Any classical music fans?

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I see posts about heavy metal; I'm wondering if there is anyone on the other end of the spectrum, that likes classical music.

My favorites are Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Chopin, and Beethoven.

Yes, I am definitely a classical music listener. Beethover, Brahms, Mozart, Chopin to name a few. I can't say that I am a huge listener to more contemporary composers. I did have Philip Glass' "Mishima" score until it was stolen several years ago. In the modern era, I tend to stay in the Copleand and Gershwin vein. I used to collect film scores before they just became compilation of putrid pop songs. Jerry Goldsmith was one of the greats. Danny Elfman is good. James Horner tends to sound the same with each movie score.

I usually listen to this music when I'm working at my drawing board. I find it far less distracting. Either that or I listen to old radio horror and thrillers from the 30's & 40's over Shoutcast streaming radio. I like that because I don't have to look at anything while I'm working.

I like 'em both.

I am a classical music fan. I have classical training, also.

I love the work/s of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Mozart (vocal works), Rachmaninov (incl. his preludes and other piano works), Schubert (piano and vocal works also his chamber music), Schumann (piano works mainly), Beethoven (I like the later stuff that starts crossing into romantic a little more than the earlier works), Stephen Heller, Rimsky-Korsakov, JS and CPE Bach, Chopin, Elgar's cello works, Jacqueline DuPre (cellist), Davis Periera (Australian cellist), claudio arrau (pianist), to name some off the top of my head. I don't mind Saint-Saens either, or DeBussy or Greig or Sibelius or Bartok....

I have listened and liked few compositions from Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Berlioz.

^ ^ If you are interested in listening to more and finding something that you like, I recommend listening to a compilation CD. There are different types of classical music: different genres that each have different styles and different composers within those genres.

Also there are many different instruments that have had classical music written for them.

For example, I love vocal music from the latter half of the millenia yet don't really like mediavel vocal music very much.

To give another example, I love instrumental music written for one or two instruments but I really don't like symphonies that much. The only thing I will listen to is Concertos, although I love Rimsky-Korsakovs Scherazade. (sorry my spelling is incorrect there). It's like smurfs music (I think it's Gargamel's theme).
Apart from that exception, symphonies sound too big, overwhelming and often boring to me.

There are so many different flavours.

I like classical musik, but I prefer solo instruments to orchestra stuff.
My favorite composer is Domenico Scarlatti. Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcsRl_LIJHA (played by Martha Argerich)
I also like Bach, Beethoven (his sonatas, not his symphonies, though) and Rachmaninov. And some others.

I don't see metal and classical music as opposite ends of one spectrum.

I like music in different genres.

In classical music I like Baroque.
My favourites:
Bach, for example: cantata BWV 147 - 1. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Vivaldi, for example: opera Moctezuma
Händel, for example: oratorio Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus.

I sometimes get a great sense of peace and tranquility when listening to opera late at night. I've also really enjoyed going to classical music, granted I've not seen more than swan lake and a couple of operas but it is a wonderful experience.

I LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC but I don't know it very well. I love what I've heard from Vivaldi, Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky + various other classical composers. The only piece of music I really know by Philip Glass is Koyaaniskatsi, I LOVE that. I don't really think of that as classical music though, just freaky but cool music... Ah well.

It's a shame that so many people of my generation don't like classical music very much, there are many beautiful pieces out there.

I like classical to some degree but I cant help but to wonder what it really sounded like when it was created, you know they had insterments that they dont have anymore...well maybe if you went to a museum but really not in ussage right now, so it sounds different than it used to. I do like Bach, some Bethoven ( his work can be overstimulating to me sometimes) and I love Mozart....his work has a mind elevating effect...I think clearer while listening to his music...not only is his music genius...it imparts a touch of genius into who ever really listens to it.

As far as some of the others...I cant spell their names, so I am not going to try and I really dont favor them as much anyway.

On the subject of heavy metal...it makes me nausious and overtimulated to hear it. I tend to think of it as the musical equivolent of explosive diarrea.

Dont mind my spelling...I am hearing impaired and spell the way things sound to me which is interesting
Speaking of that...is one reason I am drawn to music without a vocal because I cant hear what the singer is saying anyway. It blends in with the music too much that the singer just sounds like part of musical insterments

Jojo

Yes, I like classical, but I think most of the classical and baroque repertoires are overplayed. (See: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.)

I'm more into the romantic repertoire, particularly the romantic organ repertoire, like Vierne, Widor, Franck, Mendelssohn, and other composers from the same era.

I think my favorite classical composer would be Tchaikovsky. I don't mind listening to classical music, but I don't particularly care for opera, though.

I don't go to performances, but I have a few popular classics CDs I like listening to.

I generally like slow pieces for strings, such as Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending (probably my all-time favourite!), Barber's Adagio for Strings, Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.
I like Satie's mellow piano pieces too, as well as Rachmaninov's more energetic ones.

I get the feeling I wouldn't like much opera, but I really like Nessun Dorma and O Mia Babbino Caro by Puccini and Summertime by Gershwin.

Yes. I'm mostly into late Baroque music, especially Bach and Handel and their Italian contemporaries (Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Locatelli, etc.). I also enjoy Mozart and Beethoven, as well as some of the romantic composers, especially Schumann and Bruckner. And I do have a soft spot for Renaissance polyphony (especially Josquin des Prez).

As for more modern music, I like Schonberg, Alban Berg, Bartok especially, Philip Glass, and Arvo Part. I don't listen to popular music much, but I can appreciate it as background music most of the times.

Then don't listen to the really famous works, which (I agree) are indeed overplayed. Vivaldi, for instance, wrote over 750 concerti (not only for the violin, but for all sorts of instruments), most of which are rather obscure, yet often are very beautiful and intensely lyrical. In fact, I consider "The Four Seasons" definitely to be among his weaker works. Listen to this for example, to get my meaning:

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