Classical

[jspchief]

Anyone here listen to classical music?

I enjoy it, but don't know many titles or composers. Wondering if anyone has suggestions for songs or albums.

[Hammock Parties]

Here are some of my favorite composers:

Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Vivaldi
Strauss
Wagner
Holst (The Planets!)
Grieg

Here's a nice compilation box set. It has 20 CDs, each featuring a different composer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1C9/002-8583665-4839231?v=glance&n=5174

[Donger]

Anyone here listen to classical music?

I enjoy it, but don't know many titles or composers. Wondering if anyone has suggestions for songs or albums.

Other than Tool, I don't listen to anything else.

I'd start out with Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. Just get (or download) a Best Of CD of each. My parents used to play these all the time, and I guess it just stuck.

I'd also recommend Felix Mendelssohn, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Vivaldi.

[Donger]

Here are some of my favorite composers:

Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Vivaldi
Strauss
Wagner
Holst (The Planets!)
Grieg

Here's a nice compilation box set. It has 20 CDs, each featuring a different composer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1C9/002-8583665-4839231?v=glance&n=5174

F*cking geek.

[Hammock Parties]

F*cking geek.

Classical music is not geeky.

[Miles]

Tchaikovsky - 4th, 5th and 6th symphonies.
Dvorak - New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9)

[Donger]

Classical music is not geeky.

It was a joke. Compare my list to yours.

[Hammock Parties]

It was a joke. Compare my list to yours.


F*cking geek.

[redfan]

I listen to classical music, but it's pretty broad category. Instumental or vocal?

[Jenson71]

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LlvUepMa31o?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LlvUepMa31o?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

[blaise]

If you like piano Prokofiev is maybe a good one to try.

Piano concerto no. 3 maybe.

[MOhillbilly]

public radio from 9-3p.

[keg in kc]

I tend to lean more towards more modern stuff. Lately I've been listening to Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto N. 2 in G minor, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection', Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet Suite (heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey), Penderecki's Polish Requiem and Britten's War Requiem. All favorites that I hadn't listened to in years.

[thecoffeeguy]

Another good one is Bredrich Smetana.

here is a very good piece done by him. One of my favorites.

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kdtLuyWuPDs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kdtLuyWuPDs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

[WV]

Get XM radio and let them decide your play list. Good stuff when you need to relax.

[Lzen]

Good stuff. Was just listening to Beethoven's Symphony No.3 and Symphony No. 6 this morning. People who don't know me that well would probably be shocked. I have listened to classical on occasion ever since I was a teenage head banger. One of my quirks, I guess.

My collection includes:

Beethoven
Mozart
Chopin
Bach
Brahm
Many various/mix albums.

I got a lot of my collection from Amazon. They sell 99 Most Essential (insert composer) type of albums all the time for cheap MP3 albums.

[Lzen]

For instance:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0043WLQT0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1QADAZSTEXYAD5674N7P&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0048NUUS2/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0N7YVAH6H91PV8HC0V42&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045KK9PW/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0N7YVAH6H91PV8HC0V42&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

Christmas:
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Christmas-Masterpieces-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B002S34S82/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291925065&sr=301-1

[Jenson71]

Why is classical music so important, and so meaningful to us when it doesn't even contain lyrics?

I want to know how to play piano well. I want to take lessons. I wish I had been forced into piano when I was a kid, but maybe I wouldn't have appreciated it.

How can DeBussey's Clare de Lune be so beautiful to me? I can't explain it.

[loochy]

Here are some of my favorite composers:

Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Vivaldi
Strauss
Wagner
Holst (The Planets!)
Grieg

Here's a nice compilation box set. It has 20 CDs, each featuring a different composer.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1C9/002-8583665-4839231?v=glance&n=5174

You live in Dallas now, right? Do you ever listen to 101.1 FM? It's my favorite for heavy traffic and the way home from work. It's nice and soothing.

[loochy]

Why is classical music so important, and so meaningful to us when it doesn't even contain lyrics?

I want to know how to play piano well. I want to take lessons. I wish I had been forced into piano when I was a kid, but maybe I wouldn't have appreciated it.

How can DeBussey's Clare de Lune be so beautiful to me? I can't explain it.

Because the music is so well thought out and intricate that it can tell a story without lyrics.

[JD10367]

Smetana's "The Moldau" is my favorite piece, followed closely by Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (done on period instruments, sounds better than modern instruments). Hard to go wrong with anything from Mozart or Beethoven. Actually, hard to go wrong with a whole lot of it: Handel and Hayden, Liszt, Chopin, "Peter and the Wolf", the 1812 Overture, "Ride Of The Valkryies" by Wagner, Debussy's "Claire de Lune", Vivaldi's concertos, The Nutcracker Suite... Throw a rock and you'll hit something good.

[thecoffeeguy]

Smetana's "The Moldau" is my favorite piece, followed closely by Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (done on period instruments, sounds better than modern instruments). Hard to go wrong with anything from Mozart or Beethoven. Actually, hard to go wrong with a whole lot of it: Handel and Hayden, Liszt, Chopin, "Peter and the Wolf", the 1812 Overture, "Ride Of The Valkryies" by Wagner, Debussy's "Claire de Lune", Vivaldi's concertos, The Nutcracker Suite... Throw a rock and you'll hit something good.

Ya. My freshmen year of college, 1st semester I had a music class. I was kinda like, eh, whatever. Anyway, really liked the class.

Teacher put on "The Moldau" on one day and told the story of how Smetana wrote the song to show the beauty of Czechoslovokia (before the Nazis of course) and I was instantly hooked. Great piece.

The obvious ones are Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Hayden, Handel, Stravinsky. I also really like Johann Strauss, the King of the Waltz. Good stuff. Now I need to find a good station. :)

Best music to study to IMHO.

[Jenson71]

See if you've heard this before (you can start at 2:16):

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzFi-7H9TKs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzFi-7H9TKs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

It's from Mozart. Seriously, there are so many times when I stumble across a famous piece of music, and go "ooh, so that's where that came from." It's quite a thrill. What an amazing world.

[Fishpicker]

Boccherini's Minuet

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KH-DO3FgROI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KH-DO3FgROI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>