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This group is a place to talk about your experiences with Classical Music. Are you an appreciator? Do you play an orchestral instrument? Piano? Done any conductingr? What turned you on to Classical Music? Is it important to keep it alive? Who are your favorite composers and .. Read more

This group is a place to talk about your experiences with Classical Music. Are you an appreciator? Do you play an orchestral instrument? Piano? Done any conductingr? What turned you on to Classical Music? Is it important to keep it alive? Who are your favorite composers and .. Read more

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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 14, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Newt57
For me, Classic Music was an acquired taste. Once I acquired the taste, my appetite has been insatiable. For nearly 25 years now, my appreciation for the Classical genre has grown exponentially... I don’t know that I have a favorite composer. As so...
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Classical Music Lovers
May 30, 2018May 2018

Posted by dede18
Hi everyone, I’ve had a chat with your moderator, Waterbaby, about combining our two groups because each of the two groups seem to be struggling for vitality. She said she had forgotten she started this group :-) and asked whether I would undertake...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
Probably my favorite classical composer is the Russian pianist-composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). He was a contemporary of Rachmaninov, and composed 5 symphonies, 1 piano concerto, 10 piano sonatas, and many smaller piano works such as ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Nov 25, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by Tassilo-David
I'm interested in all kinds of so-called classical music from the early 1400's to the present but particular interests include my 20th-century gods, Debussy, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Carter, Berio, Boulez, and Stockhausen; Berlioz; Mozart's operas; ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Nov 18, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by Xanadutoo
Enno again.If you haven't seen the film. Once upon a time in the west.This is the finale
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Classical Music Lovers
Nov 18, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by SpcTrkr91
Paganini Caprice 24 - Hillary Hahn
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Classical Music Lovers
Nov 18, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by Xanadutoo
I like a lot of Ennio Morricone's music.
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 29, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
Alexander Scriabin Mid-Period Piano Works: Scriabin's middle period piano works are where he begins to truly break away from conventionality, yet still manages to maintain the accessibility of his early works. He was now making the transition from ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 29, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
Alexander Scriabin Late Piano Works: Scriabin was one of the first composers to make a complete break from conventional tonality. It has been conjectured that the stature of his legacy might have been as highly regarded as others more well known that...
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Jul 23, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by FrayedBear
Described as "Australia's poet of the piano" Isador Goodman died 36 years ago. It wasn't until late in life that he gained the widespread, in Australia, popularity that he did.In 1944 following and joining the bandwagon of" the extraordinary ...
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Classical Music Lovers
May 11, 2018May 2018

Posted by SonOfABeach
Got that right
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by RRRRComposer
This might be the greatest piece of music that you've never heard before by the greatest composer whose name you don't know. Akira Ifukube made his living on film scores, and wrote some outstanding concert pieces. His symphonic ode "Gotama the ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Jan 20, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by Rossy92
Pagodes (Pagodas) composed by Claude Debussy "Pagodes" evokes images of East Asia, which Debussy first heard in the Paris World Conference Exhibition of 1889, and later again in 1900. It makes extensive use of pentatonic scales and ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Nov 9, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by Xanadutoo
This is to nice not to be classical
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Classical Music Lovers
Jun 22, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Bella10
Hay I'm new on here! So I thought I'd say hi
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 28, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by RRRRComposer
I invite you to listen to recordings of my chamber music.at
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Krish55
New Opera based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' work. Click past the ad to get to the Arsht website. ..
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by TerriCity
Fan of Vaughn Williams here, especially 'The Lark Ascending". It makes me think of the dichotomy between a simple hardworking life as in a Brugle painting of peasant farmers vs. the spirit of an artist (the lark) soaring above the life of mundane ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
To complete my introduction to Scriabin's early piano music I will present to of my favorite preludes, both in a major key, one introvert, the other extrovert. The op. 11 no. 9, I consider to be a small scale masterpiece. In the span of less than two...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
The etude op. 2 no. 1 of Alexander Scriabin also offers a good introduction to his early period music, and a complement to the previous etude op.8 no. 12. Also in a minor key, but this time of an introverted character, it was composed when he was 15 ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 18, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
This is my favorite version of one of the Classical music pieces most widely known to the general public, Claire De Lune by Claude Debussy. I feel this guitar performance is the equal of any of the traditionally performed solo piano or orchestrated ...
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Classical Music Lovers
Apr 18, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Rossy92
Passacaglia (or Passacaille) in D major by S. L. Weiss (a Baroque composer contemporary with Bach), is a piece well known wi Classical guitar circles, but relatively unknown in the wider Classical repertory. I feel it deserves to be as well known as ...
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