Classical Music Thread

[Dark Mirror Hole]

I really love the Romantic period. My favourite composers are Satie, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy. Though when I learned piano, I always had to play Baroque pieces, especially Bach.

 

[fuzzypickles]

"Promenade" from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky, my favorite piece of classical music:
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[Vodka's My BFF]

I really love the Romantic period. My favourite composers are Satie, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy. Though when I learned piano, I always had to play Baroque pieces, especially Bach.

Yay!!! You like Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Debussy as well! My favorite Chopin pieces are "Revolutionary" Etude Op. 10 No. 12 and Fantasie-Impromptu Op 66.

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Slightly off topic, I love how Tri-Crescendo was able to tell the story of what Chopin was experiencing during composing some of his pieces between chapters of the game Eternal Sonata.

 

[Silver]

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This might just be my favorite piece of all time.

I also have a serious love for Tchaikovsky (especially his ballets, though Symphony No. 4 is a real treat as well) and Stravinsky (Rite of Spring most prominently). I fell in love with Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony the first time I heard it, though.

Also Canteloube, whom nobody's ever heard of. His most famous work is arrangements of Occitan folk tunes from the Auvergne region of France. The accompaniments he chooses to put with these folk tunes are just so rich and yet so complementary to the tune itself that I was just enchanted when I first heard them.

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[Grand Number of Pounds]

I listened to these two today:

Pathetique Symphony by Tchaikovsky:

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Symphony #2 by Mahler

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[Zeorus]

I'm a piano major - right now I'm studying a Beethoven sonata and a Scarlatti sonata (with a short piece by Amy Beach on the side). Lovely. ^^

 

[Drakodan]

Only two Classical pieces I know properly from listening to them enough, but I LOVE both of them: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Rite of Spring is some serious shit, and I love how both of these pieces very clearly laid the foundations for Rock and Metal stylistically. I mean, 3:17 in the Stravinsky video, I don't care what you say to the contrary, that is an honest-to-goodness Metal riff right there.

 

[Zeorus]

Only two Classical pieces I know properly from listening to them enough, but I LOVE both of them: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o
https://youtube.com/watch?v=02tkp6eeh40
Rite of Spring is some serious shit, and I love how both of these pieces very clearly laid the foundations for Rock and \M/ETAL stylistically. I mean, 3:17 in the Stravinsky video, I don't care what you say to the contrary, that is an honest-to-goodness \M/ETAL riff right there.

Although I haven't studied this particular piece, I have studied some of Bach's other organ literature and quite enjoyed it - fun to play and listen to. I may post videos here someday, we'll see.

 

[Silver]

Only two Classical pieces I know properly from listening to them enough, but I LOVE both of them: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

You ever watched it?

But yeah, whenever people say classical is boring, I'm like, "Go listen to Rite of Spring and then try to tell me it's still boring."

 

[Drakodan]

I've never watched it but I've read about how when it first premiered it caused CHAOS. Fantastic example of the power of music to influence people's emotions if you ask me.

 

[Henry Bemis]

I've never watched it but I've read about how when it first premiered it caused CHAOS. Fantastic example of the power of music to influence people's emotions if you ask me.

That's what symphonic music needs most these days: fucking rioting.

 

[Golly]

I've never watched it but I've read about how when it first premiered it caused CHAOS. Fantastic example of the power of music to influence people's emotions if you ask me.

I heard the riots were more based on Nijinsky's choreography (this was at the beginning of the split between modern dance and ballet, I think). The subject matter is also a bit out there. Stravinsky's music was probably partly the cause, but he wasn't the only reason people went wild.

 

[Henry Bemis]

I heard the riots were more based on Nijinsky's choreography (this was at the beginning of the split between modern dance and ballet, I think). The subject matter is also a bit out there. Stravinsky's music was probably partly the cause, but he wasn't the only reason people went wild.

Also, the French just love rioting at arts events.

 

[Golly]

I'm not quite sure if this counts as purely classical, but "Choral repertoire" is probably a bit too much of a specialized topic for the CWCki forums. Still, I love this piece. I did it in high school with my choir as a freshman and it kind of stuck with me over the years.

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[Zeorus]

Starting to build a tentative program for my senior recital next year (I'm a piano major). Looking at playing Scarlatti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Beach, Joplin and Ben-Haim.

 

[Mogambo]

I love the Romantic period too. Ravel (okay, granted he sort of straddles the line between Impressionist and Romantic), Rimsky-Korsakov, Wagner, Paganini, Bartók, Liszt, Dvořák, Mussorgsky... It really was a great era, and it produced some of the most profound classical music of all time. I'm especially fond of 'Má Vlast,' the 'Magyar Rapszódiák,' 'Night on Bald Mountain,' and 'Boléro,' as well as Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade.'

 

[Ariel]

Baroque

also

IRL with cannons

My favourite since I was about 4.

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[Dr. Mario]

 

[Zeorus]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk

That was one of my audition pieces to get into college for piano. ^_^

 

[Cid Highwind]

I've been listening to William Orbits's two Pieces in a Modern Style albums, electronic versions of classical music. It's really good, especially since there are some instrumental versions of a few opera pieces. Despite having been a music major, I never made any peace with operatic style singing.