FabGuys.com forum: Classical music fans?

By *lex65uk OP Man
over a year ago

Neath

Any classical music fans? What you listening to?

I'm listening to Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony (Oslo Phil/Petrenko)

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By *nchsolentMan
over a year ago

Fareham

Usually have classic fm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im trying to play spanish dance no5 by Granados, its a bit rough

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By *DCambsMan
over a year ago

Cambridge

Mozart Clarinet Quintets most recently.

Albinoni quite often.

Poulenc and Saint-Saens from time to time.

Bernstein Mass is a favourite.

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By *avyashMan
over a year ago

Near Retford

Definite classical music fan, here. Orchestral, Chamber, Vocal, Past and Contemporary.

However, I do draw the line at gimmicky charlatans who are short of tunes. If it's unlistenable, it's not "too complex". It's probably "just a bit shit". (Not that I'd ever be snobbish. Like I was just there. LOL)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any classical music fans? What you listening to?

I'm listening to Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony (Oslo Phil/Petrenko)"
. More Brass band lover

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By *exmachineCouple (MM)
over a year ago

kent

Practicing Schubert, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven and Debussy at the moment!

Enjoy playing Schubert impromptus and Rachmaninov preludes.

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By *ndy JayMan
over a year ago

Hinckley

Yes!!

Karl Jenkins- Benedictus (The Armed Man) is that one piece that just hits different.

7 minutes of pure ear sex!!

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By *exmachineCouple (MM)
over a year ago

kent

A friend of mine swears that the best sex he’s had was being fucked with Ravel’s Bolero playing in the background!

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By *esborough guyMan
over a year ago

Kettering

"Any classical music fans? What you listening to?

I'm listening to Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony (Oslo Phil/Petrenko). More Brass band lover"

Love a brass band

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By *atrina KaisarionTV/TS
over a year ago

lichfield

I love anything by Gustav holst and carl orff, especially the obvious ones such as the planets suite by holst and carmine Burana by off.

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By *ensualblokeMan
over a year ago

London /Colchester

Reimann - Lear

Beat Furrer - Violetter Schnee

Tavener - Apocalypse

OK so none of it is really pretty light, but when it comes to orchestral music or contemporary classical, I like it to be terrifying.

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By *atharine WTV/TS
over a year ago

southend

I listen to Classic FM a lot, no particular favourite classical songs

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By *laireKTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester

Shostakovich 5 and 10.

Is it still okay to like Russian composers?

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By *eefandfurMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Dvorák - New World Symphony.

Probably change to Prokofiev later as there's a chance of thunder.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do like to listen to Classic FM every so often, did like Scala Radio but know they switched to hardly any presenters (as apparently they are losing money) it not worth tuning into. Very occasionally will listen to BBC Radio 3.

My favourite two pieces of music are :-

Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

Gabriel’s Oboe by Morricone

I do love any Baroque as well.

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By *0yguyMan
over a year ago

Cumbria

I’m a fan of Rachmaninov. Particularly Rachmaninov’s main masterpiece, his Second Piano Concerto, from its use in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. Does anyone remember the Brief Encounter gay bar in London?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love the DSCH symphonies

Am a Carl Neilsen fan

And Brahms and Schumann chamber works

Heard Bruckner’s first in LA with the LAPO. Not yet a matured composer in that piece - no ‘cathedrals of sound’, but not bad

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By *DCambsMan
over a year ago

Cambridge

Gabriel’s Oboe by Morricone"

There's a lot of beautiful pieces in the music from the Mission; besides Gabriel's Oboe, Brothers is a lovely short piece and the two Guarani choral pieces are superb.

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By *DCambsMan
over a year ago

Cambridge

"Practicing Schubert, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven and Debussy at the moment!

Enjoy playing Schubert impromptus and Rachmaninov preludes."

I'm assuming that piano is your instrument. I started learning about 5 years ago in my mid 50s. Have never become a fluid player, and term my style as Tourette's, mainly cos as I play through something I should know by now I inevitably do something atrocious and it's "f**k , bollo*ks", etc.

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By *ogwhammerMan
over a year ago

Rainham KENT

Technicaly it's classical music if it's between roughly 1750 and 1820. Earlier than that it is normally referred to as Baroque and after romantic

Personally I think JS Bach is the giant of Western music. He has been sited as an influence by many musicians and composers from shortly after his death through to The Beatles and beyond.

