Favorite classical music

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-11-14 11:02pm

bohemianfey wrote:The only problem about the Baroque period is that is spawned Neo-baroque shit like Randall Thompson.

(Raises eyebrow.)
I don't find his stuff too bad.

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-11-14 11:07pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
bohemianfey wrote:The only problem about the Baroque period is that is spawned Neo-baroque shit like Randall Thompson.
(Raises eyebrow.)
I don't find his stuff too bad.

His The Pelican and Choose Something Like a Star aren't bad, but I got really tired of him after the billionth time of having to sing his stuff.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2004-11-14 11:07pm

I like Bach's harpsichord pieces a lot. Stravinsky, Holst, Beethoven, all that good stuff.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-11-14 11:55pm

bohemianfey wrote:His The Pelican and Choose Something Like a Star aren't bad, but I got really tired of him after the billionth time of having to sing his stuff.

Aha...so that's what it is. You should have sang the first movement of the Chichester Psalms by Leonard Berstein. That was a fun one to sing. I liked its dissonance.

Namarie · Post by **Namarie** » 2004-11-15 12:19am

Tchaikovsky!!! 'March Slav' and 'The Sleeping Beauty Suite' are both awesome, Dvorak's 'New World Symphony', Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings', anything Vivaldi, Mozart's 'Requiem' and 'Symphony No. 25'(I think thats probably my all time fav), Gustav Holst's 'Planets Suite', Carmina Burma, Pachelbel's 'Cannon', 'Theme from Schindlers List' (Itzhak Perlman... <3) Almost any Pavane (Maurice Ravel's 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' specifically), Bach's 'Brandenburg Concerto' and 'Toccata and Fugue', 'Russian Sailors Dance' (I think thats part of Red Poppy, and I cant remember who its by) L'oiseau de feu's 'The Firebird', Mussorgsky's 'Night on Bald Mountain', 'The Rite of Spring' (isnt too pretty, but its fun) Brahm's 'Hungarian Dance'... And thats just scratching the surface

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-11-15 12:22am

Zaia wrote:'Symphonie Fantastique' by H. Berlioz,

I especially like the 'March to the Scaffold,' with the whipcrack guillotine and two bounces of the head (OK, so we percussionists were a gruesome bunch...it's the director's fault for making us listen to it

).

'Adagio for Strings' by S. Barber, 'A Set of Songs' by Amy Beech (so she's quite a while after the classical period--nah nah, sue me),

And Barber's not?

I also like Barber's 'The School for Scandal' and 'Medea's Dance of Vengeance.' Haven't listened to Beech.

Orff's 'Carmina Burana,' Dvorak's New World Symphony (either No. 5 or No. 9 depending on how old the publication is), Symphony No. 1 by J. Brahms, Verdi's 'Requiem,' Mozart's 'Requiem' (especially the Lacrimosa), Ravel's 'Bolero,'

Agree on all these.

I also like some of Holsinger's more classical-sounding bits. And Percy Granger, as long as I don't have to play it. Bastard obviously didn't play bassoon...*grumble* trills on a bassoon in the high octaves. Twit.

Antie · Post by **Antie** » 2004-11-15 12:37am

Dahak wrote:I like the Brandenburg concertos, Holst's "Planets", the Four Seasons by Vivaldi and much more...

Oh, those are some of my favorites! I also like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Lately, I've been listening to Orff's Carmina Burana pretty often.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-11-15 12:38am

The Dark wrote: I especially like the 'March to the Scaffold,' with the whipcrack guillotine and two bounces of the head (OK, so we percussionists were a gruesome bunch...it's the director's fault for making us listen to it ).

Must....find....
(Searches classiccat.net.)

No Hector Berlioz?! WTF?!?!?!

I'm shocked and appalled!

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-11-15 01:03am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Must....find....
(Searches classiccat.net.)

No Hector Berlioz?! WTF?!?!?! I'm shocked and appalled!

Ahahah! In your face, Joe!!!

The Dark: Was really just pointing out the fact that she was a woman again with my comment about her chronology. Sue me.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-11-15 01:36am

Zaia wrote:Ahahah! In your face, Joe!!!

Nooooo!!! I must snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!

Zaia's march to teh uber l33t scaffold of d00m!!!!!1

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA--cough--
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!

EDIT: Replaced the first craptacular one with a much better version.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-11-15 11:00am

Antie wrote:Oh, those are some of my favorites! I also like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Lately, I've been listening to Orff's Carmina Burana pretty often.

I don't know how into solo piano music you are, but the piano solo version of 'Pictures' (how it was originally written) is really damn cool. Everyone knows the orchestrated version, but the piano-only version really shows you how extensively a composer can stretch the sounds of the piano. You should check it out if you haven't already.

Other works that rock:
'Samson et Dalila,' specifically 'Danse Bacchanale' by C. Saint-Saëns
'La Crèation du Monde' by Darius Milhaud (awesome jazzy orchestral piece that substitues saxophone for viola)
'Adagio for Violin and Piano' by Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)
'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Peter and the Wolf' by Prokovfiev
'Hungarian Dance Nos. 1 and 5' by Brahms
The flute Concertino and some piano pieces by Cecile Chaminade
'Trois Gymnopedies' and 'Trois Nocturnes' by Erik Satie
'Sleeping Beauty,' the 1812 (because the bass drum part kicks ass!), and the parts of 'The Nutcracker' that aren't overplayed and/or bastardized every Christmas--all Tchaik, obviously
'Fantaisie-Impromptu' and one of the edutes in particular (Eb?) by Frederic Chopin
'La Mer' by Claude Debussy
'Der Erlkönig' by Franz Schubert
'L'Oiseau de Feu' (Firebird), 'Petrushka,' 'Le Sacre du Printemps' (Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-11-15 11:40am

-coughs- I forgot Dvorak. Dvorak is an absolute must.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-11-15 12:53pm

Mozart, JS Bach, Strauss, Tchaikovsky. Beethoven's 5th, 7th, and 9th symphonies. Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries and the prelude to Tristan und Isolde. Aaron Copeland. Gregorian and Tibetian chants. Gyorgi Ligeti and Aram Khakachurian. Berber's Adagio For Strings.

