Anybody else like classical music?

[Ross]

I'm a fan of early "classical", renaissance or medieval. Back then there was often little or no difference between secular "folk" music and the religious music that later led to the Classical genre.

 

[chazmo]

I have very wide taste in classical music. I was raised with it, and I have played classical music (on trumpet) all my life. I guess I'm least interested in baroque and early music and on the other hand very interested in pieces written from the 1700s until the early 1900s (great Russian composers of the era that is).

I've never learned any classical on guitar, and was not trained that way.

I'm not sure I can point to a favorite. I really adore when great music is adapted and used for the screen. Fantasia, for example. Looney Tunes cartoons. Etc. I have no real affection for most of Disney's work, but his choice of music was always great. At least back in the day, that is.

 

[Canard]

It depends upon what is meant by Classical. Do I like it? No. I either love it or hate it, or am completely indifferent to it.

I love most early music, pre-Baroque. Love Dowland. Love a lot of Baroque music. Then it sort of becomes hit and miss until the early moderns. Love the Spanish guitar composers. I love the Russian FIST--the five fingers being, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin--and Stravinsky. Love a lot of Bartok. Love Respighi. Love Ravel. Love Debussy. Love Ligeti. Love the modern minimalists: Reich, Riley, Part, etc.

I won't go into what I hate and am indifferent to. No point in being negative.

This contemporary Russian composer, Nikolai Kapustin, recently came to my attention. His piano etudes are not Jazz, but they are informed by Jazz. And they are quite impressive.

 

[Minnesota Flats]

This contemporary Russian composer, Nikolai Kapustin, recently came to my attention. His piano etudes are not Jazz, but they are informed by Jazz. And they are quite impressive.

Interesting, Had never heard of him. Thanks for posting.

 

[Uke]

This thread continues to ignore classical GUITAR music. Fernando Sor:

 

[Midnight Toker]

In the very recent Rick Beato interview w/ Steve Morse, Morse says you can speed up any piece by Beethoven, add a double bass drum beat to it, and you have a metal song!

My father jammed a violin under my chin at the age of 5 and I played in school and county youth orchestras all the way until I graduated high school. Been to countless classical concerts for as long as I can remember. Seeing baroque played on actual period instruments in period pitch in ancient cathedrals in Germany were some truly great experiences. My father was a real classical aficionado.He could have easily taught college classes on the subject. I didn’t really gain a true love for it until after I had stopped playing violin seriously. (Sadly) He knew I loved virtuosic electric guitar music, so he would always buy me stuff like Yehudi Menuhin playing Paganini’s 1st violin concerto….and I would try to turn him onto Emerson Lake and Palmer doing Aaron Copland. Sort of an attempt to meet somewhere in the middle!

Today I find myself listening to more classical than ever before. (not so much modern)

 

[tonepoet]

My Dad's tastes were all over the place. So, it would be Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs one moment, then Mozart and Beethoven, then Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio next next. And I thank him for that.

But as a kid, the classical music was this massive impenetrable wall of sound I couldn't get through.

Then, I was maybe 16 sitting on the couch reading a magazine. I looked up from my magazine to see my Dad looking into my eyes while he was conducting what I found out was the 1st Movement of Beethoven's 6th symphony. And I thought "Holy crap! This guy can follow this stuff. He actually knows what is happening here". I discovered that I could actually tap my foot to this stuff. From there my journey began with "classical" music.

Where it really took off for me was when CDs came on the market in the mid-1980s. People were dumping their classical vinyl records at used record stores and I could buy a boxed set of the complete Schubert symphonies for $10. It was a fabulous time for buying classical records for next to nothing.

 

[Uke]

My Dad's tastes were all over the place. So, it would be Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs one moment, then Mozart and Beethoven, then Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio next next. And I thank him for that.

But as a kid, the classical music was this massive impenetrable wall of sound I couldn't get through.

Then, I was maybe 16 sitting on the couch reading a magazine. I looked up from my magazine to see my Dad looking into my eyes while he was conducting what I found out was the 1st Movement of Beethoven's 6th symphony. And I thought "Holy crap! This guy can follow this stuff. He actually knows what is happening here". I discovered that I could actually tap my foot to this stuff. From there my journey began with "classical" music.

