The Classical Music Thread
Rik_Kirtaniya
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There are quite a number of music threads here, but a dedicated classical music thread is missing. Since that's my favourite genre of music, I'm going to start a thread here so we can share our favourite classical music pieces and probably have some discussion and appreciation of the same.
While posting, please mention the name of the composition and the artist. Also, don't worry if something has already been posted by someone else in previous pages. If you want to share some classical pieces you like, please do it freely.
So let's have some quality music!
Edit: Just to avoid any confusion, by "classical" here, I mean classical music in the general, broader sense, and not strictly music from the classical period of Western art music.
While posting, please mention the name of the composition and the artist. Also, don't worry if something has already been posted by someone else in previous pages. If you want to share some classical pieces you like, please do it freely.
So let's have some quality music!
Edit: Just to avoid any confusion, by "classical" here, I mean classical music in the general, broader sense, and not strictly music from the classical period of Western art music.
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by Francisco Tarrega
played on a Bouchet guitar by Frank Wallace
by Johann Sebastian Bach
played by Andres Segovia
Allow me to share some, then.
(Various) Harpsichord Sonatas
Composer: Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
Played by: Igor Kipnis
Style: Baroque / "Pre-Classical"
Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052-1058
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Played by: Several people, the names are mentioned inside the link
Style: Baroque
La Follia
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli
Played by: Emilie Autumn
Style: Baroque
I don't have time to post more right now, but I'll come back with Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, etc...
Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor (aka classical Dracular music)
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro March
Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique IV Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)
Ottorini Respighi: The Pines of Rome
I love plenty more, but I will only post one more
Carl Orff- Carmina Burana O Fortuna
(I partly love the last one because too many hear "Plate of Cookies, Tasty Cookies" in the song) A lovely mondegreen!
I like strumming the strings in guitar simulation apps on my phone, though that is entirely a casual enterprise. Most of the times, I listen to various guitar pieces, almost all classical ones (if something is not classical, at least it should be light music, if I'm to enjoy it), though piano, clarinet and flute are my favourites too.
The Maid with the Flaxen Hair
(Originally "La fille aux cheveux de lin")
by Claude Debussy
played on violin by Joshua Bell
(This came pre-loaded on Windows 7 in the Sample Music folder.)
And here's it played on piano by Tal-Haim Samnon
a couple of years ago when i finally found this track ( for years i had no idea what it was called until i accidentally found it haha ) i made this the track for my super heavy lifts ( well just for bench press and squats )
and now every time i hear it, my body just becomes amplified, as if it is ready to give 200% of what it can do, i can just feel my heart rate and power increase just from hearing this track, even if im just sitting and doing nothing haha
although the version i have is just the 2:30 version, but that on loop is enough to get the job done
by Johann Pachelbel
played on violin by Alison Sparrow
by Isaac Albéniz
played by Ana Vidovic
I just came across this guitarist - Drew Henderson - on YouTube. I'd never heard of him before, but damn can he play.
https://www.wqxr.org/story/what-makes-the-famous-bach-organ-piece-toccata-fugue-so-spooky/
But it was apparently used beforehand in cinema to connote something spooky was going on, even during the silent film era.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=phantom+of+the+opera+plays+bach+tocatta+and+fugue+in+d+minor&view=detail&mid=E781CC83189D89821608E781CC83189D89821608&FORM=VIRE
Now that's impressive!