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WillBrink
08-31-14, 16:25
If you're a classical music fan, my father was the head of faculty to the New England Conservatory of Music, and founder of various orchestras, best known probably the Boston Classical Orchestra, and a very well known violinist in his day. Here's Mozart Sonata in E Minor, K. 304 Movement I , which is one of the finest versions of this sonata you'll hear. If you're a classical music buff, you'll recognize the name John Gibbons also. Even if you're not a classical music person in general, I think you'll find this very pleasing to the ears and brain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAd1fTDWHwE&index=2&list=PLBE1BF015EA8BA1E8

Movement II, which I think is even better HERE
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57II2Q0PtsA&index=1&list=PLBE1BF015EA8BA1E8)
SeriousStudent
08-31-14, 16:32
When I am commuting to and from work, I either listen to classical music or Ballistic radio podcasts.

Thanks for the links, I'll download and listen to them on my drive.
WillBrink
08-31-14, 16:38
When I am commuting to and from work, I either listen to classical music or Ballistic radio podcasts.

Thanks for the links, I'll download and listen to them on my drive.

Enjoy! Can only post one vid, so linked movement II in text below vid posted.
Mjolnir
08-31-14, 16:43
Absolutely!


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"One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep."
ptmccain
08-31-14, 16:43
I like to day, "If it ain't Baroque, fix it."

:)
MorphCross
08-31-14, 21:13
Just don't ask me to sit through a Brahms piece played by Awadagin Pratt. *Zzzz*

I have many good memories of listening to classical pieces played live by both school orchestras as well as the YSKC so when the mood takes me i'll pull up some of the more popular pieces they played frequently and just listen to them in the background on the computer. I don't think I would qualify as a lover or aficionado as my personal collection of classical music is limited to Johan de Meij.
fixit69
08-31-14, 22:03
Mozart may have been a kook, but he was a musical genius. Beethoven another. Way too many to name right now...
But bring a shredder at heart, check out Niccolo Paganini. Virtuosity on the violin that was unmatched. It was where the rumor came from that be sold his soul to the devil to play so well. And this was centuries before Robert Jonson.

ETA: the 24 caprices are not to be missed
Alpha Sierra
08-31-14, 22:17
I like to day, "If it ain't Baroque, fix it."

:)

+1

Baroque music is my absolute favorite with anything Vivaldi and the Brandenburg Concertos right at the top
CLHC
08-31-14, 22:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgONcogeFxk

"Baroque is when you have no Monet"
SteyrAUG
09-01-14, 02:23
Sometimes the soundtrack to "Excalibur" get's me through the day. John Williams is also amazing.
MistWolf
09-01-14, 05:54
When asked if I were to be marooned on a desert and could only have the music of one artist to listen to, who would I pick?- I answer "Leopold Stokowski"

I love classical music
Phillygunguy
09-01-14, 06:15
I love Baroque and Classical, I think Bach kicks ass also like Henry Purcell and Marin Marais, love Mozart Beethoven and impressionist composers like Debussy, Ravel, and Satie
However Jazz is my favorite
chuckman
09-01-14, 10:46
I like classical music, but partial to romantic period composers--Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsokov, Wagner, Dvorak, the dudes that used more brass. I just never really got into some of the "tinniness" of the earlier stuff. As much as I love music, my fave is jazz. I played low brass throughout college in orchestra, etc., and bass in jazz.
Dienekes
09-01-14, 11:56
My high-school, dropout, Depression-era parents always had something classical on, particularly when Canadian FM stations made their appearance in the 1960s. I learned how to appreciate it from them.

I also like Gregorian chant, Gilbert and Sullivan, Big Band, and Hank Snow.

Modern music? Just shoot me.
jpmuscle
09-01-14, 13:22
+1

Baroque music is my absolute favorite with anything Vivaldi and the Brandenburg Concertos right at the top


I love me some Vivaldi!
Phillygunguy
09-01-14, 13:24
If you're a classical music fan, my father was the head of faculty to the New England Conservatory of Music, and founder of various orchestras, best known probably the Boston Classical Orchestra, and a very well known violinist in his day. Here's Mozart Sonata in E Minor, K. 304 Movement I , which is one of the finest versions of this sonata you'll hear. If you're a classical music buff, you'll recognize the name John Gibbons also. Even if you're not a classical music person in general, I think you'll find this very pleasing to the ears and brain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAd1fTDWHwE&index=2&list=PLBE1BF015EA8BA1E8

Movement II, which I think is even better HERE
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57II2Q0PtsA&index=1&list=PLBE1BF015EA8BA1E8)
Very nice,do you play as well?