One of my favourite operas is Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", it's really the best opera I've heard lately.

For some reason I dig classical music. I'm not big on operas and such but orchestral pieces are perfect for me.

You really have to experience the Opera live. You have to be in the audience and hear all the little things and see the little things that one can not experience with just an audio recording.

My father has taken me to The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. I liked them, probably becasue I am a Mozart fan, but they were quite long.

Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

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Ok, I am new here. I like classical. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovski, Handel, Carl Orff and some of the others' works as well. I also listen to Enya, Andrea Bocelli (spl.) etc....

[QUOTE=Mmm Digital]Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

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Yeah Piano Concerto no. 1 is underrated, though it's really not as good as 2 or 3. I like it a lot though. He was 18 when he wrote it but he seriously touched it up much later in life, I think really because it wasn't all that good at first.

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oh no :lol:

Hahaha

Anyway thanks to school I'm going to go and hear the music to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet performed, just without the ballet. That's next Friday I think, I'm looking forward.

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I while ago I saw Viktoria Mullova playing Bach, it was the most beautiful and intense music I've ever heard. Does anyone know where I can get a hold of it on CD? I've been looking everywhere, but with no joy so far.

Thanks.

[QUOTE=metal guitar]Hahaha

Anyway thanks to school I'm going to go and hear the music to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet performed, just without the ballet. That's next Friday I think, I'm looking forward.[/QUOTE]

oh god thats so awesome, I've never heard the suite live... damn Mantuegi and Capuletti is my favourite part. aah I've seen the ballet though... but on video. =/

[QUOTE=what]oh god thats so awesome, I've never heard the suite live... damn Mantuegi and Capuletti is my favourite part. aah I've seen the ballet though... but on video. =/[/QUOTE]
Well I went to that concert on Friday night, and it was great. Really wonderfull to hear that music properly at last.

NP:Moritz Moszkowski - Etude Op.72 No.2

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[QUOTE=Mmm Digital]Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!

Have to say my favourite piece of all time would have to be rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 1 - everyone always yammers on about no.3 and no.2 but they always forget no.1 - it was basically the first piece he ever wrote! Its like op.2 or something - but the melodies in all three movements are so lovely and emotional and swelling. The second movement has one of the nicest little quiet jazz melodies ever - it makes me cry almost every time ! haha - sad i know :-P

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Hello again,...as said Rachmaninoff is my favorite composer in any way, and i just wanted to add that the 1st concerto was rachmaninoff's final exam piece for the Tschaikovsky Conservatory where he studied piano and composition (counterpoint)...just a random fact!! In fact Rachmaninoff himself wasn't that pleased with the work (as with many other of his works), although it is a very nice example of Rachmaninoff's music

Fun Fact:

Rachmaninov graduated from the Conservatory with the 1st place for piano, and Scriabin had 2nd.


...and counterpoint is just one of few things that are studied along with harmony, form etc.

no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.

[QUOTE=aria8789464]no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.[/QUOTE]

That's what it sounded like in the biographies i read, i could off course be really mistaken...

anyways, the point is....

[QUOTE=aria8789464]no in those days mainly all they studied was counterpoint.[/QUOTE]

well maybe in australia :lol:

I have books on harmony that were printed in the end of the 19th century... 1890+

Rachmaninov was born somewhere in the 1870's and graduated in the mid 90's I think so yeah

hey man get on yahhoo

[QUOTE]Yeah Carl Orff rules - Carmina Burana is a wonderfully dark piece - i hear it means "Rude Songs" and one of the songs is a swan dying as its rosted on a spit hehe - wicked!
[/QUOTE]I can't listen to it anymore :upset: I put it on, and all im thinking is "Hmm this song makes we want to buy a cadillac"

er...at least the beggining.

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto is fast becoming one of my all-time favourite pieces.

Sup classical thread?

I've been jonesin for some classical, so I tracked down my copies of Scheherazade (i think i spelled it right.) Some Mahler and the Planets. Sadly, that's most of what I've got, save for some brass quint stuff, which I'm listening to right now. It's Canadian Brass, playing the Beatles' songs. Indeed good listenings.

On my next outting, I'm gonna pick up some Puccini, maybe Tosca if I can find it. Opera really gets me going. I think that's a good starting point. Yes.

Ok.

Take care thread!

[QUOTE=jazzlife]In fact Rachmaninoff himself wasn't that pleased with the work (as with many other of his works), although it is a very nice example of Rachmaninoff's music[/QUOTE]
It is - but he did a major rewrite much later in life (after the 2nd and 3rd).

I'd love to get a chance to hear some Berg, Schonberg, etc.; I've never heard any but I've read about them. I haven't had all that much exposure to a lot of 20th century "classical" music.

telemore - listen (and see if you can) Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"

PianoDan - if you have DC++, I have really much 20th century music, from late Scriabin to modern Avant-garde.

no im talking about worldwide mayb research it a bit more

up until about 1950s ppl didnt study "composition" they studied counterpoint

also if u have done ne study on counterpoint u will know that if u understand species counterpoint u understand harmony very well


even when schoenberg was teachin students includin webern and berg he had all his students study strict traditional counterpoint and nothing else for years

[QUOTE=jazzlife]That's what it sounded like in the biographies i read, i could off course be really mistaken...

anyways, the point is....[/QUOTE]

yeah you are right

as i said composers in those days studied "counterpoint" not "composition"

[QUOTE=Iai]Alban Berg's Violin Concerto is fast becoming one of my all-time favourite pieces.[/QUOTE]

yeah berg is probly my favourite composer right now

his violin concerto yeah thats a true masterpeice

but my favourite work of his at the moment is his opus 1 piano sonata

tru genius its surely the most amazing opus 1 ever written

hey, can any of u recommend some classical music thats sort of like dark and gloomy

yeuh Maurice Ravel - Bolero

yeah ive got that i think. any requiems, they dont tend to me on the happy side

yeuh wat about alban berg violin concerto that we were talking about earlier then