New member looking for advise

[River]

Marc

Elegy for solo viola is really sorrowful. I like it. And I like the continuo too. J.S. Bach: Passacaglia & Thema Fugatum in C minor is very good too. I like this building. But the organ music still is new for me. I listened only 1-2. But there's one that I very like. That's Bach too.

EigenUser

I like both. Turangalila-Symphonie's ending is really spectacular.

Ken B

That's right. I can discover a lot of composers and compositions. That's why it isn't simple the choosing. Too large selection. But now, I have met many good music so I can choose between more. I guess I'm going to be on good terms with certain composers. 

Oh yes, there are pretty much recordings and it isn't far to me to buy CDs (and support the classical music in this way), but I have a little problem with this recordings ocean. (and it isn't the price) But this isn't theme of this topic.

[Ken B]

Marc

Elegy for solo viola is really sorrowful. I like it. And I like the continuo too. J.S. Bach: Passacaglia & Thema Fugatum in C minor is very good too. I like this building. But the organ music still is new for me. I listened only 1-2. But there's one that I very like. That's Bach too.

EigenUser

I like both. Turangalila-Symphonie's ending is really spectacular.

Ken B

That's right. I can discover a lot of composers and compositions. That's why it isn't simple the choosing. Too large selection. But now, I have met many good music so I can choose between more. I guess I'm going to be on good terms with certain composers. 

Oh yes, there are pretty much recordings and it isn't far to me to buy CDs (and support the classical music in this way), but I have a little problem with this recordings ocean. (and it isn't the price) But this isn't theme of this topic.

Well, if you want specific pieces, based on what you like, try Die Schone Mullerin, a song cycle by Schubert, Der Mond by Orff, Brahms's Piano Concerto 2,  and especially Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov.

[Marc]

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I can discover a lot of composers and compositions. That's why it isn't simple the choosing. Too large selection. But now, I have met many good music so I can choose between more. I guess I'm going to be on good terms with certain composers. 
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That's how things went with me some 30 years ago. Just ransacking my dad's collection, putting loads of his vinyl music on music cassette, and eventually developed a 'kind of taste' and got to know my fave composers and compositions.
(And even, after that, there's still so much to discover!)

[River]

Ken B

Thanks for your suggestions! Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov I like very much.

Marc

Exactly!

[Scion7]

Lots of Chopin?

[North Star]

(Maybe not so much Ravel  )

Do you want me to come over there and beat you with a dead horse?

[Karl Henning]

Do you want me to come over there and beat you with a dead horse?

(* chortle *)

[Henk]

Hi there. I'm a new member. I have always liked classical music but I find it hard to know what to listen to as I find most classical isn't to my taste.  I like gentle emotional (I know all music is classical), slightly melancholy classical i.e. Fantasia on a theme.  I'd be grateful for any recommendations.  I'd also get into some opera on the same theme. Nothing that will burst my eardrums.  Thankyou

Have you tried, Grieg?

[bigshot]

Ravel "Daphnis et Chloe"
Debussy "La Mer"
Barber "Adagio for Strings"
Mozart "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Chopin "Nocturnes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeRLcJJmL7k

[EigenUser]

Ravel "Daphnis et Chloe"
Debussy "La Mer"
Barber "Adagio for Strings"
Mozart "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Chopin "Nocturnes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeRLcJJmL7k

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