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Just to clarify, the word classical has two different meanings.
It can refer a specifically to the classical period Of music history, which is 1750-1825 or all compositions of concert Hall music that was written between 1500 and the present. Most people do refer us to the latter when they are speaking of classical music.
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i enjoyed 3 quarters of Music History when i attended florida state university, it was an elected class, to fulfill basic requirements, but wow, am i ever glad i took them!
and of course, the 'classical' period, as marty described, was my favorite period, with the 'Baroque' being my 2nd favorite, 'modern classical' my 3rd.
favorite Baroque composers: Handel, Bach, those are so obvious...also Vivaldi
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Now that Rob has staked his standard claim to have been listening to {insert style or artist} ever since {insert timeframe}, can Falcon Eddy be far behind with an apocryphal story about hanging out with Leonard Bernstein?
i'm into prog-rock, so of course i would be into classical music.
i especially like the music from the Baroque era, the usual suspects; plus Scarlatti, Monteverdi and a few others. this is my 'cover', and my own arrangement, of the intro of the 4th Brandenberg Concerto, a là Wendy Carlos.. it's all done with a physical modelling synthesizer. there's 2 flutes, a brass section playing chords, oboe, and violin. or approximation thereof...
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Originally Posted By: gonzo
i enjoyed 3 quarters of Music History when i attended florida state university, … and of course, the 'classical' period, as marty described, was my favorite period, with the 'Baroque' being my 2nd favorite, 'modern classical' my 3rd.
favorite Baroque composers: Handel, Bach, those are so obvious...also Vivaldi
favorite 'romantic' composers: Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky! with Rachmaninoff being my most favorite. that shit rocks.
favorite 'modern' composers, which includes Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy
I also had a 3-quarter “Survey of Music History” class that taught me a lot. I would argue that Debussy fits better in the Romantic category than Modern.
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I highly recommend Vaughan-Williams, particularly Thomas Tallis and The Lark Ascending, though I really love the oboe concerto too. Also, there's a wonderful American composer called Amy Beach who has some beautiful work.
My music streaming service has a classical radio station, and I grab all kinds of stuff that catches my ear off that and add them to a gigantic playlist. It is really varied.
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This is the padarewski tune I always remember my mom trying to practice and perfect on our piano at home. When it gets loud it would almost echo through the house.
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Like the Professor said, most regular folks (who might wear tennis shoes, or the occasional python boot) refer to all orchestral music as “classical.” But if you talk to someone educated in music history… a real musicologist, if you will, they will tell you that “Classical” and “Modern” are two different eras with different styles of music. Actually, I’m not sure if “Modern” is one of them. I think they might want to categorize the more recent stuff as “20th Century” and “Contemporary” instead.
Wifey and I have been attending the prestigious Bienalle Venezia 2024 art exhibition the past few days, and I have been corrected a number of times for calling it “modern art.” It is “contemporary art.” Art from the late 19th to mid 20th century is considered “Modern.” Don’t ask me where “Post-Modern” fits in. I’m sure some of the curators here would be glad to deliver a 2-hour lecture about it.
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If you can see that Apple playlist, it's 16 hours of stuff I've collected. I don't ever listen in order, I put it on shuffle. Great for many things, physical work is one.
I dip in and out of it … I rarely listen to music these days .. but when I do I have a couple fav rock bands I stay with and then it’s classical stuff .. I like the opera choral stuff …
Three favs
Bachs Johannes Passion Mozarts Requiem Mass & the magic flute
Not going into the obvious Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.. Here are other favorites of mine:
Offenbach: Barcarolle from "Gaite Pariesienne" . It is a short piece, in waltz time, but I really like it. I am normally not a fan of classical music waltz. Was featured often in the HBO show "Mad Men"
Humperdinck: Childresn's Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel".
Bizet: Nocturne from "Carmen"
Bizet: Adagietto from "L'arlesienne Sui9te No. 1
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Debussy: La Mer and also all else he wrote. Impressionism at it's finest
Debussy: Maid with the Flaxen Hair Debussy: Arabesque No.1 Debussy: Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun Debussy: Clair de lune Debussy: Valse romantique Debussy: Images for orchestra Debussy: Sonta for Flute, Viola and Harp
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 The Titan Mahler: Symphony 5 Part III adagietto
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for violin in D. Note: Why are the Russians so damn good and everything artistic? Novels, music , etc
Camille Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony Camille Saint-Saens: Aquarium from Le Carnaval des Animaux
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite - (it is beautiful and lovely)
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Francis Poulenc: "Piano Music of Francis Poulenc" played by Gabriel Tacchino on Angel Records. (Get this. Every little thing on it will give you a springboard of ideas) One of the pieces in here was featured in the Hitchcock movie "Rope".
