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Some of my favorite Classical Music Pieces

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Re: Some of my favorite Classical Music Pieces

Post by Turkeytop » Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:48 pm

TC Talks wrote:
Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:47 pm
I am into more contemporary stuff...

Holst's Planets I always enjoy
Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune
I also love Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring


In contemporary, I also like Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Some of Leroy Anderson's stuff is fun.


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Re: Some of my favorite Classical Music Pieces

Post by moldyoldie » Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:55 am

I'm somewhat deeper into classical music than the casual listener and have been for years, hence I've refrained from commenting here lest I start sounding pedantic. However, I always recommend one piece above all others to the typical rocker or metalhead as an introduction to the genre: The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) by Igor Stravinsky

Not only did it cause riots at its Paris premiere in 1913, but it has since become part of the basic repertoire with its animalistic carnality full of loud rhythmic bombast and blather.


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Re: Some of my favorite Classical Music Pieces

Post by Turkeytop » Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:31 pm

Largo - From Handel's Xerxes

https://youtu.be/uMlxM69ZJFA


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