Classical music... anyone?

[Maverick]

I think you can't avoid listening (loving) classical music when you're an X fan  :lol:
Well, okay, admittedly I have not really a clue about classical music, but still, I love to listen to it from time to time... ATM I'm somehow into Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata  :? (somehow got a concept of an X fanvid in my mind together with that piece)

@ Kysatohe:
Whooops @.@ err.. wellcome here! |'D Must have missed that
Ehm I don't think it's weird to listen to both classical and metal stuff. Not only talking of myself but my brother - who listens to much harder stuff than me - also listens from time to time to classical music.. .and rellay he has a wide range of things he's listening to (only that, except of Joe Satriani, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden we nearly never have the same musical taste  :lol: )

[kendofreak]

...am I strange? I think so or do you know a person who listen to e.g. Slayer AND sometimes classical T_T"?

hey i blow out my stereo with Behemoth and Emperor then blow out my speakers with Mozart, Berlioz, Haydn! its completly normal! [/quote]

[Kysatohe]

Well, I know I can hear what I want and I don't care  what other people say about me ;-) *it would be anyway mostly bad*... but I also know persons who only hear metal music and are very intolerant of people who also hear rock, classical or some other genre of music, although for example Nightwish is... no, was metal, but classicial was also an influence of their music. So I wanted to do a favour for this people (well, it went awry ^^").

@ Maverick: thanks. By the way: Judas Priest is very amusing... mostly the singer of the band *I must always laugh when hear his voice*... but Painkiller of them wouldn't be bad if there's not this terrible voice.

Back to topic.

Well, Edvard Grieg is on of the best musicians of the classic music, but I think that Chopin is better than him. Often it's very difficult to play Chopin's music and Grieg's compositions are much more easier.

[Envenom]

By the way: Judas Priest is very amusing... mostly the singer of the band *I must always laugh when hear his voice*... but Painkiller of them wouldn't be bad if there's not this terrible voice.

DUDE!!! Are you on crack or what? Rob Halford is about the best singer in this entire godforsaken universe. Have you ever heard Dreamer Deceiver, Victim Of Changes, Dissident Aggressor or Screaming For Vengeance (just to name some songs where he shows how varied he can actually sing)? Or have you just heard the song Painkiller or what?
Not to sound insulting or like an arrogant prick, but if you don't like Halford's voices I don't see why should care about heavy metal at all.....

I don't hate it, and if I'm in a store and it's playing over the speakers, I'm not bothered by it or anything (and I would WAY rather classical than jazz or R&B).  But it's not really my thing.

Yeah, same here bro. I can stand a lot of music, but jazz is one of the few genres that I fucking hate with a passion. It's basically blues made by arty farty pseudo intellectual morons that seem to think that they're too good at playing their instruments to play the blues.

I enjoy Wagner once in a while, but I'd rather have heavy metal, hard rock, blues or southern rock. It's still not as bad as jazz though.... :lol:

[Kysatohe]

DUDE!!! Are you on crack or what? Rob Halford is about the best singer in this entire godforsaken universe. Have you ever heard Dreamer Deceiver, Victim Of Changes, Dissident Aggressor or Screaming For Vengeance (just to name some songs where he shows how varied he can actually sing)? Or have you just heard the song Painkiller or what?
Not to sound insulting or like an arrogant prick, but if you don't like Halford's voices I don't see why should care about heavy metal at all.....

Well, you're right I'm on crack at this moment... is it a problem? No, joking aside. I admire the guitarists of Judas Priest, but I don't like Rob Halford's voice... of course, it is admirable that he can sing so high. And yes I know that lot's of heavy metal fans thinks that this is one of the best bands. But I can't agree, because I only like the sound and the lyric of this band, not the voice *that's just my opinion, each person has different preferences*. Simply I like deeper voices..., but one of my favourites is Led Zeppelin T_T". Well, but Led Zeppelin have something that Judas Priest don't have *in my opinion* the certain "something". When I hear them I have a special feeling... I can't describe, I know.  I don't want to attack Judas Priest- fans, but it's just my opinion.

By the way: I prefere dark-metal-rock e.g. Marduk. Maybe that's why I think so.

I consider the matter as finished and I will no longer speak about it.

Sorry for OFF-Topic.

Does anybody like Ravel?

[kendofreak]

Yeah, same here bro. I can stand a lot of music, but jazz is one of the few genres that I fucking hate with a passion. It's basically blues made by arty farty pseudo intellectual morons that seem to think that they're too good at playing their instruments to play the blues.

I enjoy Wagner once in a while, but I'd rather have heavy metal, hard rock, blues or southern rock. It's still not as bad as jazz though.... :lol:

wow dude you obviously don't know a thing about jazz... or blues for that matter!

for a lesson in life i think you should listen to Hiromi Uehara!

[Ragna]

Yeah, same here bro. I can stand a lot of music, but jazz is one of the few genres that I fucking hate with a passion. It's basically blues made by arty farty pseudo intellectual morons that seem to think that they're too good at playing their instruments to play the blues.

wow dude you obviously don't know a thing about jazz... or blues for that matter!

Second that

[Lord Arioch]

Haha, I have to agree with envenom Except that I think that blues is made by jazz musicians that can't be bothered to learn to play their instruments properly =P

(I don't actually believe that, but jazz, blues and all things funky, I just don't get, at all)

[myuu]

same here, I'm no fan of jazz/blues.. I'm more a fan of classical music and baroque

[kendofreak]

Except that I think that blues is made by jazz musicians that can't be bothered to learn to play their instruments properly =P

again listen to Hiromi Uehara,

if thats not playin your instrument properly then no one can play anything!

