Classical music

**jebus** · 25/11/2008, 11:58 PM

Anyone else fancy a piece of classical?

More and more I find myself coming back to this type of thing during times of introspection, or just when I want to relax.

Anyway whats peoples favourites?

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

Chopin - Ballade 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhnRIuGZ_dc

Carmen Fantasie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnla_5zrHAE

Mozart's Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gx-N-kdIXk

Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEl9zn8JPW8

J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LWANJFHEs

**thischarmingman** · 26/11/2008, 12:26 AM

Used to play the French Horn and still love hearing it being played. Aside from that I love the Beethoven piano pieces, with the one you mentioned being one of my favourite pieces of music.

Messiaen - Turangal�la Symphonie:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv67YkOWJNA

Erik Satie - Gnossienne Nr1:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CKvbE-1Sg

This is one of the most relaxing and life-affirming pieces of music I know. I first heard it when it was used as part of the BBC's World Cup 1998 coverage so it also brings to mind Petit, Zidane, Beckham et al.
Gabriel Faure: Pavane:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw

**anto1208** · 26/11/2008, 9:23 AM

I like John Williams

**paul_oshea** · 26/11/2008, 9:28 AM

if you have some free time and just lazing about nothing better to listen to than classical.

Good thread jebus.

**Sheridan** · 26/11/2008, 10:05 AM

Charles Valentin Alkan is my favourite composer, a complex and brilliant recluse who led a very interesting if solitary life.

Here's one of his masterpieces, Le Chemin de Fer.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lLpXr2PgdQk

**sadloserkid** · 26/11/2008, 2:20 PM

Call of the Valkyries thingy count as classical?

**John83** · 26/11/2008, 4:48 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Call of the Valkyries thingy count as classical?

Ride, not Call, and yes, it's classical - composed by Wagner. Lots of people love old classical pieces they don't really think of in that way - In the Hall of the Mountain King is a good example.

I listen to some Mozart and Vivaldi and assorted other stuff. Some favourites:
Prokofiev's Montegues and Capulets (some bloody awful recordings of this on youtube, even to my tin ear).
Mozart's 40th symphony, 1st movement. Some of you will recognise it as a less tinny version of a ringtone which was moderately popular a few years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2ePGkmopg
I like Moonlight Sonata. Also pretty good is Bear McCreary's riff on it for Battlestar Galactica, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vcFFf9aa7k - it was used a bit in season 3, particularly when cutting to Baltar's scenes.

**stann** · 26/11/2008, 7:12 PM

I like all sorts.
Some of Debussy's orchestral stuff is outstanding but there's few good clips on youtube. Sirens from the Nocturnes is here, but I really wanted something from Iberia.
EDIT: Ah, there it is, some of it anyway! I love this.

Clair de Lune, though, is the most beautiful piece of music ever created. Probably.

One of the most stirring pieces you'll ever hear IMO, though he's more feted for other works, is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Here's part two. Any piece of music that arranges for cathedral bells and cannonfire is going to be good in fairness!

Schubert's Octet in F is also pretty bloody good, but again youtube is rubbish. Couldn't post up the only clip I found of the opening movement as all the instruments are out of tune!

For a fine, rousing piece like Ride of the Valkyries or In the Hall of the Mountain King, try Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain for size.

Something a bit more introspective, Saturn, from The Planets by Holst.

And it wouldn't be Christmas without Troika (now a clip of the sound of a real orchestra at least!)

**John83** · 26/11/2008, 7:27 PM

Clair de Lune's a lovely piece. I can never remember it's name though.

**TheBoss** · 26/11/2008, 11:37 PM

**stann** · 27/11/2008, 12:46 AM

Pachelbel's Canon is just gorgeous. Lovely example of simple counterpoint, and quite influential in its way with the continuo sort of doing a bass guitar thing under a developing melody phrase 'in the round' over the top, nowadays a very frequently used style.
Funny enough I was just about to post that exact link myself, after scouring youtube that's the best version on it!

