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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Anybody here like classical music? Jan 1^st, 2016 at 1:25pm Do you have any favourites? These are just a few of mine: Beethoven's Pastoral symphony (can't remember the number) Mozart's Clarinet concerto Sibelius' Finlandia Many short pieces of Chopin (and also his piano concerto no 1 I think) Brahms' Piano concerto no 2 Pieces by Delius & Vaughan williams
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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #1 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 1:37pm Me- I love mostly Japanese composer's. Heisoku no Kakudai- ( and others) unknown artist
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Stratos Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4725	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #2 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 2:09pm bogarde73 wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 1:25pm: Beethoven's Pastoral symphony (can't remember the number) That'a 6. I'm more partial to his fourth myself. Also a big fan of some of the less grandiose romantics like Mendelssohn and Chopin.
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The Heartless Felon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2869 Gender:	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #3 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 2:23pm I forget who said it but he opined that the world would be a better place if everyone listened to Mozart for 10 minutes a day. Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky's 1st ditto Smetana's Ma Vlast I heard part of Mendellsohn's Scottish Symphony this morning. Great way to start the year...
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Reply #4 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 3:21pm

The Heartless Felon wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 2:23pm:

I heard part of Mendellsohn's Scottish Symphony this morning. Great way to start the year...

Another good one, as well as the Italian. Both extremely well written. Fingal's Cave (Hebrides Overture) is another excellent piece by him if you are familiar with it.

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Reply #5 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:14pm

bogarde73 wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 1:25pm:

Do you have any favourites?
These are just a few of mine:

Beethoven's Pastoral symphony (can't remember the number)
Mozart's Clarinet concerto
Sibelius' Finlandia
Many short pieces of Chopin (and also his piano concerto no 1 I think)
Brahms' Piano concerto no 2
Pieces by Delius & Vaughan williams

Yes, Bogey, I have all of those. The only music I dislike is Opera (cat's wailing) and Country and Western. Grin

This is my favourite Chopin.

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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #6 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:18pm Yes, but chamber-music over the symphony orchestra. The bombastic stuff is no more interesting than Death-Metal. Paganini's works are favourites.
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Reply #7 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:44pm

issuevoter wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:18pm:

The bombastic stuff is no more interesting than Death-Metal.

Paganini's works are favourites.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "bombastic" as that music could very easily be used to describe much of Paganini's music.

I would have loved to see Paganini live, from all accounts he was a freak of nature.

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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #8 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:55pm Beethoven
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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #9 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 5:24pm Nothing big bombastic or overpowering about this piece , beautiful. Moonlight Sonata, lovely.
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Reply #10 - Jan 1^st, 2016 at 5:52pm

I have a collection of the choral works of John Taverrner 1490 – 1545 (who appears on my avatar), including this one:

One of my ancestors was a fairly obscure but accomplished Australian composer, Julia Nixon b. 1874 and pictured below. She wrote mainly for the pianoforte.

I still have some of her original sheet music.

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Reply #11 - Jan 2^nd, 2016 at 4:16pm

Stratos wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:44pm:

issuevoter wrote on Jan 1^st, 2016 at 4:18pm:

The bombastic stuff is no more interesting than Death-Metal.

Paganini's works are favourites.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "bombastic" as that music could very easily be used to describe much of Paganini's music.

I would have loved to see Paganini live, from all accounts he was a freak of nature.

Bombastic: Ride of the Valkyries, and all of that bloody noise in the 1812 Overture, just for starters.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #12 - Jan 4^th, 2016 at 2:02pm I happened to notice the New Year concert by the Vienna Philharmonic was broadcast in the middle of the night by SBS and have recorded it. Something to look forward to watching. It always has a lot of Strauss of course. Great stuff.
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Reply #13 - Jan 5^th, 2016 at 8:55am

I have a huge collection of vinyl records and music sheets of classical composers music.
Used to teach classical mainly on piano and keyboard. The kids loved Beethoven's Fur Elise (for Elise, his sweetheart at the time), having found a simpler version of the music for them to play.
Interesting life story of these classical composers of their time.
For instance, did you know, that Beethoven had gone completely deaf, and he had taken the legs off his grand piano, put his piano on the floor to play, and would go by the vibrations to write more music.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Anybody here like classical music? Reply #14 - Jan 5^th, 2016 at 2:08pm Knew he was deaf of course but didn't know that he did that. Many composers don't need a piano or anything to write though, they can hear the sound and visualise the notation in their head. I bet there is computer technology today to assist the hearing impaired with such things.
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