Just to clarify, pianists or composers for piano?
That's what I had in mind when I thought of the orchestra lol.
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Just to clarify, pianists or composers for piano?
That's what I had in mind when I thought of the orchestra lol.
ConanTheBarber
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I love classical music. I could go on forever. However i will just list a few. I also consider modern classical composer Philip Glass in the same rank as the masters so many years ago.
Dublin Philharmonic, Dvorak, New World Symphony - 1st Mvt, Conductor Derek Gleeson
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32
F. Schubert - Serenade
'Opening' - Part 1 of 'Glassworks' - Philip Glass
'Floe' - Part 2 of 'Glassworks' - Philip Glass
philip glass violin concerto 1st mov
philip glass violin concerto 2nd movement
Dublin Philharmonic, Dvorak, New World Symphony - 1st Mvt, Conductor Derek Gleeson
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32
F. Schubert - Serenade
'Opening' - Part 1 of 'Glassworks' - Philip Glass
'Floe' - Part 2 of 'Glassworks' - Philip Glass
philip glass violin concerto 1st mov
philip glass violin concerto 2nd movement
I'm classically trained and play all woodwinds and brasses to varying degrees, but specialized in piccolo and flutes; I've also been composing for almost twenty years as well, and I tend to use the winds a lot as a result of this! I've always been mesmerized by Hindemith, having played much of his work in my youth (I can still make it through his Symphony in B-Flat like I was 17:smile
. Poulenc, Revueltas, Stravinsky, Villa Lobos (his Harp Concerto is haunting!), Shostakovich, Mahler (who can forget Mahler?) and Bernstein are some of my favorites and my influences. I gravitate toward 19th and 20th century music most of the time. I've always been a fan of instruments on the extreme ends of the stonal spectrum (probably from being a piccoloist for a million years and annoying everyone else in the process:tongue. I almost never write a piece without bass flute, contrabassoon, piccolo, and a contrabass clarinet!
. Poulenc, Revueltas, Stravinsky, Villa Lobos (his Harp Concerto is haunting!), Shostakovich, Mahler (who can forget Mahler?) and Bernstein are some of my favorites and my influences. I gravitate toward 19th and 20th century music most of the time. I've always been a fan of instruments on the extreme ends of the stonal spectrum (probably from being a piccoloist for a million years and annoying everyone else in the process:tongue. I almost never write a piece without bass flute, contrabassoon, piccolo, and a contrabass clarinet!There's a LOT.
Rubinstein, Richter, Argerich, Kissin, Kempff, Blechacz, Zimmerman, Yundi Li .....
I'm not too intimately familiar with it, but I like most of what I've heard.
Also, a bit tangential, but this picture I've attached really seems to embody many classical listeners on music fora I visit.
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Goddamnit, the picture got resized, so you can't read the text. Here's a link.
Also, a bit tangential, but this picture I've attached really seems to embody many classical listeners on music fora I visit.
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Goddamnit, the picture got resized, so you can't read the text. Here's a link.
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its very rare listening to the radio nowadays but if i have to listen i always choose classic radio,i hate the music of other radios....and theres not a new age kind of radio so i use my pen usb when im driving when i have that option.
ConanTheBarber
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Yup. No shortage of pianists.
Hadn't listened to Blechacz for a while, and, prompted by your post, I just heard his Heroic Polonaise on YouTube. Great stuff.
Kempff is a pianist I blow hot and cold on, but then he'll give a performance in which he's so identified with the music that your resistance crumbles.
Have you heard Daniil Trifonov? He is perhaps my favourite among the pianists who are just breaking out. My money says he'll be classed with the very great ones ... and soon.
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I love "classical" music (I use the term loosely, since we're not being technical about periods of music history), but as someone who makes their living performing it, I don't listen to it exclusively. I like to have a well rounded musical diet, I listen to many styles of music. As a performer, I tend to play a lot of late Romantic/early 20th century music by French, English and US composers, as well as Baroque music of Handel. I really don't like Bach all that much, and being an organist, that's sort of heresy. To make programs audience friendly, you have to give them things that they like, so I often include crowd pleasers like a requisite Bach piece, even if I don't like it, but audiences seem to like the mathmatical precision. I prefer the joy that dances from the music of Handel and Vivaldi.
When it comes to choral music, I love everything from Gregorian chant to Gospel, contemporary Jewish singers and Shaker songs.
