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Who listens to classical music? And what are your favorite pieces?

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This is Jiri Kylian's interpretation of Mozart's 2nd movement of the Piano Concerto No. 23, and having seen and worked with some great dance companies this is one of the best.

 

 

 

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One of my favorites but there are lots more! I listen to all kinds of music everyday. Usually by headphones but sometimes i crank up the old stereo set,sounds great! Yes my Thai partner

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58 minutes ago, Stupooey said:

 

She (Katherine Jenkins)  performed at the Bangkok International Festival of Dance & Music last Thursday; regrettably I missed it.

Funny, I just wanted to mention that. I did attend. Have to say I was more impressed by Joseph Calleja and Celine Byrne, but that could also have to with the repertoire and the fact Katherine Jenkins used a microphone, which caused slight imbalance of sound between orchestra and her. It also changed the natural sound to something digitally amplified.

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38 minutes ago, LeungKen said:

This is Jiri Kylian's interpretation of Mozart's 2nd movement of the Piano Concerto No. 23, and having seen and worked with some great dance companies this is one of the best.

 

 

 

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I've heard it all but my tastes have changed over the years. The problem with most classical music is that the composers feel the need to lurch from loud to soft repeatedly. Take Bruckner - you're enjoying a beautiful serene passage then up comes another stupid crescendo. Have to turning the sound up and down repeatedly. Seems like they just can't help it.

 

Nowadays I mainly listen to choral music and singing - Tallis, Dowland and the like - because it stays serene. This is pure sophistication ????

 

In my earlier days though I could stand some turmoil. My candidates for the most stonking pieces of music of all time are Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe (check out the incredible orgasmic climax), and Prokofiev's Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution - the climax to this is the most astonishing thing I've ever heard.

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Victornoir: we're straying off the classical subject, but, yes, wonderful Miles - before all the 'fusion junk'. (His Carnegie Hall performance 1961 I treasure. You know the great Miles discs of that period)

 

Of course, he didn't want to play the same music and in the same way that he'd played for so long before, but it's still junk.)

 

Had Clifford Brown not been killed in a car accident in 1956, he would have been a greater trumpeter and composer than Miles. Perhaps Fats Navarro and Lee Morgan too, both dying very young.

 

Talking of that, have you heard Roy Hargrove (dead at age 49) playing live on YouTube "I Remember Clifford'? Blissful.

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2 hours ago, federico said:

Rachmaninov concerto numéro 2 ut minor

I'm guessing that's his piano concerto no. 2 in C minor.
 

 

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4 hours ago, Mr Derek said:

I've heard it all but my tastes have changed over the years. The problem with most classical music is that the composers feel the need to lurch from loud to soft repeatedly. Take Bruckner - you're enjoying a beautiful serene passage then up comes another stupid crescendo. Have to turning the sound up and down repeatedly. Seems like they just can't help it.

 

Nowadays I mainly listen to choral music and singing - Tallis, Dowland and the like - because it stays serene. This is pure sophistication ????

 

In my earlier days though I could stand some turmoil. My candidates for the most stonking pieces of music of all time are Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe (check out the incredible orgasmic climax), and Prokofiev's Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution - the climax to this is the most astonishing thing I've ever heard.

Love Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé! Like one enters a magical forest or world.

 

 

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On topic, this musician's ethnicity and attractiveness completely aside, this is one of the most beautiful displays of pure individual talent that I've run across within my (very, very limited) experience in the realm of classical music. 

 

 

 

 

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What do you mean with "Classical Music"?

Medieval (c. 1150 - c. 1400)?

Renaissance (c. 1400 - c. 1600)?

Baroque (c. 1600 - c. 1750)?

Classical (c. 1750 - c. 1830)?

Early Romantic (c. 1830 - c. 1860)?

Late Romantic (c. 1860 - c. 1920)?

Post 'Great War' Years (c. 1920 - Present)?

Most of the "Classic Music" were "Ballroom Music" at their times.
A Valse; A Bourree; etc. were dance music and used at party's.

The Beatles; The Rolling Stones;  Carlos Santana; etc are Classics of the "Great War years" and could fit it this thread as well.
 

 

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1 minute ago, 41632584 said:

I wasn't aware one could upload sound files. Learned something new! 

Yes! Standby for a load of my non-YouTube mp3's!  ????

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35 minutes ago, 41632584 said:

Shostakovich No. 5 - 4th movement conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Probably the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. But I guess some forum members would be able to tell.

 

Bernstein's famous interpretation of this music leading to a ridiculously fast execution by the orchestra.

 

 

 

Thank you.  See what you mean.  It does seem close to going off the rails in the beginning, but the rest is more traditional and still beautifully done.  Don't know the orchestra.  You Tube offers the sound of a Bernstein and New York Phil performance from 1959 but it is not this one: In 1959 Bernstein did not have gray hair and it is not quite as fast in 1959.  

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Good mentions.

Holst's Planets and anything by Elgar and Britten.

 

Few noteworthies:

 

Rachmaninov  — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 
John Barry — Somewhere in Time theme (one of the most beautiful pieces penned)
Yann Tiersen — Comptine d'un autre ete l'apres midi (cracking piano)
Borodin — Prince Igor

Bach — Toccata in F

 

More progressive, but Rick Wakeman's Judas Iscariot on cathedral organ is sublime.

 

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thaibeachlovers Star Member

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23 hours ago, thaibook said:

Sondheim must be quite a chap if he gives interviews after dying.

 

More to the point, I like Church music, especially requiems - Mozart of course, Bach but I find the Renaissance requiems - Morales, Victoria, etc with singing in cappella very uplifting.  Would like the Morales sung at my funeral.

 

My favourite Church music was Jerusalem. Wonderful on an organ.

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I am enclosing links from YouTube just a few classical pieces for your delectation.

 

Hope you like them

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fZoKSIHbOA Lola Astenova piano  (video) She is special - go to her channel for more!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kqu2mk-Kw  Smetana "The Moldau"  Simply super orchestral video

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnW5_GTooI "Orpheus in the Underworld" overture Offenbach  orchestral video

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyd0HfL5leY The Tudors TV series theme music Trevor Morris

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSQqbJPoSbw Lucia Popp aria from Zaide opera Mozart (I love this aria by this singer from a few years back)

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPSH0-_EZg  "Mariettes song" from Die tote Stadt opera Korngold  very moving video

 

 

Mr Derek Advanced Member

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15 hours ago, 41632584 said:

Love Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé! Like one enters a magical forest or world.

 

 

Unfortunately that version doesn't include a choir. The choral version, with the crescendo of oohs and aahs at the end is really something and is the closest thing to porn in classical music. I've no doubt that was Ravel's intention.

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