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limeyrob 
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 Posted: March 03 2006 at 13:53 |
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Beethoven's 6th Symphony
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 13:42 |
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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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Chicapah
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 12:26 |
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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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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Emiaj
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 11:06 |
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Berlioz' Fantastique (?), Shostakovich's 7th and 8th.....
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 02:46 |
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La mer by Debussy (The sea) is an absolute must have.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 02:41 |
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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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Matti
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 00:51 |
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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BaldJean
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 17:50 |
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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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erik neuteboom
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 17:49 |
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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micky
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 17:43 |
 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
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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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eugene
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 17:39 |
Bach "St. Matthew's Passions"
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 17:05 |
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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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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:40 |
BaldJean wrote:
he was a famos virtuoso in his time
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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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BaldJean
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:24 |
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he was a famos virtuoso in his time
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:22 |
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:22 |
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Mother goose
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:21 |
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BaldJean
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:20 |
micky wrote:
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2....
I melt everytime I hear it... simply incredible.. especially to hear Rachmaninoff himself play it.
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you are probably refering to the Welte-Mignon recordings of Rachmaninoff. there are some of Debussy and Mahler too. and of Gershwin
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:18 |
Ricochet wrote:
So many,since classical music is my carrier and my
greatest passion...can't name a favourite...never could,never will...
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indulge us.... how about a list of your favorites...
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zabriskiepoint
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Posted: March 02 2006 at 16:17 |
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I bet baroque would be the best to start with, The four seasons by Vivaldi or the cello suites by Bach.
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Favorite classical piece of music?
hahahha... yeah. Maybe it's just
me but I really enjoy hearing him play it as well. He wasn't just
a great composer but a great pianist as well at least IMO (correct me
if you feel differently hahahha)
