What classical music did you listen to today?

[rojo]

Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5 played by Yehudi Menuhin. Great stuff. Then another one (forget which) played by Leonid Kogan, which was fabulous. Love that Kogan. Good old youtube.

[ParryHotter]

I'm going to have to post for "future" listening today. I'll be away from interenet access until probably Sunday night, so here's my tentative plan.

I've still got 8:15:12 left on the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
I'm going to get as much of Debussy's Preludes as I can.
Chopin's Scherzos and Polonnaises are also just itching to be listened to.

Gee can you guys guess my favorite instrument?


EDIT: Beethoven's 8th Symphony 4th Mvt. has been on loop and I've heard it about 6 times in a row now

[mc 4ces]

I am listenig every day german hip-hop. Cours, dajule, unitaz usw...

best regards,
mc 4ces


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[corno]

I am listenig every day german hip-hop. Cours, dajule, unitaz usw...

best regards,
mc 4ces

Hi mc 4ces,

Well that's not exactly classical pieces. Unless there's a link between german hip-hop and classical music I'm not aware of... not impossible...
Let's leave this topic for classical music - then maybe someone else wants to create a topic on hip-hop.

I haven't heard any classical music today, but I've been working with dynamic markings in a full set of parts for Sibelius' 2nd symphony... so that must almost count...

[giovannimusica]

Hello Corno dolce,

You mean to say that you haven't heard Kraftwerk and Mannheim Steamroller and their versions of classical music????



Cheers,

Giovanni

[giovannimusica]

Today I listened to Schoenberg:

Verklaerte Nacht arr. for string orchestra
Gurre-Lieder
Erwartung
Friede auf Erde

Cheers,

Giovanni

[corno]

Well Giovanni,

There's so much wrong with that post of yours, that I really don't know where to start. Suffice it to say that neither Kraftwerk nor Mannheim Steamroller has anything to do with "German hip-hop", the former pioneering in computer based/techno music (a popular-music's Stockhausen if you will) and the latter while first and foremost not being German, but American, and secondly there's a long way from this 80'ies "18 century classical rock" band to German hip-hop.
And no, the Dutch group Ekseption is not an exception either.

[Frederik.Sjölund]

corno: Well it was as close i could get :P He DOES use full symphonic orchestras and so you see where the similiarities lies..

[giovannimusica]

Dear Corno,

My post to you was all in jest with no offense meant. I grieve that you felt slighted. Furthermore, I just wanted to share about my total ignorance of the contemporary music scene.

Ah well

[mc 4ces]

Hi mc 4ces,

Well that's not exactly classical pieces. Unless there's a link between german hip-hop and classical music I'm not aware of... not impossible...
Let's leave this topic for classical music - then maybe someone else wants to create a topic on hip-hop.

I haven't heard any classical music today, but I've been working with dynamic markings in a full set of parts for Sibelius' 2nd symphony... so that must almost count...

I am sorry. I haven't read the name from this corner correct...

cheers, mc 4ces

[corno]

Giovanni: No hard feelings here... just good jest! cheers my good man!

mc 4ces: it's quite alright, just wanted to point out to later posters that the topic here actually was classical music, and not hip-hop. - There are plenty of room for discussing hip-hop at this site, just not right here in "this corner" - as you've also stated.
With that said, please share with us your own feelings on hip-hop... why have you "taken this particular musical expression to heart"? I myself, know little to nothing in depth about hip-hop, and would love to learn more about it. You're welcome to start your own thread in a more appropriate forum/corner of this site.

[rojo]

Well, how about this- if a hip-hop song endures for long enough, eventually it could possibly be termed as 'classic hip-hop', which is just two letters away from 'classical hip-hop.'

[MaestroX]

i recently purchased the Complete Mozart Collection and have been listening to his divertimenti, my favourite being his Divertimento In D

[rojo]

Wow, that`s a lot of Mozart!

For me today it was William Walton`s Violin Concerto. I think it was Nigel Kennedy playing! Lovely stuff by this English composer. So then I listened to his Five Bagatelles for Guitar, played by Julian Bream. Apparently Walton wrote them for him. The Violin Concerto he wrote for Heifetz.

[dko22]

unfortunately I seem to spend too much time looking for undiscovered geniuses on forums or trying to write my own stuff just now. The last piece on CD I put on was the Brahms sextets a few days ago already!