When it comes to choral music, I love everything from Gregorian chant to Gospel, contemporary Jewish singers and Shaker songs.
That was godlike! I was especially listening to Polonaise Fantaisie about when you sent this so it was even better haha. Too bad that competition was the most controversial competition out of all Chopin competitions. It wouldn't have gone down the same way if it were for me, but then what do I know, lol.
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I like many genres of music, but classical has always been at or near the top of my list. When I was a kid I loved Beethoven and Telemann. Now, Rossini, Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Saint-Saëns and Monteverdi rotate on my iPod. Though I usually despise modern composers, my favourite is de Sarasate.
Have you heard Daniil Trifonov? He is perhaps my favourite among the pianists who are just breaking out. My money says he'll be classed with the very great ones ... and soon.[/QUOTE]
Oh, Connie, that was amazing! Such a wonderful balance of subtlety and passion! He is incredible!
Have you heard Daniil Trifonov? He is perhaps my favourite among the pianists who are just breaking out. My money says he'll be classed with the very great ones ... and soon.[/QUOTE]
Oh, Connie, that was amazing! Such a wonderful balance of subtlety and passion! He is incredible!
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Yup.
And Trifonov exists.
Yup. And so much, lightly offered, technique.
Thank you calling me Connie, btw.
I leave little hints ... but only you connect the dots, El_Burro.
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If music be the food of love..... and if there hadn't been music perhaps there wouldn't have been love.
With the advent of modern communications and modern inventions, there is now so much music to share.
The lines have also become blurered on the cross over parts. Last night of the Proms - Bohemian Rhapsody and The Socerers Apprentice. The thing is even movies use all genres to woo the audience, Brief Encounter is much enjoyed by all but has a classical score. John Williams - classic or otherwise, not a lotta words in his music!
Yes some music can be difficult, like Rap, Shoenberg, Ravel, and even Take That.
Music affects all sorts, from the pram to the hearse. I grew up with the radio, found the classics and loved some of them, but still liked the pop. Thank goodness we are all different and have so many different tastes.
My own taste is very catholic, a broad range, and all coming from various influencing moments in my life.
So its pop - but not rap or Skat or whatever, symphonic as long as its melodic and jazz I can feel in my bones as it progresses. Needless to say show tunes from the era of when they had songs and not just rhyming spoken or shouted "lyrics" and the music from the screen, the Silver Screen. And nowadays all sorts iof music is used to convey a feeling in advertisements on the televison, one laptops and smartphones....
So to all those who say they don't like one particular form of music I bet deep down one could be found to get their foot tapping.
With the advent of modern communications and modern inventions, there is now so much music to share.
The lines have also become blurered on the cross over parts. Last night of the Proms - Bohemian Rhapsody and The Socerers Apprentice. The thing is even movies use all genres to woo the audience, Brief Encounter is much enjoyed by all but has a classical score. John Williams - classic or otherwise, not a lotta words in his music!
Yes some music can be difficult, like Rap, Shoenberg, Ravel, and even Take That.
Music affects all sorts, from the pram to the hearse. I grew up with the radio, found the classics and loved some of them, but still liked the pop. Thank goodness we are all different and have so many different tastes.
My own taste is very catholic, a broad range, and all coming from various influencing moments in my life.
So its pop - but not rap or Skat or whatever, symphonic as long as its melodic and jazz I can feel in my bones as it progresses. Needless to say show tunes from the era of when they had songs and not just rhyming spoken or shouted "lyrics" and the music from the screen, the Silver Screen. And nowadays all sorts iof music is used to convey a feeling in advertisements on the televison, one laptops and smartphones....
So to all those who say they don't like one particular form of music I bet deep down one could be found to get their foot tapping.
I love these.
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe): "Lippen schweigen"
Candide: "Glitter and Be Gay"
Lucia di Lammermoor: "Il dolce suono" (Mad Scene)
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe): "Lippen schweigen"
Candide: "Glitter and Be Gay"
Lucia di Lammermoor: "Il dolce suono" (Mad Scene)
When I listen to music, I prepare myself to truly listen—it’s not just background noise. Usually, it’s classical music, but it can be other genres too, which I generally prefer in versions that differ from the original. Sometimes I worry that listening to a piece too often might dull the emotional response it evokes in me, for example Bach, goosebumps and I can even cry.
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