Classical Music Anyone?

[yearning]

Who are your favourite composers? Any favourite pieces?

I like some popular ones...and some not so popular ones, based on what I used to play myself.

I'm not a huge fan of Chopin like most people, but I do like Bach, Rachmininoff (damn I should really learn how to spell his name properly), and Mozart.

[mawguy]

i was asked to list my top 3 favourite composers on another forum, so with that relatively fresh in my mind:

(in no particular order) beethoven, chopin, tchaikovsky

my least favourite: bach, mozart, wagner

my exposure to classical music is shallow at best, in spite of years of piano. so, i like most of the popular stuff. one of my all-time favourites is bolero, even though the composer hated it. :P but then again, tchaikovsky hated nutcracker, so...

[Ken Cheng]

I'm a fan of Johann Strauss the Younger (he of "Blue Danube Waltz" fame). Does he qualify as "classical" yet?

[Suet Seung]

Yes, Yearning, I do!

I like Beethoven, Shubert, Mozart, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky (try this http://youtube.com/watch?v=if_72IgEplY). It's spelled Rachmaninoff, I think I like his works too, not sure.

I like Schubert's "Serenade".

Beethoven, there's a lot that I like, some popular ones would be Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Symphony No 5 in C Minor and one of the overtures.

I like Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, watch this clip, I think its a very difficult piece that not many can play perfectly:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...75946424791163

Georges Bizet's Carmen piece.

I actually like Chopin's Etude in E major,Op.10 No.3, if you ever watch the anime La Corda D'oro, they play it in Violin,usually its in piano. It really sounds bittersweet and romantic.

[mawguy]

I'm a fan of Johann Strauss the Younger (he of "Blue Danube Waltz" fame). Does he qualify as "classical" yet?

yes, for quite some time now.

[mawguy]

I like Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, watch this clip, I think its a very difficult piece that not many can play perfectly:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...75946424791163

then of course, there's this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NDCG772wqc0

[Suet Seung]

then of course, there's this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NDCG772wqc0

Aww...hahaha Thanks Mawguy, yeah, Tom and Jerry, I haven't seen this episode of this for years. I've seen an old American movie where The Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 is played on several pianos in one area, can't seem to remember what movie it was.

[LuNaR]

12 girls band

[Azn Dude]

I'm a huge fan of the usual list that makes people's classical list. Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc. These are the classics. For Bach his keyboard, clavier and chamber music instead of his chorals. Chopin's all of his piano works I enjoy.

But besides them I'm in love with Francisco Tarrega, Niccolò Paganini, Fernando Sor, Erik Satie(he doesn't get enough respect), Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Jospeh Haydn and the original one hit wonder Johann Pachelbel.

For the more modern, John Cage(check out his 4'33), Stravinsky, and too many great composers that later merge jazz and classical.

[Radken]

I listen to Bond.

[yearning]

I didn't use to like Mozart, but he grew on me...and after watching Amadeus, I liked him more.

Carmen will always hold a special spot in my heart..I really love that song, and Bizet is simply amazing.

Does anyone listen to opera? I used to think it was really silly, but after learning music history for piano, I really got into it. I particularly like Rigoletto.

Btw, Suet Seung, I think it's Schubert (sp).

Do you guys have a preference for particular instruments? I'm in love with the violin...I will learn to play it one day! And of course piano, from playing it for so many years. Other instruments are nice too...

[Suet Seung]

Do you guys have a preference for particular instruments? I'm in love with the violin...I will learn to play it one day! And of course piano, from playing it for so many years. Other instruments are nice too...

Growing up, I was obsessed with the GuZheng, flute, and erhu, why? Because all the Wuxia and ancient series growing up had at least a sequence of someone playing it or have it played in the background.

But for more Western instruments, I love Piano (one of my life goals is to learn it, not a reality yet), flute, violin, trumpet and piccolo.

[yearning]

I'd teach you piano if you lived close to me SS =P I was truly in love with the Gu Zhen (I think it's 'zhen') a couple of years ago, and now I still like it, but not crazy about it. I'm more about the violin now =)

Er Hu just sounds soooo sad. Flute, so girly. I used to play clarinet in high school, it was such a boring instrument. Trumpet, oh yeah! You totally knock out the entire band with it...I could hardly hear myself playing clarinet when Mr. Trumpet Man was blasting away.

[Suet Seung]

You caught me once with the mispelling but this time, I'm right. Gu Zhen is a town in An Hui but Gu Zheng is the zither.

You should check out the Erhu played by Jia Peng Fang, it is accompanied with other music too. My dear, Yearning, the violin sounds sad too! But for me, the Erhu doesn't always bring me to sadness and melancholy feelings, it just touching and dramatic-ish...well gives me a reflective mood.

Oh yeah, I do like the Pipa too.

http://www.amazon.com/Jia-Peng-Fang-Best/dp/B000255KT4

[yearning]

Have you heard of the blind man, Ah Bing? He's pretty famous for the Er Hu..we have a lotta cassettes at home and it's just way too sad/depressing for me.

I got into violin through K-drama/k-movie OST's (seriously the best OST's you can find anywhere) w/ their sad/romantic/heart-wrenching violin pieces...

Like this one:
http://www.angelfire.com/blog/gemini...niaffairs.html (it takes a while for the music to start up, but it's worth the wait! ~ ignore the poster)

[yearning]

Haven't heard of the dude you mentioned...aww, now you got me yearning for classical Chinese instruments again.

[LuNaR]

I listen to Bond.

agree

i also like kitaro

[sunnydayz3]

Grieg. Beethoven. Liszt. Rachmaninoff. Prokokiev was a genius.

Can't stand the Baroque composers (Bach, Haydn ... boringgggggggg!!!). Also can't stand Mozart.

[AndyChrono]

Beethoven; especially his garbage truck music a.k.a Fur Elise. Don't really like anyone else from the Classical Period.

Also the original 1-hit wonder of the Baroque Period Pachelbel's Canon, both the original and the electric guitar version everyone's seen by now.

[Daishikaze]

Beethoven: particularly his 6th symphony
Tschaikovsky: The Nut Cracker Suite, 1812 Overture, Swan Lake
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, Scheherazade
Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Firebird Suite
Mussorgsky: A Night On Bald Mountain
Brahms: The Hungarian Dances
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Ponchielli: La Giaconda

alot more