Any Classical Music lovers?

[WillBrink]

My father was a well-known violinist in his day, and he sent me some CDs of Mozart and Bach Sonata's to upload as I told him it was a way to reach many who had never heard his music. He's 88 now, and does not do concerts any more, but still teaches privately on occasion.

He has no 'net access and no idea what Youtube is, but he's excited a new group of people world wide might get exposed to good classical, and his playing.

Here is a Mozart Sonata in E Minor, K. 304 Movement I.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAd1fTDWHwE

Movement II:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57II2Q0PtsA

I am planning to put up more music for those who love good classical, and I my fathers specialty and personal favorite, is Mozart. Although he's recorded 30+ albums, I believe these recordings have not been heard outside their original venue 'till now.

Enjoy. ;)

PS, too bad we can't imbed vids here.

[Suwannee Tim]

Me. I'm currently listening to the Romantic Period composers particularly the Russians and more particularly Prokofiev (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOV7yWEv54o).

[Moose-Knuckle]

I've always been partial to Brahms.

We have a classical radio station here, it helps in traffic and when it's 105° F.

Is it crazy that I clean my firearms while listening to it? ;)

[kaiservontexas]

Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, and Strauss are my favorites.

[Dienekes]

Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and others.

My high school dropout,Depression Era parents had classical music on the FM radio a lot when I was a kid. Took a music appreciation class in college and dropped it before it ruined my love for good music.

I like other kinds of music but not as much. Haven't listened to a radio in YEARS.

[Suwannee Tim]

I've always been partial to Brahms.....

Brahms may have the greatest musical genius of all time but we will never know for certain because he, being a perfectionist destroyed the great majority of his oeuvre. I am partial to the Brahmster too thought I'm focused on the Russians at the moment.

[chadbag]

Will, did you dad do any Grieg or Sibelius?

I listen to it all, at times, but Grieg and Sibelius are my favorites...


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[DeltaSierra]

There are few better ways to spend a long winter evening, but with a good game of chess, while listening to Rimsky-Korsakov!


And, thanks for the links. :)

[theblackknight]

JS Bach was really just a metal keyboard player before his time.

[Belmont31R]

Yes! But I can't say I actively seek it out. Last time I sat down and listened to it while drinking wine was about 10 years ago. We had this German exchange student at my HS, and once I joined the Army I got stationed about 3hrs away from her. She invited me down, and her dad was a big classical guy. I had odd HS friends and knew quite a bit of it back then. So her dad and I listened to classical on records for 4hrs while drinking some GREAT red wines while I was dreaming of tapping his daughter. We even went cross country skiing and I saw the biggest clock in the world.

[Belmont31R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI

[WillBrink]

Will, did you dad do any Grieg or Sibelius?

I listen to it all, at times, but Grieg and Sibelius are my favorites...


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I'd be surprised if he didn't all things considered, but I know he prefers music from the classical era.

[Timbonez]

I do. Mainly Baroque and Classical, but there are a few Romantic era composers that I like.

My favorite piece of all time is Bach's Prelude to Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin, BWV 1006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYRdRnnBYw

[sadmin]

I'm a fan of the Baroque period as well; particularly Vivaldi. My mother turned me onto it in junior high. I guarantee I was the only guy with a Chopin CD next to a Beastie Boys CD in my Bronco in my hometown. Baroque art is also my dig; if you ever get a change to see PT Barnum's collection in Florida, don't hesitate.

[WillBrink]

Update, built my father his own YT site:

http://www.youtube.com/RobertBrinkViolin

Look for future additions, most Mozart and Bach for now.

[kaiservontexas]

Y'all got me listening to classical again. :thank_you2:

I go through cycles with what I listen. Lately nothing until this thread popped up.

Right now it is Strauss, Sphären-Klänge from Vienna Blood.

I will check out your father's youtube channel.

[Suwannee Tim]

JS Bach was really just a metal keyboard player before his time.

