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hooked on classics
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 13:06
by paint it black
in honour of our newest member
what rocks your classical boat then, must be getting old, listen to this stuff nearly as much as new fangled pop and rock
adagio for strings, natch
symphony no3, natch
mozart requiem mass, natch
fingals cave - not so natch
rusalka - see above
etc..
Re: hooked on classics
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 13:56
by Dvorak
paint it black wrote:in honour of our newest member
Newest member?
*looks around*
Oh, that's me then.
*bows in silence*
Two years ago I accidently tore the antenna from my clock radio. Since then the only station it can receive undistorted is a German classics station. So, for two years now I wake up with classics every morning. Thinking about it, my life not really took a very good course in the last two years. Maybe I should consider buying a new clock radio...
But back to classics.
I really love the light stuff from Debussy and Saint-Saen. In the right mood I can appreciate the requiem from Verdi and the one from, of course, Dvorak very much. Dead good stuff.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 16:29
by aims
I hate the stuff. While I appreciate the sheer musical mastery of it all, 2 years of GCSE music really sucks out the last of your enthusiasm for anything pre-1900.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 16:37
by Quiff Boy
moonlight shadow was quite good.
or was it tocata.
i forget.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 16:39
by markfiend
Ah c'mon,
someone's going to say Carmina Burana, surely?
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 16:41
by Quiff Boy
planet suite. mars & neptune. oh yes.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 16:49
by emilystrange
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 17:04
by paint it black
Quiff Boy wrote:planet suite. mars & neptune. oh yes.
on my stereo at home right now, for some reason it reminds me of the mother-in-law. better than a hippo i suppose
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 17:39
by Francis
Some years ago I joined one of those monthly clubs cos their initial offer was a 10 cd collection of greatest hits by the 10 'greatest' composers. Seemed like something no home should be without. I listened to the Vivaldi one a lot. The rest didn't get much of an airing.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 19:37
by spartacus mills
Gawd, I listen to more classical music than anything else. I've got more classical cds and records than you can wave a baton at.
It's got to the stage where I'm buying loads of different recordings of the same works for comparison. Even buying classical bootleg cds for gawd's sake.
Posted: 26 Apr 2005, 19:50
by Black Alice
markfiend wrote:Ah c'mon,
someone's going to say Carmina Burana, surely?
Its orful but I like it
(Like early music too - Tallis being a favourite)
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 10:05
by markfiend
Black Alice wrote:orful
Like what you did there
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 15:48
by Thea
Ed Alleyne-Johnson's Variations on Pachabel's canon is prolly the closest I get.
anything more "traditional" brings back bad memories
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 20:45
by Brideoffrankenstein
Wagner
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 20:55
by Black Alice
Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Wagner
Excellent goth choice
- although I'm still not sure whether referring to the g word is a good or bad thing on this forum - I mean it in a positive way (being an old goth - sorry
)
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 20:56
by Black Alice
markfiend wrote:Black Alice wrote:orful
Like what you did there
I know - forgive me - couldn't help myself
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 20:57
by Obviousman
Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Wagner
Wagner very much indeed! Chopin and Pucini and some others too
Too many to mention really, because of what I tend to forget most of them... And I don't listen that much classical music anyway, but there sure is some good stuff around
Posted: 27 Apr 2005, 23:43
by 6FeetOver
O mio babbino caro...
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 00:11
by paint it black
SINsister wrote:O mio babbino caro...
good to see you in my thread my friend
take care
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 00:13
by paint it black
d00mw0lf wrote:Ed Alleyne-Johnson's Variations on Pachabel's canon is prolly the closest I get.
anything more "traditional" brings back bad memories
be afraid, be very afraid
http://www,ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel/
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 00:43
by 6FeetOver
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 02:44
by boudicca
Black Alice wrote:Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Wagner
Excellent goth choice :notworthy
Someone else's choice, as well...
...NOT that this detracts from it, in my opinion.
I see a few folk have already got in there with the Planet Suite, but that really does have a special place in my heart. Way back in the mists of time, pre-discovery-of-Beatles (my rock'n'roll christening), I listened to only ONE record. And that was it.
Aged about 7... to about 10... nothing but that. Every bloody day. Maybe I've listened to "Mars" even more times than "Dominion".
And the less said about Uranus...
The other kids laughed at me. I didn't understand why.
Haven't heard it for... well, more than a decade I guess. But I can still hum it, whistle it, doo-doo-doo it, note for note. You don't wanna hear that.
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 03:18
by Thea
paint it black wrote:d00mw0lf wrote:Ed Alleyne-Johnson's Variations on Pachabel's canon is prolly the closest I get.
anything more "traditional" brings back bad memories
be afraid, be very afraid
http://www,ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel/
A page that cannot be found!
Yes... I suppose that is kinda creepy...
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 03:28
by CellThree
d00mw0lf wrote:paint it black wrote:d00mw0lf wrote:Ed Alleyne-Johnson's Variations on Pachabel's canon is prolly the closest I get.
anything more "traditional" brings back bad memories
be afraid, be very afraid
http://www,ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel/
A page that cannot be found!
Yes... I suppose that is kinda creepy...
Try it without the typo :
http://www.ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel/
Posted: 28 Apr 2005, 04:08
by Thea
Yowsa.
