Anybody else like classical music?

[Minnesota Flats]

I gravitate towards dissonance, polyrhythms, asymmetrical meters and such: restless, violent music. Too much sweet harmony puts me to sleep. I don't care for bland food, either: give me something with some hot peppers in it!

This is one of my all-time favorites within the genre:



What, if any, classical pieces do you enjoy?

 

[tonepoet]

Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1. One of my favorites

 

[tonepoet]

Another Quartet fave... Beethoven Op 18 No 4, 1st movement.

It's not too far-fetched to argue that the beginnings of rock 'n' roll can date back to a 4-piece group doing a piece of acoustic rock like this. Way to go Ludwig!! Rock on !!

 

[Minnesota Flats]

So far, the Ruskies are running two-zip...

Ooops: simultaneous post. The Krauts've got a foot ion the door.

 

[Brad Little]

I managed a record store that did about half its business in classical records, listened to a lot of it, have probably 600 or so classical recordings LPs/CDs. That doesn't count about an equal number of classical guitar recordings. Don't limit myself to any one period, although I'm slightly partial to baroque and modern.

 

[RBSinTo]

I enjoy classical music, but like my taste in pop tunes, it is scattered all over the place, and so I like this or that piece rather than gravitating to particular composers work.
RBSinTo

 

[tonepoet]

Another for the argument that some of these guys were early rockers with these string quartet groups. Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet, 1st movement. Listen to them kick in around 00:35 and get intense for the next minute or so. The whole piece is stunning, but here is the 1st movement of the Quartet

 

[RBSinTo]

I managed a record store that did about half its business in classical records, listened to a lot of it, have probably 600 or so classical recordings LPs/CDs. That doesn't count about an equal number of classical guitar recordings. Don't limit myself to any one period, although I'm slightly partial to baroque and modern.

Could we say that when you buy music, you go for baroque?
RBSinTo

 

[Minnesota Flats]

I wonder what the "B" side of this single was...

 

[tonepoet]

An example of Beethoven's power and his use of taking a simple melodic phrase and passing it through the sections of the orchestra. The 2nd Movement of his 9th Symphony, composed when he was completely deaf, by the way.

Very powerful to experience this live. Highly recommended as a live experience.

 

[tonepoet]

I wonder what the "B" side of this single was...

Maybe his "B" side was the 1st Movement of Quartet No. 17 called "The Hunt"

 

[Minnesota Flats]

For people of my generation, it's hard to listen to this without visualizing bubbling lava and a tyranosaurus killing a stegosaurus (thanks, Walt). Also hard to imagine that the music and dancing caused a riot when it premiered in 1913. In any case, I love it:

 

[tonepoet]

For people of my generation, it's hard to listen to this without visualizing bubbling lava and a tyranosaurus killing a stegosaurus (thanks, Walt). Also hard to imagine that the music and dancing caused a riot when it premiered in 1913. In any case, I love it:

Another great one to see live. I've experienced the Rites of Spring twice performed by the San Francisco Symphony when I lived there. Powerful stuff.

 

[AcornHouse]

Well, I have 3 advanced degrees focusing on classical music, so, yeah, I guess you could say I like it. My favorites have varied through the years; an early one was Tchaikovsky which led directly in Mahler after my Jr. High band directorthought I’d like him since I liked Tchaikovsky.

But since there’s been a focus on European composers, I thought I’d throw in a homegrown favorite, whom I just found out that he’s a 7th cousin, which thrills me to no end. The real founder of American classical music is Charles Ives. Before him the American composers were all German trained and pretty much followed that model. Ives received his initial training from his father, who had been a Cival war band leader at the age of 15. His father, George Ives, liked to experiment, one time inviting three other town bands to his Connecticut hometown and had each band march towards the town square from different directions playing different songs. Charles would later incorporate these sonic memories into his own music.

Sometimes nostalgic, oftimes forward thinking, always beautiful.

Heres just a couple of iconic pieces.

 

[Brad Little]

Could we say that when you buy music, you go for baroque?
RBSinTo

There was actually an LP with that title,

 

[gjmalcyon]

My "desert island" symphony (as in, "you can only take one"):



And this one. Gets me every time. Every. Time.

 

[12 string]

Nothing but cover bands here!

 

[Brad Little]

It's not too far-fetched to argue that the beginnings of rock 'n' roll can date back to a 4-piece group doing a piece of acoustic rock like this. Way to go Ludwig!! Rock on !!

Liszt was a matinee idol and so concerned with his image that he was the reason that piano is now played with the pianist in profile rather than with the piano facing the audience and the musician behind it. I'm guessing that he thought his right profile was the better.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I like a lot of string quartets. Orchestral and piano pieces have so much going on I feel like my little head is going to pop.

 

[Uke]

Gustav!