Classical Music Appreciation Thread (1 Viewer)

[phatic]

Anyone here who likes classical music, please post up your favourite pieces/composers, and perhaps if you play an instrument, your favourite piece to play.

Overall my favourite composer would be J.S. Bach. His vocal music is definately some of the most beautiful music I've heard.

As for playing (piano), I will always have a soft spot for Fur Elise.

 

[Lori.]

I absolutely love Beethoven, my favourite piece is Symphony 7, the 2nd movement. I pretty much like anything thats played by violin (Beethoven's Violin Romance is also really good), because I used to play the Violin and I love the sound of it

 

[Nakashima]

I <3 Haydn's string quartets.

 

[luscious-llama]

Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio for Organ and Strings. Oh my god... melt.
Love Chopin too as well as Bach + Beethoven

 

[yy]

chopin is my fav, and i play the piano

 

[stazi]

nirvana's a pretty good classic band

 

[phatic]

Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio for Organ and Strings

Ah yes! I love this piece as well, and listen to it most nights atm.

 

[runtlocks]

I'm open to recommendations. I've been listening to Maurice Ravel and I quite like him

 

[MikiRei]

Fav piano composer: Liszt and Chopin
Fav orchestral works: Tchaikovsky though Saint Saens' pretty good too.
Fav orchestral pieces - in no particular order:
1. Ravel's "Bolero"
2. Saint Saen's "Organ Symphony"
3. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and "Romeo and Juliet"
4. Shostokovich's "Rite of Spring"
5. Threnody of Hiroshima (who wrote this again? Shoenberg?)
6. Surprise Symphony by Haydn

Fav Violin Concerto's:
1. Ross Edward's "Maninyas"
2. Saint Saens.....I forgot the name of this >< I think it was in A minor *shrug*
3. Tartini's "Sonata in G" (was it G?) aka. Tartini's Devil's Trill

Fav Piano Piece:
1. Michael Hindson's "Moments of Plastic Jubilation"
2. Debussy's "Bells Through the Leaves"
........hmmmmmmm

I'll stop here. Can't think of anything else atm.

 

[SamTan*06*]

I LOVE the New World Symphony. The second movement is the best.

and i will have Paccabells Cannon played at my wedding coz its one of the prettyest string pieces ever!

I sing *la!*

 

[quirkygirl]

Fav piano composer: Liszt and Chopin
Fav orchestral works: Tchaikovsky though Saint Saens' pretty good too.
Fav orchestral pieces - in no particular order:
1. Ravel's "Bolero"
2. Saint Saen's "Organ Symphony"
3. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and "Romeo and Juliet"
4. Shostokovich's "Rite of Spring"

don't you mean Stravinsky??????????????? not shostokovich?????

only because i am studying the "Rite of Spring" for my hsc exam this friday?.

ez

 

[bernz]

Favourite favourite favouriterest piece ever has to be Impromptu Caprice for Harp (Op. 9) by Gabriel Pierne, followed oh so closely by one of Joseph Haydn's string quartets, Op 33 No 2.

Favourite piece to play on vla is a tie between Swan Lake (do I really need to say who that's by?) and Bachanale by Saint-Saens in an orchestra, Pier Gynt Suite in a chamber group, and on piano Fur Elise... the WHOLE thing (my fave bit is the bit from the homophonic section all the way to the chromatic scale).

 

[MikiRei]

don't you mean Stravinsky??????????????? not shostokovich?????

only because i am studying the "Rite of Spring" for my hsc exam this friday?.

Thanks! I KNEW I had the name wrong but couldn't be bothered to google and check. And yeah, I studied Rite of Spring....back in yr 10....

 

[Tand'em]

Fav piano composer: Liszt and Chopin
Fav orchestral works: Tchaikovsky though Saint Saens' pretty good too.
Fav orchestral pieces - in no particular order:
1. Ravel's "Bolero"
2. Saint Saen's "Organ Symphony"
3. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and "Romeo and Juliet"
4. Shostokovich's "Rite of Spring"
5. Threnody of Hiroshima (who wrote this again? Shoenberg?)
6. Surprise Symphony by Haydn

Fav Violin Concerto's:
1. Ross Edward's "Maninyas"
2. Saint Saens.....I forgot the name of this >< I think it was in A minor *shrug*
3. Tartini's "Sonata in G" (was it G?) aka. Tartini's Devil's Trill

Fav Piano Piece:
1. Michael Hindson's "Moments of Plastic Jubilation"
2. Debussy's "Bells Through the Leaves"
........hmmmmmmm

I'll stop here. Can't think of anything else atm.

Twas Penderecki hu wrote the Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima...studied it in yr 10 along with the rite of spring

 

[SashatheMan]

Beethoven - moonlight Sonata
OH yeh!!!

 

[pattii]

=\ okay

 

[SashatheMan]

watching Clockwork Orange , always makes me wanna listen to Beethovin afterwards

 

[lala2]

I just love Romantic and 20th century stuff--fantastic! I also listen to film music, which is in no way the poor man's classical music....LOTR seriously rox my sox! At the moment I'm absolutely crushing on Carmina Burana.

Does anyone dream that one day they could just accumulate a library of music or books? Well, I do for both, and I'd just love to accumulate all the classical music of the world and their scores and spend hours just listening to my collection everyday. My grand retirement plan before I even graduate, lol.