[Kim Kyung Ho]

Yay for classical. I love most things from the baroque period and alot of the early 20th Century compositions. Henry Purcell had really great style, but he's primarily known for his operas. Big fan of Bach, Pachelbel & Schubert. Mozart just doesn't seem to suit my ears! hehe

[Envenom]

wow dude you obviously don't know a thing about jazz... or blues for that matter!

for a lesson in life i think you should listen to Hiromi Uehara!

Didn't I just say that I LIKED blues?  And I've been listening to blues since I was an eight year old, so don't try to lecture me.

And still, jazz sucks. No exceptions. Easy listening crap makes me aggressive and the hyperactive avantgarde stuff makes me nervous...

Haha, I have to agree with envenom Except that I think that blues is made by jazz musicians that can't be bothered to learn to play their instruments properly =P

(I don't actually believe that, but jazz, blues and all things funky, I just don't get, at all)

Not all blues is "funky". Have you ever heard Gary Moore's 90s solo output? Early Fleetwood Mac stuff? Early Allman Brothers Band albums? Rory Gallagher?

[Kim Kyung Ho]

wow dude you obviously don't know a thing about jazz... or blues for that matter!

for a lesson in life i think you should listen to Hiromi Uehara!

Didn't I just say that I LIKED blues?  And I've been listening to blues since I was an eight year old, so don't try to lecture me.

And still, jazz sucks. No exceptions. Easy listening crap makes me aggressive and the hyperactive avantgarde stuff makes me nervous...

Haha, I have to agree with envenom Except that I think that blues is made by jazz musicians that can't be bothered to learn to play their instruments properly =P

(I don't actually believe that, but jazz, blues and all things funky, I just don't get, at all)

Not all blues is "funky". Have you ever heard Gary Moore's 90s solo output? Early Fleetwood Mac stuff? Early Allman Brothers Band albums? Rory Gallagher?

Stevie Ray Vaughan too. Also alot of Led Zeppelin stuff has lots of blues-rock overtones.

[Kasparek]

Easy listening crap makes me aggressive and the hyperactive avantgarde stuff makes me nervous...

if that kind of stuff makes you nervous, whats gonna happen when youre listening to rock music dude

[Envenom]

Easy listening crap makes me aggressive and the hyperactive avantgarde stuff makes me nervous...

if that kind of stuff makes you nervous, whats gonna happen when youre listening to rock music dude

No idea, since I obviously never listen to rock music...... 

@ KKH: Yeah, SRV's a good one too. Never was a big Zeppelin fan though. I prefer Sabbath and Blue Cheer.

[Aerce]

I do listen to classical music and music that is classical influenced aslo..

I don't usually pick certain artists, I pick what I enjoy at the moment.. as a song.

[Taku]

Classical is for me like a revelation since I'm very young!! It's for me a good melt beetwin sweetness and darkness, I know I'm quite weird saying that^^ I really want to make some cover on my drums because it's really beautiful to put a drums over a sweet classical song...
My favourite compositors are Frederic Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach and also Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski.

[X-J]

I didn't know where to post it (Off-topic or other bands) but well I just regard other bands as "other music"

Are you into classical music too? If so who are your favourite composers and pieces of art?

I really adore The New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak and the 9th Symphony by Beethoven (by far my favourite *__* especially with the choir in the end)

On my school we had a very old-fashioned music teacher, who rather taught us everything about classical music than singing pop/rock songs with us (i've heard teachers do that at other schools...)
For a year we had the task to listen to at least one classical piece of music as homework. It was quite interesting, I think it gave me a lot...

You have to listen to classical music LOUDLY everything else doesn't work. I love live concerts, they're so boombastic

I agree. I love Bach, Beethoven and Schubert perhaps the most, followed by many others, both from Baroque and Romantic era with a few modern ones (I have 128 classical cds plus 28 classical movie soundtracks which I however quite seldom listen to these days).

I think it is great to listen to a Chopin piano concerto while doing something creative. It takes patience, but it's like poetry. And I also love Il Divo, Josh Groban and that sort. R'n'B/Rap is the only major genre I cannot get at all into. Perhaps I'm too passionate and meditative (and maybe even conservative...). Also nu-metal is not my cup of tea mostly. That music is to me too close to commercialism, though there may be groups that make brilliant music which I'm unaware of.

My favourite genres in addition to classical are Ambient and of course Metal and Rock with very wide variations underneath the label.

[Kajitoku]

Nice to find a topic like this 
Well my favourite is Franz Liszt.  I just can't decide what faves to pic, I like all of his work *.*
Mozart is one of my faves too ,requiem lacrimosa piece is something amazing...
I also prefer listening pieces for chorus, but of course live, cause it's nothing when u listen to it on PC...>_>
My fav. opera singers- A. Bocelli and Pavarotti (RIP).
One thing I hate, when peeps talks about classical music as rubbish, music for old people or smth. like that...
I just wish classical music will live longer than all electronic, metal, pop, rock ect. you know what I mean
C 4 Evah! Peace!

Oh, and  anime OST's like Rurouni Kenshin by Taku Iwasaki is something amazing...too bad not much peeps listen to OST's...>_>

[ah_sing]

Woohoo classical topic!
I kinda like all kinds of classical from the goold ol' Baroque period pieces like Four Seasons and Fugue in G minor *cough* Rose of Pain *Cough*
I love Chopin, his pieces always have that energy and urgency like Fantasie Impromptu and Etude Op 10 No. 4,
Rachmaninov's Piano concerto no. 2 is great and then theres and i quote my music teacher, the "plinky plonky" of Petrouchka

[ben]

I've been listening to alot of Classical music myself lately.. Bach, Smetana, Handel etc.
I also really like Toshi's solo music, listening to the instrumental string/orchestra versions of his songs like "Earth in the Dark" and "Beautiful World" (of course i love hearing his singing too, but the instrumental versions of the songs are very nice and relaxing)