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Looking for ideas to add more to my iPOD. I'm on a classical music kick after visiting Vienna. All those familiar songs you take for granted.. but then you hear them where they were actually composed and meant to be heard, and WOW. Spanish Riding School - the horses train to Strauss, Mozart and Brahms. Vienna Opera. Vienna New Year's concert.

You could say I am on a Vienna kick.

But it doesn't have to be songs from Vienna. Just classical music you like.
 
Handel's Concerti Grossi are some of my favorites. Also like some of the Telleman, Vivaldi, and Purcell.

Ryan
 
Anything Tchaikovsky. Pretty the same for Ravel and Strauss. Brahm and some Mozart when I'm in the mood. I like Beethoven more than Mozart.
 
Wagner of course. Flight of Valkyries is a must for any pilot.

A few of my favorites:

Strauss Violin Concerto in D-minor

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp

Opera-Marriage of Figaro: Mozart

Opera-Carmen: Bizet

Shostakovitch Festive Overture

Tchaikovsky-Marche Slave and Symphony #4

Beethoven Symphony #9
 
Not Vienna, but my favorite composer it R. Vaughn Williams. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is my favorite work of his. Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSyjEEcmnQ

If you like Bach: Free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Dr. James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany.

Can't beat that with a stick...

http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/
 
"This is the cereal that's shot from guns...."

(1812 Overture)

And pretty much anything that was taught to us by Bugs Bunny.... (Wagner)
 
Finlandia - Sibelius

Emperor Concerto - Beethoven
You might remember this as the piece Richard Dreyfuss played in the movie "The Competition"
 
Handel's Messiah

Bach's' Cantatas

Mozart's' Requiem

Pachebel's Canon in D Major

Handel's Water Music

Polibetsian (sp) Dance #2
 
Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Tchaikovsky: 4th symphony

Dvorak: New World Symphony (9th)

Holst: The Planets

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Bach: Air on the G String, Toccata and Fugue (when played on a pipe organ)

Beethoven: Ave Maria

Elgar: Enigma Variations
 
Thanks for all the tips! I got a bunch, and topped it off with two Flo Rida songs (not classical in case you were wondering). Nighty night.
 
my favorite song is Rachmoninov's Rach 3.... BY FAR!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
 
Again, not Vienna, but Aaron Copland is a fine American composer, produced robust music that surely must be listened-to while overflying the American west. Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo, Appalachian Spring

Beethoven's 7th takes one on a wondrous journey.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade

Eric Satie (French)

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

All manner of Mahler

These are just snips that slap me around...

...we really need Ben Myers' contribution here - a working and most gifted musician's perspective would ring the bell in grand style.
 
A few of my favorite things (in no particular order):

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Berlioz Harold in Italy

Brahms Symphonies # 1, 3, and 4. (His 2nd Symphony is popular too - it's just not among my personal favorites.)

Brahms Violin Concerto

Brahms Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

All Beethoven symphonies are good. My favorites are #7 and #9.

Dvorak Cello Concerto

Dvorak's New World Symphony is his most-performed work, but I think all his symphonies are worth listening to.

Same for Nielsen's Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable."

Verdi Requiem (chorus and orchestra)

Mozart Requiem (ditto)

Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor

Any Mozart Piano Concerto

Franck Symphony in D Minor

Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony"

Mahler's 1st and 4th Symphonies and probably others of his

Elgar Enigma Variations

Saint-Saëns Symphony #3 ("Organ Symphony")

Moussourgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel)

Holst "The Planets"

All Tchaikonsky symphonies

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

The quality of the performance matters a lot. Recordings by the big name orchestras are usually good. Recordings that were made several decades or more ago may not have as good technical quality.
 
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tonycondon said:
Led Zeppelin
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Almost old enough to be classical.

Mine:

Anything by Rachmaninoff, especially the Concertos for piano and orchestra

John Field's concertos for piano and orchestra (Field was a Brit who went to Russia and learned some great technique. He inspired Chopin)

Chopin's concertos for piano and orchestra

Moritz Mosskovsky's concerto for piano and orchestra

Just so you don't think that my taste is limited to piano/orchestra pieces, try Spivakovsky's concerto for harmonica and orchestra. One of those that will rattle around in your head for days.

Elgar wrote some great stuff, too.

Try this place:
http://www.naxos.com/

Dan (who, like any normal kid, gave up a promising classical piano career at 14 and regrets it)
 
Good morning everyone!

Thanks for the new tips! I'll take a look tonight... I got much of last night's recos on the ipod...

