Does anyone like classical music?

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I was in the choir back in high school, and might have been the only person who really enjoyed the classical music we sang. All of my friends constantly griped about the songs out director chose for us and begged her to let us sing pop music instead. I also played flute in the school band for awhile, so I that's probably when I really started to like classical music.

I like neo-classical like Dark Sanctuary, and some classical-sounding movie soundtracks.

I like a few epic classical pieces, like "O Fortuna" by Orff.

I may be more of a band geek, but my favorite choir composer is Eric Whitacre. I also think Morten Lauridsen is good, too. My favorite band composer is Eric Ewazen. His music, especially "Legacy", is absolutely beautiful. My favorite orchestral composer is John Williams with his brilliant fanfares and artistic, uplifting music. But, I also think Danny Elfman is good, too.

I'm starting to get into classical more and more. Bach is probably my favorite right now. I also like neoclassical music like Warmen or David Valdes (who did an excellent rendition of Bach's 1099 Adagio.)

What annoys me about it is the lack of guitars used in classical music. Usually it's either an all-guitar ensemble or a completely guitar-less piece in the classical world. There aren't any compositions I know of that incorporate guitar without having it as the primary instrument. I can understand, though, as primitive guitars had neither the volume nor the reliablitiy to perform in an orchestra or symphony.

i prefer the russian composers...or the alcoholic ones. i think mussourgsky was both....which you'd think would lead to me loving him the most...but my fave composer is actually prokofiev.

I am listening to Chopin.

David Valdes et al isn't really neo-classical music per se. Neoclassical music was a movement in the early 20th century where various artists took inspiration from the 18th and 19th centuries and started to reutilise classical forms and harmonic structure.

Valdes and stuff like that is just a metal pastiche of classical and baroque music.

I have never really liked classical guitar much at all. I think that they are near impossible to get a decent sound out of - there are very few few decent classical guitarists. One of the reasons that you don't hear them much in classical music is because most of the repetoire wasn't actually written for guitar but was transcribed by people like Segovia. Before Segovia, there was very little repetoire to play, that is why he revolutionised the instrument so much. Of course there is some repetoire written intentionally for guitar, a fair amount of Italian stuff AFAIAA.

I do like Spanish, flamenco and electric guitar however.

What stuff out of interest?

I just borrowed the prelude and nocturne books from the library so that I could follow along (and also attempt to play the Eminor prelude).

If anyone wants to get into Chopin, I recommend getting the nocturnes, they are one of my favourite musical forms.

>jealous<

When I was in choir, it was in the deep South, and we were always singing old gospel music.

Me too.

We have a radio station here in Australia which only plays Classical music and I wake up to it each morning. I find it a very soothing, relaxing and calming way to start each day ! !!

I also have a 105 part series called "The Classical Collection" that came out at the newsagents here each fortnight about 10 years ago. Being such a huge field, I thought it was a great way to introduce myself to classical music. Bach & Mozart would be my faves ! !!

Yes. From Gregorian Chant to Philip Glass. Am majoring on Bach, J S at the moment (the 48).

Incidentally, the Carl Orff work quoted above is from his cantata Carmina Burana (sorry if I've inadvertently trodden on any toes, but am very tired - 1.30 am and am off to the land of nod).


Michaelmas

I love classical music. I am a classical trained musician (as well as a jazz trained and experiencecd in other styles). I like early music (Medieval to Baroque)and 20th Century and contemporary, but quite a bit in between. A partial list of what I like:


Josquin
Victoria
Dowland
Palestrina
Bach
Handel
Monteverdi
Mozart
Beethoven
Verdi
Schubert
Schumann
Chopin
Faure
Satie
Bartok
Hovhaness
Gorecki
Feldman
Xenakis
Part
Stravinsky
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Harris
Villa-Lobos
Berg
Varese
Schnittke
Cage
Carter
Reich
Ligeti

Ooh some cool 20th Century stuff in there! If you like Berg you should check out some Pierre Boulez. If you like Ligeti, you may also like Krystof Penderecki; they are not entirely the same but for some reason I have always associated the two.

By the way, I perform my own extended version of Cage's 4'33" every night...normaly lasts around 8 hours

When I ain't listening to my poetry..., I like to switch over to the "Classical Station" and listen to those war image inducing symphonies, well...most of them anyway.

Got no names for them other than tank and naval battles.

one of the guys who really gets overlooked is Leoš Janáček