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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:45:28 PM EDT
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That's all I listen to. But not for relaxing. I find most classical period music boring. I like listening to deeper music, like that of the later classical composers such as Lizst, Rimski-Korsakov, Brahms, etc. I listen to tons of that stuff, and write in that style too.
Anything I suggested probably would not help you study. Some of my favorites are: Brahms, Symphony no. 4 Lizst, Les Preludes Rimski-Korsakov, Scheherazade Holst, The Planets Debussy, La Mer Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique Stravinski, The Rite of Spring Saint-Saens, Organ Symphony no. 3 |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:47:31 PM EDT
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I turn it on if I feel the need to catch a nap, or if I'm driving around and there's nothing on the radio.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:49:31 PM EDT
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What's good? Anything by Mozart.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:50:11 PM EDT
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Wager "Death of Arthur" and surrounding pieces.
Also... Beethoven "Moonlight Sonet" and surrounding pieces... then I would suggest Tcaikpovsy but he can get a sleepy... |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:54:02 PM EDT
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Hrm.
I like Hans Zimmer. 
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Posted: 1/26/2006 6:58:52 PM EDT
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"Duettino - Sull'aria"
from opera "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)" Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (uncredited) Performed by Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz (uncredited) Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin Conducted by Karl Böhm Courtesy of Duetsche Grammophon, by arraingement with PolyGram Special Markets ------- as heard in The Shawshank Redemption. That is the only classical song that I like. It's awsome. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:21:25 PM EDT
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I always liked the easily recognizable stuff like
(MY SPELLING OF COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORKS SUCK) Mozart "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" or Symphony No. 40 Mahler's 3rd or 5th. Bethoven's 9th, and I like the 3rd too. Holst (As mentioned above) Check out a modern composer by the name of Vaughn Williams. He did a piece called "The Lark Ascending" that I love. Kinda sounds asian woodwinds meets waves of strings. My suggestion is make the move over to opera and let a couple of Arias take you away. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:25:40 PM EDT
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Yes I love classical music. I've spent most of my youth performing it. I like just about everything, but Beethoven really stands out for me. Listen to his 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 9th Symphonies. They are really great. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:29:56 PM EDT
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Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel. Pachelbel are my favorites. I listen to it everynight before I go to sleep, and I listen to it alot when I get done with a lot of drinking and want to have a couple more drinks before I turn in. I used to play saxophone, and kinda still do, and thats where I got my appreciation for it.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:30:40 PM EDT
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Check out some Aaron Copland. If you have seen any decent Westerns, you've already heard his stuff.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:32:45 PM EDT
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Here's a good website to learn what's what and who's who in classical music. It includes nearly 200 excerpts to listen to through Real Audio.
Essentials of Music I'm running short on time now, but maybe I'll add more to this entry later. GL Edit: see next page |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:35:52 PM EDT
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I buyed that exact recording by accident. I was buying a highlights CD of Figaro. Go watch
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:38:51 PM EDT
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Schubert's, "The Trout"
Beethoven's "Concerto for piano, chorus and orchestra in A-minor" or "Choral Fantasy". Rossini's, "La Donna mobile" from his opera, Rigoletto (google the lyrics and see the translation). Verdi's, "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Nabucco (Nebekenezer - sp). Verdi's, "Triumphal March" from Aida. Mozart, "Rhondo ala Turko" (if I gawt the nayme rite). Respigi, "The Birds" Handel, "Royal Fireworks Suite" and "Watermusic" |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 7:40:27 PM EDT
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Ralph Vaughan Williams -
Symphony #2 - "London" Symphony # 7 - "Antartica" (I know that is misspelled, that is how he wrote it) "The Lark Ascending" "An Oxford Elegy" "Flos Campi" Paul Hindemith - "Ludus Tonalis" "Symphonic Metamorphosis"* "Mathis der Maler"** Carl Orff - "Carmina Burana" Benjamin Britten - "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #1, #2, #3 Johann Sebastian Bach - "Goldberg Variations" "The Art of the Fugue" Wolfgang Mozart - "Bassoon Concerto" "Requiem" Sergei Prokofiev - "Romeo and Juliet" Just to name a few. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 8:40:51 PM EDT
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I've developed a taste of classical music over the years mainly because as I got older, the rock & roll just became too dissonant. I like most any composers, I just tune in to the 105.1 KMZT-Los Angeles(K-Mozart) on the old over-the-air radio. They stream on the internet also, but it takes up bandwidth so I don't.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 8:51:41 PM EDT
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Listen to it while driving alot.
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Posted: 1/26/2006 9:24:13 PM EDT
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John Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Paul O'dette, lute
Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore The Artistry of Christopher Parkening (classical guitar) J.S. Bach: Julian Bream (classical guitar) Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 "Organ Symphony" Most pieces composed by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Alexander Boradin (sp) (did some beautiful melodic stuff). Way too many to think of/list. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 9:26:05 PM EDT
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I like the Baroque era...
