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bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Mar. 15 2006, 18:10 Been listening to a bit more classical music lately, and it has led me to ask what are your favourite pieces & why. Ofcourse there will be many & this has probably been covered before, but it's always good to hear from others, & maybe broaden horizons a bit. I love Beethoven's symphonies & find them almost on the same level of interest to me as Mike's music. They absorb you. I have a cd, The Best of Carl Orff ( his Platinum Collection, I guess!! & it's full of real stirring stuff - O Fortuna, and some choral ( not so mad on them), some huge atmospheric pieces and then you find these tiny, perfect, shining gems - so simple and tender they transport you to another time...Rundadinella, Spielstuck (simple & beautiful), Malaguena (haunting & medieval), Carillon & Gassenhauer too. Some I wish were so much longer. And completely in another musical direction, Prokofiev. I know little of his music, but for the life in music that Alan spoke of first in a different thread, The Dance of the Knights has to represent just this & be for me one of the most perfect pieces. I wish it went on forever, it moves & occupies a huge space. It is so good. That's just a few from me, what about you? -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 05:59 It's always good to have a fresh look at this side of things - great idea. A piece that suddenly swept into my life recently (thanks entirely to María's intervention) is Rodrigo's 'Concerto D'Aranjuez'. I knew it from long ago - it was a very popular piece during the 60s/70s - but then for some unknown reason I left it completely behind. To listen to it again after decades of neglect (at least, by me) has been simply marvellous - the adagio is one of those things that just tears me to pieces, no matter how many times I hear it. Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 08:48 I'm awfully illiterate in classical (or whatever better term you can apply to it) music. Most things I've listened to I liked, though. Beethoven's Ninth is one that I have, and I'm seriously fond of Liszt's second Hungarian Rhapsody. In fact, are the other Hungarian Rhapsodies as good as that? Worth listening? -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 13:39 I love Prokofiev!  I remember hearing bits of 'Leiutenant Kije' on telly years ago, and it taking me ages to find out what it was called and who wrote it. It's a fantastic symphonic suite - Greg Lake nicked some of it for his Christmassy song "I believe in Father Christmas", and the bit in the middle sounds like the theme from Ground Force... but don't let that put you off!  "The Love For Three Oranges" is also one of his best! Otherwise, I like Debussy, which is brilliant for daydreaming along to, Grieg and Mozart - all of which are brilliant creativity music, for all those artists, writers and musicians out there! Tony -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 13:43 Quote (ImAFoolAndImLaughing @ Mar. 16 2006, 13:39) The "Father Christmas" bit and another ELP usage were  actually my introduction to Prokofiev. Never heard of "Ground Force". Another part of "Kije" is used by Sting for his song "Russians" from "Dream of the Blue Turtles." -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 14:20 Quote (ImAFoolAndImLaughing @ Mar. 16 2006, 13:39) and the bit in the middle sounds like the theme from Ground Force... but don't let that put you off!   I should point out that "Ground Force" here refers to the Ultra-Naff British Television Gardening Show, rather than any exciting film of the same name (should one exist...) Tony -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 14:29 Quote (ImAFoolAndImLaughing @ Mar. 16 2006, 19:20) Quote (ImAFoolAndImLaughing @ Mar. 16 2006, 13:39) and the bit in the middle sounds like the theme from Ground Force... but don't let that put you off!   I should point out that "Ground Force" here refers to the Ultra-Naff British Television Gardening Show, rather than any exciting film of the same name (should one exist...) Tony Tony, you cant go round bowing to people superior knowledge then come up with a corker of a Fact like that!!    . Mike stated somewhere that he was influenced by Sibelius.  I tried to listen to this but fell asleep.     try listening to Bach second french flute suite.  Any one recognise it in relation to a mike oldfield track.  Packet of polo's in the post to any one who does!!  Ray -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Mar. 16 2006, 14:38 Ray - if you continue to perpetuate this malicious rumour that I bowed to you, on every board you visit (regardless of how true it is...) I shall be forced to take decisive action! And even though I obviously know the answer to your little puzzle, I have to confess that I hate Polo mints, and so would prefer to leave it for other, more minty members of the board to answer.... honest! Tony PS.  I like the fruity ones though - you got any of those? -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

Opus 1 Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: Jan. 2007 Posted: June 28 2008, 10:13 I know this is an old thread, which means you probably wont read this...but if you do, then two excellent pieces are Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Symphony No.5 in D major" (particularly part three) and Jean Sibelius' "II Ballade" Mark -------------- The mark of a skilled musician is to be able to play one note and mean it, not play zillions of notes and not mean it. (www.myspace.com/markmonaghan) Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: June 28 2008, 11:18 Well, let's bring the thread back to life. I think MO fans would like the music of Pergolesi - it's similarly joyous (which is quite rare in classical music; it's usually tinged with more negative emotions). His mandolin concerto is wonderful, if you can find it; it's got this great accelerating rhythm that makes it fun to drive to - although not if you want to stick to the speed limit! Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: June 28 2008, 12:43 Right now I'm in the mood for some fast mandolin music, but I couldn't find Pergolesi's Mandolin Concerto anywhere, not even a mention of such work existing. It could be one of those pieces once falsely attributed to Pergolesi? I do have Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in C major and Concerto for Two Mandolins in G major. They're nice lilting compositions, but like most Vivaldi, they sound too light for my taste, like background music.   Nightspore, do you know under which record label it's released, that Pergolesi piece? Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: June 29 2008, 21:00 Harmono, my LP is from the World Record Club R10164 LPL 48841Y. The mandolinist is Guiseppe Anedda. It also contains mandolin concertos by Cecere and Guiliano. They're more in the lilting style you mention; but you can imagine that Pergolesi, who died at 25, would have been quite at home with the electric guitar, the way his concerto is written! I did a Google search and came up with this: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w...._B_flat This URL doesn't specifically mention the mandolin, but my concerto is in B Flat as well, so the chances are it's the same one. Failing that you could try requesting it on your local classical station. (I'd do you a CD if I could, but I don't have the equipment to rip from LPs! Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: June 29 2008, 21:43 I've just listened on Amazon to the one I found on google, and it's not the mandolin concerto I have. I can try to do you a tape, if you like. If interested, message me privately. Back to top

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