[b]The Classical Realm[/b]

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I noticed there is not yet a thread / topic for classical and orchestral music.
So, I might as well see about starting one! I am a huge... no, make that HUGE Classical fan (Romantic, some Baroque, early Music, you name it). Who else at WrongPlanet likes Classical styles? Who is your favorite composer? Conductor? Symphony?
I myself am a fan of tons of it... Bach, Bruckner, Beethoven, Dvorak, Gershwin, Hovhaness, Handel, Liszt, Mozart, Palestrina, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, you name it...
So, how about it?

Philip Glass symphonies!
I think I have every original recording of his even though I don't like some of it.....would that be an obsession?

I absolutely love the some of the occcasional, conflicting off beat rhythms and the way he adds layers of music to the existing parts constantly building the piece subtly.

Symphony #2 is my favorite....the last movement of the saxophone quartet particularly.
Then Heros symphony
Then Symphony #3
Then Kronos quartet performs Philip Glass
The sound track to "The Secret agent" is excellent too (all strings with some light woodwind).......heard the movie sucks

.......I'm a big Stravinsky fan too........Dvorak, Liszt, Mozart, Beethoven

Arvo Pärt! "Für Alina" is just soul-crushing. I don't know if Hans Zimmer is considered a classical composer with all his soundtrack work, but "Journey to the Line" and "Vide Cor Meum" are among the best orchestral tracks I've ever heard. Others include Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and "Piano Sonata No. 8," Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight," Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune"...

No one else wants to talk classical?

im sorry im not much of a fan of classical, but i have something at least a little bit related:

even though not a classical artist, Yngwie Malmsteen has done several performances on his guitar of classical suites and of the such. since his guitar-playing style is very neo-classical, he has taken the time to make recreations of classical music, even live performances.

... Perhaps in due time, more & more folks will gradually post to this thread. I am a bit surprised though not to see more people interested in Classical music.

I am a believer that if they begin to re-introduce classical music again in various forms in public education (for example during a class project or a field trip), it may grow more in popularity. They used to have a program like that in Colorado, where I remember as a kid going on annual field trips to see The Nutcracker, and Peter & the Wolf. Quite an experience, especially for a kid like me in elementary school!

well you can't force people to get involved in music they don't want to. but yeah i suppose it's a good idea to spread it around and get it known. maybe someone likes it, and just doesn't know it yet. i've had a few teachers in the past play classical music while the class works. either big band or classic piano performances re-recorded and put on to a cassette tape or cd.

Someone else likes Arvo Part? wow!

My favorite, JS Bach. I am also crazy about Glenn Gould.

Also Astor Piazzolla though I don't know if that would really be considered classical. The music from "12 monkeys" is by him.

I like diverse kinds of music, and I am very facinated that classical can be diverse of itself. It incluses Bach and Handel, but it also includes Gershwin and Holst. The second two artists are as different from eachother in musical form as almost any two people that went to the top of charts last year. It also stresses dynamics (changing within the single piece of music).


I imagine that no two people on this thread like classical music for the same reason. I like that fact to.

Just some thoguths.

I've been listening to classical music since I was three years old (I'm 17 now). I love Mozart, but I also listen primarily to Tchiakovski, Berlioz, and Bach. I listen to classical (especially Mozart) because it calms me down (I'm a very nervous person most of the time.) I don't just listen to classical; I listen to hardcore, metal, goth rock, classic rock, jazz, and swing (especially Glenn Miller ). Anyone seen the movie Amadeus? I've seen it at least fifty times. It's my favourite movie.

I was a fan of Tchaikovsky as a small girl but I do like classical music of all kinds now, it makes a nice change from everything else once in a while. I used to listen to it when I was revising for my exams at uni and it actually helped, apparently its good to listen to classical music while you study.

I think Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 are the best music videos ever made, and I've been known to watch them repeatedly for days on end. Classical music is the only music I really enjoy, and I love anything with the cello: Bach, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Dvorak, etc. Although I also enjoy Shostakovich, Copland, Schnittke, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, Gershwin, Hadyn...okay, so I could go on forever. I just really love classical music.

Beethoven by far my favourite. I listen to the usual others too: Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Rachmaninov, Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Shostakovich. Have a hard time with atonal music. Barely watch any opera because I cannot sympathise with the characters. Also have exceptional difficulty appreciating most of Schumann, Chopin and Mahler.

I LOVE classical music. In fact, I am a trombonist, and so I tend to listen to trombone players (but not limited to only trombones of course). I like to listen to the trombonists Alain Trudel, Christian Limbergh, and Mike Hall (I listen to others, but they are in the jazz genre; I also like listening to Bach string orchestras as well as some Beethoven. Other music includes slow, beautiful songs like October (by Eric Whitacre), Jesus Wept (by William Schuman), and more that I can't think of at this moment. I also like listening to Debussy, as well as Handel. I know there's probably other songs and symphonies and what not, but I can't think of them all at the moment. I just know that I love classical music.

I love Bach (#1 fave) and Chopin mostly. I also enjoy opera, Pavarotti especially.