I try and listen to something by JSB once a day

He's a Baroque composer BTW

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By *rm_navMan
over a year ago

WATFORD

Big fan of Shostakovich, Bruckner, Beethoven. Big symphonic sound gets me going.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Once met a guy who played classical music. Must admit I enjoyed a was great to enjoy a sexy play while it was playing x

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By *addy7x6Man
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Went with a Fab friend to the Royal Albert Hall a few years back.

Two of the 3 pieces that evening were Saint-Saens Symphony no.3 - Organ Symphony, and Carmina Burana.

My two top favourites - couldnt miss that chance!

When the low pedal notes of the organ in the No.3 cut in, you could feel them im your chest - too low to hear properly.

A sublime experience.

Carmina Burana with, I think, 500 voices, including about 60 or so children.

Almost as sublime!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't have a TV, so Classic FM is my constant companion. Love Handel, Mozart & virtually anything Baroque. Also a big film music fan...yes, The Mission is sublime.

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By *enjamin2018Man
over a year ago

Gloucester

I especially like the music of the English composers who were active at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, but one who stands out for me is the underrated Gerald Finzi. If you haven't heard his music,give him a try .It's often quite sad but achingly beautiful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I especially like the music of the English composers who were active at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, but one who stands out for me is the underrated Gerald Finzi. If you haven't heard his music,give him a try .It's often quite sad but achingly beautiful."

English classical music can resonate profoundly. I am always astonished by VW’s fifth symphony, a calm expansive and non-programmatic work written during the worst years of WW2.

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By *shleigh1964TV/TS
over a year ago

penzance

Rodriguez guitar concerto..particularly 2nd movement. Host planets..so many others

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By *usan jonesTV/TS
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Rodrigo y Gabriela technically not classical but all the same very good

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Classical music afficianado, from early music onwards but particularly JSB.

Also into modern jazz and popular music up to the point where commercial influences have destroyed it in musical terms i.e. no longer a melodic line, all on one dynamic, no chages of key, mostly all in the same key, promoting an attention span of of about 3 seconds.

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By *h60Man
over a year ago

Thurso

Ithink its gone down hill lately

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By *h60Man
over a year ago

Thurso

Ravels Daphnis et cloe

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By *onameyetMan
over a year ago

chorley

"Classical music afficianado, from early music onwards but particularly JSB.

So you’ll love hip hop then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any classical music fans? What you listening to?

I'm listening to Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony (Oslo Phil/Petrenko)"

Yes, very much so.

Including Opera.

Have classic fm on daily but adverts irritate me and also same stuff every day so most times I use rte lyric classic fm which is far better. I use Alexa units to get this but don't know how one would tune in on radios

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By *onameyetMan
over a year ago

chorley

"Ithink its gone down hill lately

Is this a cheese rolling thread?

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By *aunatonyMan
over a year ago

Cruising

Have a wide range of musical tastes,from pre naughties pop, through easy listening, classical including opera. Only types of music that do not float my boat is lots of jazz, rap, songs and singers where diction is poor.

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By *rowserMan
over a year ago

East Kent

Bach is just about No.1 for me in terms of transcendence and exhilaration. Very close run thing though as against Beethoven and Mozart, and so many others. Greatly looking forward to hearing the Brandenburg Concertos at a music festival this summer.

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By *elfryMan
over a year ago

Rossendale

At the moment I am into Ravel, Saint Seans and Faure. French 'impressionist' composers. Always return to Beethoven, Grieg and Bach.

Also love Melodic Black Metal at the moment, especially Sworn.

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By *DCambsMan
over a year ago

Cambridge

"Rodrigo y Gabriela technically not classical but all the same very good "

Saw them at Cambridge Folk Festival some years ago, stunning performers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bach is just about No.1 for me in terms of transcendence and exhilaration. Very close run thing though as against Beethoven and Mozart, and so many others. Greatly looking forward to hearing the Brandenburg Concertos at a music festival this summer."

Third movement of Brandenburg 3 is my absolute favourite. Joyous music that comes after the shortest of movements - the second movement is seconds long.

