I know for the most part I am all about rock and metal music, but you know I do really like some classical music, I am a Schubert fan actually, I think the pieces are brilliant and don't mind listening at all. I really enjoy Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 100, D. 929 one of the few pieces I will listen to right thru. I personally like the third and fourth movements the best. Allegro moderato so lovely, I hope to see it done live someday. I did get to see Mozart's Requiem with the BPO the year before last and that was delightful. Overall I am not that versed in many of the classics can anyone make some suggestions what I might like?
[QUOTE="Overall I am not that versed in many of the classics can anyone make some suggestions what I might like?[/QUOTE] I enjoy Beethoven. This is his Moonlight Sonata. It is the long version because I really enjoy it! On second thought, you may wish a shorter version...I just played that and wound up taking a nap at my keyboard!
I agree with you @Jenn Windey, I'm mostly a rock and roll kind of gal - I love contemporary/alternative the best, with a little punk and 90s thrown in and mixed with 60s/70s hard, metal and even a little folk. I love celtic music, and even bagpipes. But I also enjoy listening to classical, if I'm in the right mode - mellow, laid-back and relaxed. I really don't know anything about it at all, except I know what I like when I hear it. I took piano lessons about 25 years ago and there were a few pieces I learned, like Fur Elise (Beethoven), Pachelbel's Canon, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach), Dvorak's Symphony #9 from The New World, and a few others. I also remember the "Switched on" albums from the 70s, that combined classical music with synthesizers, for a cool classical/rock mix.
I enjoy Beethoven. This is his Moonlight Sonata. It is the long version because I really enjoy it! On second thought, you may wish a shorter version...I just played that and wound up taking a nap at my keyboard![/QUOTE] Ahhhh ...the 60 minute waltz!
I like the Lone Ranger theme song. I think Rossini had another name for it when he first wrote it. I like this one about Beethoven.
Not at all. While I can appreciate some of it as being good quality music, it's not something that I care to listen to. Classical music usually reminds me of cartoons and old movies, since so many of them used classical scores. To me, classical music is like jazz, in that I can recognize it when someone does jazz well, but I still don't want to listen to it.
I had in mind their facial expressions and sense of humor, as they played their string instruments. Here is a different side of Roy.
If so, what are your favorite works? Mine are: Beethoven's 5th symphony. (Especially the final movement) Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony The "Great Gate of Kiev", from "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Mussorgsky) (I hope your speakers can take it!) Pilgrims Chorus (Wagner) Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Choral Movement (The "Grand Slam Home Run" of all choral music.) "War March of the Priests" (Mendellsohn) Concerto in F (Gershwin) Capriccio Italien (Tchaikovsky) 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) (Watch your Woofers...) I have many more, but these are my 10 "Blockbusters". Hey...l also like Early Rock (1950's-1960's), Folk songs, and Dixieland Jazz! Hal
I was sitting on a piano stool by the age of 5 and yes, I do love classical music. I do like all of the pieces and composers you listed Hal but I have a very soft spot in my heart for Muzio Clemente because it was his series of Sonatinas that I first studied. I was either 6 or 7 when I played my first piano recital and the selected piece was the Sonatina Op 36. No. 6. It really anything special but I like it and it’s also a piece that quite a few capable kids are given in order to introduce them to the better works of Clemente and classical music.
@Bobby, that is a very melodious Sonatina; like some of Mozart's best concertos! Plenty of 16th-note phrases, too! Can you also do the left-hand bass part? Hal