Classical Music

[Linda]

[quote name='Sarah_JC' date='Nov 25 2005, 04:58 PM']Perhaps playing Ode to Joy in a first year violin recital of 200 kids (at once!) has made me bitter.
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You can't mean that, violin sounds always heavenly, even though it's firstyears

[avemaria40]

I don't listen to a lot o f it, but I love the song Ave Maria and I also love some of these Classical Italian songs my voice teacher is teaching me

[Socrates]

Any of Beethoven's Symphonies.

(puts me in the mood for the old ultraviolence, o my droogs)

(those who have seen "A Clockwork Orange" will get the latter reference)

[daugher-of-Mary]

Oh man. Rachmoninov's Vespers is my all time favorite. I'm also a huge fan of Handel, Bach, Shubert, Schuman, and Mozart (as long as he wasn't writing for flutes!).

[Spiritual_Arsonist]

Classical Music holds primacy. Mozart and Bach are my favorites.

Next weekend I will be heading to the Detroit Symphony to see a MEdley of Baroque music and then on Sunday I will see the Messiah with 20 other semmies!

WOOT!!!

[Andrea348]

[quote name='daugher-of-Mary' date='Nov 26 2005, 09:11 AM']and Mozart (as long as he wasn't writing for flutes!).
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Mozart hated writing for flutes...even he couldn't stand it. lol.

[argent_paladin]

Required listening for all:
Mozart- Requiem, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Violin Concertos and his other masses
Beethoven- Symphonies (especially 9th)
Bach- just about everything, but especially Art of the Fugue, any organ works
Wagner- Ring Cycle
Handel- Messiah
Haydn- Surprise Symphony
Stravinsky- Rite of Spring, Firebird
Liszt, Schubert, Debussy, Schumann, Berlioz, Schoenberg, Brahms, Chopin are all worth getting to know

for Catholics- Palestrina, Victoria,

My own eclectic favorites- Barber's Adagio for Strings, Rachmaninoff - thanksgiving to the Mother of God, Vivaldi- Four Seasons,
Modern- Holst - The Planets and Orff- Carmina Burana

I lean more toward choral works (Byrd, Stanford, etc) but for symphonic music, you have to know the first dozen on the list.