Does anyone here listen to classical music?
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In the hall of the mountaing king - grieg
Flight of the valkayre - wagner
1812 overture - tchaiakovsky
O fortuna - carl orff
la gazza ladra - giochinno rossini
william tell overture - giochinno rossini
Infernal gallop - offenbach
In the hall of the mountaing king - grieg
Flight of the valkayre - wagner
1812 overture - tchaiakovsky
O fortuna - carl orff
la gazza ladra - giochinno rossini
william tell overture - giochinno rossini
Infernal gallop - offenbach
I don't really listen to much music from the classical period, but I love modern orchestral music, particularly taken from movies and video games I love.
Favorite composers: John Williams, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Nobou Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda
Favorite composers: John Williams, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Nobou Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda
Inventive is the very last word I would use to describe him. I read an interesting thread on another forum a while back on him, here it is http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=834560, which might be worth looking through if you have time. If not, the most important points were made in this post:billygoverton said:
Wagner, Beethoven, and Mozart are among my many favorites. Chopin is and always will be my favorite composer and pianist. There's a reason he's called the Poet of the Piano.
He's damn brilliant, but some people tell me that he can be an acquired taste, which I don't get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPLU-jWjL8 I just direct them to this and watch their jaws drop. XDj.alex said:
Oh no offense, I didn't mean to come off as rude. I guess I meant it as more of a joke, which failed spectacularly, fantastically even.frizzlebyte said:When I said "you," I meant the universal you, not personally. Obviously, you know what you're talking about. Sorry if I offended you. I didn't mean to at all.Fiz_The_Toaster said:
But wow, you got to perform Zelenka? Nice. My few attempts at learning an instrument failed amazingly. Just never cared enough to take it all the way. Sometimes, I wish I'd tried harder.
My one and only time, really hard too, which came as a surprise to me. But if I really think about it he was good friends with Bach, and his stuff can be deceptively easy. Choir was super loud, could barely hear my own instrument!
That's a shame though, but at least you can appreciate it, at a different level and experience of course. Not a whole lot of people can say that.
I suppose some of his later stuff (Tristan, Der Ring from Sigfreid Act 3 on etc) isn't to everyone's taste, but works like Tannhauser, Lohengrin and The Flying Dutchman are pretty accessible (despite sometimes dragging a little). The shame is that the later stuff is his best, so people who don't like it are really missing out.GartarkMusik said:
I'm a music composition major in university up in the great white north.
Favourite composer: heitor villa-lobos.
the latin american composers are all pretty good and have very unique sounds.
from the european family I really like tchaikovsky, brahms, and modern composers like lutoslawski.
Classical music is my music of choice to listen to. That being said, I'm not snobbish and enjoy listening to all kinds of music (yes even country. I'm looking at you Johnny Cash.)
Favourite composer: heitor villa-lobos.
the latin american composers are all pretty good and have very unique sounds.
from the european family I really like tchaikovsky, brahms, and modern composers like lutoslawski.
Classical music is my music of choice to listen to. That being said, I'm not snobbish and enjoy listening to all kinds of music (yes even country. I'm looking at you Johnny Cash.)
I used to only because i took a band class all through middle and high school. So i've hear, and played, my fair share of classical music. Can't really pin down a favorite though.
I feel that Liszt is very underrated at times. Too many people focus on how difficult his pieces are.BudZer said:
One of my favorites by him.
is this post yours?j.alex said:
it's a bit of a headache to be honest. It's well-written, but I can't help but feel like I'm reading politician-style rhetoric. I'm going to respond to this rather sporadically, for the sake of keeping myself attentive.
The Hollywood comparison: my love of movies is rather different from my love of music. I make music, constantly-- daily. I'm getting my bachelor's in recording arts, but I'm certainly not indignant about people who make music without training. So, there's some context anyway. With movies, it's sort of a blind love. To some extent my film-major buddies or critics (this includes Movie Bob on this website) rub off on me, but mostly I enjoy whatever movies I connect to most. There's a catch, though, which is how much I find myself absorbed and emotionally committed to what's happening on screen. A movie like Avatar and most melodrama for that matter fail to captivate me for a very identifiable reason. This brings me to your point of "cliche". I would argue the relationship music has with this term and what many movies are guilty of is quite different. Music, in my experience and taste, absolutely (most of the time) has to strike a balance between both tension and release, and thematic placement in order to work most cohesively. What I'm saying is what this person identifies as cliche are merely the tools all musicians use in their compositions. This person is looking for the art in the wrong places with this particular composer. It's in the constant attention to texture and to constructing very clear, very easily digested music. So pointing out the fact that he never pushes boundaries tonally, or rhythmically doesn't really convince me that there's no quality there. oh, and inventive is a tricky word, I'll definitely concede i was the wrong one. The conclusion that it's "thoughtless" is completely beyond my comprehension. This music to me is an exercise in what Einaudi likes best about music, and I think it find it's uniqueness in it's shrugging of traditional complexities assumed necessary.
the end of the post is stupid, pointless, and insulting. just because you don't find value in something, doesn't mean anybody who listens to it doesn't have taste. words like "artless" and "cliche" become meaningless when you are only using them to discount a style you don't like.
emotional value IS a matter of taste. and while this is probably not the best way of achieving that result, there is feeling in these melodies, and there are subtleties of texture I find interesting.
sorry for the long post, and sorry again if any of my points got lost along the way in the mess of it.