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Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 04:07 I'm not very original, classic classical... Beethoven's concerto 5 part 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=zSSpazV1gIE Mozart concerto 20 part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTqpqGIIYU Mozart's concerto 21 part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z3cP6-Cslc Mozart's concerto 21 part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rX9lEOsSc Mozart's concerto 23 part 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=NL9aEdOT_6s Smetana's Moldau http://youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk more to come, please post yours! Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 04:28 I am also quite unoriginal... Rachmaninovs Prelude in C # minor Op. 3 no. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wddtne7KSs&feature=related Canon in D / Pachelbel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ (thats actually the version I have too) Beethoven's Moonlight Piano Sonata Op 14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck Ludovico Einaudi's Le Onde (well, modern day classical lol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7H_fg9B28 And of course, Ravel's classic Bolero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 06:35 Goldberg Variations - Aria: J.S. Bach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv94m_S3QDo Symphony no.5 - Finale: Sibelius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLOig_N14Dg Piano Concerto in G - 3rd movement: Ravel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8WY6jMA26M Symphony no.2 - Allegretto: Sibelius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhfRZa-1Azw Then some crazy contemporary classical Foreign Bodies (excerpt) : Esa-Pekka Salonen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDOcWO4ovL0 City Life - part1. Check it out [<--- that's the name of part1]: Steve Reich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5_cwN1i74 Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 06:48 I've been trying to listen to Mozart but there's something I don't like about it. It often sounds like a swarm of insects trying make me mad - and they they seem to enjoy it. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 07:15 Dvorak - Nocturne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgU5M6N9gY (I always get weepy around the halfway mark) Rossini - La Cenerentola "Non piu mesta" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZNx39xYiA Saint Saens - Samson et Delilah "Bacchanale" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIUOr3egxnw (Kinda reminds me of Bernard Herrmann's music for Jason & the Argonauts. Or was it 7th Voyage of Sinbad?) Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIBnX4tJh7A Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJCpQNvY1w Philip Glass: La Belle et la Bete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bs275z2DU (Not exactly a favorite of mine, but there are a couple of gorgeous sequences. Plus, you gotta love Legos.) -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 08:12 Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), Beethoven's 9th symphony and 21st piano sonata. -------------- 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

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 13:29 An Elgar selection A fragment of the unbelievable, heartbreaking violin concerto, with snippets of film and images of the great man himself. The first part of the exhilarating, wild, and mystical Introduction and Allegro for Strings, snatched by Elgar from the living air of the Malvern Hills. And if that whets your appetite, here's part 2. So sweet as possibly to repel some, but surely one of the loveliest tunes ever written, here's Salut d'Amour, composed as a gift for his fiancée. Jacqueline du Pré playing the first movement of the cello concerto. If you'd like some Elgar to take home, as it were, you can download, for free, a complete recording of Elgar's second symphony, conducted by Elgar himself in a historic recording session in 1927. You may look at that date and think it must be of unlistenable quality, but think again.  Download just the first short section to try it out, and prepare to be astonished. Here it is: the complete second symphony. Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 18:04 For long pieces, it's a tie between Beethoven's "6th (The Pastoral) Symphony" and Holst's "The Planets".  Both almost overplayed to death, but I never tire of them. Short pieces, another tie... Delius' "Sleigh Ride" and Debussy's "L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune". arron11196, do you have a favorite version of Pachelbel's Canon? Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 19:19 Quote (Harmono @ Mar. 28 2008, 12:48) I've been trying to listen to Mozart but there's something I don't like about it. It often sounds like a swarm of insects trying make me mad - and they they seem to enjoy it. That has to be the best description of Mozart's music I've ever seen. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 19:41 I'm not giving any YouTube links as I'm very lazy. However, my classical favs are the following. - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Orchestral Suite No. 2 and the choral piece known as "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring". - Beethoven: Symphonies 1, 5, 6 and 9; "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" Piano Sonatas; String Quartet Op. 131 in C# minor especially the second movement (used in Band of Brothers); and of course Für Elise. - Chopin: the Piano Concertos (both); Nocturne Op. 9 No 2 and the Etudes (all of them). - Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" and the Slavonic Dances. - Jon Lord's Durham Concerto, with many thanks to Alan. Not classical? Who effing cares!!! - Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 (a.k.a. "Elvira Madigan"), Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter", the Clarinet Concerto, the Horn Concertos (all four of them) and the Requiem. I don't like any piano-only pieces by Mozart, they irritate me. - Pachelbel's Canon... all versions. - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2. - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (all of it), The Nutcracker (all of it), Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique") and the Piano Concerto No. 1. - Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet. Thank you, Alan - again. - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, obviously, and the C-major Concerto for Mandolin "and many other instruments", the first movement of which Mike O. adapted early in his career. There are other classics I love, but I've run out of allowed smilies here, so I'll (maybe) continue later on... