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Who likes classical music?

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:36pm
by darthdavid
Well who likes classical music?

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:38pm
by Dahak
*raises hand*
Very much like it, especially Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi.
Untypically for a German, I don't really like Wagner :)

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:40pm
by Bertie Wooster
Love some classical music, a lot. Some classical music, I dislike, a lot.

Bach's the man.

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:43pm
by Andrew J.
Dahak wrote:*raises hand*
Very much like it, especially Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi.
Untypically for a German, I don't really like Wagner :)
Technically, Wagner is Romantic anyway. :P

And yes, I enjoy classical music, both in the sense of "old" and "made in the mid-1700s to the early 1800s."

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:43pm
by AnimeJet
I like just about anything, unless its like.. rap... :x

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:46pm
by Dahak
AnimeJet wrote:I like just about anything, unless its like.. rap... :x
You haven't heard the techno version of Ravel's "Bolero" then?

*shudder*

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:48pm
by Rye
Yup, i recently bought a 5-cd classical box set. Full of stuff like Montagues and Capulets, Mars, Bringer of War, and other such classical stuff.

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:51pm
by Dahak
Rye wrote:Yup, i recently bought a 5-cd classical box set. Full of stuff like Montagues and Capulets, Mars, Bringer of War, and other such classical stuff.
Mars is cool, but I think Jupiter is vey good too. It is happier :)

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:53pm
by phongn
I love Holst's The Planets, but it is difficult to find a good recording of it -- mine certainly isn't too good.

Posted: 2004-01-02 08:56pm
by RogueIce
I haven't listened to much in the way of it, but the "type" of music is what I like best. Ie, instrumental, non-lyrical (for the most part). I find the best, IMO, in movie soundtracks.

Posted: 2004-01-02 09:01pm
by aerius
phongn wrote:I love Holst's The Planets, but it is difficult to find a good recording of it -- mine certainly isn't too good.
It's available in DVD-A, but lacking a player I have no clue how good it is.

As for me I have about 20 classical records, that's records as in vinyl LPs. There's some Mozart, Bach, and yes I do have Ravel's Bolero.

Posted: 2004-01-02 09:14pm
by phongn
aerius wrote:It's available in DVD-A, but lacking a player I have no clue how good it is.
Well, yes, I know that there are DVD-A (and probably SACD) recordings of The Planets, it doesn't mean that they're good :P

Posted: 2004-01-02 09:21pm
by The Aliens
Really like Classical. Holst is one of my favourite composers. The sheer complexity of classical music sets it apart from most other styles, especially when performed by a talented person/orchestra.

Posted: 2004-01-03 12:27am
by jenat-lai
I love it also, I have over 150 classical CD's... mostly entire works.

My CD collection generally contains stuff I like. Mahler, Bruchner, Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Carl Vine, John Adams, Phillip Glass, J.S Bach orchestral and choral works (not so much his keyboard stuff), and Respighi. I like the orchestral colour alot, and I think my interests show that. From the complicated works like Bach and Stravinsky and Messiaen (and Schoenberg) to the big romantic works such as Mahler, to the thematicly simple, but texturaly dense works of the late Minimalists. (John Adams/Phil Glass)

Posted: 2004-01-03 12:29am
by The Cleric
Yes, if it's elegant or complex.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:13am
by DPDarkPrimus
Bring on the Baroque!

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:18am
by FaxModem1
I love Mozart and Beetoven, I love classical music, but I'm not that knowledgeable on names.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:21am
by Vertigo1
I like some of them. Mozart is OK. Beethoven is pretty good here and there.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:45am
by General Zod
i dig the classical style of music. i'm not too terribly familiar with names unfortunately though. i haven't heard many true classics, though i enjoy music with alot of strings that's done in the same vein. one fairly modern artist that writes music in a classical style is the composer for the original onimusha score. i forget his name atm though i'll post it after i find my CD.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:55am
by Raptor 597
I'm a fan of classic music. Especially, Pier Gynt, Vivaldi, Moart, Bach, Beethoven. Of Viladi's complete Four Seaons, I find Presto-Tempo impetuoso d'estate best, just that fast. That and Concerto Grosso in F - Adiagio. Ashokan Farewell is good Baroque, but I like Naopleonic era Tchiavosky and Ivanov very good. Short and loud.

Posted: 2004-01-03 02:03am
by kojikun
Best song in the Universe: Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1 composed by J. S. Bach and performed by Yo-yo Ma

Posted: 2004-01-03 02:10am
by Kuja
Classical/orchestral music kicks ass.

Posted: 2004-01-03 02:28am
by Gil Hamilton
I like it best when Bugs Bunny cartoons are put to it.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:13pm
by YT300000
I like classical music.

Posted: 2004-01-03 01:15pm
by haas mark
phongn wrote:I love Holst's The Planets, but it is difficult to find a good recording of it -- mine certainly isn't too good.
Find the Hallé Orchestra recording. ;)

Schubert, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Salieri, Holst, Dvorak, etc., etc.. Hooray for classical music. :P

Dvorak is my all time favorite, though.

~ver