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By *atrina KaisarionTV/TS
over a year ago

lichfield

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By *avyashMan
over a year ago

Near Retford

"Classical music afficianado, from early music onwards but particularly JSB.

Your attention span is probably still OK. The 3 seconds are just how long anyone can listen to it...

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By *icjoMan
over a year ago

Ilkley

Yesterday bought Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, very much looking forward to some quiet time to get to know it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I actually know the lyrics to Edvard Grieg's Opus number 23, 9th Movement....

In the hall of the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king

In the hall of the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king

In the hall of the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king

In the hall of the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king the mountain king!

Not sure which bit is the verse or which bit is the chorus though....

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By *astDevonGuyMan
over a year ago

Seaton

Butterworth , perfect for a Summers evening and to ponder on the horrors of conflict.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
over a year ago

Bedford

Not a fan but I do love classical singers xxx

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By *adwolf75Man
over a year ago

Grantham

Strauss and Holst are definitely my goto classical artists

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elgar land of hope and glory arr from pomp and circumstance march No 1. So good

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By *avyashMan
over a year ago

Near Retford

"Elgar land of hope and glory arr from pomp and circumstance march No 1. So good "

P & C No 4 has a cracker of a second theme too.

Nos. 2 and 3 are not too hot. (A bit like why you only ever hear Nimrod out of the other variations...)

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Have a wide range of musical tastes,from pre naughties pop, through easy listening, classical including opera. Only types of music that do not float my boat is lots of jazz, rap, songs and singers where diction is poor."

"singers where diction is poor"? that's pretty well the entire pop industry right now.

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Butterworth , perfect for a Summers evening and to ponder on the horrors of conflict."

Quite so, seems unthinkable now that someone with that kind of talent was sent off as 'cannon fodder'

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By *arridMan
over a year ago

Brighton

I like some of Mozart’s music - feels like pop music sometimes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Strauss’ Four Last Songs

Im Abendrot is delightful and catches my mood as I age

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By *arrie cardieTV/TS
over a year ago

Southampton

I do love Debussy and a night out at the Opera is a lovely night out xxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Technicaly it's classical music if it's between roughly 1750 and 1820. Earlier than that it is normally referred to as Baroque and after romantic

Personally I think JS Bach is the giant of Western music. He has been sited as an influence by many musicians and composers from shortly after his death through to The Beatles and beyond.

I try and listen to something by JSB once a day

He's a Baroque composer BTW"

Absolutely agree. Never surpassed. But also like Handel and Beethoven.

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By *ilke500Man
over a year ago

edinburgh

More ClassicFM than Radio 3 kinda guy. No classical expert but I do like a bit of Puccini, Rachmaninov and the odd bit Vivaldi now and again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought I would 'revive' this thread. I am a lover of classical music. I find it heals the soul and quiets the mind. When I am writing my essays, I will listen to a live concert on YT. I am listening to Carnival of the Animals at present, a beautiful piece of music. I also love listening to Thaïs Meditation.

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

"A friend of mine swears that the best sex he’s had was being fucked with Ravel’s Bolero playing in the background!"

that'l work..

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

"Shostakovich 5 and 10.

Is it still okay to like Russian composers?"

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By *lex65uk OP Man
over a year ago

Neath

"Shostakovich 5 and 10.

Is it still okay to like Russian composers?"

My two fave Shostakovich symphonies! (Also love the VW 5th cited by another poster)

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

"Practicing Schubert, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven and Debussy at the moment!

Enjoy playing Schubert impromptus and Rachmaninov preludes.

Nothing wrong with a bit of improvising on the original

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

"Technicaly it's classical music if it's between roughly 1750 and 1820. Earlier than that it is normally referred to as Baroque and after romantic

Personally I think JS Bach is the giant of Western music. He has been sited as an influence by many musicians and composers from shortly after his death through to The Beatles and beyond.

I try and listen to something by JSB once a day

He's a Baroque composer BTW"

A 'Whiter Shade of Pale'

I also like the 'Brandenburg Variations' on harpsichord

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By *ornyfeckerMan
over a year ago

Dundee

I know that it is low brow but the Marriage of Figaro makes me smile.

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By *elfryMan
over a year ago

Rossendale

"I know that it is low brow but the Marriage of Figaro makes me smile. "

I think people are put off by the snobbery that sometimes is linked to classical music. Beethoven's 5th is my favourite symphony of all time, but been told by an 'expert' it's too simplistic

Laughed at him.

