The Classical Music Thread

serenity52

Who are your favourite composers and classical music pieces?

serenity52 · Post edited by serenity52 at 2017-09-29 18:20:51

My favourite music composers are Edgar's Salut d'amour Op12 , Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Handl' s water music II alla hornpipe.

Verdi's La Donna from Rigoletto
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Op 20
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Op71
Verdi's Brinsidi from La Travieta
Saint Saen's Dance Macabre Op40

Whickwithy · Post edited by Whickwithy at 2017-09-30 06:37:40

Brilliant and thanks for the suggestions (I still have a lot to learn). I'll check them out. Mine are mostly focused on the piano...

Beethoven - Fur Elise

Satie - Gymnopedie

Debussy - Clare de Lune

Pachalbel - Canon in D Major

Vivaldi - Four Seasons

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

Mozart - Sonata in C, K545

Schubert - Impromptu in A flat

Henry VIII (or his piano teacher) - Greensleeves

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake

Henry Purcell - Air

Brahms - One Day We Walked

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker

Mozart - Sonata in A Major

Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz (another one I would LOVE to dance to)

I was kinda struggling with the order but I think I like it.

whispered

The indexing of this forum is hopeless. So we get multiple threads on everything.

Here's the original classical music thread

Whickwithy

That is the problem, Whispered. There is no way to find anything on this board except brute force which sucks and is not worth the effort unless you have been on this board for a very long. And, if you have been on this board for a very long time, it is very frustrating because you remember the ease with which the old board was searchable. Kinda like classical music...It was a symphony.

Whickwithy

Ouuuu!!! Opera, Serenity! Thank you even more! I needed a good exposure to Opera. Never having lived (in a large city), I never got much exposure to opera. I like it!

Whickwithy

Verdi's La Donna from Rigoletto reminds me of The Family Man, one of my all-time favorite movies. Corny, I'm sure, but I like it.

Whickwithy

Gotta add that the story of Rigoletto kinda sucks...

Whickwithy

Interesting how one thing leads to another. Skimming your classical songs, Serenity, I ran across a book that I just have to get. "The Manuscript found in Saragossa" sounds fascinating.

Urban_Tribesman

I spent yesterday afternoon in a Hi-Fi store listening room auditioning a new system with a friend, built around products by a local company from Southend called Rega. She eventually bought a complete Rega system with the Rega Planer 3 as the record deck.
We used about 8 different vinyl LP's to put it through its paces. I'll post a couple of the more contemporary ones in the what are you listening to thread but I took a 51 year old vinyl copy of Scherazade by Rimsky Korsikov along and it sounded fabulous. It belonged to my Father and is an early Stereo record. You can tell as it has "STEREO" imblazened in the top corner to differentiate it from Mono records that were still available at this time (1967).

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