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 20:22 Quote (Holger @ Mar. 29 2008, 01:19) Quote (Harmono @ Mar. 28 2008, 12:48) I've been trying to listen to Mozart but there's something I don't like about it. It often sounds like a swarm of insects trying make me mad - and they they seem to enjoy it. That has to be the best description of Mozart's music I've ever seen. Thank you, but I wouldn't say my view is enlightened in any way. Maybe if I could listen a piece all the way to the end, I would be a more credible critic. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 21:51 Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Second movement: "Un Ball" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXFv5GZzbFY - Fifth movement: "Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGXXJgwl_c Hummel - Trumpet Concerto "Rondo" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6u22A_Xy2E I couldn't find the following pieces on YouTube, so I uploaded the music (sorry, no video)... Nedbal - The Tale of Honza "Valse Triste" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toYqXGL-s0A Novak - Slovak Suite "The Ball" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwka1cXFWTE Gilbert & Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard - (bits from act II) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PreHYFnZ8 -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Mar. 28 2008, 23:06 I tend to find that it helps not too look at the faces too much during this clip from John Tavener. Song For Athene Sheer bliss from Arvo Part. Spiegel Im Spiegel A little bit of a re-discovery for me here from the Welsh fella` The Lark Ascending I`m convinced a certain Mr Oldfield had been listening to this next piece when he set about composing Incantations. Music For 18 Instruments "A carbon whatprint you say?What the hell are you blithering on about man?" Vessels Phillip Glass Ok this last one is a bit of a cheat but it`s such a fantastic piece of music I could`nt help myself.It`s also one of my favourite moments of musical cinema,and follows on nicely from that whole "Life out of balance" stuff from Phillip Glass. Being There Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 02:56 Quote (Harmono @ Mar. 28 2008, 20:22) Maybe if I could listen a piece all the way to the end, I don't handle Mozart well in large bites. I am fond of the aria "Der Hölle Rache", especially when combined with this über dress. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 04:32 Quote (Bassman @ Mar. 28 2008, 23:04) For long pieces, it's a tie between Beethoven's "6th (The Pastoral) Symphony" and Holst's "The Planets".  Both almost overplayed to death, but I never tire of them. Short pieces, another tie... Delius' "Sleigh Ride" and Debussy's "L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune". arron11196, do you have a favorite version of Pachelbel's Canon? Yup, the one I linked to is quite nice, I specifically like the organ and the way it contributes to the recording, the lowish resonances that can be heard the whole way through... very enjoyable -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 05:57 Quote (Sweetpea @ Mar. 29 2008, 08:56) Quote (Harmono @ Mar. 28 2008, 20:22) Maybe if I could listen a piece all the way to the end, I don't handle Mozart well in large bites. I am fond of the aria "Der Hölle Rache", especially when combined with this über dress. That's über the top alright, I was able to listen the whole three minutes, though. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 09:37 Quote (Sweetpea @ Mar. 29 2008, 08:56) I don't handle Mozart well in large bites. I am fond of the aria "Der Hölle Rache", especially when combined with this über dress. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe... I'm very familiar with the Queen of the Nights "oh-oh-oh-OH-oh-oh-oh-oh" aria... ... and it's indeed one of my favourite opera things (more are listed below) but that dress is indeed something to see. Do you know what production is that video taken from, and whether is it available on DVD? EDIT: Ah, I just saw it. 1992 Ludwigsburg Festspiele. No DVD, I guess... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 09:49 Regarding opera, I'm not very fond of it in general... to me, opera is boring, and I couldn't ever watch one (or listen to one) from start to finish. There are a couple of operas that I do like - Rossini's  Barber of Seville [it's so cheerful and happy, how can anyone not like it? ] and Bizet's Carmen - the French composer had a great sense of stage drama, and IMO he exploited it at its possible best. What I cannot, cannot stand in those two operas, and in opera in general, are the recitatives - most so in Carmen, where they're just spoken lines. Ok, I do understand their purpose -  an opera is a story told in music and recitatives help move the story forward, but to me they're just very boring. When I listen to the complete recording of Rossini's Barber, I have to pay very close attention to the music in the recitatives [the very small amount of music that's there!], otherwise I may just fall asleep. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Mar. 29 2008, 19:04 Quote (Alan D @ Mar. 28 2008, 17:29) An Elgar selection If you'd like some Elgar to take home, as it were, you can download, for free, a complete recording of Elgar's second symphony, conducted by Elgar himself in a historic recording session in 1927. You may look at that date and think it must be of unlistenable quality, but think again.  Download just the first short section to try it out, and prepare to be astonished. Here it is: the complete second symphony. Wagner The Ring Cycle, Beethoven Symphony no.6 (Thanks Dad)   Holsts The Planets - loved that one as a kid Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (thanks to Alan and Baggiesfaninessex) Elgar- Pomp and Circumstance  marches esp No 1 in D  aka Land Of Hope and Glory Elgar - Nimrod Elgar Symphony No.2 and "In The South".(thanks Alan). I must agree with Alan here for a recording made in 1927 it's unbielevably good quality, sounds like a quite  recent recording, not a hiss or crackle on it.  Listeng to it now . I'm wondering if anyone has noticed a similarity between part of  In The South and the Piltdown Man section of Tubular Bells.  I'm not saying Mike has copied Elgar, but I do think it's possible that composers can come up with similar pieces without having heard the piece before. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Mar. 30 2008, 07:40 Nobody likes Debussy?  Debussy Piano Works is a big favourite of mine, especially Golliwog's Cakewalk, Pour le Piano I, and La Fille aux cheveux de lin. -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

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