Classical Question

Does anyone enjoy classical music? I must admit, I do not normally listen to it, but now and again the mood takes me.
If you do, post the piece you like most below.

My favourite piece, and I would advise anyone to listen, even if they don't normally like the genre, is called
"Intermezzo" by Mascagni, from the short opera Cavalleria Rusticana. It really is a thoroughly moving piece of music.
All the best,
Ben

I listen to all music, but the radios in my office and in my car are tuned to the classical station. To ask a single favorite is close to impossible. However, the one composition that always enraptures me, since my early teens, Is Mozart's 40th Symphony.

Other than that I prefer strong pieces: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, Bruckner's 4th Symphony (Romantic), Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony (Pathetic) and Beethoven's 5th.

Mozart's 40th symphony really is a wonderful piece, Larry - my father used to play that often.

My mum used to play classical records and from a very early age on, I loved this song in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8ddt1qyTg

I remember vividly dancing around the room whenever she played it, I was only about 4 years old when I started doing that, but deeply in love with, especially, very melancholic music.

Tchaikovsky is my fav, but I'm more of a Jazz , soul type person, can stand almost any type of music other than country and raggae....

I am not really a classical music fan as such, but as a musician (former?) I can appreciate the effort.

Regular pop music has the vocalist to capture the attention of fans, in classical this job is down to the orchestra. In that way classical music tends to have much more complex and intense arrangements.

I am going to pick a piece, it is not one people would expect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5QS9ZLo0ds

This is from a computer game called final fantasy 7, Tifas theme on piano and viola. Just two instruments but this is amazing.
The Japanese are the best at composing atmospheric and often heartbreaking music.

"Does anyone enjoy classical music?"

Peeps with low IQ will never enjoy classic music...

I like this piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU
^
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

and this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAJopwEYv8
^
Flight Of The Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov

last one, before I go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P65WNm48p0
^
Tchaikovsky - Lake in the Moonlight

"Does anyone enjoy classical music?"

Peeps with low IQ will never enjoy classic music...

^^

Shakes head at the condescending attitude of this statement.

I second that, Hellon. I even wonder if this is truly Alfred. I remember a very different, kind hearted man that I once met at RTVW!

What is eating you, Alfred?

One of the greatest lines about music was actually in a movie, white men can't jump, a comedy about street basketball, Wesley snipes was talking about Jimmy Hendrix and woody Harrelson was saying I like listening to Hendrix, and snipes said you listen to Hendrix, but you can't hear Hendrix......that's deep when you think about it....how many of us listen to music, but don't really hear it?

Absolutely Bob - that's very true. It too easily slips off the surface unless we let in seep in!
ps Great film - very funny.

I consider myself to have a decent IQ

I can discuss the expanding universe, Tudor England and whether or not I should wear shoes with tracky bottoms,

however I can't sit and listen to mozart, I would feel like I would need to put a cardigan on first.

My link above was as classical as I get,

dus that make mees fic?

Off course you do, Darren. How could you not, being an ex- Raven? Now, smile! :)

Oh man!( used as an expression)

I love classical music. Anything from Beethoven, Mozart, or that plays just piano, or violin... I don't have any favorite one, I just go to Pandora and listen to music at random. I don't even know the titles of some of the songs. I can recognize a few if I listen to them though... What I love about them is that some times when the songs play, a different story is display in my mind. It taps into my senses and I just feel freedom. It's so Weird.

Darren - off this thread with you, you dim-wit! lol
All the best,
Ben.

Ha ha ha! Noooo Ben, we must protect our fellow Englishman!!!

I think, in truth, musical taste has very little to do with IQ. It has a lot to do with cultural backgrounds, I believe, and maybe even scenarios within cultures. For example, is a man who grew up in a country mansion more likely to listen to classical music than a man who grew up in inner London? Probably, but more than anything, I like to think what we listen to is only limited by the listeners ability to open their minds to new sounds.
I grew up in the 90s and guitar music like oasis and blur were all there was for me. Now, I love folk, pop, rock (favourite still, in truth) classical and even a bit of rap. The more you can appreciate, the better it is for you.
All the very best
Ben

You are probably right Ben, this thread is a bit high brow for me,

I am off to discuss daytime TV and microwave meals.

Ben,

" I like to think what we listen to is only limited by the listeners ability to open their minds to new sounds."

I agree.

Exposure!

Much of musical taste is limited simply because the variety of music has not been sampled.

On the other hand, I grew up waking to Porter Wagner on Saturday mornings and I still cannot abide steel guitar country.

BTW, the best way to deal with S**t-stirrers is to simply ignore the bad and respond to the good.

Luce,
It sounds like you would really appreciate tone-poems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnVN8i-DgQ
Sibelius - The Wood-Nymph

Also, try this and tell me if you don't absolutely experiencethe open sea:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o8uUP0lS9c>
Debussy: La Mer - Second Movement

Darren,
I'm quite partial to a microwave meal......:( lol

All the best,
Ben

ps. I suppose I should take my cardigan off, then

I can't resist

https://youtu.be/2gkLzLxVtoM

That's a gas, Michael

But it is mislabeled as Clapton while it is really Mason

That's interesting . I know there is a difference in classical and classic music . I am not trying to chance the subject , but there was a classic or two I remember hearing in the Officers Open Mess where I was employed for about 25 years
One was "We got to get out of this place" by the Animals
https://youtu.be/jCPjnuwdKkw
the other was Eric Campton's "Cocaine"
https://youtu.be/3bEUaeG4wH4