Classical Music - It's a Knockout (Current Vote: Round 1, Ties 5 and 6)

[wottomc]

Aranjuez

Swan Lake

[Cbinpdx]

Carmina Burana

and

Overture to Candide!

 

THANK YOU, Jeannaisais, for that recording of Candide! I think it's a superior performance. Very exciting!

 

Please, give this vote a few more days? Like a week? Please?

 

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[Tyzack]

Overture to "Candide" by Bernstein

 

 

I love swan lake, but I want to go for an underdog here. I always complain when listening to classical radio that they only play the "warhourses" so I'm not voting for one...

 

Concerto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo

 

I also love spanish music, and O Fourtuna is worse than a war horse.

[Graendals favourite]

The time did not yet go out?.! Despite the other piece,

Rodrigo's

is so beautiful it has to get my vote. (and nevermind to play the guitar like that!)

And also I like

Tchaikovsky's.

 

So Rodrigo and Tchaikovsky by me.

[Cbinpdx]

competition is heating up...!

 

;)

 

[Bregalad]

If the voting is still open...

 

Carmina and Candide for me!

[Jeannaisais]

And my votes go to Candide and Aranjuez...gotta love some good Spanish guitar, right?

[Jeannaisais]

Alrighty, that concludes ties 5 and 6 to see Concerto de Aranjuez and Overture to Candide see it through to the next round!

 

The next ties will be up shortly!

[Jeannaisais]

Tie 7

 

Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian

A fun and upbeat song, this just might actually make you want to dance!

 

 

Toccata and Fugue by Bach

One of the most famous organ pieces in the world, many will recognize this as it has been played in various films. It always reminds me of vampire books....

[Jeannaisais]

Tie Eight

 

String Quartet 8 by Shostakovich

This piece was written quickly and in representation of Shostakovich's realizations of what was about to happen in his life. He was diagnosed with a rare form of polio not long after composing this quartet, and it is his lament to the world of the pain he was enduring.

http://youtu.be/IXGHEgmSHW4

 

Dies Irae by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This dredges up memories for me of visiting Mozart's home in Vienna, Austria. We toured the house he lived in for the majority of his life, and when it was discussing his final days, this song began to play because it was the last song he ever composed...or he at least composed the majority of it as there is some debate that he was too ill to complete the composition. Nevertheless, it is a very respected despite being short as far as classical composition tend to go.

http://youtu.be/pqaARDsiJv4

 

Voting ends on Thursday July 12 at 10 PM CST

[Cbinpdx]

I vote for:

 

BACH and MOZART

 

 

[Tyzack]

Bach (I looooooooooove organ music)

 

Shostakovich

[Jeannaisais]

Keep the votes coming please!!!

[Graendals favourite]

Call me Constanze but I cannot resist the fugue. Remind me I might get more of Shostacovich than his 1&2. cello concertos. But, "Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, When from heaven the Judge descendeth, On whose sentence all dependeth!" The first remained a happy tune.:

 

Bach

Mozart

[Jeannaisais]

I'm going with Bach and Mozart

[Jeannaisais]

And the music gurus Bach and Mozart win a great victory over Shostakovich and Khachaturian (whose names I'm not sure how to even pronounce!).

 

I will have the next ties up in the morning as the computer needs some rest and so do I!

[The Bard Babe]

Aw nooo!!!! I missed a heap of stuff! How come it picked up while I was gone? :(

Ah well.

 

I see Canon was mentioned...ah Pachelbel, the bane of a cellist's life.

Beautiful piece, amazing to listen to and an amazing musical construction, but...ah, the cello part. He he he.

 

Hope the next round is put up soon and I can vote again!

[Jeannaisais]

BB--I will do my best to have it up tonight and at the latest it will be up tomorrow morning!

 

And it picked up while you were gone because I was given permission from the higher ups to be the interim social group leader until a new leader is chosen!

[The Bard Babe]

Oooh yayyyy!!!!!! Excitement, congrats!

[Jeannaisais]

Tie 9

 

Night on a Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky

This is not a piece for the uneventful, that's for sure! It would be a great help for writer's block I would think!

 

Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D by Elgar

This is your typical march--the one any flautist would hate to play--but it's an overall good and fun song!

 

Voting ends Tuesday July 24 at 10pm CST.

[Jeannaisais]

Tie 10

 

5th Symphony by Beethoven

One of the most iconical pieces ever, I always love actually playing this piece rather than just listening to it. Such an amazing piece--I just wish the later movements got as much credit as the first!

 

 

In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg

A very fun and festive piece to play, it gets the fingers flowing and makes you feel a bit like dancing!

 

Voting ends Tuesday July 24 and 10pm CST.

[The Bard Babe]

Grieg and Mussourgsky.

 

Hard to go past some Elgar and Beethoven, but I stand by my decision.

 

Grieg and Mussourgsky.

 

:) The Bard Babe has lived up to her name. :)

[Jeannaisais]

Is this really all the votes we got? Come on peeps - where'd ya all go?! I'll give you another 24 hours to respond to these ties!

[The Bard Babe]

Come on come on guys!!!

[Auld Manriva]

Though I DEARLY loves me a March, most any Sousa and Fuciks' Entry of the Gladiators being favorites .. I have to go with Mussorgsky over Elgar. That one just really doesn't do it for me.

 

My first experience of Live Symphonic music was in 4th grade at the Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium (1960 I think) for a Young Peoples Concert. "...Bald Mountain" and "... Mountain King" were on the program, were stuck in my memory and have always been among my favorites..

 

Mussorgsky and Grieg