Classical Music!

I think a lot of classical music is very good craftsmanship. Very very very good as well. I very seldom sit down and listen to the good'ol classics, but i like Subelius' violin stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OlI0RLQJoU). Hes got a nerve in his music that most of the other big names lack in my opinion. I also like some of the Russians. I like the bitter, sore, dark and melancholic stuff.

I really a problem with everything that is Baroque (also in classic art btw). Its way to pompous and focuses too much on technique instead of the music.

 

I love classical music too. I'm a huuge Beethoven fan. I love each of his symphonies (esp. the 9th) and his piano sonatas. I also like Mozart's piano concertos nos 21 and 23.

It's over-used, but Pachelbel's Canon in D is lovely.

 

I'm buying a record player next weekend, so I'll be buying shitloads of vinyls in classical music Currently I'm crushing on grieg

 

I don't sit down and really listen to classical. But depeding on my mood i can have it playing in the background. calming me down.

 

I love chopin, but I have to be in a certain mood to listen to him. I also love beethovens Moonlight Sonata.

 

I LOVE classical music! I love operas, Chopin, Rachmoninov, Beethoven, Vivaldi, etc. I watch most of my operas at the cinema...never seen an opera in person (musicals and such, yeah, but not operas. I don't think Phantom is an opera).

I also love classical-pop. I LOVE Sarah Brightman for this reason. Opera+pop=love love love!

 

I tend to prefer Baroque, though I do love Mozart (his Requiem Mass in D minor being my favorite).

 

I love all sorts, including the modern experimental stuff.

 

For modern classical, I'm a fan of Andreas Vollenweider. I listened to Book of Roses so many times I broke the tape (and then got it on CD).

 

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I love classical music from time to time!

Especially Rachmaninov, Chopin and Beethoven (9th Symphony!). Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" is also very good.

Two of my favorites are Pachelbel's canon in D and Chopin's "Raindrop".


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I like the main stream classical pieces

 

I am listening to Beethovens ninth symphony now.


Classical music is definitely underated.

 

Here's one of my favorite pieces: Ave Maria

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Anything Strauss.

He's just the funniest composer ever. I can't listen to his stuff without giggling. It automatically puts me in a good mood.


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Listen to any of these, and tell me you didn't smile. Especially at the Polka.

I love him.

 

I grew up around classical music and it's influence. It's one of the only thing my dad plays in the the car. I was classicaly trained in piano starting at age 6 or so. My older sisters were two, and one of them got a degree in music performance.

I naturally really like it fo rthat reason.

I have preferences, though.
I'm not big into the baroque period. I some of it if I'm in the right mood (I like the way it meshes with the movie "A Little Romance").

I prefer the romantic composers the most, I think. Grieg, Debussy, and Ravel.