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I, as a cellist, am learning to love classical music. My favorites so far? Romantic composers like Faure, Berlioz and Dvorak (I believe) and, of course, the Bach cello suites.
Any other classical music lovers???
I play the Suites as well! I’ve played all the suites through the fourth one. How about you?
I personally find that listening to the suites played by other artists makes it easier for you to get an idea of what you should be playing, and in what style. This also applies to other classical pieces, for example, this was the way I got interested in The Swan (my Festival piece this year).
I played the first suite as well as some minuets from the fifth or sixth one.
For festival this year I played Gallery…it is a funky cool modern piece.
I only like to listen to classical music while doing something else, on its own, it’s just not interesting enough for me.
Hmm. Nice.
I strongly advocate all of The Planets, by Holst. I also love the Elgar cello concerto, mostly because I was in the orchestra for it at music camp. I also am very partial to Beethoven, mostly because I am surprisingly good at playing his orchestral music.
Yes, definitely. The Planets=amazing.
Beethoven’s symphonies are, of course, essential. Some other favourites are:
Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony
Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain
Sain Saen’s Danse Macabre
Stravinsky’s Firebird and Rite of Spring
Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana
I love Danse Macabre and Carmina Burana! The oratorio society I used to sing in did Carmina. I got to do the children’s chorus bits.
I love Carmina Burana. I have it on my iPod.
Mmmm, Stravinsky.
I like the planets and Beethoven’s okay. Where do you go to music camp? (Keep in mind, if it is close to where you live, we are only allowed to say the state and the region.)
I play some classical for piano. My favorite is one of Clementi’s sonatinas, Op. 36 No.1. Anyone else play Clementi?
I can’t play Clementi, but I do love sonatinas. They’re one of my favorite types of music for the piano.
I love classical music! And I always feel so old-fashioned because I’ve heard Beethoven’s 9th more than Hannah Montana. Actually, I don’t think I’ve heard any Hannah Montana. Nothing against her or anything.
My favorite composers I can think of now are: Vivaldi, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.
Any fans of opera out there?
Here’s one. It’s a shame it’s put in such a bad light in the common opinion.
Indeed it is. I have no idea why anyone would think that all opera is fat ladies with braids, helmets and loud voices, but most people I mention it to casually stereotype it without a thought….
My dad loves opera and I have seen several. My favorite that I sawwas probably Don Giovanni. I love Tosca, though.
I’ve seen a ton. My parents are really into it, so we get tickets to Glimmerglass every summer. This summer it’s La Cenerentola, and some other stuff, but I’m not sure what else.
We have tons of opera. I forget the real names so I’ll say my favorites in English: Aida, The Italian Woman in Algiers, The Elixir of Love (with Pavarotti and Kathleen Battle), and the Magic Flute.
I love The Magic Flute! Also Cosi fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro. Yes, I do indeed like comic opera better than tragic opera. I also like Mozart. How did you guess?
Years ago, my mom and I supered with the Washington Opera (now the Washington National Opera). For those who don’t know, “super” is short for “supernumerary,” the operatic equivalent of being an extra in a movie.
It was an amazing experience taking part in professional productions of that calibre and being on the stage with up-and-coming stars. The highlight for me was being directed by Giancarlo Menotti in two productions of La Bohème. He singled me out for a small bit — I played a nun ushering a small flock of children across the stage, the only part I ever got onstage because of my height.
Menotti? Really? I’ve performed one of his operas! Amahl and the Night Visitors. I was double cast as the title role. ‘Twas great fun, especially since it was all done with puppets that I didn’t have to operate. (No pun intended.) The singers stood on the side wearing black and sang (music stands and lights included) while extremely strong people moved the puppets across the stage. Believe me, I know, because I tried out the Amahl puppet with my double cast. I don’t know how Hamish even moved that thing an inch. He’s a year younger than me, too…
My grandparents love Amahl and the Night Visitors. I have probably seen it 4 or 5 times.
Very much! My three favorites are Candide, Elixir of Love, and Nabucco (which is also a great overture for full symphony).
I’ve seen La Cenerentola, The Magic Flute, and Porgy and Bess. Opera’s amazing.
8 – I like it! My grandmother (like I said on the Lunacy thread, she’s a retired opera singer) tries to take us to one a year. It’s really fun.
Hm. I can never play favorites when it comes to classical music, so I’ll just say what I’m studying at the moment. On the piano, I’m studying the first two movements of Beethoven’s Grande Sonate Pathetique (op. 13), Haydn’s Andante con variazioni (Hob. XVII: 6), Chopin’s first piano ballade, and Ballade (op. 46) by Samuel Barber, as well as a few Moszkowski, Czerny, and Hanon etudes just ’cause. On the organ, it’s a bit disorganized, as I’m picking out some old music for a recital, but it’s three pieces from Bach’s Orgelbuchlein, a fugue by Bach (I can’t remember which one), a few pieces by Langlais, Fanfare by Jacques Lemmens, and “Trinity’s Shield” from Windows of Comfort by Dan Locklair. Oh, and the various requirements for a National Association of Pastoral Musicians service playing certification. Ah, what fun.
I listened to Classical music and Opera for the first twelve years of my life, and that was it. I’m a bit bored with it.
