Anyone listen to Classical Music?

Kevin McCloud

This music is growing on me, have it on the radio for the cows and the horse keeps them relaxed and happy. Having similar effects on myself, sick of the usual day time radio ****e. This one was played earlier, what a piece.

The_Valeyard

Yep, can find some of it very relaxing or good to sort out thoughts and ideas.

Cold War Kid

Yes, Mozart's stuff is ****ing great! Ditto Beethoven and Schubert.

The Backwards Man

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.

Acciaccatura

Strauss waltzes, like the Blue Danube, Vienna Blood, Tales From the Vienna Woods, along with Tchaikovsky's ballets would be my all-time favourites.

Sinister Kid

Yup, just had a bubble bath listening to a classical playlist. Great for switching off.

Zippie84

Anyone listen to classical music?

Yep, I guess some of the people who post here might....

NachoBusiness

Love classical music, really ever since I heard Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune at the end of the film Frankie and Johnny.

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4IpbLUYBeA

jimmycrackcorm

Hanibal Lecter is motivated by this guy

strobe

Some unreal modern classical music being written for computer games and TV shows these days.

Links234

Hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

Adamantium

strobe wrote: »

Some unreal modern classical music being written for computer games and TV shows these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYPYq9D_No

yellowlabrador

One of my favourites

Spunge

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

for the cows and the horse

Kevin McCloud

Spunge wrote: »

I do not know how that confuses you.

nokia69

yes, I love it

no better music

you're not a fan of music unless you like classical

buried

Love classical music but I have a real penchant for the auld modern classical music too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqV5TqqogM

shruikan2553

Not sure if its all considered classical but I do like a lot of the music done by an orchestra for tv, films and games like two steps from hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASj81daun5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iu-WAHBbW8

Pherekydes

Dvorak's 9th symphony is one of humankind's greatest achievements. How it didn't make Top of the Pops I'll never know.

But at least it made the Hovis ad...:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

donegaLroad

Im a Rachmaninov fan.. plus Wagner and Debussy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

worth noting the pianist is not reading from sheet music in the first clip

Adamantium

While not strictly classical....

The quality of game soundtracks is so high these days, that despite haven't played a full game since 2010, I listen to orchestral and some classical soundtracks from them all the time.


Game music is probably one of the few places where that creativity can reach a sizeable audience

Even midi stuff from the 90's scaled to an orchestra is stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8Sn6DHIi0

LadyAthame

Luigi Boccherini - Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid

SmilingLurker

Saturday evenings when having date dinner at home with my wife and Sunday mornings are always classical.

Driving to classical is great...

MrPudding

There is an album called 'So you think you don't like classical music'. It is a bit of a 'now that's what I call music' for classical, but there are some really nice tracks and I found it really useful for tracking down more to listen to. It is on Spotify.

MrP

Dravokivich

I tend to just put music into 2 categories. Either music I enjoy, or music I don't. I tend not to let the genre thing push me aside of something much.

murpho999

Yes, I love it and wish I knew more about it.

Youngsters may knock it but without these guys modern day music would not exist.

A few of my favourites among many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsoIJGLxNP0

Blowfish

murpho999 wrote: »

Youngsters may knock it but without these guys modern day music would not exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80

Indeed, and the proof of it in relation to the above in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

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donegaLroad

SmilingLurker wrote: »

Saturday evenings when having date dinner at home with my wife and Sunday mornings are always classical.

Driving to classical is great...

if I am ever driving between 2 and 4pm, I put on John Kelly on Lyric fm.. he plays a lot of lesser known quality classical music, and a lot of jazz.. generally speaking he plays a decent selection of music.

mailforkev

There are some great scores out there in recent years. Even from shows aimed at young people.

This was an excellent one:

bnt

I'm more in to the Classical and early Romantic periods, and really have no time for Opera. I can make exceptions, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSWB4TI

Spunge

dat anto hopkins waltz was off the chain m8

kylith

Love a bit of classical. Lyric is a great station. Love a bit of opera too.

strobe wrote: »

Some unreal modern classical music being written for computer games and TV shows these days.

I often throw on the Skyrim soundtrack in work. There's some beautiful music in it.

jimgoose

Oh yes, I like a shot of classical. From the heavy, Teutonic Wagner and Beethoven to the likes of Strauss, Vivaldi, Schopin and certain operatic tunes such as the Flower Duet from Lakmé. Lyric FM is on Button #3 in the car. :cool:

Spunge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v9K98RzbHI

kylith

MrPudding wrote: »

There is an album called 'So you think you don't like classical music'. It is a bit of a 'now that's what I call music' for classical, but there are some really nice tracks and I found it really useful for tracking down more to listen to. It is on Spotify.

MrP

There's a great one for opera called Duck! It's Opera!

Fionn101

Lyric FM is a fantastic use of our licence fee OP, it's button 1 on my car stereo.

some cinemas like Cineworld show classic symphony's and ballets , and don't forget to smuggle in the wine ;-)

http://www.cineworld.ie/whatson/andre-rieus-2015-maastricht-concert?cinema=dublin&date=all

yellowlabrador

Some games music from Civilisation IV

John Williams is the man

iDave

If Tchaikovskys 1812 overture doesn't get you pumped nothing will.

Sonderkommando

golden axe, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWq09fomlhE

wp_rathead

Vivaldi- Winter

Herb Powell

nokia69 wrote: »

yes, I love it

no better music

you're not a fan of music unless you like classical

Not true, that's just snobbery, to be fair. That's not to say I don't like classical music.

murpho999 wrote: »

Yes, I love it and wish I knew more about it.

Youngsters may knock it but without these guys modern day music would not exist.

Also not true at all (well it's impossible to say definitively because it happened how it happened), this ignores the multitudes of other musical traditions that exist. Lots of modern day music has far more to do with folk music, blues, and jazz than with classical. These are all pretty far removed from clasical.

RobertKK

Yes.

Classical has within it the most beautiful music ever made.

Need to go get more into It.. I have a collection of songs I love and listen to half regularly but should be more active. Tempest sonanta third movement would propably be my favourite.

Gloomtastic!

A great tune is a great tune, no matter what the genre!

So simple but so beautiful .......

Mesrine65

Every day, I work in the NCH

https://www.nch.ie/Online/

applehunter

Lyric is my fav. radio station during the day.

No bull**** talk, no moaning, just music.

eisenberg1

Mascagni, Cavallria Rusticana.

Blows me away every time.

Shenshen

I do, I particularly like Mussorgsky and Mendelsohn, but then also have a weakness for Mozart and Beethoven.

I have to say that every time I tried listening to Lyric FM, I turned it off in disgust. You'd listen to a nice bit of Sibelius, only for it to be directly followed by some Frank Sinatara? I've no problem with a station playing both, but wouldn't it be better to have dedicated shows for each?

My station of choice at the moment is BBC Radio 3

endacl

Blowfish wrote: »

Indeed, and the proof of it in relation to the above in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

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Not really. Different progressions.

The Canon is a ground bass, a series of variations built on a repetition of a I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V progression.

The Axis is a clever demonstration of the prevelance of the I-V-vi-IV progression, an elaboration of the 'three chord trick', in popular music.

Mesrine65

Wagner or Sibellius for me.

Boskowski

donegaLroad wrote: »

Im a Rachmaninov fan.. plus Wagner and Debussy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w

Some performance. Thanks