I particularly like organ pieces by Bach and other composers. The pipe organ is a magical instrument... Try the classical music archives... You can download a TON of music for $25 a year. www.classicalarchives.com/ These are nice and short little pieces by Bach... Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV553 This is a very famous piece... Fugue in G-, BWV578 ('Little Fugue') |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 9:33:52 PM EDT
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I'll recommend Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D maj, Op. 61:
1st movement - Allegro ma non troppo 2nd movement - Larghetto 3rd movement - Rondo This is usually followed (on a cd) by two more pieces: Romance in F, and Romance in F Andante |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 9:48:03 PM EDT
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I'll just echo a couple other posters
Carmina Burana Goldberg Variations Horowitz' 1957 performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #3. THis one's a doozy. There was a movie made about it. Beethoven's Symphony #5 Honestly, I think that if you picked up a copy of any of these pieces you would very likely enjoy them quite a bit. I'd personally rank them as follows. Goldberg variations, Rocky 3, Carmina Burana, and Beethoven 5. They're all great though and you could probably get them at your local library. Carmina Burana is the theme music to the last Dracula movie. It's hot. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 10:20:06 PM EDT
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I really like the Russian composer (The Russian 5)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Mussorgsky (The Great Gate of Kiev), Rachmanioff. Of course, you'll have to get Samual Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (The song in Platoon) and Albinoni's "Adagio for Organ and Strings" (song in the movie Gallipoli) |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 10:31:20 PM EDT
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I like mozart beethoven and vivaldi the most. I also like phillip glass, who isn't dead yet and I don't know if technically he is considered classical.
I find I cannot listen to classical music and sleep, it seems to exite me or something, it's just so intense, I can't not listen to it, as in have it be background music. On the other hand it's not something I exercise to either. I have listened to it while riding my bicycle though. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 10:53:57 PM EDT
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That's only 4 my brother...for a free CD, who's your number five?! For a second CD...tell me who The Five (or Могучая кучка - Mighty Handful) correctly are! You might as well cheat and use the web....the offer is still good.
Man, if it's relaxing you want then go with most "classical" composers. Pick up the soundtrack to Amadeus and go from there. Get the Platoon soundtrack (as mentioned above)....or better yet the soundtrack to Lorenzo's Oil. You'll be good to go. For a little more pizzaz look into the "romantic" composers. Beethoven is the meat and potatoes here. Brahms is also very good. Mahler in underappreciated. I know you didn't just want names, but pick up a "best of" cd and you'll open new doors. Or go by the soundtracks to Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.....see what you like and go from there. And if you're super curious and have time on your hands, go take one of those general music courses at the local community college. You'll get your fill. |
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Posted: 1/26/2006 11:00:22 PM EDT
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I throw some classical into the mix when I feel like it. Its very relaxing.
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Posted: 1/27/2006 5:17:12 AM EDT
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Well, of course there is the father of russian music, Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, but I always found he was just ok. He wrote more like a European than a Russian, but sometimes you could hear his Russian side (1812 Overture, some sections of his Serenade For Strings) As far as the Russian 5, I used to know this. Rimsky-Korsakov, and I believe his two students, Prokoiev (can't spell it) and Mussorsky (and that's without using the web). Doh, I was wrong about Prokoiev (although he was a student of R-K) and it was Borodin (good music, especially for the cello), Balakriev (not familiar with his work), Cui (not familiar with his work), Musorosky, and R-K. Tchaikovsky is widely considered the "sixth member of the five" but I don't agree with that, he had a different style. |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 5:47:06 AM EDT
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Mozart (Happy Birthday Wolfgang!)
Liszt (Les Preludes) Beethoven (All of his symphonies) Puccini operas...especially La Boheme and Turandot Tchaikovsky (Pick your poison) Vivaldi's The Four Seasons Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition...especially the "Great Gates of Kiev" Bolero by Maurice Ravel J. S. Bach is very good too...just pick anything... The best orchestra and composer are the Berliner Philharmonic under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. He's long dead...but you can find their magic under the Duetsche Gramophone label. |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 6:05:38 AM EDT
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All LV Beethovens Symphs.
Mozarts "Requeum" while at the reloading bench. (Also Dvoraks' 6th symph) Try Dvoraks "Symphony from the New World" first. It was inspired by a tour of these United States, & it shows! |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 6:11:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/27/2006 6:24:41 AM EDT
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Beethoven wrote 55 symphonies? |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 6:26:22 AM EDT
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Yep
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Posted: 1/27/2006 7:06:35 AM EDT
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Forgot to add, I also much of the symphonic written by Alan Havonas, and there was another guy who used to be in rock band, but now is writing symphonies.
Today is Mozart's 250th birthday. |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 8:41:18 AM EDT
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Now, wasn't that fun? I agree with you about Tchaikovsky...not a huge fan. There is the popular stuff of his, and of course The Nutcracker every year just because. I like the other guys more. You need to check out Shostakovich. I'll throw a disc together for you. |
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Posted: 1/27/2006 10:29:28 AM EDT
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I like String Quartets.
Bartok, Alfred Schnitte, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Shostakovitch, Eliot Carter, Verdi, Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Faure, Ravel, Debussy, Mozart, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Ned Rorem, Edgar Meyer, John Harbison, Richard Wernick, Gunther Schuller. GL |
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