Classical music

my fave composers (that´s the word ur looking for mate <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) Vivaldi Beethoven Vaughan Williams Tchaikovsky Handel all types of neo-classicism music Strauss Mozart Bach and some other Romantic era composers that i can´t remember Studied music at school and college so grew to love it.Nice to find other classical music lovers

@sw Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

@DS9 + indy...thanks

Tavener (Akathist) Villa-Lobos (Descobrimento do Brasil) Bruckner (Heligoland) Prokofiev (The Fiery Angel) Stravinsky (The Firebird) Shoshtakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District) Rimsky-Korasakov (The Invisible City of Kitezh) Wagner (yeh ok I know, he was a proto-nazi, but Parsifal still makes go all goose-bumpy and I love Der Ring des Nibelungen and Tannhauser) Resphigi (i Pini di Roma) Vaughan-Williams (Sinfonia Antarctica) Sibelius (Finlandia) Grieg (Peer Gynt) of contemporary composers I listen mostly to Philip Glass and Michael Nyman Edited by - Grand Mullah Tawakalna on 10/1/2005 12:14:07 PM

Taw--keep in mind the Nazis are simply a product of underlying Gnosticism and Martin Luther. Most of europe were proto-nazis <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> My favourites: Accolay Kriesler Vivaldi Correli Verdi Tchaikovsky Bach Beethoven

Hmm I forgot all about Prokofiev...his music is q nice...I forgot Chopin to I only recently &quot;discovered&quot; Wagner...Tannhauser is a very beautiful piece What do you think of Der Fliegende Hollnder(Flying dutchman) Taw? Edited by - sycho warrior on 10/1/2005 12:31:07 PM

Bach Shubert Dvorak and least but no all, Johann Pachelbel for Canon in D Minor Edited by - Finalday on 10/1/2005 12:50:48 PM

If there´s 1 thing i really hate,it´s people bringing polotics into music. The thing to concentrate on is the melodies,chordal movements of the music,not the crap that goes on in the back-ground.Music is supposed to be universal..no matter what creed,race,gender or type of being they/you/it/we are. I´m not flaming anyone here btw,and yes u may be right,but do we have to have to know what someone´s political or otherwise ties are? btw..yes i also forgot wagner,good composer.

samuel barber, adagio for strings in c minor, brings a tear to my eye when i hear it

Finalday, I believe the Canon was in D major. And yes, DS9, his views on the Jews (ooh! rhyme! views on the Jews who bring news of the snooze...or blues...) do matter, considering that he was his own librettist and the characters of the scheming, evil, short, ugly, hooknosed, covetous Nibelung Dwarves basically had ´Jew´ stamped all over them. Several Jews (my grandfather, in fact) make it a point not to see Wagner´s operas and especially the Ring cycle because this simply is so offensive. More relevant to Wagner´s music, however, was the fact that he was just a disgusting human being: an arrogant, self-obsessed, narcissistic, mysogynist (did I spell that right???), elitist prick of gargantuan porportions. Edited by - Wilde on 10/1/2005 4:05:42 PM

I hate it when people bring Bollotics into music threads too <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> My fav, its got to be John Williams. I KID I KID!!! Sheesh, easy Taw, I don´t want to be done on murder charges cause you´d choked on that one <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Hmm, my fav composers - so many names that I cannot remember them all (sadly). I often don´t know whom wrote the tune, just that I flippin love it. Strauss Vivaldi Bach Beethoven Motzart (almost like staples these guys) Tchaikovsky Handel Shubert Fuch Elgar Kirchner Debussy Haydn Chopin Schumann Meh, mostly because I have learnt pieces by each of them whilst playing the piano - I certainly don´t know their whole repetoire at all, just a few select from each. *edit* - Spelling mistaken Indy, meant Strauss <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - MIke G on 10/2/2005 2:06:45 AM

Wilde, It is Cannon in D Minor <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I like everyone already mentioned... with the likely exception of Wagner... and it doesn´t have to do with his politics... I just find his work to be rather over the top and bombastic in a truly intentionally wanting to be over the top and bombastic way. Didn´t see but could have missed someone else already mentioning Brahms Chopin Rachmaninoff and Strauss.... the waltz one

It´s quite hard to remember all my favorite composers off the top of my head, but I think these are all of them. Beethoven Bach Rachmaninov Brahmns Schubert Grieg Mozart Puccini Verdi Vivaldi Handel Orff Mendelssohn Elgar Holst Tchaikovsky Dvorak Gounod

Not a fan, but I must point out 2 noticeable exceptions: The Total Annihilation Soundtrack Constantine Soundtrack Thats as classical as i get. -:- You Wanna Revolution?

Wilde,everyone is allowed their views,i don´t disagree with you..he is exactly what u said,but we´re not judging the composer here,but his composistions,we all know what u think of wagner as u´ve told us numerous times on other threads...so can we just keep it to the music?or is that too much to ask?

Good to see the evil thing remembered that Holst.. with the planets symphonies.. was the originator of the ´space´ theme.. Apart form that: Tchaikovsky´s 1812.. is an unreal speaker buster.. particularly the version with the real cannons.. at volume it destroys voice coils... lol.. Harrier

Tchaikovsky´s 1812...have to agree on that one <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I love <i>Der Fliegende Hollander </i> but then I like the story too, not just Wagner´s score. In some scumhole in N Africa I met an old man who said his friend had seen the Flying Dutchman once (the ghost ship not the opera) - well that´s what he said. it´s really hard with Wagner isn´t it? I love the music but detest the man, and even when I listen to the music I´m aware I´m being manipulated. in 1986 I went to Bayreuth with my then-girlfriend to the <i>Ring </i> cycle and even though strenuous efforts had been made to de-nazi-fy the production*, you could still see how easily the silly beggers could be deluded by this romantic mystical nonsense. I remember looking round the audience (during the boring bits) and trying to guess which ones might stand up and start *Sieg Heil* -ing. None did but I catch some later on saying how much better it had been before the War. Personally I rather like the dark minimalist sets which used stark light contrasts, rather than masses of ornate set decoration and overblown costumes. Traditional <i>gesamstkunstwerke </i> afficionados would hate it, i thought it was a good effort at breaking away from the past. Unfortunately, Wagner´s loathsome personality overshadows any effort to re-integrate his work. I adore <i>Parsifal, </i> it´s prob my favourite overture and always reduces me tears. and the thing is, i feel dirty for doing so, not just because of the use that the music was put to by the jackboot boys but also because the composer himself would have been one of them, if he´d lived that long - true love unattainable until death, power of the spiritual over the secular, and family cohesion surmounting all obstacles - what romantic claptrap. sounds good though doesn´t it? ugh, i need a bath now. *we went for the whole Cycle, it took ages! worth it though. &lt;stops choking on Chip´s *John Williams* comment..&gt; I was turning blue for a while there. &quot;an arrogant, self-obsessed, narcissistic, mysogynist, elitist pr*ck of gargantuan porportions...&quot; people say that about <i>me </i> all the time! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Grand Mullah Tawakalna on 10/2/2005 11:23:05 AM