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Since Strato are so classically-influenced, that must mean some people here like classical music!

Liszt is my favourite composer, his Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 is one of my favourite pieces of music ever! And don't let me get started about his Piano Concertos or Symphonic Poems! I also really like Debussy (his Piano Preludes are amazing, especially Des Pas Sur La Niege, my favourite symphonic work of his is Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune; beautiful, but wierd ) , Mozart (especially his Quartets and Requiem) and Haydn, and I adore Bach's organ works, and also his Mass In B Minor, totally epic! Schubert is great as well.

Who else is into classical music?

Oh and right now, listening to Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

I listen to classical music, Wagner totally rocks.

The Four Seasons definitely rule

MaFiaBoY wrote:The Four Seasons definitely rule

Agree!!! Vivaldi was the very first one to play heavy metal!!
My favourite classic piece is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, the first part is beautiful and the third is just a heavy piano piece with great melodies and fast piano playing!!!
Verdi's Requiem is also one of my fav, it's just a epic symphonic masterpiece!!

I don't go out and buy it..but if mates are listening to it i won't complain....i'm hoping to go to the proms next time it's on

I quite enjoy the works of Edvard Grieg

htcdude wrote:I don't go out and buy it..but if mates are listening to it i won't complain....i'm hoping to go to the proms next time it's on

I think you should go and buy some, most classical music cds are VERY, VERY cheap (composers dead, no copyright ) I bought Bach's Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor and other organ works and Liszt's Dante Symphony on cd for £1.99 each!!! so also feel free to download.

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Sometimes I listen to Bach, because of Stratovarius, and mostly because of Will the Sun Rise. Bach is my favourite.

1456: Nándorfehérvári csata

If you like Bach also try Vivaldi and Buxtehude.

And get a hold of a cd of Bach's organ works, amazing stuff!

I can't sit there and listen to it unless i have to though

My favorite is the 2nd movement from Beethoven's 9th symphony. But i've just "discovered" Schubert, i think he and i are going to have a long love affair...

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NeonVomit wrote:And get a hold of a cd of Bach's organ works, amazing stuff!

Luckily, I have one of them. Toccata and Fugue "Dorian" * Trio Sonata No. 4

Well it's crazy, but this is the name of the album. Or maybe it's a compillation or what. Dunno. Spányi Miklós played the organs.

Oooooo actually i listen to Sonata Arctica..do they count??

Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Dvorak...
There are lot of talented classical musicians...

htcdude wrote:Oooooo actually i listen to Sonata Arctica..do they count??

I don't think so, but only on the technicality that the classical period lasted from 1750 to 1820. Otherwise, totally.

Pity there's no proper name for classical music (since Classical music was as
HvyMtlClickWitch of the period 1750 - 1820)..

I guess Art Music covers it, but can be disputed.

So yes, we stick to classical music

And no, Sonata Arctica doesn't count!

Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Mussorgski, Prokofiev, Beethoven...etcetcklku

NeonVomit wrote:Pity there's no proper name for classical music (since Classical music was as
HvyMtlClickWitch of the period 1750 - 1820)..

I guess Art Music covers it, but can be disputed.

I agree, it is a pity. Art Music, though...i have to disagree. In my experience, the term Art Music refers to the "concept albums" of classical music. You know, The Four Seasons, Peter & The Wolf, The Planets, The Erlking, stuff like that. So Art Music is like a subgenre of classical music..er, not classical music..more like orchestral..no, that's not it either..maybe instrumental acous...nah................

Soon we're going to need a poll on what the new "acceptable" name for classical music will be.

As I said, can be disputed, and I don't much like the term myself (refers to German Lieder as Art Song etc)

So we'll stick with classical music then

There is only one I like: Smetana "The Moldau"

I really like the ninth symphony of Beethoven, he rules. I also like the four seasons of Vivaldi, and all the Wagner's and Bach's compositions. Strauss, Mahler, Tchaikovski and Mozart are good too.

One day, one fo my techers said: "who likes the rock in his/her youth, will like the classic in his/her oldness

Well it's definate i'm off to The Proms this year

Anyone else going?

Won't be here unfortunately, I'd like to though. Oh well.

if you mean classical music like Beethoven - No

if you mean classical music like Judas Priest - YES!

Nightelf wrote:if you mean classical music like Beethoven - No

if you mean classical music like Judas Priest - YES!

classical music - Judas Priiest - WTF

I don't get it either.. Oh poor me.. I got to practice Beethoven's "Romance en sol" and there's few fast parts

Bah...dont try to understand...

There's someone who listen to Albinoni?

MaFiaBoY wrote:

Nightelf wrote:if you mean classical music like Beethoven - No

if you mean classical music like Judas Priest - YES!

classical music - Judas Priiest - WTF

Classic/legendary Heavy Metal I guess.

Ah but if you said to someone classic music most would not think of Judas Priest or the likes of