Anybody like classical music?

[Arquebus12]

Doing the home office thing today, and while I was filling out reports and assorted sundry clerical chores, I was listening to iTunes on the extension system. I got to play my recently acquired recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos from beginning to end, and even while being interrupted repeatedly with calls, I can't recall a more pleasant afternoon spent working. I love Bach's music... I'm also a fan of the other big players, Ludwig von, Wolfie Amadeus, Johann Brahms, and get chills listening to Wagner, but Bach seems to mesh with my soul.

Anyone else like the original "Old School" music?

[KilgoreTrout]

i actually love it. At the end of the day a few times a week Ill put on the sirius classical channel from the satellite and lay on the couch and close my eyes and listen. I really like string arrangements.

[Short Cut]

I've about 8 hours of classical in my iTunes. It's great mood music and can at the same time be wonderful for when I really want to listen as well as pleasant background. I guess I'm most fond for Mozart and Bach. Tchaikovsky, who you didn't mention, is great too.

[RonS]

I have a small stereo on my desk at work tuned to Dayton Public Radio. (DPR is a local, independent, fine arts station, no leftist propaganda, no news. It is funny, major happenings in the news, but all you hear is music and a stock market report in the afternoon. Once in a while someone will mention the weather.) Sometimes I think it is the only thing that keeps me sane. I keep CDs of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and a couple of the Respighi tone poems for when they are fund raising or having a bad day music wise. Classical is the only music other than jazz that I seem able to have on and still work. They have a good music stream also, I have it on now.

http://www.dpr.org

[Highspeedlane]

I don't know but I've found I'm more likely to tune in to a classical station these days than any other.

Now this is from someone who grew up on heavy metal (I'm 46 if that counts), and has just grown tired of most of the genre.

Something about classical music...it doesn't generate "mood alteration" in the way other styles of newer "music" seems to...hard to articulate this actually, though that's the best way to describe it. I think I'm hooked though.

[Alpine]

Bach rocks. His music is still going strong after 300 years, and I believe it still will be in another 300 years. I wonder how many parishoners appreciated that their church organist was one of the greatest musicians this planet has ever produced?

Capitol City is blessed with one of the nation's few 24-hour classical radio stations. All classical, all the time. I keep it on in the background a lot. Some of it is boring, some annoying, but some is greatness. If something catches my ear and I turn it up and start listening, it is almost always Bach or Mozart.

What a coincidence, they are firing up a Bach piece now! So I am going to turn it up.

P.S. In that favorite song thread a while ago, I should have listed toccatta and fugue in d minor. I never get tired of that.

[Ragin Cajun]

Best background music there is. I have over 100 classical CD's. Have to put some new ones in the changer. Takes the edge off working on CAD.

RC

[geminicricket]

I do.

[FLRon777]

Ahhhhh, Bach!

[TheeBadOne]

I use it time to time for relaxation music, and sometimes for background music when doing serious tasks.

FWIW: I too am partial to Bach (the hard rocker of his day)

TBO

[GotGlock1917]

:wavey:

[PennGlock]

I live for classical music, man. The best of it represents some of the highest points yet reached by human civilization. When I consider the state of music before the 18th Century, it gives me a lot of hope about some of the mind-bending artistic innovations the future must be holding.

Mozart is probably my favorite.

[PlaneJane]

Contrarian that I am, generally I like the minor composers; Satie is my favorite. My favorite single piece though is Bach's Cantata #147.

Jane

[gruntmedik]

I enjoy listening to all (well, almost) music. There are times when nothing but Classical will scratch that itch. I really like listening to Classical Thunder when I'm driving to/from work.

[Agent6-3/8]

My favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

[Mrs. Tink]

Contrarian that I am, generally I like the minor composers; Satie is my favorite.
Jane

Hey, me too! I think the best collection is the one played by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. That one takes up 5 CDs. :cool:

My favorite piece for choir is Allegri's Miserere. For those unfamiliar, it was played in the movie Face Off during the funeral scene toward the end. It is brilliant.

[SIOP]

Absolutely.

And if you listen to enough classical works, you'll start to hear lots of passages that were used in rock/metal music.

In 20 or 30 years nobody will remember The Beatles. But classical is timeless.

[PennGlock]

In 20 or 30 years nobody will remember The Beatles.

Now that's a bit much now aint it?

[Tim Converse]

Classical music is not my first choice, but sometimes I will hear a work that I really enjoy. Here is my favorite: http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~khanawa/SerenadeE.htm

[MooseJaw]

I'll be Bach..
-Ahnold













I enjoy driving, fast, to Classical Music..

[Lone Wolf8634]

I like some of it........but I never know who wrote what, kinda hit or miss for me. Mostly what i like are the strings by themselves.

[MooseJaw]

I was raised on Cartoons.. CLassical Music galore!!

[Barbarossa]

It's how I make my living. I guess you could say that I like it.

