Vivaldi four seasons.
Bach: Toccata and fugue in D minor.
Canon
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Always liked this from 4 seasons, a little different though. https://youtu.be/tCCCH3Uit14
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Mom is a classical pianist (jazz too).
She is still working on Tchikovskys Piano Concerto #1, was invited to play it as a duet at a festival in Milan 6 years ago with the piano chair at GVSUā¦she had some health issues ( 2 heart attacks, and breast cancer, though she is fine, all great outcomesā¦teaching students over Zoom and Hangouts at age 79) Still working on it and wants to go but nowā¦ehhhhh
So, grew up with a lot of good stuff but donāt spend time with it. Sang a ton of it in collegeā¦both as written and some really great jazz adaptations by the Swingle Singersā¦check them out, we did an impromptu concert with them in the elevated walkway in the Amway Grand hotel as we were both playing ballrooms that night and did a cool public a Capella jam W them.
Anyways- Bach, Copeland, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mozart, and for singers, Benjamin Britten and Handel. Chopin is greatā¦its all great really.
Notice one nationality in Europe missing in any Classical music discussion? Itās like they just surrendered music for 100 years and moved on to Enlightenment philosophy until Debussy got em back on the map after the Classical period ended.
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Please donāt take offence by my terminology but your mom sounds like sheās one tough broad. My grandfather was at one time president of the Scandinavian Symphony in America and he played all the string instruments. He was, perhaps, more well known for his ability to repair string instruments. To be able to restore the tone was an art, one that required whoever was doing the work to be able to play and hear the nuances that defined that particular instrument during the process. I always thought it was interesting that there were no great Scandinavian composers.
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ABBA ?
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Name dropper.
Love all of this but Iām weird different musically ā¦ to me, this lady is an unknown great to the worldā¦
This live and almost makes me cry after all these years of hearing itā¦
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She is a tough broad and your grandpa sounds awesome
Not a peace per se, but Holtz the Planetsā¦
Led Zepplin can give me chills (the good ones) when they play.
Just madness to think for most of great composers (pre-phonograph), their music existed mostly in their heads, only fairly rarely ever actually played. No records. Just notes on a page for symphonies. Some of them were not even accomplished musicians in any way. And before modern recording, especially in the late 19th to early 20th century, the money was in music publishing. People owned pianos and paid for sheet music.
Starting around 12 mins, youāll hear the familiar pop song āAll By Myselfā. So pretty.
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Iām a big fan of Grieg (who looked a ton like Einstein btw.) Prokofiev is my favorite though. Iām a rube when it comes to fancy things though so those may be sh!t answers
Another interesting thing, to me anyway, is how seriously people took their music, to the point where a symphony debut could cause a riot if it were not well received. So punk.
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Viola hooligans are SCARY
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No expert myself, but I like Mozart Symphony 40.
But I like a lot of it. I love putting it on when I have a big mental task to undertake. Helps somehow.
What was so great about Mozart, he could write so many different types of sounding pieces. Some very light, some really big and heavy. Some for full orchestra and some for individual instruments. He was probably the single greatest influence in music for a long, long time.
Yeah, I have not heard that in a long time.
If it was on Looney Tunes, I like it!
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