Are there any specific recordings by any Philharmonics I should check out? I almost bought the brand new Vienna New Year - just released, literally. I did buy one from a few years ago.
 
Not a music selection, but a performer selection:

Some of the most dynamic classical music I have heard in a while is conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, the new music director of the LA Symphony. If you can, catch him leading the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra... he and those kids (18+) are truly amazing. I have heard passages in works like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony that I have never heard before... (and that is a good thing!).

Dudamel has nothing short of rock star status and he deserves it!

-Skip
 
woodstock said:
Are there any specific recordings by any Philharmonics I should check out?
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I love Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (and since you often fly UA.....). The Bernstein performance is the classic version. If you search the internet, you'll find mp3's of some very early performances (not Bernstein).

I'd add American in Paris to the list.
 
denverpilot said:
No one's given a nod to Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Modern Man" or "Hoe-Down" from "Rodeo" on Pilots of AMERICA?!

http://www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Copland/_/Fanfare+for+the+Common+Man

http://www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Copland/_/Hoe-Down

Maybe we can't be friends. :wink2: Heh heh.
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Ummm.... I did! :cornut:

wsuffa said:
I love Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (and since you often fly UA.....). The Bernstein performance is the classic version. If you search the internet, you'll find mp3's of some very early performances (not Bernstein).

I'd add American in Paris to the list.
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...thus is defined my "music in my head" selection for the day (American in Paris). :thumbsup: One could do a lot worse; it could be "Muskrat Love." :hairraise:
 
I'm partial to the Spike Jones arrangments of the Classics. Far superior to Bugs Bunny.

John Kirby had some great small group stuff.

Then there's the GLen Miller version of "Rhapsody in Blue" with Bobby Hackett on Cornet.
 
Handel and Vivaldi are two good places to start. If I had to be on a desert island....

Ralph Vaughan Williams is also a great, though more modern, choice.
 
fwiw... http://wrcjfm.org/ "Classic Days Jazzy Nights". is available to listen live along with some "on demand" audio.

Unless you listen during the pledge weeks (twice a year) there is minimal commerical intrusion.

There is a fair ammount of post 1800 music mixed in - including "Film Classics" on Sunday afternoon.

Classic Music 101:
http://wrcjfm.org/index.php/cm-101
 
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ScottM said:
And anything by PDQ Bach
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The first that came to mind was...

"The Queen, to me, a Royal Pain doth Give."

And...

"There was a lover and his lass... with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonnie no!"

... Shakespeare would have appreciated that one, methinks.

For the confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach

Ha. Now I'm going to have various songs stuck in my head all day!
 
denverpilot said:
The first that came to mind was...

"The Queen, to me, a Royal Pain doth Give."

And...

"There was a lover and his lass... with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonnie no!"

... Shakespeare would have appreciated that one, methinks.

For the confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach

Ha. Now I'm going to have various songs stuck in my head all day!
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Serandade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussions is one of my favorites.

The kazoo solos are magnificent!!
 
ScottM said:
And anything by PDQ Bach
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We went to a PDQ Bach concert many years ago. It started off with the stage manager berating late-comers to the concert and only got better. But, you have to have musical knowledge. My wife and I were cracking up and our kids were saying, "What's so funny?". They get it now (but, they're in their 30s, too).

Not much I can add. Widor's 5th Organ Symphony is great, too. And if you want to get into the various requiems out there, I like Faure's the best.

Glad to see the votes for Festive Overture by Shostakovich. I've enjoyed that one since playing it in concert band in school back in the 60s. The bassoon part is a real workout near the end. :D
 
SCCutler said:
...thus is defined my "music in my head" selection for the day (American in Paris). :thumbsup: One could do a lot worse; it could be "Muskrat Love." :hairraise:
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Certainly beats the Banana Splits tune. Or anything from the Monkees or Burl Ives.

There's always "Switched On Bach", too, from the early days of the Moog synthesizer (how far we've come in our lifetimes....). And I do like the Grand Canyon Suite.
 
Ghery said:
Glad to see the votes for Festive Overture by Shostakovich. I've enjoyed that one since playing it in concert band in school back in the 60s. The bassoon part is a real workout near the end. :D
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Ah, forgot Dmitri Shostakovich. Try the Jazz suites. Great stuff.

Dan
 
Ghery said:
Glad to see the votes for Festive Overture by Shostakovich. I've enjoyed that one since playing it in concert band in school back in the 60s. The bassoon part is a real workout near the end. :D
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Are you a bassoonist?
 
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