The crafting of the fuges, concertos and symphonies of Bach's day was an intensely intellectual enterprise. Both of the universities I attended had strong music programs and I attended many lectures where the structure of these works was analyzed and discussed. Not that I understood it, it was way over my head, I wasn't there to understand, I was there to score geeky chicks. Nevertheless I did gain some appreciation of the complexity and structures involved. Admittedly I don't know much about "metal" "music" but I have never thought of it as an intensely intellectual enterprise.

[WillBrink]

Y'all got me listening to classical again. :thank_you2:

I go through cycles with what I listen. Lately nothing until this thread popped up.

Right now it is Strauss, Sphären-Klänge from Vienna Blood.

I will check out your father's youtube channel.

Cool. Will add more when I get the chance.

[6933]

The term "classical" is appropriate for a reason. There are no better composers, period. I mean composers of any music. This refers to the big dogs such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, etc.

The musical genius' of all time simply happened to be in classical.

[30 cal slut]

one of my all-time favorite vids. :p

fireworks start at 7:52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ufBxGC_mI

[30 cal slut]

Did somebody say Russians? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7UZhorAki4

I spent a good chunk of my college years boning up on the piano repertoire of the great Russian romantics - fiery and full of passion.

It takes a Russian to understand and fully express a Russian.

This is as close to artistic perfection as a human being can get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWOWb3xtfGE

[30 cal slut]

A yank shows them russkies how it's done.

Goosebumps!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClDFmFmr0k

:cool:

[30 cal slut]

Back to the fiddle -

Always a favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCLxso5XDN4

:)

[Bowser]

Maurice Ravel's Bolero is my favorite. As a drummer, mad props to the snare player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK23BhEQVyU

[theblackknight]

The crafting of the fuges, concertos and symphonies of Bach's day was an intensely intellectual enterprise. Both of the universities I attended had strong music programs and I attended many lectures where the structure of these works was analyzed and discussed. Not that I understood it, it was way over my head, I wasn't there to understand, I was there to score geeky chicks. Nevertheless I did gain some appreciation of the complexity and structures involved. Admittedly I don't know much about "metal" "music" but I have never thought of it as an intensely intellectual enterprise.

Thats is a most interesting story my fair sir.

In the era of today, you no longer need a 100+ people onstage banging on shit to fill a concert hall with noise. Replaceable in presence or arrangment? No, but no longer a must.

With progressive bands such a Dream Theater(or your fav prog band) who use musical tools like odd/mutli metered time sigs, recurring themes, full songs that contain multiple movements, multiple modes/tonalities/key changes,chromaticism etc etc etc, like with any other musical style, the differences between musical styles a usually less then most think.

I'm not the only person to point out Bach's radness.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2008/12/24/js-bach-the-most-metal-of-all-composers/

http://mylifeissometal.blogspot.com/2011/05/bach-is-metal-why-fecundity-and-prison.html


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110115012409AAoIGLz


and then there is this ****.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2008/122/c/2/Yngwie_Malmsteen_by_middeneaht.jpg

Born in Austria, worked in a luthier's shop as a boy, listened to the classical giants, lives in a giant house full of suits of armor writing music all day. Music is literally described as "baroque and roll".

JS Bach+Richie Blackmore= YJM.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzjR1dV0JGc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ubklCoM8Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDblDia5TE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE56oY89nXA&feature=related

A lot of the really good guitarists from the 80's shred heyday were classicaly trained and started the genre of Neo classical metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5R9vY-3JI&feature=related

This guy,very classical.
http://api.ning.com/files/pwCsk2oKkmfV7-7FnaUX9YRekhYU9-2-UlALbNcNWQ6mnCtAilBhnSIZz3VMnroI5ewrA9T8Zlt7pdUK8R3Is5U82B5mx-eG/rr.bmp

[Redmanfms]

I prefer Baroque, Vivaldi is usually best known for his violin concertos, but I'm a big fan of the stuff he wrote for mandolins (because I love the mando). It's so cheerful and bright, really wonderful music to listen to in the morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Hvdrf--V0&feature=related

Even though Johann Bach was a Baroque composer and I prefer that period, I think his son Carl Bach was a better composer. A taste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yao6_PbN3YI

Beethoven lay sort of between Classical and Romantic, but stood apart from both. I have his complete symphonies performed by the London Philharmonic on my iPod. I really love his piano sonatas as well. He is probably my all time favorite composer (yeah, that's really stepping out on a limb). I have all his works in some recording format or another laying around.

