Anyone listen to Classical Music?

Turtyturd wrote: »

The one Ric Flair composed for his entrance theme...and the one Old spice commissioned for their ads.

This?


I do know it, I might not be able to name it and I certainly wouldn't be linking it with Rick flair or old spice, but yeah I know it:)

@McChubbin I really like that one, it reminds me of the 1990 World cup, It be more the Pavoritti version though.

There is a radio station in Sleeping Dogs a PS4 game I've just got into, that is all dedicated to Classical music and thats what gave me the idea for the thread, not knowing there was a thread already here.

We went to the first performance of the new Cork Concert Orchestra on Saturday.

They opened with Mendelssohn's Fingals Cave, went on to the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Khachaturian, then Smetana's Moldau and finished with Dvořák's New World Symphony.

Very, very beautiful all round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oRu4aLAG2AI I know its not classical but still great!

If Béla Bartók sounds a bit like King Crimson - or should that be the other way round? - it's not a coincidence.

There's nothing like experiencing a Symphony Orchestra live. I was at the National Concert Hall last Friday night, the program was:

1) Greig: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. This was the highlight of the evening for me: I've heard the piece before, but not like this. Lots of subtle detail in there. In the final (famous) part, the bass drum started off basically subsonic, so you didn't as much hear it as feel it in the guts.

2) Nielsen Clarinet Concerto with soloist Julian Bliss. I hadn't heard of him before, but he's apparently a Big Deal in the Clarinet world, and still only in his 20s. Extremely technical playing, a piece he's also recorded, but he uses a synthetic clarinet (which he co-designed) and the tone was a bit harsh, I thought.

3) Sibelius' Symphony No. 1: not one I'd heard before. I don't know if Sibelius' later work is better, but this was harsh stuff with heavy percussion and what seemed, to me, to be a lot of complexity for complexity's sake. I don't think I'm going to be much of a fan of his, or of late-late Romantic period overall.

Ya can't bate a bitta classical music when your Brahams Liszt

bnt wrote: »

3) Sibelius' Symphony No. 1: not one I'd heard before. I don't know if Sibelius' later work is better, but this was harsh stuff with heavy percussion and what seemed, to me, to be a lot of complexity for complexity's sake. I don't think I'm going to be much of a fan of his, or of late-late Romantic period overall.

Sibelius is a composer I've tried unsuccessfully to like, just can't warm to him at all...but 'Finlandia' is a stormer!