[Anoushik]

Hello all

What is your favorite Classical piece/composition? Even if you don't have any favorite what do you like to listen to most? This includes any genre, form, (symphonic, chamber, solo instrumental, vocal, choral, even film music that's now considered to be classical, etc). Thanks!

My absolute favorite is J.S. Bach's Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin.

[Sasun]

My absolute favorite is Bach, but I can't single out a specific work of his. There are too many. The funny thing is I don't know the names. In Armenia I had bought German vynil disks without knowing what they were, as long as they were Bach. Over time they grew on me and I would listen very often. I now miss them so much, I would like to buy the same on CDs, but don't know what they were because I don't know German.
Perhaps you can help me Anoushik - those were relatively simple vocal pieces, but very beautiful. Some of the pieces I remember contained the word "Jesus" (that's the only thing I could understand in German).

[Anoushik]

Yes, same way I can't single out any Glenn Gould performance of Bach. I love them all! (Even though sometimes his performance can be controversial.)

Sasun, those pieces were for solo voice or were they choral? Cantatas maybe? Oratorios?

[Sasun]

Yes, same way I can't single out any Glenn Gould performance of Bach. I love them all! (Even though sometimes his performance can be controversial.)

Sasun, those pieces were for solo voice or were they choral? Cantatas maybe? Oratorios?

They were cantatas.

[Harut]

Aram Khachaturian, Gayane, Lezghinka...

currently listening to...

but, yes, probably i'm baised and my opinion is not based on the classic part of the work but the folk part of it.

[Anoushik]

Good Great taste!

Actually Sasun, I don't mean to be a hypocrite but there is a certain spiritual experience in listening to Bach. His music is very philosophical and very humane and one wonders how our human race was able to give birth to such a genius.

[Anoushik]

but, yes, probably i'm baised and my opinion is not based on the classic part of the work but the folk part of it.

No problem as long as you are satisfied by the music.

I love Spartacus ballet by Khachaturian.

[Sasun]

Good   Great taste!

Actually Sasun, I don't mean to be a hypocrite but there is a certain spiritual experience in listening to Bach. His music is very philosophical and very humane and one wonders how our human race was able to give birth to such a genius.

I agree, and when I fell in love with Bach music I was an atheist. Maybe it helped me become spiritual on a subconscious level.

[MosJan]

Arno Babajanyan
Noktyur

[ED]

Robet Crey, time makes two, blues, classical Vivaldi 4 seasons, Krunk by Lusine Zaqaryan

[Anoushik]

Sometimes I wish I was a vocalist so that I could sing "Tsitsernak".

This post has been edited by anoushik: 30 December 2004 - 01:13 AM

[gamavor]

'Moonlight Sonata' by Mozart, Part III. I don't like I and II, because in my best years I could play them

'Pictures at an Exhibition' by Modest Mussorgsky

Bach - everything!

Wagner 'Ride of the Valkyries'

And many others with varying rate of ear pleasure, depending on the mood!

Oh, I forgot the "winter" from Vivaldi's Seasons


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[Emil]

Thomas Newman-Whisper of a Thrill.

[Arpa]

Robet Crey, time makes two, blues, classical Vivaldi 4 seasons, Krunk by Lusine Zaqaryan

You mean this Vivaldi?

http://hyeforum.com/...t=0&#entry47474

[gamavor]

Yes Anoushik, of course I meant Bethoven! Mozart is my favorite though, but I simly cannot play anything by him except some early menuettes.

[Armat]

I listen anything by Bach but specially Glen Gould performances.
I love Gorgi Savall a viola player who plays early music.The soundtrack "Tous les Matins du Monde" is amazing and the movie is great.I had a opportunity to listen him life in a small library in French embassy in Boston and it was a special night more then one ways to remember.
http://www.musicolog...jordisavall.asp

[Sasun]

Anoushik and Armat, after being only a little exposed to Glen Gould's Bach performances I have a question: don't you guys think that he puts too much of his individual understanding/feeling? I am not at all sure that Bach meant many of the things that Gould is doing to his works.

[Siamanto]

Hello all

What is your favorite Classical piece/composition? Even if you don't have any favorite what do you like to listen to most? This includes any genre, form, (symphonic, chamber, solo instrumental, vocal, choral, even film music that's now considered to be classical, etc). Thanks!

My absolute favorite is J.S. Bach's Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin.

It's hard to tell, but if I have to chose one, right now, I would say:
Tabula Rasa of Arvo Part
In general, I enjoy minimalist esthetics in Arts - regardless of the discipline.
That is probably why I would enjoy Bach anytime! Also some of his contemporaries such as Marais and Sainte Colombe that Armat - indirectly - mentioned.

I also appreciate the works of the "Second Viennese School" members such as Alban Berg, Anton Webern and the founder Schoenberg.

Thanks to my friend, I have also developed a taste for "Serial Music" such as Stockhausen, Zimmerman, Nunes and to a lesser degree Boulez.

I would not ignore Malher!

Last, but not least, I can appreciate medieval Madrigals and some Gregorian chants...including Armenian Medieval Music that I have recently discovered.

[Azat]

Here is my taste from a previous thread
http://hyeforum.com/...indpost&p=53631

it still holds true except i listen less. I am an avid NPR listener.

[Lika]

well, i love classical music (thanks to my mom). and it's very hard for me to point the favorite one-it depends on my mood and my life situation.
Ludwig Van Beethoven-Symphony#9 for today. And may be Grieg for tomorrow.