Where it really took off for me was when CDs came on the market in the mid-1980s. People were dumping their classical vinyl records at used record stores and I could buy a boxed set of the complete Schubert symphonies for $10. It was a fabulous time for buying classical records for next to nothing.

I love watching Dudamel conduct.

 

[Brad Little]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I detest the word 'classical' and it's implied age and superiority. Can something be contemporary and classic at the same time?

I prefer 'symphonic' or 'string quartet' or whatever. And I can really appreciate the musicality and vision of many composers. Stuff far beyond my imagination.

Technically, Classical refers to the period between Baroque and Romantic eras. The genre as a whole is the Common Practice Period, although that doesn't include modern music, so, roughly 1600 to 1910.

 

[GGJaguar]

roughly 1600 to 1910.

Okay, so it's 1600 to 1750 for me. I also really like Philip Glass, but I have not idea how he is classified. Modern? Post-modern?

 

[Brad Little]

Okay, so it's 1600 to 1750 for me. I also really like Philip Glass, but I have not idea how he is classified. Modern? Post-modern?

Don't know if it's accurate, but I've heard that genre referred to as minimalist. It would also include Terry Riley and Steve Reich.

 

[AcornHouse]

I graduated high school in 1976, and went into "competition" for all-state choir in my senior year. I ended up being the only kid from my high school to make it, but boys always had better odds than the girls because there were so many more of them.

My making the choir probably had more to do with my ability to hit a low E (same as the low E on a guitar) reliably, and that was something not too many high schoolers could do. It also turns out there were a lot of them in this piece, part of an all American composer performance for the bicentennial.



It's a very powerful piece.

Nice. Haven't listened to that in a long while.

As far as choral music, some of the most beautiful ever written is, for me, the Byrd Masses for 3, 4, and 5 voices.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I detest the word 'classical' and it's implied age and superiority. Can something be contemporary and classic at the same time?

I prefer 'symphonic' or 'string quartet' or whatever. And I can really appreciate the musicality and vision of many composers. Stuff far beyond my imagination.

I pretty much agree, the word "Classical" is used to cover a very large range of musical styles. A bit like using one word to cover Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass, Country & Western, Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Heavy Metal and probably quite a few other styles

 

[tonepoet]

An example of a choral part that blows me away is this one. Especially the melodies they launch into around 01:06 into the piece. Delibes- Lakme (Duo of the Flowers)

And live, Beethoven's Ode To Joy will send lighting up and down your spine.

 

[tonepoet]

Best flash mob ever...



Live, Beethoven's Ode To Joy from Symphony No. 9 will send lighting up and down your spine. If you haven't experienced it live yet, I highly recommend it

 

[Uke]

An example of a choral part that blows me away is this one. Especially the melodies they launch into around 01:06 into the piece. Delibes- Lakme (Duo of the Flowers)

And live, Beethoven's Ode To Joy will send lighting up and down your spine.

Voices can be amazing things !

 

[tonepoet]

This a longer segment to listen to.. in the 9 minute range. Wagner's prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin. The first time I heard this I was in my twenties and quite high (yes, those were the days!) and my roommate and I were in the Red Rocks Canyon Park outside of L.A. looking at something like this...


Minutes from a booming metropolis like Los Angeles, we are looking at this and he says "Check this out" and puts this on the tape deck. I think I had an out-of-body experience with this one.

 

[tonepoet]

And if that put you to sleep, here's 8 minutes to wake up with... the 3rd Movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony

 

[RBSinTo]

Best flash mob ever...



Live, Beethoven's Ode To Joy from Symphony No. 9 will send lighting up and down your spine. If you haven't experienced it live yet, I highly recommend it

tonepoet,
It gave Hans Gruber, and Theo shivers when it played as the Nakatomi Corporation vault finally opened.
Welcome to the party pal!
RBSinTo

 

[Canard]

George Butterworth (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916)

George Butterworth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A what might have been composer. Part of the English Folk Music revival. Friend of Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams and contemporary of Delius.

Life taken, age 31, on 5 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme.

Some suggest he might have eventually outshone his contemporaries had he lived.