[Ender]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eppqt3_z1yg&feature=related

My favorite piece. You're welcome.

[.264 magnum]

I have several hundred gigs (545 or 555 IIRC) of classical on my Itunes/HDD.


Heifetz anyone?

[TylerDurden]

I'm down with the great Russians from the last 150 years or so, in no particular order (If you already know all this stuff, don't be offended):

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Wrote an opera based on a fantastic story by my favorite writer - Nikolai Gogol)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Fourth Symphony - one of the greatest pieces of music ever)

Modest Mussorgsky (You know him from spooky stuff)

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (One of the world's greatest pianists - how can you not like his Piano Concerto No. 2? Everybody likes it)

Sergei Prokofiev (Opera, ballet, film scores, works for children - have you heard The Love for Three Oranges? Blow your mind)

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Master of the ballet - The Firebird)

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Widely panned by critics, I still like him - esp. his chamber works. Also did an opera based on a Gogol story)

I know there are more... but that's all off the top of my head.

[Tommy21]

Doing the home office thing today, and while I was filling out reports and assorted sundry clerical chores, I was listening to iTunes on the extension system. I got to play my recently acquired recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos from beginning to end, and even while being interrupted repeatedly with calls, I can't recall a more pleasant afternoon spent working. I love Bach's music... I'm also a fan of the other big players, Ludwig von, Wolfie Amadeus, Johann Brahms, and get chills listening to Wagner, but Bach seems to mesh with my soul.

Anyone else like the original "Old School" music?



MEmemememe!
Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations is in my van's CD changer as we speak.

I used Virgil Fox's (yeah, "purists" can bite me) recordings to hone my bass guitar chops when I was starting out - try playing the pedal part of the "Gigue" fugue sometime and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dCjnTjGmV8


Scarlatti and Vivaldi are faves as well, not to mention "Papa" Josef Haydn, but Bach holds mathematical precision in one hand, fire in the other, and brings them together with a thunder that has echoed down the centuries.




Tommy


(edited to add - more audible version of the Gigue with superior camera work, showing the pedalwork much better):
http://donmuro.com/Gallery/Videos/bach_gigue_fugue.htm

[jakemccoy]

I also listen to classical music while doing work in my home office. It feels like I'm meditating. It's great.

[sdsnet]

You bet. I enjoy Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Albinoni, Pachelbel and others.

[.264 magnum]

For anyone who hasn't yet take a little time and listen to some of Conlon Nancarrow's blues and classical stuff for player piano.

Think of Nancarrow as a guy who invented a pre- musical synthesizer in the 1940s.

CN was an American who became a commie finally moving to Mexico City to be near more commies. And apparently he was a flop of a human in most ways.

[SIOP]

Now that's a bit much now aint it?

Name me all the classical composers whose names you recognize.

Then, without Googling, name me half as many recording artists from the 1930s.

[.264 magnum]

MEmemememe!
Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations is in my van's CD changer as we speak.

I used Virgil Fox's (yeah, "purists" can bite me) recordings to hone my bass guitar chops when I was starting out - try playing the pedal part of the "Gigue" fugue sometime and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dCjnTjGmV8


Scarlatti and Vivaldi are faves as well, not to mention "Papa" Josef Haydn, but Bach holds mathematical precision in one hand, fire in the other, and brings them together with a thunder that has echoed down the centuries.




Tommy


(edited to add - more audible version of the Gigue with superior camera work, showing the pedalwork much better):
http://donmuro.com/Gallery/Videos/bach_gigue_fugue.htm

1. Scarlatti is awesome!
2. I'm not a huge fan of Vivaldi, however, one must admire a guy who was variously a priest and had lots of affairs. One lasting decades.
3. I'm a big Bach fan too. JS not CPE.

[JFrame]

Absolutely -- give me the 3 B's, the 19th century Russians... If we extend the definition of "Classical" to anything you find in the classical section of a music store, then a little Saint-Saens or Impressionism for something a bit more contemporary...

[Alpine]

Ahhhhh, Bach!

Haha. Radar O'Riley.

[Annoyedgrunt]

Absoluletly. On the way to work every morning, it puts me in a calming mood for dealing with the ***holes I have to work with. I only wish they played it during the daytime too, I'd take it any day over today's "hit music."

100 years from now, people will look back at our culture and our "hit music" and think "Holy ****, what on EARTH were those retards listening to back then?" But classical music will live forever.

Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven FTW

[FLRon777]

Haha. Radar O'Riley.

Ahh... you caught that one Alpine! :supergrin:

[Jason D]

I like Beethoven.

[BuckeyePPC]

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2BcXRCb2Zs&feature=related

I remember the great Warner Bro cartoons with the classical music. My favorite was the little black crow that walked to this music and kicked butt.

[oswald01]

Every morning, green tea and Brandenburg Concertos 4/5/6.