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PianoDan · 02-09-2005, 06:39 AM

Ah, we had a classical music thread last year sometime, but it died away.

Classical (all the eras contained within the general genre "classical") is my preferred genre of music. I love it! It covers every emotion.

I own Bizet's "Carmen", I'll have to have a good listen tomorrow, as I don't know it too well. Carl Orff is alright, I enjoyed him when I was lent his CD a while back

At the moment I'm into a couple of records I bought recently, one including Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor and his Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Strings, also in D minor (written at ages 13 and 14 respectively); the other including his two Concertos for Two Pianos, the first in E, the second in Ab (written at 14 and 15 respectively). They are quite brilliant! So "Mendolssohnian". I'm not sure they're quite as good as the E minor Violin Concerto just yet - certainly not as well known, anyway - but they're still growing on me.

02-09-2005, 06:39 AM	#2
PianoDan Soli Deo Gloria Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,442	Ah, we had a classical music thread last year sometime, but it died away. Classical (all the eras contained within the general genre "classical") is my preferred genre of music. I love it! It covers every emotion. I own Bizet's "Carmen", I'll have to have a good listen tomorrow, as I don't know it too well. Carl Orff is alright, I enjoyed him when I was lent his CD a while back At the moment I'm into a couple of records I bought recently, one including Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor and his Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Strings, also in D minor (written at ages 13 and 14 respectively); the other including his two Concertos for Two Pianos, the first in E, the second in Ab (written at 14 and 15 respectively). They are quite brilliant! So "Mendolssohnian". I'm not sure they're quite as good as the E minor Violin Concerto just yet - certainly not as well known, anyway - but they're still growing on me.