However, I have been known to pop in Bhram’s Academic Festival (my favorite!), Beethoven’s “Rage Over A Lost Penny”, or Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro.
12) I know what you mean. I listened to folk music for most of my life, and I can’t stand it.
The Four Seasons are really, really pretty. So is the Nutcracker. I have both *blush* on my iPod.
I like both of those. I used to have the Nutcracker on my iPod, too, but I took it off to save space. I’ll probably put it back on again at Christmas time.
No one has mentioned Mahler yet. I am disappointed. If you like GIANT SWEEPING EPIC MUSIC you will probably like Mahler.
(Mahler 1 is probably the only symphony that I’ve ever analyzed and liked better afterwards. hello my name is penty and I really like motifs and also FOURTHS)
My liszt (look I’m so clever) of favorite composers has a shameful turnover rate, but some standards are Mahler, Sibelius, Bernstein, Vivaldi, and Beethoven. Lately I’ve been getting into the Mighty Handful; I played Borodin 2 in orchestra last year and I’m doing a cello transcription of that one Cui Orientale with all the funny pizzicato bits. Cui is the Russian that everybody always seems to forget. He’s very…French.
@Fridgey- yesyesyes these are all excellent and I am seconding this! Rite of Spring is fantastic–as a bassoonist it makes me weep because I know I will never be good enough to do that awful thing with the high D, but Stravinsky does dissonance right. I’m reading a fascinating book right now about the premiere of the Rite of Spring and WWI and Modernism, which makes me feel terribly cultured even though I have no idea who half the people namedropped are.
Oh yes! I played a bit of Mahler’s The Giants (I think that’s right). It sounds like Frere Jacques, and my family had a big argument about whether or not is was Frere Jacques. We finally asked a family friend, who is a composer, and he said that it was.
I have to say, one composer that is just not my favorite is Haydn. I played his Divertimento this year and now I’m working on the Cello Concerto in C, which is okay.
I LOVE giant sweeping epic music. Giant sweeping and epic is awesome.
I really don’t know that much about classical music, or any other kind for that matter, but I recently started to listen to it online while I’m at the computer. Now I’m going to go find some mahler music to listen to.
– Kaiser
OK, this is a question for cellists. Does anyone here know the name of the the following excersise?
It’s slurred bowings. The fingering is, starting in 4th position on the A string, 1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,(repeat) 1,4,2,4,1,4,2,4,1,4,2,4,(repeat) 1,3,2,3,1,3,2,3,1,3,2,3, (repeat) then move down half a position and repeat the whole thing all the way down to the C string.
“Ring ring.” “Hello?” “Ring ring.” “He-hello?” “Ring ring.” “Hello?” “Ring ring.” “He-hello?”
Ah, it’s dead.
I WORSHIP classical music! As a piano and clarinet student, I play it every day and listen to it every day and sometimes in my dreams there is classical music in the background…..I play Suzuki Piano and for clarinet I play out of about three books and then there’s my binder which is full of stuff. I have a music joke book, too.
@whoever was talking about the Planets-
OH YEAH! My first piano teacher gave me a cd of that, and from then on I’ve been addicted. I can sing the Mars (it is mars right?) theme, you know, “I vow to thee my country all earthly things above”. One time I did it at my old school’s talent show and nearly killed this mean girl when she said she didn’t like it……. *is ranting/rambling* *will stop now* *for the moment at least*
Can anyone recommend any piano pieces? I want to start playing again, but I haven’t played in a few years so I won’t be able to do very difficult pieces.
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Are you taking lessons or just playing for fun?
You could use the Suzuki books, they’ve got some good songs.
I know this thread is sort-of dead, but still, muahahaha! *feels proud for having found this thread* OK, so, as you can all probably tell, I <3 classical music. I actually prefer it over the stuff my friends listen to, if that's believable. Hmm…the one I am currently listening to over and over again right now is the Overture from Poet and Peasant by Franz von Suppé. I do that all the time – past ones have included Eine Alpensinfonie (Richard Strauss), The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute overtures (both Mozart, which is strange as Mozart is usually one of my lesser-preferred composers), the Barber of Seville overture (Rossini), St. Paul's Suite movements 1 and 4 (Gustav Holst), mainly because our school string orchestra played it in a competition in December and won Gold, but also because I really like the piece. What else? Oh yes, I also play the violin and piano, but I sort of haven't played the piano seriously ever since I took the ABRSM Grade 8 exam in November 2008. But I still play the violin, both at home and at school. (I am concertmaster! Wheee!) Erm, well, that was sort of random but the fact that this thread exists makes me happy.
Can someone please suggest to me a cello piece for me to play? I enjoyed Vivaldi’s Concerto RV531. I just don’t know what to try, even though I seem to like minor keys and contrast. And accents.
Yay! Classical music!
I really adore the composer Eric Whitacre. He’s amazing!
His choral music is beautiful, especially “Sleep” “With a Lily In Your Hand” and “Cloudburst”
His band music is amazing, especially “October” and “Gozilla Eats Las Vegas!”
Listen to his Virtual Choir singing “Lux Aurumque” If beauty had a soundtrack, this would be it.
JW: You could try Jean Sibelius’s Theme and Variations for Cello solo in d minor. Sibelius is good.