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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:40
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

he was a famos virtuoso in his time


I thought as much... but I've had a few factual misteps (Canterbury and Krautrock) recently so I'm a bit more cautious these days in my presumed declarations of facts hahahh
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At about 10 years ago I wanted to discover the world of the classical piano. In a record shop I asked for advise and then bought the CD Horowitz In Moscow. The most compelling pieces were from .. Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in G Major, Prelude in G Sharp minor and Polka de W.R., it's sometimes like galloping Huns!
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Bach "St. Matthew's Passions"
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

At about 10 years ago I wanted to discover the world of the classical piano. In a record shop I asked for advise and then bought the CD Horowitz In Moscow. The most compelling pieces were from .. Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in G Major, Prelude in G Sharp minor and Polka de W.R., it's sometimes like galloping Huns!


I've always been drawn to classical piano myself.  Have you heard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 ....

 .  I just love that one,  Rachmaninoff was a big fan of Grieg and this piano concerto
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OK, Micky, I will check it out, thanks!

By the way, Grieg his Peer Gynt Suite is almost a progrock anthem, I love Rick Wakeman his Minimoog rendition on Journey To The Centre Of The Earth  !
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there are a lot of piano concertos I love. the famos first one by Tchaikovski. the c-major concerto of Mozart. the first piano concerto of Brahms. and and and.....


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Here are some:

MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (also anything else by him)
DEBUSSY: L'apres-midi d'un faun
BACH: Brandenburg concerti, solo works for any instrument, ...anything by Him is Music To Ears
                                                     (but the Passions I find rather tiring to listen through...)
Cello Concerto of ELGAR and one by DVORAK
DVORAK: the 'New World' Symphony, especially the slow movement
SAINT-SAENS: 3rd, aka 'Organ' Symphony
VIVALDI: all his concerti (even the overplayed Four Seasons !)
HÄNDEL: Oboe concerto
and of the 'modern' (20th Century) music I have e.g. SCHÖNBERG's Pierrot Lunaire, very interesting, a bit weird
SIBELIUS' symphonies
and numerous of others I forgot to mention. (Generally Baroque is very good music to wake up to.)
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Of Schönberg I especially like "Verklärte Nacht". One of my favourite pieces of music.
I like Ravel's deconstruction of a waltz in "La Valse".
The "Goldberg variations" by Bach, especially in the first recording with Glen Gould.
Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is the pinnacle of opera. Absolutely ingenious mix of drama and comedy, with an excellent libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. All the characters are so very stupid, especially the men. What the heck is, for example, Don Ottavio thinking when he sings "Hai sposo e padre in me" ("You have spouse and husband in me") right after her father has been murdered by Don Giovanni? Does he really think Donna Anna is in the mood for a proposal right now?



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La mer by Debussy (The sea) is an absolute must have.
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Berlioz' Fantastique (?), Shostakovich's 7th and 8th.....
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Don't overlook Haydn.  He wrote some magnificent symphonies and concertos.  And, on a humorous note, few know that he nicknamed his daughter "Peepin' Anna."
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Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2006 at 13:42
That would be news to me. Haydn didn't have children, at least not with his wife Anna. He probably had an affair with Italian singer Luigia Polzelli, and one, perhaps two of her sons is or are rumoured to have been by him. Perhaps you mean his wife Anna.


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Beethoven's 6th Symphony
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Rodrigo - Concerto de Aranjuez
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Tshaikovsky - Nutcracker
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Points: 8238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2006 at 15:41

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

That would be news to me. Haydn didn't have children, at least not with his wife Anna. He probably had an affair with Italian singer Luigia Polzelli, and one, perhaps two of her sons is or are rumoured to have been by him. Perhaps you mean his wife Anna.

Well, maybe it WAS his wife.  Anyway, that would make her "Peepin' Anna Haydn."  Sorry, bad joke.
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

Toccata In D-Fuga  by JS Bach, played on a real church organ is such an impressive sound, it is mighty close to the most bombastic progrock!

I love that as well. My favourite organ piece in classical music.

Mine: cliche, cliche, but Rachmaninows 2nd Piano Concerto, as performed by Richter (I prefer him to Ashkenazy: more boombastic).

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Originally posted by yaksongs yaksongs wrote:

I like Vaughan Williams' Fantasia in A on a theme by Thomas Tallis  - listen to it in the dark at full volume - it's awesome. Another current favourite is a piece called Evening Hymn by Balfour Gardiner - this is choral & really very moving

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Still have to check out Vaughan Williams. I get the impression that he's mainly popular in the Anglo-Saxon countries, is that true? 

As much as I discovered British prog, so little have I checked out British classical music  . VW, Elgar, Walton etc.: I really want to listen to them one day.

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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2006 at 17:45
I was touched by the story that so many English progrock musicians (in the wealthy and religious southern part of the UK) grew up in the Anglo-Saxon church tradition with choirs and church organ (as I read in Edward Macan's boom Rocking The Classics), perhaps this is a clue to the often dramatic build-ups and bombastic climates in progrock?
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Beethoven's 9th, Dvorzak's New World Symph. Schubert's Unfinished Symph.
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