So recently I've gotten REALLY into classical music, therefore I decided that it would be a good idea to start a thread where we forumer's can discuss this great genre of music.

Right now I'm listening to some pieces by Chopin, really good stuff.

Tchaikovsky and Bach are my favourite composers because their pieces simply fantastic to play in a brass band at fortissimo.

I like all kinds of music other then pop and rap, some more then others. I've been listening to more swing and big band lately. But I've always like classical music. Not that I research it as much as I do in other genre's, but I like it. I would have to say my favorite composer right now is Tchaikovsky. I'm sure there's someone that's better that I haven't heard before, but for now my illiterate mind is fine with liking his work.

Any song suggestions?

I presume that you've heard the 1812 overture therefore

Bach-Toccata and fugue in D minor (you've probably heard the beginning)
Pachabell- Canon (not the most complex song but still nice to listen to)
Wladislaw Szpilman- Mazurka in a minor

Love those two, I can play a bit of both on piano and Canon in D and C on the guitar

Ahh a fellow musician I see. :thumbsup:


@Knight crusader

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look those up on youtube and give my opinion here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEaBlIOi8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MfHUYPQOms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRMADrVVKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Epz67ZXI3c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VGVqMixeU

Have you played toccata on an organ?
I end up having to triple tongue when I do the solo on Baritone horn.
(disclaimer- in this thread I may talk about the following, bell, mouthpiece, tonguing, blowing, slide grease and valve oil. These are all to do with the instrument that I play and should not be seen as innuendo.)

Nah, I have a Yamaha keyboard that I play everything on. It isn't the best thing in the world, doesn't have all of keys of a normal piano or weighted keys or a sustain pedal but it gets the job

My guitar is quite nice though.

I like some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0kXDMKiLg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-y5ONP_Vsg&feature=fvst myself, although for rainy days in autum, I go for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAHl54V0CU

One of my favorites.

I knew there was a thread somewhere. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1094861-classical-music/page__st__120

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsUk1tcLnU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrvn1rFz4P4&feature=related

Ah, now this is my kind of thread

With out a doubt some of the finest compositions youll hear from, in my mind, the greatest orchestrater who ever graced this planet with his presence; Joseph-Maurice Ravel:

Ma mere l'Oye - Le jardin féerique (the fairy garden): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxs9dXqzzxA

Piano Concerto in G major, Mov.2 Adagio assai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcvUmkzMI80&feature=related -Ravel said of the piano intro, that it was the most challenging piece he ever wrote.

Forget about Boléro, It's his most popular piece and in my mind his most uninteresting.


Another of my favourite composers is the more contemporary Fujisawa Mamoru (Joe Hisaishi):

The Boy Who Drank Stars - Howl's Moving Castle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8gsld4i_A

Princess Mononoke Symphonic Suite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82QHiUvY5E&feature=related

If you can find his OST for Little Tom Thumb then get it; an absolute masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8VvzRoRC4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sKLnmfgS1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFACcuuP_VQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1NtIrz8do

One of my favorite classical pieces is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc&feature=related I found out later, it's a wedding song. :facepalm: Oh well, I still love it.

What do you guys and girls think when they remix them and update them, like Techno or what not? Some of them are quite good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LyEMbzK4o.

I'm listening to Mendelssohn's Symphony #3 right this moment, actually.

And, of course, impatiently awaiting the Metropolitan Opera's live radio broadcast today. Opera's definitely my big thing when it comes to classical music. :happy:

I know I posted this in the other thread (but it was like the 8th page), but I'll post it again: http://www.theclassicalstation.org/. No commercials, plus there's online streaming

Most of the time, I'm really not impressed. I heard some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Bw7MmTdy8 of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' and I was like, huh? no-no. The http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI is way stronger and more powerful. The remix version was just a loop of the theme without variations and different intensity. But I don't like techno to start with, so I'm biased.

Although, I love what http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiF5zInrZ6g has done with Gregorian Chants.
Metal cover, now that'll be something else!

Sacrilege comes to mind. Why polute and degrade an already perfected artform. I have nothing against composers using electronic instruments in orchestral music however, as long as it doesn't genre hop. In fact that brings us to the question are we discussing classical music as a broad style or as a period such as Romantic, or Baroque were. To quote Wikipedia;

"The dates of the Classical Period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1830. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth."

I'm guessing the latter from all of our posts so far. I prefer to say Orchestral music to avoid confusion especially when describing my own compositional style.

Food for thought

You bring up a good point there, ragholio. What do we really mean classical? For me it's with an orchestra, and most times, it's from the age period you mentioned, but I would add in Hans Zimmer and John Williams as well, since they use the orchestra just like Betoveen or Bach would. If we use moderen instruments, electrical, I would add Yanni or Mike Oldfield as well, but then it wouldn't really be classical. I love instrumentals.

I was looking for some current remakes, and was shocked to see one group I never herd of. They were Heavy Metal, or really hard core, and they were using Chelos. CHELOS!!! I was shocked! I guess for most, wouldn't like it, but I like Heavy Metal as well, and I appreciated the talent they had. That takes alot of guts, to play classical music with chelos in heavy metal style, I had to say I was impressed. I would post a link, but I don't think it would be appreciated here since this is for classical music.

I have to wonder what Betoveen or Bach or any of the greats from hundreds of years ago, would do with todays instruments.

It has been awhile since I listend to classical muisc. I forget who this was. I think he was like a trickster. He would play his music softly, and people would like fall asleep and then all of a sudden it would be so Loud that he would shock people awake. Anyone know who I am talking about? This was from a few hundred years ago I believe.

Thanks for the link Teferi :foodndrink:

I've always been into classical music since i was very young though i never really bothered remembering the names involved just the different styles which i pretty much love each one from vocal opera to instrumental violin,organ,piano etc.

Classical music has helped me to understand and appreciate other genres of music aswell especially those which are story driven and stir the imagination beyond the normal doings of daily living. If the music doesnt take me beyond normality i usually pay it no mind.

Some of my favorite musicians are:

Vivaldi
Pachelbel
Mozart
Schubert
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Liszt
Chopin
Isao Tomita
Erik Satie
Klaus Schulze
Yo Yo Ma

And a whole lot more.

Good thread. Classical music seems like it affects me more than other types of music. It's not what I listen to most of the time though..

Some good music posted so far.. my contribution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhcYvl0Cxh0

I'm really into Mozart right now, who was truly from the Classical era, and not Baroque or Romantic era (from what I understand).

Some notable ones would be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io1TLkvQEHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lC1lRz5Z_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yomi0-WL5Pg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZD9nt_wsY0

And if you like Opera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9SX7V14Z4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E

:)