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This is impossible, Western art music has such a breadth of beautiful and ingenious works, both inside and outside of the canon. I'll stick to three even if that can't remotely do it justice. I should add that strictly speaking 'classical' music is generally music composed between 1730 and 1820, but I'll take it in this instance to mean Western art music.
Some Baroque to start, the third movement especially:
Next, a more romantically styled piece, still with some Germanic, Classical ideas (also one of my favourite pieces I ever performed with my high school orchestra):
Finally, a very traditionally romantic piece:
I survived Ipswich 0-0 Burton
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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:47 - May 14 with 595 views
How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 16:04 - May 14 by docklandsblue
Then you'll probably enjoy this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r9p89 FWIW I had never heard of it until about 10 years ago when I found myself working with Wayne Coyne who wouldn't stop raving about it - I found the Tom W version and didn't get it at all, then he sent me a link to this version and I've been a convert ever since. I think of it with alarming regularity for such an awkward piece.
Brilliant! Many thanks, downloaded for listening later :) ðŸ‘
Find it hard to listen to this and it’s the first time I have in ages- my stepdad playing - RIP - he’d been around most of my life but sadly passed away 6 months after my mum and a year after my dad, horrendous period of my life. Great piece of music.
Serenade for Tenor, French Horn and Strings by the Suffolk boy, Ben Britten. It has to be played by the greatest horn player ever, Dennis Brain.
Went through Hatfield on the bus one day in 1957. The remains of a sports car were attached to a tree. I found out later that it belonged to Dennis Brain who had played the evening before at the Edinburgh Festival. He had fallen asleep at the wheel. For months on my bus journey to school I passed the tree which had a small piece of metal sticking out of it. Tragic death so young.
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How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 18:50 - May 14 with 529 views
How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 21:52 - May 14 by hoppy
I have no feelings either way on it, it was just an opportunity to get a slightly poorly executed pun in...
Having said on another thread that my brain's on a bit of a go-slow, I'd like to thank you for now enabling me to time that accurately at 8hrs & 4 mins ðŸ‘
How about a Friday music thread with a bit of class and culture on 17:44 - May 14 by Moriarty
Worth noting that if FolkEast goes ahead this August the Afro Celts are topping the bill, and anyone who complains that this music is not Classical or Cultural I will have you know that their one tine vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird is studying for a PhD in traditional music...
I think that is a young Ewan Henderson on fiddle in your clip, his sister Megan was with Breabach on fiddle in the last gig I saw before the Pandemic closed them all down.