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-11-15 12:58pm

Patrick Degan wrote:Mozart, JS Bach, Strauss, Tchaikovsky. Beethoven's 5th, 7th, and 9th symphonies. Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries and the prelude to Tristan und Isolde. Aaron Copeland. Gregorian and Tibetian chants. Gyorgi Ligeti and Aram Khakachurian. Berber's Adagio For Strings.

I LOVE Gregorian chant. I had to sing it like thirty times a month every month when I was in SGC, but dear lord did I love it. It's just so... **melts**

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-11-15 01:52pm

The classical music I like is Finlandia by Sibelius. (I wonder why

)

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2004-11-15 02:20pm

Is there no one who likes Salieri?

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-11-15 02:25pm

Thanas wrote:Is there no one who likes Salieri?

He's been mentioned a few times, and I as well like him (pieces such as Contredanse spring to mind).

And Revan, maybe on another note entirely, but I as well enjoy Finlandia. Maybe because I was supposed to play it for All-State a couple years back.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-11-15 02:29pm

verilon wrote:And Revan, maybe on another note entirely, but I as well enjoy Finlandia. Maybe because I was supposed to play it for All-State a couple years back.

All-State?

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-11-15 02:40pm

Lord Revan wrote:
verilon wrote:And Revan, maybe on another note entirely, but I as well enjoy Finlandia. Maybe because I was supposed to play it for All-State a couple years back.
All-State?

Here in the U.S. we've got honour bands that are divided up by region. The nearest ones are city or county honour bands, then state, then coast/region. Here in Maryland it's All County, All State, All Eastern, and then the national.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2004-11-15 02:42pm

Zaia wrote:Here in the U.S. we've got honour bands that are divided up by region. The nearest ones are city or county honour bands, then state, then coast/region. Here in Maryland it's All County, All State, All Eastern, and then the national.

Thanks

wood · Post by **wood** » 2004-11-15 05:26pm

One that I'm surprised no-one has mentioned yet:

Albinoni's Adagio... even if he didn't finish it himself

Wong Fei Hong · Post by **Wong Fei Hong** » 2004-11-15 05:53pm

Here are several good pieces that I've listened to recently.

Strauss Jr:
Tales of Vienna Wood
Vienna Blood

Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concertos

Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto

Addinsell:
Warsaw Concerto

Beethoven:
Moonlight Sonata
Pathetique

Marksist · Post by **Marksist** » 2004-11-15 07:39pm

Hmm.. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned my favorite composer yet; Dmitri Shostakovich. Maybe because his music is not actually "classical," but neither is most of the stuff listed here. I just love his thick, loud, bombastic pieces that feature the brass section, really gets me hyped, the fourth movement from his Fith symphony especially. The Gadfly is probably his best known piece, which he wrote for a soviet propaganda film.

I love the gourgeous, but repititive introduction to the fourth ballet suite, this one is sort of difficult to find, but if you do, it's a real treat, very beautiful. I love how emotional his works were.

Shostakovich is very similar to another of my favorites; Mahler, love his music, especially his brassy stuff (I'm a sucker for intense brassy music as you can see). My marching band plays an excerpt from his 3rd symphony before games.

Camille Saint-Saens also has a lot of really cool stuff, with my favorite piece of his being his Third Symphony (the organ symphony). It was used as the main theme throughout the movie "Babe." Great piece that I've also had the oppurtunity of playing with a gia-normous pipe organ.

Also, Zaia listed a crap load of my various favorites like "Scheherezade" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov one of my all time favorites, "Cappricio Italien" by Tchaikovsky, awesome piece I got to play an excerpt from in orchestra last year. I'm surprised how many people mentioned "Adagio" by Barber, also a really pretty piece, I also like music from his ballet "Medea," really cool esoteric stuff similar to Bela Bartok, whom I also enjoy. Well that's all I can really think of right now. Good thread.

President Sharky · Post by **President Sharky** » 2004-11-15 10:42pm

Are there any other Mahler fans here? My favourite composition by him is his "Resurrection" Symphony. I love how the whole symphony tells a narrative and how throughout the finale we constantly hear that offstage band with the "caller" theme, and there's also those two big percussion crescendi that make the room tremble when I blast my Mahler CD on my home theatre system.

Other greats include his Gesellen song cycle (which the First Symphony is based on), and his Fifth Symphony, particularly the opening funeral march (with many great brass passages) and the romantic adagietto (IV) movement.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2004-11-15 10:49pm

Well, here are some of my favorites. Most of these I've played in an orchestra myself. I can't remember some of the composers though. Though I am sure most of you do and have listed them as well.

Die Fledermaus- Strauss
The Blue Danube Waltz- Strauss
Capricio Italien-Tchaikovsky
March to the Scaffold- "???"
Russian's Sailors Dance- "???" <- ( Had such a hard time with this in middle school)
New Word Symphony no.9 - Dvorak.
And a lot of Vivaldi.

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