Does anyone else listen to classical music? I was raised on it. My father had a massive record collection of both regular classical music and film soundtracks that covered an entire wall of our house (plus more) and eventually expanded that to a CD collection that was almost as big. When he wasn’t listening to 1920s and 1930s music, he was listening to classical and, of course, I would listen too since as a child, I was a captive audience.
But I still listen to it all the time.
My favorite composers are Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Stravinsky, Debussy and Beethoven for the symphonies. I also listen to a fair amount of Bach. Weirdly, I’ve never been a big fan of Mozart.
Right now, I’m listening to Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije suite, one of my favorites.
I know classical isn’t that popular these days, but am I a lone fan on the forums?
Classical music fan 'ere! I’ve been listening to classical music ever since I was a baby. In fact, these arrangements below are the ones I’ve been listening to lately from my favorite Japanese puppet show.
How could I forget the Strausses! I listen to Strauss waltzes all the time and I love the New Year’s Concert in Vienna, although I usually have to wait to stream it since it isn’t shown in the U.S. unfortunately.
I grew up with classical music, listened to it long before I got into rock.
I tend to like “program music”… music that evokes a mental picture. Stuff like The Four Seasons, a lot of Tchaikovsky, etc. Rimsky-Korsakov is probably my favorite composer, but my single favorite piece is Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.
The Seventh Symphony is my favorite, but I love the Pastoral Symphony as well. I have a CD set of all seven symphonies conducted by Leonard Bernstein that I really love.
If I had to pick an absolute favorite piece, it would be a very, very sad piece of choral music called O Vos Omnes by Tomás Luis de Victoria. The first time I heard it, sung by a live choir, I was brought to tears by how sad and beautiful it is. And I don’t even know Latin.
Has anyone ever seen Allegro Non Troppo, the Italian parody of Disney’s Fantasia? It’s very funny and the music is much, much better, even if the animation is not.
Oh, man. I’d never really been a fan of Khachaturian until I heard his trio for piano, violin and clarinet — holy smokes! Astonishing
I mostly gravitate towards Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Satie chamber works but I was shocked during the lockdown. I completely fell in love with Mahler of all people. Totally out of the blue for me, but it fit the mood of the time!
Classical is about the only genre I buy physical media any more because streaming services absolutely suck for that. Completely clueless. I’m not sure if they actually pay people or it’s a labor of love, but those are the only liner notes worth reading any more (well, Mosaic for jazz but their output is getting less and less frequent)
I belonged to a classical CD club in the 90s… can’t even remember which one… it was one of those “we’ll send you a CD every month unless you tell us not to” deals. Of course I never remembered to stop the delivery and seldom bothered to return the CD. I got a lot of good stuff by accident.
