Thread: Classical music?

I'm a huge fan of the Bach Cello Suites - I find it both haunting and enlivening all at the same time.

I'm also a big fan of orchestral pieces, since seeing the symphony in person and the concussion wave of the first note of a piece just hits me like a mack truck.

Mark

I love classical music. On weekends and evenings when I'm not having to play army, I do what I consider to be my real job; I'm a violin maker. Vivaldi for me is hands-down the best composer ever (ancient or contemporary), and not due to the overplayed, and played-out Four Seasons. Bach works for me, as do Beethoven, Mahler, Straus and Debussy, to name but a few. I still can't wrap my head around Wagner, though. Tried and tried again, and nothing...

=-O violin MAKER!? whatdya know i'm a violin PLAYER hahaha. I've listened to classical since i was a twinkle in my dad's eye. Everywhere we went it was classical music wrr101.1fm :-) Most people listen to classical to fall asleep, i listen to keep me awake. The things you can think up while listening to classical is amazing! I enjoy pretty much every composser but I can't resist Smetena, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saens, or Dvorak. I too lean towards the more Romantic era composers with big full orchestras. I'm probably different though because i have to listen to it loud, and be surrounded by it. I love it!

i can't get around Wagner either....or modernism as a whole :-\

The two composers I would happily never listen to again are Webern and Stravinsky. I had to write essays on them at university and I cannot really stand the sound any more!
I was always interested in instrument making. I still have an electric cello in mind although it has been on the plans for ten years. I did get round to making a fretless bass - but that is technically easier than the cello I think. Maybe I will get round to it when I retire.... in 35 years!

Technically I like Bach, but musically it does nothing for me. One of those things for me that is beautifully complex, but not beautiful.

HA! Thanks, Nicky. When I was going through the short list of composers I didn't even think of Stravinsky. Now you made me think of him. Thanks a lot. NOw I have to go find something else to think about so I can stop. Dammit. And now Phillip Glass just popped into my head. All right, that it! NO MORE, please no more.

Originally Posted by nickyspaghetti

The two composers I would happily never listen to again are Webern and Stravinsky. I had to write essays on them at university and I cannot really stand the sound any more!
I was always interested in instrument making. I still have an electric cello in mind although it has been on the plans for ten years. I did get round to making a fretless bass - but that is technically easier than the cello I think. Maybe I will get round to it when I retire.... in 35 years!

Are you thinking of making one spefically electric (shallow body, no f-holes, etc.) or making a traditional one and electrifying it?

I love most kinds of music But I do have a fondness for the boroque period being a flute player. playing Bach & Telleman has kept me entertained foryears , I recently got a violin & started to have lessons on it,But it was very demanding & I didnt have the available free time so its on the back burner for now until I retire or have enough time to devote to it .
Just recently got myself a new flute. Its a base model Altus which has an excellent sound & response .I am just learning to get out of the way of it & let the flute do all the work.Paul

(forgive spelling) I like romantic myself, can't stand baroque really. Tchaikovsky probably my favorite, possibly because of the ballets, and the sleeping beauty waltz is my favorite piece. I'm bad with names so can't remember all the other ones I've heard and liked.

Red

I am thoroughly ignorant when it comes to classical music, but I truly enjoy what you guys are posting, please keep it up!