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

"Rodriguez guitar concerto..particularly 2nd movement. Host planets..so many others"

check out Tomita's interpretation of Holst's Planets... played on synthesizers, the audio width is startling!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carl Neilsen Four Temperaments Symphony

Prokofiev Piano Concerto 3 is breathtaking in its suspense until the very end. And has to be Martha Argerich playing it - she owns this piece.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Adaggio for strings.

From the film "Platoon"

"Roll over Beethoven"

by Electric Light Orchestra(1973)

😁

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By *eepeter4Man
over a year ago

Bournemouth

Peter and the Wolf narrated by Dame Edna Everrige (hello possums)

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By *ilke500Man
over a year ago

edinburgh

I like a bit of Vivaldi plus I do enjoy Puccini.

Recently got into this young singer and he’s very good.

Jakub Jozef Orlinski

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By *ornyfeckerMan
over a year ago

Dundee

Does Aaron Copland count as classical music? Appalation Springs, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the common man etc?

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By *eiseMan
over a year ago

Cumbernauld

Beethoven's 7th, 2nd Movement - listening now and not even crying (this time)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by Ralph Vaughan William

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

JS Bach is God.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Listen to classic FM calm. More melodious than basic classic FM.

But I like RTE lyric FM

It's an Irish classical station with a wider library than the daily same old tunes on classic FM

I used Alexa for the music as it easier than finding the stations on radios

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Technicaly it's classical music if it's between roughly 1750 and 1820. Earlier than that it is normally referred to as Baroque and after romantic

Personally I think JS Bach is the giant of Western music. He has been sited as an influence by many musicians and composers from shortly after his death through to The Beatles and beyond.

I try and listen to something by JSB once a day

He's a Baroque composer BTW"

I bet to differ, classical music composers flow right through to the present day. Vaughan Williams Benjamin Britttan, George Butterworth et al.

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

JS Bach was and still is the greatest composer of all time of course. As people say "There is Bach, and then there is all the others. " The sheer volume of his output is astonishing, but any one of his major works

stand as masterpieces. The Goldberg Variations, the Brandenburgs etc etc.

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Does Aaron Copland count as classical music? Appalation Springs, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the common man etc?"

Yes certainly

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By *q oralistMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Good point, Finzi is under rated

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By *olf EchoMan
over a year ago

My house

"Beethoven's 7th, 2nd Movement - listening now and not even crying (this time)

Yes, one of my Desert Island Discs.

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By *ellspankedboyMan
over a year ago

Stone

Classically trained pianist now pro in anything but classical.

I love the late romantics, especially Mahler and Richard Strauss.

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By *usttrymeMan
over a year ago

kettering

Motzart 40 in g minor

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By *haron4465TV/TS
over a year ago

Hull

Bach mozart vivaldi the 4 seasons,modern classical hans zimmer some john williams and worrisome at various times

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By *ulberryMan
over a year ago

S. Worcestershire

Wagner's Parsifal. The music sends shivers down the spine.

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By *ulberryMan
over a year ago

S. Worcestershire

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By *ulberryMan
over a year ago

S. Worcestershire

Britten's Peter Grimes has some amazingly stirring music too

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By *astguy7Man
over a year ago

Paddington

Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler?

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By *ildwestheroMan
over a year ago

Llandrindod Wells

Anything by Elgar

Quite a bit of Vaughan-Williams and Butterworth.

Also Grieg, Sibelius, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Wagner and Rossini are amongst my favourites. Like some others but nothing too dull or long winded.

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By *ulberryMan
over a year ago

S. Worcestershire

Never understood anything in his 7th symphony.

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By *ootsockMan
over a year ago

Earl's Court, London

"Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler?"

That great line, spoken by the Maureen Lipman character from 'Educating Rita' as she she opens the door and greets the Julie Walters character for the first time. Beats a simple 'Hello'.

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By *h60Man
over a year ago

Thurso

Got a bit fed up with classicfm with all the adverts. Found on internet radio "classic nl mind radio." Streamed classic music with hardly any adverts

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By *vmarisaTV/TS
over a year ago

Motherwell

Classic FM and sex with my regular guy on a weekday evening, I also adore Baroque music, something about the harpsichords and my most niche one is French Baroque. Moody and atmospheric music from history, truly wonderful. Mx

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By *icksterMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Vivaldi four seasons fabulous

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By *hilledazzMan
over a year ago

Down

Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket playing and performing Puccini. Ah such halcyon days.

