Classical Music Smackdown!!!

[Frau_Blucher]

List your top 5 baddest classical (or opera) music joints and be prepared to defend your most righteous choices against the weak-ass selections of your beeyatch rivals!!! [:(!][:(!][:(!]

Just kidding...thought the beligerence might liven up what might be a dud of a thread. And not necessarily entire works you wanks but specific pieces or movements dammit!

1. Tchaikovsky - Allegro Non Troppo E Molto Maestoso from Piano Concerto #1
2. Tchaikovsky - Act 1, Pass de deux, Swan Lake
3. Bach - Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
4. Mascagni - the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
5. Mozart - Concert for Clarinet and Orchestra in A

Honorable mentions:
Puccini - O Suave Fanciulla, La Boheme
Tchaikovsky - Andantino Simplice from Piano Concerto #1
Vivaldi - Concerto for Lute 2 Violins and Continuo in D
Addinsell - The Warsaw Concerto
Mozart - Andante from Piano Concerto #21

(Pretty hack stuff I know...must be like the equivilent of Banarama to classical experts)

[2Nu]

Are you one to have those offerings in your hub share?[8)] (Seriously!)

Mine probably read like mainstream Renaissance pop pix[:I]
(Skipping the obvious, hopefully..)

Haydn -String Quartets op. 64 No. 4-6
Mozart - Violin Concertos #3 in D minor, #4 in G major
Mozart - Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra (in D major, in C major)
Mendelssohn- Symphony #2 Adagio
Schubert - Symphony #6 Andante
Chopin- Impromptus For Piano #1-op 29, #2-op 36, #3-op 51, #4-op 66
Chopin- Nocturnes For Piano op 27-1,op 27-2, op 37-1, op 37-2

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[red x red]

1. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna.
2. Dvorak - New World Symphony.
3. Aaron Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man tie with Appalachian Spring.
4. Henyrk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs") - I had to pull off to the side of the road while listening to this for the first time on the radio many years ago.
5. Claude Debussy - La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral).


Bring it baby . . . bring it!

[My Aural Stimulator]

[quote][i]Originally posted by red x red[/i]
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2. Dvorak - New World Symphony.

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I've had this on CD, but I just bought it on vinyl, and, wow! Beautiful from start to finish.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by red x red[/i]
<br>Bring it baby . . . bring it!
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What next? Liberace?! You weak b*tch! [}:)]

[:D][;)]

[red x red]

I don't see MAS endorsing any of your picks! [:D]. Plus, O Fortuna has been used for BEER commercials!

What say ye?

[Frau_Blucher]

[b]FUMAS!!!!!!!!![/b]

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[red x red]

oh man . . . you nearly killed me Blir . . . I blew diet coke out of my nose laughing! My co-workers had to come in and revive me.

[MattW]

I only have 1 and a half:

1. Ravel's Bolero

I can always listen to that from end to end, clearing my head and concentrating on / feeling the music.


I'm sure it doesnt qualify as 'classical' to a classical music buff but I always found Don Dorseys??? "Bachbusters" LP quite enjoyable. He plays Bach with some wierd keyboard/guitar/clavicord thingy.

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[WolverineSyr]

I thought we was gonna be talking about Led Zep in this thread, yo.

If Blir's taste is Bananarama, mine surely is the Cowsills/Defranco Family/Toni Basil.

I have a cd called Music for a Scary Night (or something like that.) It's all Halloween themed, eerie classical & I Love It!!!!!!
I particularly like Greigg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
I still love O Fortuna/O Bumbratta - the real one, the techno one or the beer commercial one.
I also love Mars from the Planets - who did that? Hayden?

Love Bolero. I really like some parts of the Nutcracker & Swan Lake.

See what a philistine I am? I don't even know the composers![:I]

I always wanted to get into Opera, but found myself getting bored about a quarter of the way in. Certain pieces I've heard from Aida, Madame Butterfly, etc are beautiful though.

[red x red]

"The Planets Suite" is by Gustav Holst, and you are right, "Mars - The Bringer of War" is the best.

[WolverineSyr]

Holst...Hayden... at least I got the "H" right!

[Mechi]

Classical music... the perfect partner for showers.
In my case, I mostly like Vivaldi.

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[KYYX4ever]

Wagner
and
Sibelius
open a can of whoopa** on this stuff.
Those are my faves anyway.
And Holst's "The Planets".

I love classical, but I lean toward the heavy, morose stuff.

[design_femme]

1. [b]Ravel's Bolero[/b] is my #1 as well.


as for others, I don't know classical that well (much to the chagrin of my parents). So I feel like my list is mostly about songs that I remember off-hand and liked, but may not necessarily be my all-time favorites:


2. [b]Beethoven's Symphony #7, Op. 92: II. Allegreto[/b] (so dark and chilling)

3. [b]Vivaldi's (Guitar) Concerto in D Major, Largo[/b] (a wedding cliché, but this is the first song that made me want to learn the guitar)

4. Does Gershwin count as classical? I really love [b]An American In Paris[/b] and [b]Rhaspody in Blue[/b].

I like Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mendelssohn, and Chopin too. Just don't ask me what pieces, coz I can't remember them. I also love the chorale in [b]Beethoven's Symphony 9[/b].