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Posted: May 23 2005 at 13:33

utah_man wrote:

ita_prog_fan wrote:

In my opinion Prog Rock is very close to Classical Music in many aspects, not only for re/arrengements or trascriptions, but much more in spirit.

sì, assolutamente

don't forget franz liszt

"...the great pianist Anton Rubinstein (1829-94), at the height of his own career, is quoted as having said: In comparison with Liszt, all other pianists are children..."

also, george frideric handel

excellent topic ita_prog_fan, by the way, i realmente ama la musica progressiva symphonic italiana

grazie per il vostro tempo

WOW ! Your italian is better than my poor english

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Posted: May 23 2005 at 09:51

ita_prog_fan wrote:

In my opinion Prog Rock is very close to Classical Music in many aspects, not only for re/arrengements or trascriptions, but much more in spirit.

sì, assolutamente

don't forget franz liszt

"...the great pianist Anton Rubinstein (1829-94), at the height of his own career, is quoted as having said: In comparison with Liszt, all other pianists are children..."

also, george frideric handel

excellent topic ita_prog_fan, by the way, i realmente ama la musica progressiva symphonic italiana

grazie per il vostro tempo

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Posted: May 23 2005 at 05:00

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Bach (the ELP of classic music)

You want to start another nasty discussion here?

I'll send you my seconds: pistol or sword?

My feelings exactly.....

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Posted: May 23 2005 at 04:23

1-Debussy/Ravel
2-Many others!

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Posted: May 23 2005 at 04:19

My top-ten:

1. Prokofiev

2. Janacek

3. Shostakovich

4. Khachaturian

5. Bartok

6. Mussorgsky

7. Vivaldi

8. Bach

9. Ligeti

10. kabalevsky

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Posted: May 23 2005 at 03:37

tuxon wrote:

Bach (the ELP of classic music)

You want to start another nasty discussion here?

I'll send you my seconds: pistol or sword?

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Posted: May 22 2005 at 21:34

Stravinski
Rossini
Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Mozart
Vivaldi
Dvorak
Bach (the ELP of classic music)
Rachmaninov
Saint-Saëns

something like this

I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT

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Posted: May 22 2005 at 21:02

I've grown up on classical music. My favourite composer at the moment at is Oliver Messiaen. His compositions aren't very "catchy" like the famous symphonies by the well known composers.

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Posted: May 22 2005 at 19:39

1. Grieg

2. Rachmaninow

3. Beethoven

4. Brahms

5. Debussy

6. Ravel

7. Schumann

8. Bach

9. Mozart

10. Sibelius

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 13:12

I'm with Manunkind...more interested in the modern classical/ experimental/ avant-garde composers. George Crumb, Steve Reich and La Monte Young especially.

But I also like several of the more classical orchestral composers, too. Mahler, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Copland, et al

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 08:47

Some composers less well-known even to real classical music lovers, and well worth checking out:

Sculthorpe (Australia), Lilburn (NZ), Sallinen and Rautavaara (Finland), Moeran (UK), Vasks (Latvia I think).

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 03:29

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Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

I agree that Respighi is quite well known (btw, I was in Rome recently but I didn't see many pine trees), but you might be lapidated by some of the English members for considering Vaughan-Williams a less known composer, and the same could happen to you with Duruflè and French members... They are very well known as well!!!

You could be lapidated for the same reasons by some Russian or Japanese ...

I don't know how many pine trees are in Rome now... but surely you can still see a lot of fountains

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Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:06

1. Stravinsky

2. Debussy

3. Bruckner

Those are my top 3 favourites. Almost anything else can follow, though I'm not a big Bach fan.

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 23:24

I'm a fan.

Vavildi, Bach, And the rest are all good.

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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Posted: May 20 2005 at 20:34

yes

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 16:50

It boils down to what is "well-known". The classics for the millions listener probably never heard of Respighi, since even his Roman trilogy does not get much attention in that field.

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 16:00

ita_prog_fan wrote:

Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:49

Dragon Phoenix wrote:

1Of course, there are countless others that should have been mentioned as well, including well-known names such as Mozart and Beethoven, but also less well-known composers such as Respighi, Takemitsu, Bax, Gubaidulina and so on.

Among less known I can add Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Martinu, Malipiero and Duruflè

(...but Respighi is quite well known)

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:41

Domitilla wrote:

dear ita fan prog..
credo che la musica prog sia molto vicina alla classica!conosci" Concerto grosso per i New Trolls"??è uno dei miei album più consumati...ed è vicinerrimo(!)al prog..anzi!
spero proprio che tu lo conosca..ne vale la pena!

Lo conosco, cara Domitilla... da quando avevo 14 anni !!!!!

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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:36

I listen to a lot of classical, but mainly on the radio and my tastes are rather inclined towards contemporary classical such as Stockhausen, Ligeti, Webern, Cage or Xenakis.

A few months ago I also had the great pleasure of listening to a piece by the modern Icelandic composer Snorri Sigfus Birgisson, but unfortunately didn't catch the title !

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