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The Classical Music Thread

Lillemor

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JennyLou said:
I suggest you search for Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky:)
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Thanks. I didn't recognize the title or name but when I found it on youtube I immediately recognized it.:) Like many of my generation I associate it with Fantasia because that's the first time I heard it.:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE

Now I've checked different versions of it, some faster but this is how I'm used to hearing it.
 
irb

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campy said:
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, in the Günter Wand performance recorded live at Lubeck cathedral.
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Yes! That's phenomenal.

There's probably a certain repertoire we can mostly take for granted--Karajan / BPH thundering through Mozart, Van Cliburn's Rachy Piano Concerto, etc; I'd add to that William Byrd's masses, particularly the Catholic 4- and 5-voice (profound even to a crotchety old atheist like me), Smetana's Ma Vlast, and Elgar's Cello Concerto. Never quite found a recording of that that got it like I like it though.
 
JennyLou

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Lillemor said:
Thanks. I didn't recognize the title or name but when I found it on youtube I immediately recognized it.:) Like many of my generation I associate it with Fantasia because that's the first time I heard it.:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE

Now I've checked different versions of it, some faster but this is how I'm used to hearing it.
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Ha I didn't realize that piece was in a film. I've never seen the Fantasia films.
 
Shangas

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Can someone please help me identify a classical piece of music?

It's a piano piece. I believe it was composed by Chopin. It's a slow, sad piano solo, it sounds kinda tragic and creepy and it's one of his more famous compositions. Does anyone know any of his pieces that might fit the bill?
 
Professor

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Son_of_Atropos said:
Share your favorite classical music pieces
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Sullivan's "The Lost Chord" Played by Virgil Fox on the Riverside Church's Aeolian-Skinner Organ
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"Nimrod" from Elgar's "Enigma Variations" with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra
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Grieg's "Homage March"
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Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings" with Eugene Ormandy and that "Philadelphia Sound"
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Saint-Saëns "Symphony No. 3", the "Organ Symphony"
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Rachmaninoff Plays "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra
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Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Dance" Played by Toscanini and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1938
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Gershwin's "Lullaby"
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Professor

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Slate Shannon

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Marais -- The Bells of St. Genevieve
Saint-Saens -- Danse Macabre
Andrea Falconieri --Folias echa para mi Senora Dona Tarolilla de Carallenos
Wagner -- just about everything

I'm lucky, in that there is a 24-hour, all classical, listener-supported (meaning non-commercial) radio station in the local area.
 
HosManHatter

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Cool thread!

I love classical music but don`t really know composers and/or piece titles.Here`s a few I particularly love:

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No.1 Haunting melody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xe2Rft62Kg

Johann Sebastien Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor (organ) This one uses the "Music Machine" and shows you notes as they are played.Nice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o&feature=fvsr

Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz One of my absolute favorites!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbV-q_TEVQ

I`ll even throw in a bit of opera(just to show I`m not provincial) :p
Di Stefano - Pagliacci Makes me wish I spoke Italian.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BigHosMan#p/f/82/pn_eS2XFZ5g

Di Stefano - Rigoletto (1955)
http://www.youtube.com/user/BigHosMan#p/f/64/UaXbZTLAe6Q

And...possibly one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Giacomo Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro
http://www.youtube.com/user/BigHosMan#p/f/65/zu5TkdcZA-M

Andre Rieu`s version of the Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
http://www.youtube.com/user/BigHosMan#p/f/62/dHyR4ZzA2R0

Classicaly Yours,
HMH
 
Son_of_Atropos

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Death of Aase by Grieg

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Professor

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HodgePodge

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Beethoven -String Quartet in C sharp minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwti4feAA6k

Bruckner - Symphony no. 9 - Scherzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTgDM1HwUM

Rachmaninoff - Bogoroditse Devo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctQFWwK1yF4

Boellman - Toccata from Suite Gothique, Op. 25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNpI6AEyUY&feature=related
Hard to find a video on youtube that does this as much justice as the tape recording I first heard it on. I personally think this piece rivals Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D for raw power, if not for intricacy and length.
 
Yeps

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Tonight I get to see Verdi's Aida. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am about that.
 

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