I grew up playing classical music from age 4 (and learnt to hate the piano as a result.)
So I've noticed that classical music tends to get very little love on radios or in popular culture now a days . . .
First, if your answer to the poll question is 'I hate classical music/never listen to it.', put any reasons you have as to why.
The questionnaire is too limited and divisive. I grew up playing classical music from age 4 (and learnt to hate the piano as a result.) but I love the music and have mostly played Baroque and earlier, Medieval and Renaissance. Always wished I could play the great church organ...J.S.Bach's Triosonatas for organ are my dream for my next life...
But I wouldn't want to exclude down and dirty Rock n Roll, Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Sly Stone, Neil Young, Dylan, The Band, Annie Lennox, ....that's just the start of the list....Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga.....not to mention contemporary jazz...and if you play wind instruments ( as I have done) nothing beats Sousa.
The only composer I avoid is Wagner ( too overblown, too many unnecessary notes, too many deferred climaxes ) and opera generally ( too much wobbly singing ).
If you're still reading this Google Emma Kirkby..there's a divine voice
" " " " " " " Carlo Gesualdo...there's a mind-boggling composer (from 1610)
Where to begin....seriously
Clarinet, sax, bassoon, oboe, guitar, and drums. I also sing, and can get by on harmonica and kalimba.
I bet we can assemble a LPSG orchestra and advertise ourselves as "The Most Hung Orchestra Ever Seen".
That's a lot of Chopin.Chopin's Ballades (especially 4,1, well all of them)
Scherzi
Barcarolle Op. 60
Fantaisie in F Minor Op. 49
Polonaise 'Heroique' Op. 53
Grand Polonaise Brilliante Op. 22
Polonaise-Fantasie Op. 61
Sonatas No. 2 and 3
Piano Concerto No. 1 and 2
Ahh, all too godlike.
ThreeLegsGood........if I could take only one album to a desert island to listen to forever, it'd have to be J.S.Bach's Triosonatas for organ, but second place would be Beethoven's 7th Symphony, conducted by Otto Klemperer, 3rd place, Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Nathan Milstein, 4th place Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Virgine 1610 (John Eliot Gardner), 5th place, Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsoriae (either Tallis Scholars or the Hilliards ).
Maybe we should do our top ten favourites..what we really listen to most often.....
I bet we can assemble a LPSG orchestra and advertise ourselves as "The Most Hung Orchestra Ever Seen".
And almost anything directed by Gardner is worth hearing many times.