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    Posted: September 19 2006 at 23:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 16:55
Originally posted by darren darren wrote:

Grieg
 
Clap Got a year ago a comprehensive Deutsche Grammofon's 6CD release with majority of his music played by Gothenburg's Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi. What an epic cultural work from this talented Estonian!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 16:47
Originally posted by Reverie Reverie wrote:

For now, Messiaen...



     

My favourite composer!
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2006 at 19:10

I absolutely adore Charles Ives.  His music simply blows me away, especially his 4th Symphony.  I will not die happy until I hear it performed live.

I have a CD of a couple of works (Hymns II and Hymns III) by Nikolai Korndorf and they're excellent, but his music is nearly impossible to find.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2006 at 11:43

Lately it's been Grieg and Bizet.

"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
they locked up the wrong man."
- Leonard Cohen
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2006 at 22:48
I prefer his 7th, personally.

(refering to bhikkhu's post)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2006 at 13:11
Grieg, Chopin, Vivaldi, Holst... Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2006 at 13:04
Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart
Weasels ripped my flesh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 21:08
    Ludwig Van. The Ninth always sets me off.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 20:49



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 19:19
Mine is always changing but I still go more with the most celebrated past masters: Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. However, recently I'm getting into more recent masters: Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos, Gershwin, Debussy, Satie, Rodrigo, etc. Smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 19:10
Well they featured Shostakovich at the proms and it's his 100th year of his birth and what I heard was pretty cool, but the one that stuck out was his 'cello symphony number 1 (I think).

After that, well, it's kind of different to everyone else... George Geshwin's Rhapsody In Blue.

I'm not into Opera, so most Operas will pass me by.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 19:06
Copland. Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 12:02
THE MASTER...
 
 
 
 
symphonies, piano concertos, one violin concerto, chamber music...master of them all!!
 
 
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 09:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 08:24
Originally posted by Asyte2c00 Asyte2c00 wrote:

Classical music is too pretentious for me.


Eh?

My favorite compser is Dmitri Schostacovich, although I almost exclusivly listen to just his String Quartets. But there's 15 of them, and I listen to them a lot.

I also love late Shubert and Beethoven, and really starting to get into Karlheinz Stockhausen. Surprisingly beautiful. I've basically found some great stuff from most of the big names of all periods.


Edited by Rocktopus - September 11 2006 at 08:25
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 03:22
Right now it's been J.S. Bach but it frequently changes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 03:10
1. Bach (JS)
2. Brahms
3. Mahler
4. Schubert
5. Shostakovich
6. Dvorak
7. Bruckner
8. Mozart
9. Mendelssohn
10. Sibelius

The top 6 of these are pretty solid, the others could be replaced by other names if I make a list next week.
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http://artrock2006.blogspot.com
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 02:08
For now, Messiaen. But i'm certain thse fellows would be included if i could afford to purchase any more albums: Cage, Zorn, Ligeti, Mahler, Stravinsky, Mozart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 01:31
I think that Georg Friedric Händel has composed the most beautiful classical songs, but it very difficult to name the one who would be definetally the best!
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