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By *anDadBodMan
over a year ago

Speke

Love classical music, unfortunately i couldn’t tell you who’s playing what 🤷‍♂️

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Love classical music, unfortunately i couldn’t tell you who’s playing what 🤷‍♂️"

Install Shazam on your phone. If you hear something you don't know, press Shazam button. It will tell you

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By *agedsubCoolMan
over a year ago

amesbury

Can’t beat Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Schubert’s string quintet - sublime. Composed two months before his death. The use of silence, single notes and space and not just lots of music.

Shows we have talent right up to the very end.

The adagio is rightly hailed as a masterpiece almost impossible to beat.

A movement that unlocks your introspection and pulls at emotions - something great art does

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good point. Though I think people know more than they think.

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By *einmeMan
over a year ago

Comber

"A friend of mine swears that the best sex he’s had was being fucked with Ravel’s Bolero playing in the background!"

Haven't we all seen that film.

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By *einmeMan
over a year ago

Comber

"Adaggio for strings.

From the film "Platoon"

"Roll over Beethoven"

by Electric Light Orchestra(1973)

😁"

"From the film" ??!!!!??

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By *ayjay40Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Classic fm

Love the music they play

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By *usan jonesTV/TS
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Listen to classic fm all the time

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By *ubberlovemeTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

The OP has exquisite taste

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By *rMagicFingersMan
over a year ago

Bournemouth

I listen to Classic FM in the car. It's very calming, but yes, the ads are annoying. May try streaming something else.

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By *uffolkbiguy69Man
over a year ago

Newmarket

I am currently trying to expand my classical music tastes. Currently enjoying some of the masses by Cherubini. He gives some of the better known classical composers a good run.

But my go to guys are Tallis, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Beethoven

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By *lexieMan
over a year ago

Just north of Southampton

Pagganini... the Steve Via of his day playing the devils music on his violin!

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over a year ago

"I listen to Classic FM in the car. It's very calming, but yes, the ads are annoying. May try streaming something else."

See my posts. Also radio3 unwind

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ilove classic fm i am rehearsing Moonlight Sonata and preparing for my piano grades love all listenable music also rehearsing Forgotten Dreams

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Schubert’s string quintet - sublime. Composed two months before his death. The use of silence, single notes and space and not just lots of music.

Shows we have talent right up to the very end.

The adagio is rightly hailed as a masterpiece almost impossible to beat.

A movement that unlocks your introspection and pulls at emotions - something great art does"

Sublime indeed. I'm enjoying more and more music like that - e.g. Beethoven's triple concerto. Not heard as much as it should be.

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By *enjamin2018Man
over a year ago

Gloucester

Hildegard von Bingen deserves a mention.

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By *eneral distanceMan
over a year ago

burtonwood

Beethovens “moonlight sonata”

Although only discovered it through playing tomb raver back in the day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Adaggio for strings.

From the film "Platoon"

"Roll over Beethoven"

by Electric Light Orchestra(1973)

😁

"From the film" ??!!!!??"

I'll rephrase that, used in the film!

Many people only come across classical music when its used in a popular context!

Not everyone is a classic aficionado.

But it can be our first introduction to classic music!

If that makes us philistines then I'm sorry.

But; Roll over Beethoven by ELO is a classic piece of rock music.😁

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By *hilledazzMan
over a year ago

Down

Anyone hoping to make it to the Proms this year ?

Just a reminder, the proms planner closes midnight tonight and booking opens 9am tomorrow morning. Good luck everyone …

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over a year ago

"Anyone hoping to make it to the Proms this year ?

Just a reminder, the proms planner closes midnight tonight and booking opens 9am tomorrow morning. Good luck everyone …"

All mine will be via Radio 3. Way too far to go. But it’s a great buffet of classical music

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By *erdyHollyTV/TS
6 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

https://youtu.be/4y33h81phKU?is=WqhCY-JxhKnF9Hx6

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By *anleybeatonMan
6 days ago

london

anything by Mozart

also anything by Maria Callas

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