What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

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Mozart for Morning Coffee - one of a number of Mozart compilations on Philips - These are all very well done and enjoyable MOZART FOR . . . . .

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Fry Street Quartet - Haydn Violin Concerto....a Kimber Kable IsoMike recording.

Dave

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Chopin: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor - Emanuel Ax playing a period (~1851) piano

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Originally Posted by 80B

Chopin: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor - Emanuel Ax playing a period (~1851) piano

You listen to some nice stuff. I just finished listening to Chopin's Nocturnes - from the album Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes And Impromptus - Claudio Arrau. Two discs - Philips

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Originally Posted by jprice

You listen to some nice stuff. I just finished listening to Chopin's Nocturnes - from the album Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes And Impromptus - Claudio Arrau. Two discs - Philips

Julian, thanks for the kind words, and starting this thread, it's inspired me to call up some old favorites and share with my 8th grader, (we still jam to Miles or Led Zeppelin as well).

Bach: Cantata #140, BWV 140, "Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme" - Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Etc.; Piet Jan Leusink: Netherlands Bach Collegium, Holland Boys Choir

Paul

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Originally Posted by 80B

Julian, thanks for the kind words, and starting this thread, it's inspired me to call up some old favorites and share with my 8th grader, (we still jam to Miles or Led Zeppelin as well).

Paul

Thank you Paul - I'm glad that your 8th grader is expanding his musical horizons.

I love and enjoy almost every type of music - except recent rock - I guess I'm just too old to appreciate loud clanging and gonging with no recognizable melody, being performed by "artists" with no particular talent and/or lousy singing voices. . . . .

I do love all types of jazz, folk, older rock (especially 50's & 60's - way back when it was called "Rock and Roll"), some country, Pop, "Easy Listening", Soundtracks, etc., etc., But I spend hours and hours listening to classical music.

In my opinion, as I said earlier in this thread, Classical Music performed by a good orchestra, is the absolute best type of music to show off the quality of a good audio system.

'Nuff said, but, I think that our fellow AA members are doing themselves and their huge investment in world class stereo systems, a grave injustice by not giving Classical Music a chance.

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Originally Posted by 80B

Bach: Cantata #140, BWV 140, "Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme" - Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Etc.; Piet Jan Leusink: Netherlands Bach Collegium, Holland Boys Choir

Paul

Paul, I've noticed that you often listen to Bach's Cantatas - I have a complete set of the Cantatas on LP, which are in storage and I hope to locate them and get them out to enjoy. Most of them are incredibly beautiful.

I found an interesting web-site with much information about the Cantatas at Bach Cantatas Website - Home Page

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Julian,
Thanks, I'll check out that site. Those LPs must be something special on either of your systems. I got the complete box set of Bach CDs, which can be had for a steal (~$110), and has brought a lot of listening pleasure. There's a bit of it that doesn't do much for me, but that's overwhelmingly compensated by the discoveries that I've made of his music by the convenience of having all of it loaded on the Mac Mini (my "Box o' Bach" playlist).

Currently listening to the 2nd Ax/Chopin CD I got the other day: Chopin: Concerto No.2 in F minor

Will play some nocturnes later in honor of those who died in that tragic plane crash earlier today. Katyn is truly a cursed place.

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Originally Posted by jprice

Thank you Paul - I'm glad that your 8th grader is expanding his musical horizons.

I love and enjoy almost every type of music - except recent rock - I guess I'm just too old to appreciate loud clanging and gonging with no recognizable melody, being performed by "artists" with no particular talent and/or lousy singing voices. . . . .

I do love all types of jazz, folk, older rock (especially 50's & 60's - way back when it was called "Rock and Roll"), some country, Pop, "Easy Listening", Soundtracks, etc., etc., But I spend hours and hours listening to classical music.

In my opinion, as I said earlier in this thread, Classical Music performed by a good orchestra, is the absolute best type of music to show off the quality of a good audio system.

'Nuff said, but, I think that our fellow AA members are doing themselves and their huge investment in world class stereo systems, a grave injustice by not giving Classical Music a chance.

Julian,
Couldn't agree with you more. That variety keeps things interesting.

As a kid we listened to my dad's Toscanini LPs of Beethoven symphonies and the 1812 overture, but that was about it beyond the FM rock of the 70s. Not having any musical talent nor training, I gained more appreciation from a course-on-tape (or, as my boy would say a Podcast ) mentioned elsewhere on the forum, and have grasped more about the music which brings the appreciation to a much higher level.

That being said, I'll never appreciate it like my son already can. He's played the piano since age five, and his teacher has spent a lot of time with him on music theory, playing mostly classical pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, etc.. When I tell him he's way beyond my comprehension it still doesn't sink in with him. He's actually in Disney World with his school band this weekend, performing today as lead trumpet soloist.

Paul

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