Anybody Like Classical Music?

[Big Rig]

pastoral symphony Beethoven

A mythical Greco–Roman world of colorful centaurs and "centaurettes", cupids, fauns and other figures from classical mythology is portrayed to Beethoven's music. A gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine, is interrupted by Zeus, who creates a storm and directs Vulcan to forge lightning bolts for him to throw at the attendees.

1st movement

 

[Big Rig]

Mussorgsky night on bald mountain

On Walpurgis Night, the giant devil Chernabog awakes and summons evil spirits and restless souls from their graves to Bald Mountain. The spirits dance and fly through the air until driven back by the sound of an Angelus bell as night fades into dawn. A chorus is heard singing Ave Maria as a line of robed monks is depicted walking with lighted torches through a forest and into the ruins of a cathedral.

 

[Big Rig]

Dance of the Hours Ponchielli

 

[Big Rig]

toccata and fugue in d minor bach

Live-action shots of the orchestra illuminated in blue and gold, backed by superimposed shadows, fade into abstract patterns. Animated lines, shapes and cloud formations reflect the sound and rhythms of the music

 

[Big Rig]

nutcracker suite tchaikovsky

 

[Vinson]

Have mercy my God

 

[Zoot Allures]

Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)

• Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne "the greatest structure for solo violin that exists".

Violinist Joshua Bell has said the Chaconne is "not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but one of the greatest achievements of any man in history. It's a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect."

Johannes Brahms in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece, "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind."

 

[Insidious Von]

Sono commosso da tutti li risposte.

As much as I love Fantasia, it came later for me. I was turned on to classical music by Wabbit of Seville.

 

[Insidious Von]

Verified, Helen Mirren killed Keith Moon.

He pursued her, not knowing what he was in for. She fucked his brains out...once...and he never recovered.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h9hDLBYM2N0

 

[oil&gas]

 

[oil&gas]

 

[Vinson]

One of the most beautiful pieces around, at least the first part.

 

[Valcazar]

Fantasia was more than The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Rite of Spring by Stravinski
A visual history of the Earth's beginnings is depicted to selected sections of the ballet score. The sequence progresses from the planet's formation to the first living creatures, followed by the reign and extinction of the dinosaurs.

Always found it interesting how a ballet set up as a ritual sacrifice became used for the earth's beginnings here.
That's one of the wonders of a great piece, the emotions can fit more than one thing.

 

[Big Rig]

Always found it interesting how a ballet set up as a ritual sacrifice became used for the earth's beginnings here.
That's one of the wonders of a great piece, the emotions can fit more than one thing.

The concept behind The Rite of Spring depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death.

Stravinsky's score contains many novel features for its time, including experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance.

 

[Big Rig]

Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)

Johannes Brahms in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece, "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind."

That is quite the claim, but consider who said it then try to understand why he said it
I enjoy the piece. I view it as a few chords played at the start then their themes expanded but I do no see why Brahms is so ecstatic about it which means I do not fully understand

The beautiful setting has a Bach history

The St. Nicholas Church (German: Nikolaikirche) is one of the major churches of central Leipzig, Germany (in Leipzig's district Mitte). Construction started in Romanesque style in 1165, but in the 16th century, the church was turned into a Gothic hall church. Baroque elements like the tower were added in the 18th century.

In the 18th century, several works by Johann Sebastian Bach, who was as Thomaskantor the music director of Thomaskirche and Nikolaikirche from 1723 to 1750, premiered here. The Neoclassical interior dates to the late 18th century.


Notable philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was baptized here as an infant on 3 July 1646.

 

[Insidious Von]

Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)

Johannes Brahms in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece, "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind."

Johannes Brahms was extremely hard on himself, he destroyed more manuscripts than he published. He was obsessed with Bach, he wrote a passacaglia as the finale to his Symphony No.4. It was a monster, Bach may have been the only one who would have understood what Brahms was attempting. I consider it his greatest music. For the last 12 years of his life, he never attempted to write another symphony.

 

[Zoot Allures]

Johannes Brahms was extremely hard on himself, he destroyed more manuscripts than he published. He was obsessed with Bach, he wrote a passacaglia as the finale to his Symphony No.4. It was a monster, Bach may have been the only one who would have understood what Brahms was attempting. I consider it his greatest music. For the last 12 years of his life, he never attempted to write another symphony.

From the net I read this piece of Brahams has a bass line that remains constant throughout the piece while the other parts develop. The melody changes or goes through variations above the bass line.


I immediatly thought of Pachelbel’s “Canon in D”.

You can hear the cello repeating the bass line and the piano plays variations of a melody established by the bass theme in the Canon in D.

I may be wrong but those are my thoughts .

 

[oil&gas]

 

[oil&gas]

In the days I was growing up as a budding classical music
lover Peer Gynt suite was mainly regarded as a piece for
easy-listening program performed in concerts catered
to beginning classical music listening. I guess conductors
in general deemed the piece shallow. It took a terrifying
performance at the hands of Sir Thomas Beecham for me
to experience this music like it is a revelation.

 

[Zoot Allures]

In the days I was growing up as a budding classical music
lover Peer Gynt suite was mainly regarded as a piece for
easy-listening program performed in concerts catered
to beginning classical music listening. I guess conductors
in general deemed the piece shallow. It took a terrifying
performance at the hands of Sir Thomas Beecham for me
to experience this music like it is a revelation.

I find the beginning very powerful , even scary, in its delicacy

Amazing piece of composition must have been emotionally draining for Grieg



"When Ibsen asked Grieg to write music for the play in 1874, he reluctantly agreed. However, it was much more difficult for Grieg than he imagined, as he wrote to a friend:

"Peer Gynt" progresses slowly, and there is no possibility of having it finished by autumn. It is a terribly unmanageable subject.
— Edvard Grieg (August 1874)[3]

Nina Grieg, his wife, wrote of Edvard and his music:

The more he saturated his mind with the powerful poem ( the play "Peer Gynt" was written in verse not prose) the more clearly he saw that he was the right man for a work of such witchery and so permeated with the Norwegian spirit."