Classical Music

31 Aug 2016

The Sherharazade Suite - Rimsey-Korsekov and Peer Gynt by Greig. Also, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. I tend to go for the Russians, I guess. smile

btw, according to Buz, Elvis is Classical. can i get an amen and a fried peanut butter sammich on that?

You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.

31 Aug 2016

Here's a couple that haven't been mentioned yet:
Music for the Royal Fireworks - G F Handel
Variations on a Theme By Paganini - Rachmaninoff
Folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughn Williams

Good luck on your discovery of Classical music!!

31 Aug 2016

It is impossible for me to list all the great classical pieces I know as I have become steep in it longer than most members have been on the planet. I also have performed it professionally. I am going to take the very popular Composer Ludwig van Beethoven only and name his most popular pieces only:
Symphonies: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9
Piano Concerto: 5
Violin Concerto: he only wrote one.
Piano Pieces (solo): Fuer Elise, "Appasionata," "Moonlight"
Overtures: Egmont, Leonore, Fidelio, etc.
These specific pieces are so popular, they sell tickets. It is also important to get the best performers of each piece, as there is a lot of good but less than superlative recordings out there. The more you get to know the pieces the more you will be able to tell.
Also, live performances are what the music was written for, so they sound best live. If you want more, I can help you by message.

31 Aug 2016

Quote by Ping
This stuff still moves me. I can't explain it. I feel silly. But it is so powerful for me.

Awesome question! Awesome thread! This shit fires me up. Now I have to listen...

Awesome post! I can absolutely picture the way your music professor imparted his passion (because I get the same feeling from the great speakers, advocates, change-makers in my profession), and I love the way you have described how powerful it is to you. I get this feeling too and often feel silly myself. It is amazing the way music can touch us in indescribable ways, reaching such deep parts of us - when you really listen, it's amazing what you can hear, its even more extraordinary what you can feel. Is exactly why I need to listen to more ... "classical".

Loving seeing all these recommendations!

31 Aug 2016

Quote by sprite
The Sherharazade Suite - Rimsey-Korsekov and Peer Gynt by Greig. Also, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. I tend to go for the Russians, I guess.

btw, according to Buz, Elvis is Classical. can i get an amen and a fried peanut butter sammich on that?

Ms. Sprite, your Royal Spiritedness, the pieces you named were all great pieces, but I am Afraid that Edvard Grieg is Norwegian.

However, in all humility, I have never had a fried peanut butter sammich. Do people in the Bay Area eat those?

Yes, I should be strung up for correcting you, Beautiful One, but I think you are too sweet to do that.

31 Aug 2016

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings is my favorite classical piece

31 Aug 2016

Quote by Dancewithme

Ms. Sprite, your Royal Spiritedness, the pieces you named were all great pieces, but I am Afraid that Edvard Grieg is Norwegian.

However, in all humility, I have never had a fried peanut butter sammich. Do people in the Bay Area eat those?

Yes, I should be strung up for correcting you, Beautiful One, but I think you are too sweet to do that.

actually, Grieg was russian, he was just born and lived in Norway. it's true, i read it in The National Enquierer. umm... pretty sure that only people in the south eat those. or just Buz. i hear he puts pickles and bananas on 'em, too smile

You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.

31 Aug 2016

Quote by sprite
The Sherharazade Suite - Rimsey-Korsekov and Peer Gynt by Greig. Also, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. I tend to go for the Russians, I guess.

btw, according to Buz, Elvis is Classical. can i get an amen and a fried peanut butter sammich on that?

Elvis is classical music. I'm not going to give it all away, but Elvis is not dead and he is a now a symphony conductor (when he's not hanging out with world leaders in The Grove in northern California deciding world policy). Y'all will have to research and find him yourselves. He did get back into shape and still does karate, pretty good for a guy his age. For fun, he works in Vegas impersonating himself and running a wedding venue.

I like fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, fried squash, fried rattlesnake, fried gator, even an occasional fried peanut butter sandwich, but if it's peanut butter and jelly, I don't like it fried.

I do love me some Chopin piano pieces. Kick back with a fine brandy or scotch, and a Cuban cigar. Now if I'm listening to some classical Charlie Daniels fiddle music, I kick back with Jack Daniels (I'm sure he was Charlie's cousin) on the rocks and smokin' a doobie.

Hey, there ain't nuthin' finer than listening to Rossini's William Tell Overture and imagine myself on a pure white stallion, riding across the southwestern desert plains as The Lone Ranger. You just don't get any better culture than that. I ain't talkin' cultured buttermilk.

31 Aug 2016

Charlie Daniels.
Won 12 shots of tequila in a pub dance off to The Devil Went Down To Georgia about 10 years ago.
I think Charlie's obvious cousin Jack would be much better accompaniment than tequila, though.

31 Aug 2016

I grew up in a fairly classical household. Dad was into operas and symphonic music as well as lighter fare like Gilbert & Sullivan and the Strauss family waltz music. So, I kind of picked it up from him and talked about that in my part of the eulogy at his funeral a couple years back. My favorites are the Beethoven symphonies and piano sonatas. In terms of opera, Wagner and Puccini are my favorites though I'm fond of Verdi, too (saw Falstaff in the spring at our local university music faculty). I played clarinet in high school and still pick it up from time to time but I've never been very good at it and if I was going to pursue it more seriously now, I might go for jazz rather than classical.

31 Aug 2016

Quote by sprite
I tend to go for the Russians, I guess.

I loves me some Russian classics as well. We played part of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in my school orchestra and I've been in love with that piece ever since, both the original piano and the Ravel orchestral setting (there are several orchestrations of the piece, but Ravel's is the best known). Yes, that's the same Ravel who is famous for "Bolero", another piece that I adore.

31 Aug 2016

Quote by sprite

actually, Grieg was russian, he was just born and lived in Norway. it's true, i read it in The National Enquierer. umm... pretty sure that only people in the south eat those. or just Buz. i hear he puts pickles and bananas on 'em, too

OK, you win. I am not even going to look it up. I TRUST you because of the woman you are.

But as for Buz, and fried peanut butter sammiches, and all the rest, I believe you have given me the tip as to why he is so much more popular than I with women: fried food, Southern Cuisine style.

17 Jan 2017

Vivaldi The Four Seasons - Spring

I love this piece