I'm starting to grow fond of Moscheles lately. He was my grandmother's favorite.

Though I'm not a big fan of Mozart, your father is quite gifted; I enjoyed listening to it, thank you for posting it.

[Suwannee Tim]

Lest I appear too big for my briches I don't really know that much about music. I know lots and lots of folks who know lots and lots more than I and don't even play an instrument. And then there are the folks who play.......

My knowledge is an inch deep and a mile wide. I know a little bit about a whole lot of things but I don't really know a whole lot about any one thing. That's the definition of a generalist. He knows less and less about more and more until he eventually knows nothing about everything. A specialist of course knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

[rojocorsa]

My favorite piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo3k2N3A1IQ

Beethoven, 7th Symphony, 2nd Movement. The song sounds carefully and precisely crafted and thus reminds me of German pre war small arms such as the 98 Mauser and the PPKs.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/310203_1546664764112_619786654_n.jpg



But anyway, Beethoven has some fantastic pieces. I also am a fan of the 5th Symphony.

[Mjolnir]

Mozart lover here.

[WillBrink]

Mozart lover here.

Then you should enjoy the vids I put up which started the thread. ;)

[SpankMonkey]

Awesome post. I love good music. Thx OP looking forward to many hours of good music. Your Dad has some real talent.

[THCDDM4]

I am a huge lover of classical, barouque and romantic era compositions.

Here is a short list of my all time favorites in no paticular order:

-Ludwig van Beethoven: Moonlight sonata
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
-Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F Minor
-Chopin: Scherzo #2 B-Flat Minor
-Sergei Prokofiev : Folk Dance
-Domenico Scarlatti : Keyboard Sonata in F Major, K.446/L.433/P.177: Allegrissimo
-Franz Joseph Haydn: Andante
-Antonín Dvořák: Allegro ma non troppo
-Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor: IV. Adagietto
-Dmitri Shostakovich: Five Days - Five Nights, op.111a: The Liberation of Dresden
-Giuseppe Verdi: Rex Tremendae
-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Promenade
-Fernando Sor: No. 6 Rondeau
-Luigi Boccherini: Menuett
-Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Gagliarda
-Antonín Dvořák: Adagio - Allegro molto
-Niccolò Paganini: No. 9 in E major
-Franz Schubert: Standchen
Georg Friedrich Händel: Bourree
-Alexander Scriabin: No. 4 in E major: Moderato
-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Concerto - movement #3 (CPE Bach)
-César Franck: Prelude
-Antonín Dvořák: Allegro con fuoco
-Frédéric Chopin: Berceuse, Op 57
-Johann Friedrich Fasch: III. Adagio
-Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
-Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony 99 In Eb/Adagio
- Louis Couperin: VIII. Chaconne
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante
-Ludwig van Beethoven: Molto vivace
-Franz Liszt: Liebestraum
-Claudio Monteverdi: Beatus Vir
-Felix Mendelssohn: III. Finale: Presto scherzando

And thats my short list of favorites...

WillBrink; you should be very proud of your father, he has great talent and I am impressed.

It is hard for me to pick one favorite, but if I had to absolutely do so; it would be Beethoven; his compositions are so emotional and powerful. Next would be Scriabin; he creates soundscapes that literally take my brain to other dimensions; I can't escape the way he transports the mind to another world. Amazing.

They were all basically Metal heads before metal was even created.
I would love to hear the music they would be composing today...

[Dienekes]

Not bad for an iggurant bunch of people with an unhealthy attachment to eevil black guns only good for killing peepul.

Whooda thunk it? :secret:

[WillBrink]

Not bad for an iggurant bunch of people with an unhealthy attachment to eevil black guns only good for killing peepul.

Whooda thunk it? :secret:

You're all a bunch of mouth breathing knuckles draggers. :blink:

[Mjolnir]

Then you should enjoy the vids I put up which started the thread. ;)

Absolutely!

Thank you.

I listen to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik while at work and I sleep to it at least once a week.