[Music] Classical music.

[portlock seagull]

I’ve always loved certain pieces of classical music. The NSC classical music thread contains a great selection. My favourites include:

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Williams
The Lark Ascending - Williams
Solveig’s Song - Grieg
Nimrod - Elgar
Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barber (no relation of Paul?)
The Watermill - Binge
Moldau - Smetana
New World Symphony - Dvorak
Hymn of the Cherubim - Tchaikovsky

Our pop, rock and even classical musical tastes are exactly the same!

 

[Weststander]

Our pop, rock and even classical musical tastes are exactly the same!

I think the underlying feature of many of my musical passions is a melody, also harmonies. That could be from the ancient choral music of Thomas Tallis, to modern synth pop and trance.

Beautiful vocals, often from females, also.


Obviously, you have great taste.

 

[half time scores]

Albinoni concerto for Oboe and strings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2H5eY6GuY

 

[MattBackHome]

Mendelssohn and Debussy do nice things to me.

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[half time scores]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faAacaaA-kI

 

[Weststander]

UEFA have bastardised it for CL matches.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Likewise - I was never into classical as a kid. Then I got Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Pictures at an Exhibition and wondered when Mussorgsky had produced his cover version of it!

My older brother had that album on a reel to reel tape. Gateway drug to classical music.

 

[OzMike]

I was classically trained and have passed a Grade 8 Clarinet playing from the Royal College of Music.
I have other grades with other instruments, but this is my highest achievement and I used to play in the Brighton Youth Orchestra.
Consequently I have always like the classics, my tastes have developed to include easy listening music and cinema soundtracks.
I would rather not listen to a full symphony, but broken up into pieces they are much more acceptable.

 

[OzMike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0uFxNoRsc0

 

[OzMike]

I was doing some paperwork listening to Classic FM when this came on and I had to put my pen down, exquisite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQO_Tuvd7s

 

[OzMike]

Nothing better to chill out to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbaRiZJJQo

 

[OzMike]

Was my favourite advert on UK TV, better to hear the full version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnkn26Nd8rg

 

[Hugo Rune]

Satie’s Gnossienne No.1 is the most hauntingly beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. I save it for special moments alongside the special scotch.


https://youtu.be/PLFVGwGQcB0

 

[OzMike]

My favourite classical piece of all time and written when Chopin was only 25 I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIackkOX2BU

 

[OzMike]

Always have time for a bit of Einaudi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bvm9yG4cvs

 

[sams dad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf-tjXevlyQ

You don't need to speak Italian to hear the pain and sorrow in this beautiful aria.

 

[pasty]

I was classically trained and have passed a Grade 8 Clarinet playing from the Royal College of Music.
I have other grades with other instruments, but this is my highest achievement and I used to play in the Brighton Youth Orchestra.
Consequently I have always like the classics, my tastes have developed to include easy listening music and cinema soundtracks.
I would rather not listen to a full symphony, but broken up into pieces they are much more acceptable.

Not quite your level, but as a teenager (late 70's) I got to Grade 5 on the trumpet whilst I played in the local scouts and guides marching band, and absolutely loved it. My biggest thing though was when I got selected for a National Scout and Guide orchestra, and we played a full on "Last Night of the Proms" style concert at Gillwell Park.

My biggest regret was that I wasn't quite good enough to join the forces as a musician which is what I really wanted to do. However you had to be at least grade 8 on your primary instrument, and t least grade 5 on a secondary, which wasn't allowed to be in the same family of instruments.

 

[Lush]

Don't mind a bit of Classic FM, but struggle with David Mellor for Chelsea shirt reasons.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Opera for me. I used to go all the time when I worked closer to London, you cannot beat a night out at Covent Garden a wonderful place to enjoy music. Everything from the popular classics, rather predictably la Traviata is my favourite and Ermonela Jaho's Violetta was just heartbreaking to watch. Also love me some Wagner and have been fortunate enough to have seen one complete Ring Cycle although my favourite production was a more traditional staging of Parsifal in Vienna.

it's a great art form that covers everything from heartbreak and despair, to brutal anger & violence as well as offering huge laughs too.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Like others I now enjoy Classic FM... As one gets older the musical taste broadens and while I still love the rock/blues music of my youth, there is a a time for calm classics. I only know the popular pieces of Beethoven, Mozart, Holst etc.

Tne thing that always put me off was the snooty stuffed shirt attitude of the orchestras and audiences . Thats why I like Nigel Kennedy and can enjoy Andre Rieu too.