what do you think of CLASSICAL MUSIC!?!?!?

Question

personally i love it!
im into ANYTHING! mostly anything rock related like punk, hardcore, heavy metal stuff...
im also into roit folk and folk acoustic
rap SOMETIMES
i also love techno and indiw music
but classical is just incredibly special
its so deep and beautiful
beethoven's music is genius as is Motzart
and i don't know why i didn't get into this music earlier
it's like it tells you a dramatic story and your head just starts racing
it's truly amazing
what do you think?
if you do like it, which classical music do you enjoy most, like by who?

Answer 1

Heck the Buzzcocks are one of my favorite bands and I love classical music. The first CD you should buy is Mozart's "Requiem". It will sell you on classical music forever.

After you get "Requiem" you should get the soundtrack to "Amadeus" because it has excerpts from so many Mozart compositions. Then you can purchase each composition separately.

As for Beethoven, get the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th symphonies with Herbert von Karajan conducting. Listen to each ALL THE WAY THROUGH so you can see how the motifs replicate and are embellished. Those are like dramatic stories! Actually you can get all 9 symphonies for less than $30 on amazon.com.

Try Beethoven's Trio #1 (Jacqueline Du Pre, Daniel Barenboim) for a lighter, more Mozartian touch.

For virtuoso piano, there's Glenn Gould (Bach) and Murray Perahia.

It is truly amazing. You must try opera and jazz as well -- e.g. MILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUE. It could change your life.

Answer 2

It depends on what type of "classical" you are talking about. J.S.Bach is my absolute favorite. He is Boroque, not actually classical. His "Musical Offering" is absolutley phenominal. Other Bach works that stand out for me are "Sonatas For Viola de Gamba and Harpsichord" and the 6 " Sonatas For Violin and Harpsichord". Also the "Brandenbergs" are excellent and have influanced everyone from Mozart to the Beatles. Much of his Choral work is also guaranteed to blow your mind.
Scarlattis well over 600 Sonatas for Harpsichord have a wide range of styles and effects.
Vivaldi is not my favorite but he was more experimental and progressive than most of his contemporaries.
For me I think that Mozart is over rated except for his later symphonies, "Don Giovanni" and the "Requiem"
Beethovan is the master of the masters. His string quartets are so far beyond anything that had come before it is unbelievable. His Symphonies #5 and #7 and #9 are incomprehensable and truly inspired by a Heavenly source.
Although Scott Joplin is considered 'Ragtime', he is more fits more comfortably in the neo-classisist than his contemporary bar room performers.

Thanks for asking this question.

Answer 3

I can't say that I listen to a lot of classical music or am very knowledgable in that category, but I'm ever so impressed with it.
I love the fact that everything we know & love about modern music has been inspired on some level by the great classical composers. And they did it all w/ out the technology that we have.

Answer 4

I listen to classical music most of the time, on CBC Radio 2 (Canada). In particular, I enjoy the pipe organ, with music by Bach, and by French composers of the 19th and 20th century.

I am attaching a video clip of a French organist, showing the range and power of the instrument.

Answer 5

I also love rock and classical, so the best way to satisfy both at the same time - Trans-Siberian Orchestra! They currently have 4 CDs out, 3 of them are Christmas music, but the last one is entitled "Beethoven's Last Night". They're all extremely good albums, and the concerts are even better. TSO is all rock operas. Check out their website - http://www.trans-siberian.com/intro.html . There's audio, video, and plenty of info there.

Answer 6

I love it!

My favourite is Beethoven's Sixth Symphony:

"Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68), known as the Pastoral Symphony, was completed in the year 1808. One of Beethoven's few works of program music, the symphony was labeled at its first performance with the title "Recollections of Country Life"."

There is a story behind this. In 9th grade we studied Beethoven's 5th Symphony and I dearly wanted it for Christmas. My sister and BIL got mixed up and gave me Beethoven's 6th. Being the only classical record I had, I played it thousands of times. I was so impressed. You can hear the birds chirping, the thunder clouds rolling in--close your eyes and you think you are there!

Answer 7

Most music can be pretty good, but if you can find classical music that completely captivates you, its an incomparible experience. I'm a big fan of bach, schubert, and beethoven, especially his later works. Listening to their great pieces transforms you to a world of thought and emotion, which is why its still renowned after all these centuries.

Answer 8

th reason y more people don't like it is because i dont think anybody gives it a good enough chance! I have been playing piano for 8 years since 1st grade and violin for 6 years since 3rd grade, and I play in the youth orchestra where i live, so of course i've devloped a love for classical music. My parents used to always listen to it when i was oyunger so thats what contributed to it aw well. MY piano teacher also hosted recitals where students play for eachother (no parents yet) and everyone learned about music history together. These events were called 'workshops', and it was during these that I learned about the different periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern. About fifth grade, I realized that I had taken a liking to the romantic period. It seemed to me that all of my faorite composers had lived during then, and i really appreciated the style. Dvorak, Chopin, Brahms, Joplin, and Beethoven are some of the greats I admire from the romantic period, especially Chopin. His nocturnes are so simple and lyrical, and melancholy. Then, If I'm in the mood for something more energetic, I turn to one of his etudes. It ALWAYS wakes me up. romantic is my favorite, although there are a few composers i like from the classical period as well: Beethoven (he was in between periods, but i'm talking about his more 'classical' sounding music right now) Mozart, is amazing (his piano sonatas are F-U-N!) but my favorite composer of the classical period is without a doubt, Haydn. I am literally obsessed with Haydn string quartet op.77 no.1 ever since i played it at music camp last year. I love his quick changing moods in his quartets, and they always conjure up stories in my mind, or remind me of a beloved classic novel. Although he is very similar to Mozart, there are always subtle changes i wish were in the music, and Mozart is sometimes 'too perfect'. Haydn just clicks with me and I greatly appreciate him. The Baroque period is a hardest one for me to find music i really appreciate because the style just wasn't me. I don't like how staccato the fast movements were, or just even the 'style' of the adagios. I abseloutly can't STAND vivaldi. (sorry, ik a lot of people really love him) but the one baroque composer i really can say is my favorite is probably Bach. I don't like his violin repertoire as much as the music he wrote for piano/harpsichord, but its still great. But because I am also a pianist, I can really appreciate the depth of his inventions, preludes and fugues and, my mom's favorite piece, jesu joy of man's desiring. Bach is simply marvelous. I am going completely out of order, but here is the modern period. I am a fan of musicals, so obviously i love those, but my favorite composer of the modern time is Copland. His music is so up beat and lively, i just want to get up and tap dance! and he's not like the really modern composers, but i consider him to be a bridge from the Romantic period to the Modern era. So that is a complete diseciton of my musical tastes, and YES i think classical music rocks!

Answer 9

It's relaxing to listen to.My favorite classical artist is
Sarah Brightman.

Answer 10

I listen to classical on the radio. I don't know who's who. It makes me feel good, too.
My favorite music is rock (all of it), bluegrass, folk and hiphop.