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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jun 12, 2008 9:32:27 GMT
Meh... it's been a long time since I've caught up with Western classical. Yeah, there's Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schubert... anyone to suggest? Gustav Holst's The Planet was excellent, I'll admit. But for all the various musicians, I can't even remember the names of their good pieces. Anyone has any recommendations?
Also, looking for some good classical piano/pianists: not technical compositions but interesting stuff. I'm currently listening to Debussy which is kinda all right, I guess.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jun 12, 2008 11:09:33 GMT
Edvard Grieg, The Peer Gynt Suite.
If Piano is the key, Franz Liszt - in his time he was for piano what Paganini was for the violine
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jun 12, 2008 12:28:08 GMT
Mozart's Requiem is quite possibly the best piece of music ever written. You can almost feel his striving to overcome death in the music.
Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries is awesome.
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is good.
Debussy's Clair De Lune I have always liked.
Borodin also created some great music, found in its best form in the musical Kismet which added words...
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jun 13, 2008 0:39:35 GMT
Wow, thanks folks!  |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jun 13, 2008 0:50:15 GMT
My pleasure, Ma'am! |
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Post by Galadriel on Jun 13, 2008 8:23:07 GMT
Vivaldi's "4 seasons"
Johann Strauss' "Radedsky March" & "An der Schonen Blauen Donau" (close your eyes en think you're in a boat at the Donau)
Beethoven "Fur Elise" (My grandmother was named Elise and died at the age 38, this song is on theonly excisting video tape I have of her.)
Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 "Prelude" (I love the deep warm sound of the cello)
I adore the whole movie Fantasia by Disney which has following music parts in it:
# Toccata en Fuga in d-minus (J.S. Bach, orchestrated by Stokowski)
# The Nutcrackerssuite (Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski)
* Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy (elves are spreading dew over the forest)
* Chinese Dance (dancing "Chinese" mushrooms)
* Dance of The Reed Flutes (flowers are dancing on the water)
* Arabian Dance (e few black fish and 1 orange fish dancing in the water)
* Russian Dance (dancing flowers that look like Russian folkdancers)
* Waltz of The Flowers (the passing from summer to winter; elves make the green leafs brown, let the seeds free, spread ice dew over the plants and drop snowflakes)
# The wizards student (Paul Dukas)
# Le Sacre du Printemps (Igor Stravinsky)
There is another classical music part that I absolutely love, but I can't find it. It also involves the Donau.
*edit* and of course: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jun 13, 2008 12:43:36 GMT
There is another classical music part that I absolutely love, but I can't find it. It also involves the Donau.
Sure you do not mean the Moldau? That'd be Antonin Dvorak...
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Post by Galadriel on Jun 13, 2008 14:13:42 GMT
There is another classical music part that I absolutely love, but I can't find it. It also involves the Donau. Sure you do not mean the Moldau? That'd be Antonin Dvorak...
Die Moldau this part alone gives me such shivers but I love it! |
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Post by Alrik on Jun 14, 2008 23:01:37 GMT
At school, there was a piece by Max Reger I liked very much. Also, I can recommend the "classical album" of Tony Banks of Genesis : 7 . By the way : Bach played visually  : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jun 16, 2008 3:04:15 GMT
Whoo... what a list! I think that's way more than enough for a long time.  |
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Post by Hildor on Jul 14, 2008 19:12:16 GMT
This is one hell of a classical music tip: Canon in D by Pachelbel.
I'm in love with it!
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Post by Lews on Jul 15, 2008 0:52:55 GMT
Wagner is my favorite.
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Post by Hildor on Jul 19, 2008 8:30:06 GMT
A great source for getting classical music: Wikipedia  Look up the articles of composers. In those articles there are sometimes little music players that play the composer's work. Start playing the piece of music you want to hear > click 'more' > 'download file' > a .ogg music file is downloading .ogg files can't be played with Windows Media Player and I don't think with iTunes either. WinAmp is a music player that does recognise these files: Free download > install > enjoy the music (I had a little problem with WinAmp before because it made itself the standard player for all the music files on my computer. To solve that, right-click on of the files (.mp3/.wma/whatver) you still want to play with Media Player/iTunes/whatever > 'open with' > 'choose program' > select the music player you want > select 'always open this type of file with this program' > 'OK' > and everything is set to normal again) Another way to open the .ogg files without downloading a new music player is converting them to .mp3 or .wma files. I always download the trial version of Blaze Media Pro for this: Free download > install > open the program > 'Convert Audio' > 'Convert and compress audio' > 'add file(s)' > select to which type of file you want to convert > 'convert file(s)' > enjoy the music (Make sure you remove the program before the trial limit runs out. That way you can download it again later and just use it again I think.) *EDIT: Here you can find the Wikipedia soundlist. |
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Post by ss on Jul 19, 2008 15:26:54 GMT
Nicholas Charles Bocha...Harp concerto in D minor....excellent
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