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (get his complete orchestral music on CD or vinyl. On RCA Red Seal.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (helps you realize where Bernard Hermann obtained many of his ideas for his haunting film scores) Again with the Russian genius...
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Richard Wagner: Forest Murmurs from the Ring (I am not into his opera, or any opera for that matter. His overtures to each opera are however amazing. He was a noted anti-semite, but he is dead so I'll listen. If alive I would not support him. I am not jewish, but the Holocaust haunts me... born 5 years later and grew up in Ohio, far from that horror.
Brahms: German Requiem Brahms: Song of Destiny Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (I changed my mind. I will mention Brahms)
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending (already mentioned by Flatcat) Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 in D major
George Butterworth: On the Banks of the Green Willow George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody for Orchestra
(note on him, he was and English man, he only wrote a few things before he was tragically killed in World War I. The world lost a true talent)
Frederick Delius: Florida Suite
Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No.3 - "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs OP.36
Get this. Get ready for sad, but truly gorgeous music. This polish writer wrote this about the Holocaust. I like the one with Dawn Upshaw singing. I also have vinyl on this with Beth Gibbons singing with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, which is also amazing. NOT opera.. just frigging sad/beautiful
I could keep going, but hell, this is a start. I made a few changes already, and keep adding my favorites. Classical and jazz are mostly what I love.
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Great to see you Chris. Gorecki is intense.
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Yep, Bach. No, I never saw a playlist on your post. I took that and ran with it, and made suggestions for all lovers of symphonic music.
I will admit, for working, JS Bach and Haydn are really good tools to keep you bouncing and in a good frame of mind for work. I think Robert Fripp referred to Eno's music as "hoovering music". Good music to have on when working, physically or mentally. Joseph Hadyn and Johann S Bach were like that for me, (when I was working on my analyst spreadsheets).
Someone in the thread asked me about a month ago what I was actually listening to, and the work involved in typing all those long names of works was too much (names I don’t even know)I wanted to copy the playlist and post it here, but I couldn’t figure out how, and then I discovered Apple Music had a way for me to just drop the playlist here on the thread.
Now I am just wondering if it’s visible to everyone else. What I see is a playlist you could actually click on and hear the music. It’s like 16 hours of stuff.
It’s like 11 posts up from this one, and I wonder what people see on their ends. Does a playlist show up for anyone else?
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So wife and I recently had an anniversary and decided to go downtown for dinner and a show.
Found a nice restaurant we’d never been to before and hunted around for shows. We recently caught a show at a jazz club for my wife’s bday so we were looking for something different.
Ended up choosing to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to catch some “classical” music, exact definition aside. The bill was full of vocal/choral numbers which normally isn’t my favorite thing but ended up being pretty flipping sweet.
The lineup included several numbers from Handel:
-Water Music
-Otton, qual portentoso - Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina
-Prophetic raptures swell my breast from Joseph
-The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
-To thee thou glorious son from Theodora
-Let's imitate her notes above from Alexander's Feast
Then Beethoven’s Elegy
And finally Mozart’s Mass in C Major (Coronation)
It was exactly what I enjoy about classical music. Simultaneously soothing and intense.
After Water Music, the first voice number was for a counter tenor. Dude had the best voice I’ve heard since some random bro who sang Ave Maria at my buddy’s mother-in-law’s funeral several years ago. Just exquisite.
The next number or two were sung by the counter tenor and soprano and they were nailing some incredible vocal runs and harmonies.
Then for the Mozart piece they had the soprano, counter tenor, tenor and bass vocalists and a full choir. Again, just intense shit.
I also enjoyed the harpsichord in the Handel pieces. The conductor was doing double duty playing the harpsichord and conducting at the same time.
All in all, my wife and I both enjoyed it and we’re making it a point to try to hit one or two CSO shows a year.
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