what is your favourite classical music work?

[Christine Callisen]

Ha ha - you´re right! It´s hard to choice a favourite Mozart part. But now you have given me the little push to start playing Rondo Alla Turca again

Then I hope you´re right when you say that when one gets going, the rest may start to come back fairly quickly!

[corno]

Just a quick note for those interested in playing the "hard version" of the "Rondo Alla Turka".
It's the third and final movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major - KV 331.

More information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_S...._331_(Mozart)

[Christine Callisen]

Thanks Corno - interessting to read some background about it!

[rojo]

Visiting the site Corno posted reminded me, kinda funny, the same student that I taught Rondo Alla Turca to? I had also taught him Dave Brubeck`s Blue Rondo a la Turk! Two very different pieces!

Hey, music teachers have to find humour where we can!

[Christine Callisen]

Ha ha - well you only have the fun you make your self

[rojo]

Christine- Glad to hear it! I can`t guarantee how quickly you can get it back, especially since it has been three years since you played it. But you won`t know unless you try!

So good luck with that. If you succeed in getting some or all of it back, you could always try to maintain it by playing it every now and then. Then you won`t lose it entirely.

If you feel like it, let us know how it goes!

[rojo]

Hey, you made a post while I was making a follow-up post! Funny.

No matter- I reiterate my last post.

[Christine Callisen]

Ha ha - Funny!

Thanks for your advice, I will tell you how it goes.... I think it will be a long process, but when I´m finish I will be extremly satisfied!

[Grinnin]

This is really tough, there are so many. But I think I would have to say Brahms 2nd Symphony. Second would be Dvorak's 9th Symphony nad 3rd would be Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto.

[KBOC]

Smetena's Moldau
Shaherezad, Capriccio Espagnol and the Russian Eastern Oveture by Rimsky-Korsikov (which always seem to come on the same LP, probably the best value in Classical Music)
John Williams' Olympic Spirit
Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man

I think it would take me an hour to list all my favorites

[rojo]

Grinnin- Yup, yup and yup- all fine works! Good choices, in my humble opinion. Dvorak`s use of Czech and American folk elements in the 9th symphony is interesting, and what an exhilarating work it is! If one needs cheering/pumping up, this symphony`s first mvt. can do it! The Brahms and the Rachmaninov- just beautiful stuff.

KBOC- It`s funny how popular the Moldau is- one hears it fairly often in concert. Have you read the discussion of it previously in this thread? Sheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol- very exciting works. I seem to like many symphonic poems as well.

I think everyone agrees about the difficulty of picking a single favourite work!

[KBOC]

I've only been to one Classical concert in my lifetime (I was nine years old )

Shaherezad, I believe, is probably the inspiration for a host of movie music... I heard a few years ago that George Lucas wrote Star Wars to it... (rumor, dunno that it's true).

I guess my taste in music could best be described as "Pompus with Depth"

For instance:

I cannot stand anything by John Phillip Souza! Pompous with no depth... (yuk!)

Tchycovsky's 1812 oveture, IMHO, is far more appropriate for what Sousa's work is used to convey...

I cannot pick a single favorite... I listen to music in series... pieces that complement eachother.

Basil Poledouris' Theology followed by Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

Howard Shore's Concerning Hobbits with Beetoven's Pastoral Symphoney

[rojo]

Hey KBOC,

Do you mean John Phillip Sousa, the march king?

Do you like Holst`s the Planets and/or Elgar`s work? These are also fairly pompous yet with depth.

[KBOC]

Emerson Lake and Palmer did a FAN ASS TASTIC rendition of Mars, Bringer of War! It turned me on to Holst

I'm unfamiliar with Elgar.

So far as Sousa yes... but a lot of his stuff barely qualifies as a march... Stars and Stripes Forever... uhg... I have no words to describe how horrible I think this piece is... Give me John William's Raider's march any day

[rojo]

I knew you`d be a Holst fan! You sure you never heard Pomp and Circumstance by Elgar? People play it at graduation ceremonies sometimes. That`s perhaps one of his best known works. I mention it mainly because it`s got the word pomp right there in the title.

I really like prog rock a lot, although I don`t know all the songs. Haven`t listened to much in a while, but from what I remember ELP had some great stuff. Didn`t they also do a version of Fanfare for the Common Man? Or was that another group. Do you like that version too?

I find it rather odd to compare Sousa works to Tchaikovsky`s 1812 because they are such different forms and styles, but I guess I see the comparison from a likes/dislikes standpoint. I find Sousa marches fun, but nowhere near as stimulating as the thrilling Tchaik. work, which is much more complex and moving.

I have to admit, I`m not really up on the recent film stuff- not much of a movie goer.