Another earlier piece, and perfect for this time of year if you're into sitting by the fire looking at people getting their nadgers froze off outside your window, is the 2nd movement of Vivaldi's Winter concerto.

And one more piece of Baroque, this is very well known, the Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music, written so George I would have something to listen to on his trips up and down the river to Windsor. The Ipod of its day.

I prefer this though. Not into church music normally but this is a lovely tune. It's born, not given, by the way.

**Bluebeard** · 27/11/2008, 8:50 AM

Excellent thread idea.

I'm really enjoying dipping in and out of the various different bits and pieces here, especially those I do not know (Thanks for Debussy's Iberia and Alkan for starters).

I was surprised that we haven't had any Schubert yet, so here are a few favourites:
Impromptu Opus 142 - no. 2 - watch it if only for the pianist's emotional connection with the piece.
The Andante from piano Trio no. 2 - as used to great effect in Barry Lyndon
His Serenade, deliciously played set here for guitar.

**Schumi** · 27/11/2008, 10:36 AM

I have Beethoven as my ringtone.

Originally Posted by John83

Clair de Lune's a lovely piece. I can never remember it's name though.

Originally Posted by John83

If you can't use apostrophes correctly, just don't use them. That way, you look lazy instead of retarded.

Ahem.

**Bluebeard** · 27/11/2008, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Ahem.

Actually, John83 is in the right.

"It's" denotes "it is" or "it has", and seeing as there are only very very few circumstances where you would be referring to a number of different things collectively as "it", to avoid confusion, it has been accorded the sole right to an apostrophe, as possession is almost always implied in other circumstances where "Its" would be said.

See thi's here for more exciting discoverie's about apostrophe's

**paul_oshea** · 27/11/2008, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Actually, John83 is in the right.

"It's" denotes "it is" or "it has", and seeing as there are only very very few circumstances where you would be referring to a number of different things collectively as "it", to avoid confusion, it has been accorded the sole right to an apostrophe, as possession is almost always implied in other circumstances where "Its" would be said.

See thi's here for more exciting discoverie's about apostrophe's

Nevermind.

Blue one, you would never use the verb(unless you mean idiom?) is before the noun "name" unless using it as a verb i.e. "it is name though", which makes no sense above.

**paul_oshea** · 27/11/2008, 12:58 PM

So to conclude my point above, as you used the word confusion, to avoid all unnecessary confusion it would be more correct to have no apostrophe above and just leave it as "its".

**sadloserkid** · 27/11/2008, 4:52 PM

Originally Posted by John83

Ride, not Call, and yes, it's classical - composed by Wagner.

While that is also an awesome piece it's not the one I was thinking of...

The one I was thinking of (which is clearly a different tune) was used in Gladiators before one of their events back in the days of Jet and Wolf and what not... sadly I can't even remember which event...

**jebus** · 27/11/2008, 5:17 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

While that is also an awesome piece it's not the one I was thinking of...

The one I was thinking of (which is clearly a different tune) was used in Gladiators before one of their events back in the days of Jet and Wolf and what not... sadly I can't even remember which event...

He's got culture coming out his ears I tell ya

**sadloserkid** · 27/11/2008, 5:23 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

He's got culture coming out his ears I tell ya

Jebus was a Smashing Pumpkins diehard when I met him as well as a Sheffield Wednesday fan and all round litter bug. I didn't want to out you with the lefty set but you left me no choice.

**John83** · 28/11/2008, 6:42 PM

Originally Posted by stann

Pachelbel's Canon is just gorgeous. Lovely example of simple counterpoint, and quite influential in its way with the continuo sort of doing a bass guitar thing under a developing melody phrase 'in the round' over the top, nowadays a very frequently used style.
Funny enough I was just about to post that exact link myself, after scouring youtube that's the best version on it!

I find this very funny.

Originally Posted by Schumi

Ahem.

********.

I've read it three times now, and I'm still not clear on what Bluebeard meant. My best guess is that he misread my post. I've definitely fallen afoul of Muphry's Law here!