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    Classical music's greatest hits - or your personal go-to classical crack

    I don't spend a lot of time "listening" to classical - but I find that I work more productively with classical music than with the more disruptive and lyrical music I generally listen to. It seems to grease the tracks of my mind a bit....

    So I'm muscling up my Grooveshark classical lists and I'm wondering what classical the rest of you rock to. I've only got maybe a slightly above average layman's knowledge of the field so I'm interested in your favorites - but at the same time I'm not looking to be dazzled by hidden complexity and don't need to be introduced to undiscovered Paraguayan composers (talking to you, Wuap ) - in other words, not looking for stuff that's hard to listen to but stuff that's good to work to.

    I've noticed that the symmetry of baroque works well for me when I working so I tend to listen to Bach's Art of the Fugue, Vivaldi's Four Seasons and occasionally just let my baroque channel on Pandora run its course.

    The melodrama of the romantic era isn't really my thing (I can barely force myself to sit through one of Wagner's overblown masturbatory epics) but I have found myself loving some modern Russian compositions....

    Whatever. Throw it out there. Tell me why you love it and why I shld listen to it.

    Or - if you prefer - feel free to discuss pizza.
    Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

    It can't all be wedding cake.
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    Classical on my playlist this last week:

    Creedence
    Led Zepplin
    Lynard Skynard
    "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

    - Ty Cobb

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    • #3
      I really like the six suites for unaccompanied cello by Bach. I am also partial to Arvo Part. Especially his song called Spiegel im Spiegel.

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      • #4
        Pretty much the only classical I've come to has been through Jonny Greenwood - and of course I listen to all Jonny's compositions fairly regularly. So that means Olivier Messiaen and Krzysztof Penderecki (Jonny will be releasing a recording with him soon from a recent performance). Also, the classical book I read not long ago talked so much about Arnold Schoenberg that I feel like I need to listen to him now.
        So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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        • #5
          Some of my favorites

          anything by Beethoven ( My tickets to the symphony this yr includes the 1st, 5th, and 9th symphonies. They have already performed the 9th - it was the best rendition I have personally heard from them. I am really looking forward to the other two. I will probably pick up tickets to the 6th and 3rd symphonies as well)
          almost anything by Mozart
          Stravinski - Firebird Suite - 1919 version
          Berloiz - Symphony Fantastique
          Holst - The Planets
          Respegini - Pines of Rome
          Mendelssohn - The Scottish Symphony
          Last edited by happyone; 10-20-2011, 10:36 AM.

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          • #6
            I prefer the romantic and modern eras. Don't much like a lot of baroque and classical era stuff. But here is my list of favorites:

            Jean Sibelius: I love me some Jean. His symphonies are among my favorites. I never tire of the #2, especially the ending. #7 is nice as well.
            Rachmaninoff. Love him. Most of his stuff is just plain amazing. Isle of the Dead, anything on the piano, symphonies 2,3. Hard to go wrong with anything from him.
            Schostakovich: Beautiful music, but he's hard to listen while working. It gets me waving my arms too much....
            Chopin. Crazy man on the piano. all the piano concertos are great.
            Beethoven. all the symphonies are great, but 3,5 and 6 are my favorites. piano concerto #5, any piano sonata.
            Berlioz. Symphonie Fantastique is great.
            Samuel Barber. 20th century American. Everyone knows the adagio for strings, but his several Essays are beautiful.
            Holst: The Planets is nice
            Mahler: 9th symphony is great
            Dvorak: New World Symphony
            Saint-Saens: Organ symphony and Church Windows
            Bruckner: Symphony #7.
            Tchaikovsky: piano concerto #5, symphony #2
            Brahms: piano concerto 2, symphony 3, 4
            Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Night on Bald Mountain
            Respighi: The pines of Rome
            Debussy: La mer
            Smetena: Ma Vlast

            Plug a few into Pandora, and enjoy the ride.
            Last edited by Brian; 10-20-2011, 06:56 AM.
            I intend to live forever.
            So far, so good.
            --Steven Wright

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            • #7
              Brian's list is lot more complete than mine, and I'll second everything on it.

              I may be small, but I'm slow.

              A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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              • #8
                I just started tuning into Performance Today on Classical 89.1 in Salt Lake. It's a pretty great hour of music and I need to start taking notes of some of the pieces I'm hearing there.
                Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

                None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

                I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

                --Portland Ute

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                • #9
                  Although famous for weddings... I always picture in my mind's eye, Hawaiian beaches when I hear Pachelbel. I guess I picture Heaven that way.

                  [YOUTUBE]s3RRQypEf4I&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
                  Last edited by Devildog; 10-20-2011, 10:01 AM.
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                  • #10
                    Depends on my mood but I'm good with almost anything from the following:

                    Beethoven,
                    Mozart
                    Tchaikovsky
                    Chopin
                    Brahms

                    Throw some Paganini in there for spice.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Devildog View Post
                      Although famous for weddings... I always picture in my mind's eye, Hawaiian beaches when I hear Pachelbel. I guess I picture Heaven that way.

                      [YOUTUBE]s3RRQypEf4I&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
                      You might like this:

                      [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM"]Pachelbel Rant - YouTube[/nomedia]
                      We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

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                      • #12
                        I wish SU would post here. I enjoy classical, but I don't know if I am listening to the Rolling Stones or Ace of Base of classical.
                        Get confident, stupid
                        -landpoke

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                        • #13
                          I enjoy a lot of classical music, though I don't consider myself super knowledgeable. This is the classical classics list for me, ie the stuff I can listen to anywhere, anytime and know I'll love it:

                          Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D. Seeing this one performed by a master, live, is on my bucket list.

                          Rach piano concertos 1, 2, 3. I can sing along with these in my sleep.

                          Nessun Dorma from Turandot by Puccini (sorry for any butchered spelling and for adding opera to the list, but I love love love this)

                          Beethoven 9th. Duh.

                          and then I like a lot of piano stuff, including:

                          Jagerlied--Mendelssohn, one of the pieces I WILL master before I turn 50.

                          Chopin Etudes, Opus 10 no. 3 (Tritesse) love to play this one

                          Chopin Rondo a la Mazur Op 5--this one's on my top 5 list of all classical pieces ever. i so badly want to be able to play it, and I try, and it sucks. but i love it.

                          Chopin Valse op 64 no 2

                          Chopin Nocturne in E flat

                          I guess I like a lot of Chopin.

                          And for good measure, Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# minor.

                          Gimme that list and a set of good headphones and I'm a happy happy man.

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                          • #14
                            Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
                            Bach: Mass in B Minor
                            Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor

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                            • #15
                              Górecki's third symphony brings me to tears.

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