Does anyone else here enjoy classical music? Composers like Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bach....let me kow if you do, because I always like to hear new great classical music. If you don't and you wanna leave a smart ass comment, don't bother if you are a simple minded fuck.

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I love the stuff. Mostly classical choir music. Take a listen to this. It's my favorite. O Fortuna

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Whenver you hear that song it seems like the end of the world is coming, which to me sounds great......lol

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love classical.
fuckin LOVE it
(i'm serious too)

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Hehe I know. Just think about what people thought of it when it was first proformed. Like OMG I didn't think classical could sound so dark and evil.

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classical is the heavy metal

just take moonlight sonata.
Without arguement that's the most morose and heavy song you can have. When a song can be that heavy without distortion it's beautiful.

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I enjoy listening to classical music but never looked into it much. I remember a Beethoven song came on my computer when i got it and i listened to it about 20 times.

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i love classical

...kicks ass

I used to know how to play compositions from all of those composers on piano, i played piano for abou 9 years and then quit, then i started guitar a little later, and when i go back to piano i cant play shit, it pisses me off, i should have never quit, i used to be pretty damn good to and could have gotten a lot better, it sucks. But guitar is the true light

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Anybody who likes metal and doesn't like classical has a serious distortion dependancy problem and should seek immediate treatment.

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I know thats right.

Lets see some links like the one I give to some good classical music you like. I would like to hear something different too. What do you find insperational? Do any of you like that song O Fortuna I posted?

Lets hear it.

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O Fortuna is definitely cool. Nutcracker Suite Waltz of the Flowers ( ) is actually very good.(Remember the first Batman movie when joker was killing his old boss I think)

Bach is nice, pretty soft though. Beethoven is pretty heavy...he was like the death metal of his time, because what he did was so unorthodox and EVIL sounding....sounds beautiful to me.

Minuet by Boccherini is great...pretty dramatic. Allegro from any Mozart orchestra is great. I'd say my favorite composer right now is Tchaikovsky. Pick up any compositions from him and you should not be dissapointed.

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bach's writings for the well tempered clavier and the harpsichord suites are beautiful. i also enjoy haydn.... i really love that pompous sounding trumpet and orchestra music

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Yeah classical music is good stuff. very technical besides jazz.. you gotta love moonlight sonata, i learnt the tapping for it on bass.. sounds lush..

Also Botch did a cover of that O Fortuna song..

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i want to take classical guitar lessons, randy did it and he has some of the best shit ive ever heard.

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classical music is great!!!
I like Holst, Mozart, Mussorgsky.
But i hate the modern classical, it's just niose for me!!!

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I Like Brahms work alot

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shit I heard that song a while ago and have been wondering what it was since then It's fucking awsome

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O fortuna....kicks...ass. And it's not necessarily evil. That's just the 21st imagination kicking in. It's about change.....
I've VERY surprised mr. soul has not said anything about Miserere Mei. It's very good, perhaps better than o fortuna. Lately I've been listening to more solo rep. than anything. But everyone should get a copy of Tchaikowsky's 5th symphony. That's great music. And so is the Zampa Overture by !?!!?!!(fuck I can't remember). Beethoven's 9th is way better than his 5th, but they're both great. Wagner's Die Meistersinger is a beautiful piece I played about 2 months ago. It has a wonderful string bass part. Everyone should have Miserere Mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri. .....hmmmm.....Tchaikowsky's Pathetique symphony is not bad either, I played it some years ago. Brahms, yes that is good as well...his 2nd symphony is great.

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I have a friend who calls Bach Toccata and Fugue 'vampire music.' I have to keep reminding him it's church music.

Mahler's third. If you can't get into the way the fourth movement unwinds in the most brutally and beautifully slow fashion you should be recalled by the factory for faulty wiring. Most of the rest of Mahler as well. powers pretty much hit on the essentials from Tchaikovsky. Wagner's catalogue is large and varied enough that you should be caught up for years trying to filter the quality out from the mishmash of pieces he threw together. Love Wagner though I might, Stravinsky and others were dead on in their criticisms of him. From Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring is required listening and the Symphony of Psalms is beautiful. Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings is beautiful, though you probably already know this. Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter really stand out from Holst's Planets suite. Shastakovich should be listened to. As powers said, the 9th is Beethoven's best. Strauss's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is very good. Bernstein's Rhapsody in Blue is arguably not classical, but it is awesome. Aaron Copland gave us some very good music in the Fanfare for the Common Man, Hoedown, and Appalachian Wedding. I'll think of some more later, maybe.

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Agreed, another good one is Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor.

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ohhh, right. I forgot about Holst. I like Saturn and Mars the best, haha, probably cause I played 'em. Mahler's second I like because of it's melody. The same thing goes with his first. Toccata and Fugue vampire music?!?! haha, he probably only thinks that because it is the wedding song of the phantom of the Opera. I didn't think it was church music though, because the church never really used a fully diminished chord all the time. BTW, Tchaikowsky is how you spell it. In his country, "w" is pronounced with a "v" sound, which is probably why everyone spells it 2 different ways and gets away with it. The same thing goes with Wagner. It's actually pronounced "Vagner." I'm not into much Rapsody songs, they are too cheezy and I fall asleep to them. Ahhh, almost forgot about Strouss's Don Juan.

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There are about a half dozen technically correct variants of Tchaikovsky. In his country they do more than simply pronounce w's as v's; they use a different lettering system which produces problems when translated into the Latin alphabet. This is made even more complex by the fact that there are actually two somewhat different sets of Cyrillic, due to a Soviet revision of the alphabet after their takeover, which does affect transliteration. This is actually true of a lot of Russian composers, but most true of Chaikowsky; Russians don't even have a consensus on how to spell his name. Especially as English isn't the only language to use this alphabet, and there are different pronunciation rules for different countries, or even just regions.

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haha, okay.

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I actually missed a chance to see him performed by the Vienna philharmonic because my tired eyes missed 'Tjajkovskij' when I was first skimming the program, and when I gave it a second look and noticed it was too late. Fortunately I caught 'Strawinskij.'

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cool. I've never seen a major orchestra play though. I've only seen major soloists play such as the double bass players Francois Rabbath, Edgar Myer, and Jeff Bradetich. Solo rep is really what interests me.

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