Classical Music

[lavender27]

Good morning

I like Rachmaninov, who do you like ?

Lavender 27

[hpsaucey]

'll second your Rachmaninoff and add Gershwin, Beethoven and Philip Glass.

HP

[Laddy Muck]

Good evening,

Tchaikovsky - especially his ballets.

[FJDGoose]

Don't know much really - quite fond of Beethoven's 7th ... a few other bits and pieces - Gavin Briars "Jesus blood never failed me yet" ... Philip Glass. I'd love to find out more but I don't really know where to start.

[maxxi]

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Don't know much really - quite fond of Beethoven's

> 7th ... a few other bits and pieces - Gavin Briars

> "Jesus blood never failed me yet" ... Philip

> Glass. I'd love to find out more but I don't

> really know where to start.

You can get 'Greatest Classical blah blah" lists online for popular classical stuff - but for other things I might not otherwise come across I sometimes have R3 on in background and if I like something i make a note - these are a few varied/different pieces that might make a good start ...

Chopin piano concerto no1

Bach Harpsichord concerto no 1

Brahms ? Concerto in A minor

Schubert 4th Symphony

Mahler - 8th Symphony

Beethoven Violin G maj Sonata no 3

opera...

La Cenerentola - Rossini

Damnation of Faust - Berlioz

Don Carlo - Verdi

[rendelharris]

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Don't know much really - quite fond of Beethoven's

> 7th ... a few other bits and pieces - Gavin Briars

> "Jesus blood never failed me yet" ... Philip

> Glass. I'd love to find out more but I don't

> really know where to start.

J.S.Bach - he really laid the foundation for all that came after him. I came to him late after being brought up on Beethoven and Mozart, I felt I understood their genius better once I'd found the source, as it were (sorry for sounding a bit precious). The cello suites (the Yo Yo Ma recordings are excellent) and the Goldberg Variations (I like Murray Perahia in those) are a great introduction.

If you like Jesus' Blood have you heard the Tom Waits augmented version? Superb.

[Sue]

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart.

La Traviata.

I know that my redeemer liveth (from The Messiah)

Dido's Lament (When I am laid in earth) (from Dido and Aeneas)

Where e'er you walk (Handel)

Second movement of the Pathetique.

[diable rouge]

Brahms and Liszt...

[hpsaucey]

Brahms violin concerto with David oistrach as soloist. Do beautiful it makes me cry every time I play it.

[uncleglen]

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Beethoven Appassionata

Mozart

Bach Double

The violinist Shlomo Mintz...especially Mendelssohn and Paganini.

Chopin composed some fine Piano works too

[lavender27]

Classic FM is a good way to relax if one is feeling stressed.

[ahfy1212]

Shostakovich symphonies

[sjsl]

Recently discovered Arvo Part (via Desert Island Disks), some fabulous choral works... Dulwich Library is good for trying out composers you don't know ? as well as writers.

[ruffers]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d92q9/episodes/downloads

This is helping me learn some stuff.

Prompted by this thread I went to a free recital in John Wesley's church on City Road at lunchtime, 2 Scarlatti Sonatas and a Beethoven one on piano, and Brahms violin sonata.

Not a way I've ever spent my lunch break before but will go again.

[hpsaucey]

https://www.augustineonetreehill.org.uk/events.htm

Saw this concert advertised at the church on one tree hill. Amazing programme on 23rd November- Karl Jenkins and faure

[ruffers]

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