I'm currently working on both series of Douze Grandes Etudes - Chopin.
Special ones include Waterfall (Op.10 No.1), Ocean (Op.25 No.12), Winter Wind (Op.25 No.11), and Aeolian Harp (Op.25 No.1). If I ever make a recording, I'll be sure to let you guys view it via youtube.
Kenjiro Wrote:For some reason Canon by Pachelbel is my favourite. With classical music I'm also more into piano than other instruments, but Vivaldi's Summer, it's so energetic 
Pachelbel's Canon is also my all-time favourite, but the last few years I've been really leaning towards guitar - Segovia, mainly. But I can't remember not wanting to hear a full-on orchestra doing any of Beethoven's symphonies.
On a side note: Did anyone know that Salieri (yeah, the guy who was accused of poisoning Mozart) was Schubert's music teacher???? I was doing one of my A leads to B leads to C leads to QFGH random web info searches a few weeks ago and found that out.... Thought that was kinda interesting.
I think i'll throw this in since most of you in this thread are piano-orientated..... Not quite orchestral, and definately not piano, but lets hear it for the Harmonium
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E
The majority of you will remember it from the closing credits of Napolean Dynomite
P.S. I love the sustained note
No one's mentioned Mozart? Mozart is my fav. So far I like his piano concerto 21 the best. Also, there's this section in his opening movement in piano concerto 24 that is just godly.
I've played piano since I was 7, so it's been a long long time
My favourite composers are also Liszt and Chopin (such gorgeous melodies!!). But then, I like most of the music coming out of the Romantic period. I also love the great masters of the Classical period, namely Beethoven and Mozart. However, I've never been much of a fan of Bach =x
A friend of mine told me to hear one of Paganini's caprices, I've heard the 24th, the 16th and 5th ones.
According to my friend, those caprices are really hard for professional violinists, they are supposed to be for one violinist, but you can almost swear that there are 2 of them!
I recommend the 24th one, it is easier to appreciate the skill of the interpreter.
I absolutely adore Chopin's 2nd sonata #2. It's the one everyone always uses as funeral music, but the particular part used is only from the third movement.
I also really like Yann Tiersen, a composer who has seen a lot of fanfare due to his compositions appearing in the hit French Movie "Amelie."
He's more recent, but I only bring him up because he's been compared to Chopin, and I wanted to show of my younger brother's piano talents for an example ;-)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lYn47DXGeBk
Charlie your younger brothers piano is outstanding. i wish i could even do half of that. Props to him.
As for classical music. I am more into things like the final fantasy classical piano things. i know it sounds terribly out of place in this topic but the "classical masters" or whatever you want to call them don't have much apeal to me. Yes, they do have talent and I reconize and respect it but i don't feel any emotion behind the music. It doesn't evoke anything particular in me and that is an important aspect of any music to me. The melodies are beautiful but they feel like they have no soul. You can't tell if its happy or angry, it just is.
As for my piano playing skills. i am self teaching myself in my spare time bewteen work and college and friends. I've covered a few songs for fun, wrote it all myself to learn the notes and other things. I like to write as you can change a song completely and portray lyrics with emotions that you might connect with the lyrics but that are not nessesarily in the original version of the song.
Is Gustav Holst old enough to be considered classical?
the Planets Suite is definitely one of my favorite pieces ever. Jupiter, being the best in my opinion. The trombone triplets, womg.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6NopU9K_8M
brett Wrote:Is Gustav Holst old enough to be considered classical?
the Planets Suite is definitely one of my favorite pieces ever. Jupiter, being the best in my opinion. The trombone triplets, womg.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6NopU9K_8M
Yesssss. I played Jupiter in seventh grade in orchestra.
As for clssical music in general, I pretty much enjoy playing all of it (on the violin). I did like this one Bach concerto for two violins in particular.