What made you fall in love with Classical music?

[greg]

I can't think of a specific work. I started with Bach, Paganini and Mozart, mainly, but also got a few CDs for Christmas (Schubert's Unfinished, Rachmaninoff's 2nd PC, a late Haydn symphony) and after a few listenings, the stuff started to grow on me. By the time I discovered Prokofiev, there was no return...

I should add that, the funny thing is, when I was in music class in 1st grade, we had watched a video of Peter and the Wolf a few times. I remember liking the music a lot back then, so I guess you could say I was always a Prokofiev fan- must just be my nature. 

[Conor71]

I always liked and was interested in Classical for as long as I can remember but was initially more interested in Pop Music.
My first Classical purchase was Mozarts Gran Partita made after watching the moview Amadeus about 10 years ago and then I bought Part's Spiegel Im Spiegel/Fur Alina and Holst's Planets Suite after seeing the movies Gerry and The Right Stuff 7 years ago.
It was about 3 years ago that I conciously decided to take my fledling interest in Classical further and bought Naxos Best Of's of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart and Vivaldi (just anyone I could think of off the top of my head!) and a couple more Part discs - I immediately liked what I heard and bought a couple of books on Classical Composers and my Interest began to snowball from there! .
I get so much enjoyment from Classical now - it has really enriched my life and I am glad I decided to explore it further .

[hornteacher]

I saw Andre Watts playing Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto on television at Lincoln Center with the NY Phil in 1988.  That did it for me.

[Mirror Image]

Movie scores, probably starting with The Crimson Tide.

Interestingly enough, the first film score I enjoyed was by Jerry Goldsmith:

[wppwah]

Hearing on the radio one day Rachmaninov playing his 3rd Concerto.

At first I thought you meant a live performance


As for me, though I grew up with a vague likeness for classical, it wasn't until I saw a video of Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the LA Phil in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (sadly, no longer available on YouTube) that something inside me clicked. Maybe I didn't realize up until that point what classical music really meant -- the striking violence that it could express.

[greg]

As for me, though I grew up with a vague likeness for classical, it wasn't until I saw a video of Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the LA Phil in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (sadly, no longer available on YouTube) that something inside me clicked. Maybe I didn't realize up until that point what classical music really meant -- the striking violence that it could express.

Probably you watched that video that Greta uploaded. Surprised to hear she took it off...

[vandermolen]

Hearing Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony when I was 17 (Decca Eclipse LP, LPO, Boult). Never looked back.