classical music, I study it in school. My favourite piece is Tchaikovskys 'Romeo and Juliet Overture', amazing, absolutely stunning.

Winter Wine wrote: micky wrote: Winter Wine wrote: Yeah I like Classical music, I study it in school. My favourite piece is Tchaikovskys 'Romeo and Juliet Overture', amazing, absolutely stunning. Wow, i'm not the only one to have heard it here??  cool

I'm a 2nd generation  Russian/american with my parents being huge classical fans.  I was listening to the great Russian composers as I learned to walk and talk hahahahha.

I love classical music but I just listen to it on the public radio stations here and never really care to write down any composers or composition names. There are only certain compositions that i've really remembered, mainly because everyone knows them: ex) Stravinsky's Rites of Spring or Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C-minor. In fact, classical music for me at least, is the original heavy metal, it is amazing, very powerful and very moving. 

I've been trying for a few months to listen to more classical music.
What I usually enjoy the most are works with not many instruments. Mostly piano or guitar pieces, or perhaps a violin cuartet or not more than a piano an a few violins.

I still find it quite hard to "digest" a full symphonic composition. Probably because I'm not very used to those instruments, I can't notice very well what's going on.

Anyway, some of my favourite classical compositions (they're all pretty popular, I'm just scratching the surface of this completely unknown world to me):

Beethoven: 5th and 7th symphonies, Moonlight Sonata
Mozart: Sonata N°11, Symphonies N°40 and N°41
Bach: Badinerie, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Air on the G string, Gavotte I & II
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody N°2, La Campanella
Chopin: Minute Waltz, Fantasie Impromptu, Heroic Pollonaise, Raindrop Prelude
Tchaikovsky: THe Nutcracker Suite, The Swan Lake
Verdi: "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Nabucco
Albeniz: Asturias (Leyenda) arranged for solo guitar by Segovia
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini
Paganini: Motuo Perpetuo
Debussy: Clair de lune
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Rimski-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Orff: Carmina Burana

EDIT: And Boureé by Bach, of course!!


Edited by Mharo

Winter Wine wrote: micky wrote: Winter Wine wrote: Yeah I like Classical music, I study it in school. My favourite piece is Tchaikovskys 'Romeo and Juliet Overture', amazing, absolutely stunning. Wow, i'm not the only one to have heard it here??  cool

Why do you think you're the only one who knows it? It's quite famous. I love it too very much. I also love to listen to the different interpretations on Romeo and Juliette from different composers.

I live for classical music and enjoy prog too...

Lord Qwerty only likes classical from 'Beethoven's Final Leap' to the present.

I have been listening mostly to classical music recently, I tend to have such phases sometimes. I visited few operas by Strauss recently and they were musically suberb!