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halabalushindigus View Drop Down

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Posted: November 28 2009 at 01:47

Yes, I totally agree

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Posted: November 28 2009 at 02:01

when you play Beethoven, you are reminded of skill, and so, he makes you pay attention when you perform his music. So he is No. 1

Here's a composer that'll knock your ever-loving classical socks off

Heard him one day. Asked the guy"who is this"

Domenico Scarlatti

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Posted: November 28 2009 at 13:38

That's why he's in my top 10. Everyone of his 555 keyboard sonatas are amazing. I would recommend Ross' performance on Harpsichord for anyone interested.

I think they loose a lot when imagined on the piano even though the added dynamics are nice.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

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Posted: November 28 2009 at 14:35

A man of just one instrument,, the harpsichord, Scarlatti is often considered as one of the fathers of modern keyboard technique. His very personal style is completely recognizable, with its short themes, dissonant and sometimes ambiguous harmonies, tumultuous rhythms, delicate hand-crossings, octave leaps, successions of chords spanning up to ten notes, unbridled speeds and rapid note-repetitions, but also an impassioned lyricism which can be graceful, or sometimes serious or tormented. (unquote)

Notes by Adelaide de Place

I would love to hear these sonatas played on the Harpsichord!

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Posted: November 28 2009 at 17:34

I will add Chopin.

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Posted: November 29 2009 at 00:53

I myself enjoy

Bob Dylan

George Harrison

Burt Bacharach

Jerome Kern

Elmer Bernstein

Lou Reed

Bruce Springsteen

Mike Rutherford

Al Stewart

Phil Keaggy

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Posted: November 29 2009 at 01:28

I would be amiss if I didn't mention Jeff Lynne. It seems to me composing is different than songwriting

A knowledge of math relating to the notes, I have no idea. I'm always impressed when I hear a unique

structure in a song. Gospel music, especially songs without instruments, only choral, to me is awesome

because you never know where its going to go. And ,of course, the meaning is really heartfelt and special

I would also like to mention Steve Howe

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Posted: November 29 2009 at 03:12

I'm going to be stupid here, and go with...er...uh...Ennio Morricone. Certainly he is my favorite modern composer in terms of symphonic stuff, even edging out my beloved Danny Elfman (and totally ignoring classic chaps like Bach, Beethoven, Paganini (is he a composer?)). He invented a style the cinema had never heard before (I of course speak of "Spaghetti Western Music"), and at the same time could produce perfectly "normal" symphonic music (The Mission) and dissonant, experimental stuff as well (The Thing).

Basically, Ennio Morricone rocks.

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Posted: November 29 2009 at 03:13

Whoops! Double dipping, sorry.

Edited by The Whistler - November 29 2009 at 03:13

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Posted: December 01 2009 at 21:50

Beethoven

Liszt

Chopin

Prokofiev

Shostakovich

JS Bach

Mendelssohn

Gilmour / Waters / Wright / Mason

Plant / Page

Lennon / McCartney

Dickinson / Harris / Smith (lol! oh come on!!! Up the Irons! )

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 19:32

Do you really need Dickinson and Smith there? Wink

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 03:30

The Truth wrote:

Does anybody here know Penderecki?

Yes. Of what I heard/got, I prefer his 60's 70's work (although his second Violin Concerto is great).

Dimitri Shostakovich

Franz Schubert

J.S. Bach

Giacinto Scelsi
Krzysztof Penderecki

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Morton Feldman
Kaija Saariaho
Erik Satie
Maurice Ravel

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 03:46

Rocktopus wrote:

The Truth wrote:

Does anybody here know Penderecki?

Yes. Of what I heard/got, I prefer his 60's 70's work (although his second Violin Concerto is great).

Dimitri Shostakovich

Franz Schubert

J.S. Bach

Giacinto Scelsi
Krzysztof Penderecki

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Morton Feldman
Kaija Saariaho
Erik Satie
Maurice Ravel

Penderecki scares the sh*t of me.

In a good way though

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 03:54

Frank Zappa
Penderecki
Stockhausen
Omar rodriguez lopez (solo,de facto,el grupo,tmv not so much atdi)
Morricone
Eno
Reich
Stravinsky
Glass
Fripp

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 14:45

ok, current set:

- Gaetano Donizetti (really ace arias for sopranos, better version of Mozart for me)

- Richard Strauss (this is so great, an ocean providing water for the biosphere for sopranos, but also quite "death", I try to swim to more pleasant waters)

- Aulis Sallinen (I love his mixture of modern 12-tone approach and romantic melodic side)

- Edward Grieg (I found him after I discovered all the other things he have done in addition of Peer Günt, shame that they are shadowed by the hit selections of this music for the play, though there are pretty moments there too)

- Niccoló Paganini (in his violin concerto's with orchestras, I think something divine happens, slighlty in similar way as in Beethoven's music - also guitar & mandoline duo music done whilst being lost for few years to a lonely royal woman's castle are great, heh)

- John Dowland (old stuff, I'm not very familiar with the scene but how pretty songs he did!)

- Gustav Mahler (powerful dramatic tonal poems, can't get bored with this stuff)

- Edward Elgar (might be an "easy pick", but hey, as I heard his music in radio for first time, I went eagerly search his music after the announcer revelaed it. Really wonderful, and not too heard for me as I don't live in UK!)

- Ludwig van Beethoven (really solemn and sacred music, but not losing it's wings by flying too close to the sun still)

- Johann Sebastian Bach (his melodic tunes for orchestra, chorus and solo singers... wow!)

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Kaija Saariaho

What scores of her do you like? A Finnish woman composer, succesful and praised! (rare?)

Seen one of her opera's (the one where people are paddling in the water), and it was nice.

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 16:01

Not in any particular order, but the top one is my fav:
Debussy
Mussorgsky
Holst
Glass
Reich
Bach
Mozart
Grieg
Vivaldi
Tchiakovsky
Ravel
That's 11 though.

Edited by Slartibartfast - December 03 2009 at 16:01

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 17:41

Eetu Pellonpää wrote:

Rocktopus wrote:

Kaija Saariaho

What scores of her do you like? A Finnish woman composer, succesful and praised! (rare?)

Seen one of her opera's (the one where people are paddling in the water), and it was nice.

NoaNoa, Cendres, Lohn, Spins and Spells...mm... are all great. If you're open to her music, these two recordings are pretty much flawless:

Chamber Music (Wolpe Trio)
Private Gardens

And I got this fantastic composition of her on some split album:

Neiges - For Eight Cellos

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Posted: December 03 2009 at 23:48

^ Well I think I'm quite open to many kind of music, have to pay more attention to her.

The problem seems to be time, have to do constant priorizations what to listen, and what to postpone

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Posted: December 04 2009 at 02:59

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1. Beethoven
2. Mozart
3. Bach
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Brahms
6. Dvorak
7. Chopin
8. Schubert
9. Copland
10.Mendelssohn
11.Vivaldi
12.Debussy
13.Ravel
14.Haydn
15.Rachmaninoff

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Posted: December 06 2009 at 23:42

In no particular order...

Antonio Vivaldi
J. S. Bach
Mozart (of course)
Franz Joseph Haydn
G. Verdi
Frank Zappa
Steve Vai
Karl Sanders
Criss Oliva (R.I.P.)
Fish

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