Anyone here like/listen to classical music?

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04 Feb 2007, 4:15 am

...anyone?...

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04 Feb 2007, 4:16 am

If so, then what?

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04 Feb 2007, 4:50 am

s1lenze wrote:

If so, then what?

Hard to answer in a few words without feeling I'm slighting some composer... Some of my favorites are Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Villa Lobos, Poulenc, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Torroba (sorry my accent marks don't seem to work here...), Sor, Carcassi, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Shostakovich... And I could go on to practically fill this box.

I play piano, harpsichord, classical guitar, and the first two octaves on orchestral flute.

Currently the only instruments I possess are guitars, a flute, and a tar (drum made with stretched hide on a circular frame).

I have been attending dozens of concerts, mainly at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri/Kansas City (UMKC), in the past few years, though none so far this season. I enjoy live opera but not very much opera via recording or film. I enjoy ballet very much. Chamber music is probably my favorite genre: from solo instruments to sextets and beyond, but short of what's considered a full orchestra today. Though I do enjoy orchestral music in somewhat smaller doses.

I feel certain that, given the intelligence level and range of interests of persons in these forums, you and I are not the only classical music lovers. The others are probably just off listening with headphones or downloading MP3's.

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04 Feb 2007, 4:54 am

I'm not picky but I tend to prefer Bach.

Heavy Metal actually has more in common with classical music then rock nowadays.

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04 Feb 2007, 5:46 am

*Raises hand*

Presently, I mainly listen to Sibelius, Dowland and Vaughan Williams, but that is subject to change. I tend to go to concerts once every couple of months (there's an excellent venue for such things in my town).

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04 Feb 2007, 7:56 am

I enjoy listening to a CD, titled "Marches for Royal Occasions". I don't know if that would be classified as Classical, though.

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04 Feb 2007, 9:13 am

I'm a fan of Shastakovich, Telemann, and Chopin.

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04 Feb 2007, 10:30 am

I like aggressive classical music, mixed with techno/metal.

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04 Feb 2007, 10:32 am

Yes. I like almost all forms of music. I used to play the piano and played quite a few Classical pieces.

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04 Feb 2007, 11:01 am

I like most types of Classical Music though i tend to prefer Russian Composers, one of my favourite pieces of Classical Music is "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev.

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04 Feb 2007, 11:41 am

CockneyRebel wrote:

I enjoy listening to a CD, titled "Marches for Royal Occasions". I don't know if that would be classified as Classical, though.

In my book it would qualify as classical. Actually, I just like music (and especially brass-band music!) but from a lifetime of listening I've ended up with a predominantly classical collection of CD's and LP's. And my training (6 years of piano) is classical.

My mom had the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on every Saturday afternoon at home in the late 40s and early 50s (she died in '52). I liked those and that tended to push me towards classical, too.

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04 Feb 2007, 11:44 am

MelancholyBunny wrote:

I like most types of Classical Music though i tend to prefer Russian Composers, one of my favourite pieces of Classical Music is "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev.

A year or so ago, I listened again to Prokofiev's music for Eisenstein's film "Alexander Nevsky" and was in tears before it was over. It is the recording on Vox by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

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04 Feb 2007, 11:50 am

subalternnavert wrote:

I'm a fan of Shastakovich, Telemann, and Chopin.

I believe that if humanity survives that long (which I definitely have doubts about), Shostakovich will in a hundred or two hundred years be one of the few composers of the 20th century who is remembered, or at least highly respected. His string quartets and symphonies and the 24 Preludes for Piano often enter into the realm of the profound--territory not all modern composers have explored. The string quartets remind me often of Beethoven's.

I enjoy Telemann and just about all baroque music, too.

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04 Feb 2007, 11:54 am

Finlay wrote:

I recently went through a Dowland "phase" and obtained lots of his music. I would like to be able to play his lute pieces on guitar, but they're far beyond my ability either now or probably ever; very, very difficult. I have all the Sibelius symphonies in two different recordings, but though I respect them totally and believe some are truly great music, I also find them generally depressing, and I don't need that, since I'm prone to depressive bouts that get pretty serious. I keep thinking I'll try them again in small doses but haven't done it.

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05 Feb 2007, 8:44 am

jonrkc wrote:

I concur. I prefer only to listen to the fourth and seventh symphonies every once in a while (though I'd jump at the chance to see either in performance). The third, though, is a different thing entirely, it being very cheerful.

By the way, what Hindemith work would you recommend? I'm only familiar with When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (the convergence of my music, poetry, and Civil War history interests, I guess), and somehow I don't think that's quite typical of the composer.

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05 Feb 2007, 9:21 am

I like Brahms and Chopin, I haven't gotten around to the other guys yet but it looks like I might favour Romantic over the other styles, which is not surprising to me in the least to be honest.

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