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Post by christopher on Feb 6, 2006 8:00:05 GMT -8
I suppose I'll make my first thread about the kind of "classical" music I enjoy the most, which actually predates the classical period. I love Baroque music. Specifically, I find the adagio movements of concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel extremely beautiful. I know Baroque isn't everyone's favorite, but there is some of it that's just gorgeous! Take Corelli's piece from the Master and Commander soundtrack. Or Bach's cello solo from the same. I think my favorite adagio movement belongs to Vivaldi's "Winter." I also love the middle movement to Bach's Double Violin Concerto (I have a recording of Itzak Perlman and Isaac Stern as the two violin soloists--great stuff!). I could name a bunch more, but maybe I'll stop for now to ask if anyone knows what I'm talking about.
How does everyone else feel about this stuff?
--Chris
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Post by christopher on Feb 6, 2006 9:12:25 GMT -8
Sorry guys, didn't realize this was an area for classic film music until after I started this thread. If you want to get rid of it, Jon, you're welcome to I guess I probably won't be contributing to this part of the forum much...
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Post by Armin on Feb 6, 2006 9:15:26 GMT -8
Being a brass player Baroque stands for complete insaneness! Before dumping the trumpets altogether the concertos got higher and higher and faster and faster. The horn concertos also tend to be quite hard, but they're not very well known. Also, since the second movements are as a rule strings only it's always the "boring" stuff everybody in the section hates. I personally really like some of those Adagio's, others though drag like hell. An example of a great 2nd mvt. would be Vivaldi's concerto for 2 horns. And yeah, Bach is pretty much great all the way through.
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Post by Armin on Feb 6, 2006 9:20:06 GMT -8
Sorry guys, didn't realize this was an area for classic film music until after I started this thread. If you want to get rid of it, Jon, you're welcome to I guess I probably won't be contributing to this part of the forum much... I think we can include "proper" classical music as well. Anyway I don't think many people will post either way.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Feb 6, 2006 10:06:02 GMT -8
Sorry guys, didn't realize this was an area for classic film music until after I started this thread. If you want to get rid of it, Jon, you're welcome to I guess I probably won't be contributing to this part of the forum much... Um.... it isn't? I did mean this to be the section for actual classical music! You know, Beethoven and Mozart and all that ;D
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Post by Armin on Feb 6, 2006 10:12:54 GMT -8
I guess Tom and I scared him... ;D We just threw both possibilities out there, and it seems people thought we actually had some power over it.
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Post by sdtom on Feb 6, 2006 20:00:14 GMT -8
Christopher I'm confused. What was wrong with what you posted. One of the things I have toyed with for awhile is what I would call the following as an example. Red Pony from Copland and The Red Pony from Goldsmith would make for interesting comparision and discussion. Or the Sinfonia Antarctica and Scott of the Antarctic both from Vaughan Williams would make an interesting comparision and discussion. But nothing is carved in stone. Tom
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Post by Armin on Feb 7, 2006 0:02:36 GMT -8
He thought we may only discuss classical music done by "film music composers", or comparisons between those works and the ones of classical composers. Remember the thread where we talked about this? At some point we wrote something like let's perhaps limit it to film related stuff at first.
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Post by sdtom on Feb 7, 2006 6:35:36 GMT -8
Yesterday I invited Manwe from Gavle Sweden to join us in our discussions and he not only agreed to he signed up as our newest member. Adam is quite knowledgeable in many areas, and he has played many of the works he would talk about. Tom
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Post by Armin on Feb 7, 2006 11:20:50 GMT -8
Manwe, Gavle, Adam??? Is all this one single guy?
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Feb 7, 2006 14:29:30 GMT -8
I love Baroque music. Specifically, I find the adagio movements of concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel extremely beautiful. I know Baroque isn't everyone's favorite, but there is some of it that's just gorgeous! Take Corelli's piece from the Master and Commander soundtrack. Or Bach's cello solo from the same. I think my favorite adagio movement belongs to Vivaldi's "Winter." I also love the middle movement to Bach's Double Violin Concerto (I have a recording of Itzak Perlman and Isaac Stern as the two violin soloists--great stuff!). I could name a bunch more, but maybe I'll stop for now to ask if anyone knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, I like Baroque music too, but I just can't listen to an 80 minute Baroque cd straight through. I pretty much like all the favorites like Albinio's Adagio, the Christmas Cannon, ;D and so forth. Perhaps, you should go through list to find so more suggestions. www.classical.net/music/rep/lists/baroque.html Let me know if you come across anything good. -CG
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Post by sdtom on Feb 8, 2006 10:31:14 GMT -8
Adam uses Manwe as his name on forums and lives in Gavle Sweden. Tom
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Post by Armin on Feb 8, 2006 14:32:15 GMT -8
You do write quite cryptic some times. Must have been the stroke... ;D
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Post by christopher on Feb 10, 2006 14:14:21 GMT -8
Okay, I'm glad I was wrong. In the gatherings post about this it did sound like it would be a place for classic film music, not necessarily "classical music" as it is generally referred to. Carlton, some music from the extensive list that you linked to (which is great, by the way) that I would recommend: -Bach's Art of Fugue is incredible, if you like fugues (very complicated stuff, but Bach was the master of them) -Bachs' Harpsicord Concertos are great if you can get them in piano. I believe Bach was the first composer to have piano performing as a solo instrument, but his "piano concertos" are actually his harpiscord concertos played on a piano instead (which is infinitely more listenable). There's a series of cds called "Great Performance" which has an excellent disc containing three of these that are wonderful. -Corelli's Concerti Grossi Op. 6 -Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue in D Major -Scarlatti wrote some AMAZING harpsicord stuff but if you can get it in piano it's much better -Vivaldi's Four Seasons absolutely, but particularly Summer and Winter (consider the first and last movements of those the precursor to today's "action music" in film Many of the other composers I'm not as familiar with. Handel is usually okay for me. I love some of his choruses from the Messiah, and the aforementioned "Xerxes" piece, but some of his more famous program music (water music and the royal fireworks music) is overrated in my opinion (though clinically proven to make rats remember mazes better...) An excellent album of Baroque music is in the same "Great Performances" series. I think it's called Greatest Baroque something or other. It's absolutely wonderful and while I really do know what you mean when you say you can't listen to a whole album of it, I'd be surprised if you said the same of this one. It's got the best arrangement of Pachelbel's Cannon I've ever heard (quite different than what it normally sounds like). --Chris
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Feb 10, 2006 14:33:04 GMT -8
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