Best classical composers

by **satjeet** » Mon 18 Jul 2005, 22:49:11

Bach, Bach and then more Bach - the Well-Tempered Klavier Book I - is
all I need.

by **goldmund52** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 00:22:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bedevere', 'A')ny favourite pieces? I'm looking for somewhere to start...

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 02:05:26

I'm listening the The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Swingle Singers doing Bach's Air on the G String. Lovely. My quarrel with metal and contemporary music is that it is savage. Music to make plants wilt and babies cry. When my son was an infant and he had colic I used to play Beethoven string quartets and put him on my knees and jiggle him around to allieviate the nervous activity that was bothering him. It worked very well and he always fell right back to sleep. No suprise then that he loves classical music, huh?

by **aldente** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 02:51:06

Interesting how in America everything is based on competition. The more authors and composers you throw in the ring the better your chances are to gain- what?
I saw this movie where Tim Roth is a piano player that goes in cometition with another player on an abandoned ship - as if playing piano was about who could play "better" or "faster" or whatever the terms are that apply to sport as a category. In America sport honestly seems to be mistaken for being culture. A hideous movie Tim Roth

I for myself have a preference for the classical French organ composers Charles Widor and Louis Vierne. Pretty contemporary - end 1800's and simply magnificent!

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 03:32:53

All the great European music composers were competitive. Competition brings the best out of people. That's the way it is and should be. The current desire to expunge competition is just a PC sickness.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 04:20:20

Just take a look at the portraits of Bach. A competitive soul singing the praises of God. You can see it in the confident curl of his lips. This isn't the portrait I was thinking of but its reputed to be the only authentic portrait of the great man whose music has meant so much to so many. (It was inspired by Christianity and praise the lord for I am but a worm who loves the Creator)

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 04:49:51

Now I'm listening to Franz Joseph Haydn. I once told a mathematics professor that there's no way way that anyone could recreate the works of the great composers. Its true, the creative spirit of Haydn can't be matched in this age. We live in an age where we look back longingly at the creators of the past.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 04:56:01

Then again, download Jimmy Rogers singing 'Secretly' Its the psychological song par exelance. Why oh why! :lol:

Canadian Sunset is also a beautiful tune, that and Lisbon Antigua.

by **Michael_Layden** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 06:17:26

Many years ago I was given a tape of classical music and on it were two pieces of Opera, The Hebrew Slaves, from Verdi's ‘Nabucco’ and the Nuns chorus from Strausses' Cassanova . I really didn't like these much but as I liked the rest of the tape I endured, at some stage I found myself loving the pieces. I don't know how the process works but it still amazes me that at one time I used to think Opera was just women sreeching.

Verdis, Mozarts, Puccini, Gluck, Orff etc operas truly speak of the magificence of our species. From a peak oil perspective I won't drive listening to Verdi any longer as I probably drive 10 mph faster which is hell on my MPG

Michael

by **alpha480v** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 07:42:59

My favourite has always been Beetoven,and especially piano concerto #2 in b flat major.

by **EdF** » Tue 19 Jul 2005, 14:24:55

Mahler!

I'm amazed noone's mentioned him yet: 5th, 6th, 9th and the unfinished 10th. The man had amazing range. Boston Philharmonic recordings (as well as a lot of others) are recommended.

Bruckner's pretty cool too.

- Ed

by **zed** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 00:25:37

My favorite piano music is easily Chopin's "Etudes", "Preludes", and "Polonaises" as played by Maurizio Pollini. The three albums are available together in a single Deutsche Grammophon release. They are simply spectacular!

by **aldente** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 01:49:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')ll the great European music composers were competitive. Competition brings the best out of people. That's the way it is and should be. The current desire to expunge competition is just a PC sickness.

by **Free** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 02:18:23

For me Beethoven is king as well. Of course the symphonies, but if you want to listen to something really shocking listen to the last 4 string quartets. PO-music par excellence, no wonder his contemporaries didn't like it. Actually I am passing the house where Beethoven composed the 9th symphony everytime I go to work, it's a funny thought but not surprising if you consider that Beethoven moved approximately every year and so there is almost no house in the city which is not somehow linked to him.

Then comes Bach, but I don't like his spiritual work, only the structural, mathematical ones, like Das wohltemperierte Klavier or the Goldberg Variationen. (Glenn Gould!!!)

Then the Operas of Mozart, some pieces of Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte particularly, are out of this world and too beautiful for it...

by **The_Virginian** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 04:32:34

Bach.

Sometimes Vivaldi.

by **Doly** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 05:43:16

Like a friend of mine said: Beethoven, Bach, and Madonna!

by **oowolf** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 20:51:14

Yes, Mahler (especially the Great 8th), Bruckner.
But I'm really into opera--all the "ini's" Puccini, Bellini, Rossini--and Verdi. My "favorita" is the 1954 Angel/La Scala recording of "Norma" with the GREAT MARIA MENEGHINI CALLAS and Ebi Stignani. Callas' Casta Diva/ah, bello a me ritorna is electrifying and the Callas/Stignani duet "Mira, o Norma, ai tuoi ginocchi" is unrelentingly heartwrenching

by **DomusAlbion** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 20:59:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')ll the great European music composers were competitive. Competition brings the best out of people. That's the way it is and should be. The current desire to expunge competition is just a PC sickness.

by **DomusAlbion** » Thu 21 Jul 2005, 21:02:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'Y')es, Mahler (especially the Great 8th), Bruckner.
But I'm really into opera--all the "ini's" Puccini, Bellini, Rossini--and Verdi. My "favorita" is the 1954 Angel/La Scala recording of "Norma" with the GREAT MARIA MENEGHINI CALLAS and Ebi Stignani. Callas' Casta Diva/ah, bello a me ritorna is electrifying and the Callas/Stignani duet "Mira, o Norma, ai tuoi ginocchi" is unrelentingly heartwrenching

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