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BaldFriede 
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 Topic: Favorite classical piece of music?
Posted: March 08 2006 at 04:38 |
Excuse me, but Hindemith himself titled this piece of music that way! It is a parody of Wagner!
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helofloki
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 23:45 |
Schubert's String Quintet in C Major, Berlioz' symphony fantastique, Penderecki's Meditations on the Victims of Hiroshima, Messaen's Quartet for the end of Time, Chopin's Ballade in F Major, Beethoven's 9th (yeah it's classic), and a lot of other stuff, but those are all really fantastic.
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Destrio
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 23:20 |
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Rachmaninoff's 2nd
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 21:52 |
Vivaldi's "Violin Concerto in A Minor". Ravel's "Bolero".
And Penguin Café Orchestra's "Music for a Found Harmonium"  .
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
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Soul Dreamer
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 21:27 |
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My favourite classical music is without a doubt: Chopin's Piano Concerts (both) and played by Maria Joao Pires
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Toob-Wurm
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Posted: March 05 2006 at 16:50 |
 BaldFriede wrote:
Toob-Wurm wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
You should listen to Hindemith's "Overture to the 'Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a second-rate concert orchestra at the village well at 7 o'clock in the morning", and you will laugh your ass off at how he makes a mockery of Wagner in it. |
Your're right - I should...  ...
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That was no criticism of Hindemith. I love that piece of music. So why the ?
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Whenever I hear the phrase "second-rate concert orchestra," I do that...
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Rosescar
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Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:28 |
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My favorite classical piece probably is a Prelude by Bach, BWV 924.
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"THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 05 2006 at 13:51 |
Toob-Wurm wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
You should listen to Hindemith's "Overture to the 'Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a second-rate concert orchestra at the village well at 7 o'clock in the morning", and you will laugh your ass off at how he makes a mockery of Wagner in it. |
Your're right - I should... ...
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That was no criticism of Hindemith. I love that piece of music. So why the ?
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Toob-Wurm
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Posted: March 05 2006 at 12:21 |
BaldFriede wrote:
You should listen to Hindemith's "Overture to the 'Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a second-rate concert orchestra at the village well at 7 o'clock in the morning", and you will laugh your ass off at how he makes a mockery of Wagner in it. |
Your're right - I should... ...
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daz2112
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Posted: March 05 2006 at 10:12 |
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anything by Handel
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In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 06:11 |
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You should listen to Hindemith's "Overture to the 'Flying Dutchman' as played
at sight by a second-rate concert orchestra at the village well at 7 o'clock
in the morning", and you will laugh your ass off at how he makes a mockery of Wagner in it.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 05:58 |
micky wrote:
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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And Schumann's piano concerto. I would call that my top 3 piano concertos:
- Rachmaninows 2nd
- Grieg's piano concerto
- Schumann's piano concerto
I tried to play the Grieg one, but that's a bit too ambitious at the moment, not the beginning, but all the fast solos
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Toob-Wurm
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 00:06 |
Hehe, my favorite is Paul Hindemith.
I heard a "friend" of mine say "who writes this stuff, and who actually listens to it??"
Yeah, he's one of the "proggier" composers if you ever listen to him.
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Hemispheres
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 22:16 |
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Rite Of Spring (Stravinsky)
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marktheshark
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 18:20 |
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Beethoven's 9th, Dvorzak's New World Symph. Schubert's Unfinished Symph.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 17:45 |
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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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Moogtron III
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 17:34 |
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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Moogtron III
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 17:29 |
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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Chicapah
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 15:41 |
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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Deliriumist
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 14:01 |
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Rodrigo - Concerto de Aranjuez
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Tshaikovsky - Nutcracker
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