Classical music preferences

[millymog11]

My ex husband could only listen to Bach or some kind of baroque.

I used to be of his view but listening to Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb major Opus 73 (2/3)
Ludwig van Beethoven on the radio how could anyone not get the subtle tones the beauty? I don't like rachmaninov but I think I am being converted.
Am I being unreasonable?

I am curious as to what you really want to achieve with this thread OP.

Are you asking us "AIBU to be converted to non-Baroque music"?

Err... no.

It's beautiful to branch out and have different waves of favourites for different times of your life or even depending on what mood you're in. Enjoy!

@DotBall I'm confused by your 'harmonies based on 4ths vs 3rds' comment too.
Do you mean 4ths stacked on top of each other are more ambiguous/unsettling than chords of 3rds stacked on top of each other? I've never heard this phrase before.

I can't find it unfortunately.

Millymog here is an explanation of 4ths harmony (quartals) from wikipedia.
It’s a feature of harmonic development in the 20th C (as opposed to the 4ths/5ths organum from medieval, times, although that’s pretty cool too 🙂)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartal_and_quintal_harmony

DotBall · Yesterday 19:42
Thank you so much I am really curious to learn and I am greatful for that link. Thank you.

Roasteros · Yesterday 13:32 that is so helpful thank you for posting I've learned a lot.

Enko · Yesterday 13:20 I listened to that incredibly beautiful. Can one like Bach and Chopin at the same time? It feels weird.

I've discarded Mozart since my children have become older. I genuinely dont know what is my style now.

Heroicallyl0st · Yesterday 16:34 That is incredibly beautiful thank you for posting that.

bigbeautifulmonster · Yesterday 16:51 I don't want to "achieve" anything. I was just reflecting on my own response to a style of classical music. If it offends you no need to look?

I am with your exH, baroque is da best and Bach is my first choice too. Ideally played live in a cameral, not symphonic, setting.

Outside of that, there's not much that captures me in the same way. Some things by Elgar, some Saint-Saens, random bits here and there.

forinborin · Today 10:27 that is interesting, thank you for posting I will google that.

Check cello concerto in e minor by Elgar, or Danse Macabre by Saint Saens as a taster to see if you like it in general.

What do we think of Vivaldi? I liked it when I was about 15 and since cannot stand it and now it is coming round the corner again. I didn't like it because it was very jumpy (jumpy is not a classical music term I realise, I am not a scholar)

"My mum thinks "pop music" is anything written after 1750, which is the year Bach died."
haha brilliant. High five to your mum!

What about choral music? I’m a professional singer and would definitely recommend listening to Mozart and Verdi’s requiems. Maybe also Faure and Durufle.

The whole concept of a requiem, and how different composers set the different movements, is amazing, whether you are religious or not.

What about buying this book? There’s a readlaong thread here on MN. Clemency Burton-Hill is a presenter on Radio3 and has chosen a piece of music for every day of the year, with details about it.

@entropynow @HesterShaw1 the Verdi is still on the iPlayer as are the others from this year and last. (not all are televised though.)

BBC Proms, 2022: First Night of the Proms: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00197pl via @bbciplayer

Sorry - this book:
Year of Wonder - Clemency Burton-Hill

Fucks sake link didn't work

Proms, 2022: First Night of the Proms: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00197pl

Try some of Mozart's chamber music. It was a revelation to me, and I love it all.

I heard the Clarinet Quintet in A in the car one day, and was hooked, but the flute quartets are fantastic and the oboe quartet is sublime. I love it all.

This thread has inspired me to sit in the living room this morning relaxing just listening to music, so thanks OP 😊.

I put on Locke's incidental music to The Tempest earlier and I'm now enjoying one of the Haydn mass settings.
While I have preferences I do have fairly broad taste in what I'll listen to (and sing).

Love baroque music. Give me an old fashioned II7b V I cadence and I'm happy! Nice and predictable.

Yes I know that sounds pretentious!! 😉

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · Today 10:47 love it! Enjoy. Any recommendations welcomed.

Sorry about the acidic tone of my first post OP. This is a nice thread

Glad to see the Verdi is still on iPlayer. That really is worth a watch. The bass was amazing 😍

with regard to Vivaldi, I know what you mean about not standing it. It was so utterly overplayed, I only have to hear the first few bars of "Spring" and want to punch something. Pretty sure this is not the effect he intended. But I love other Vivaldi stuff - it's the quintessential Italian baroque. Bach can feel just a little mathematical sometimes (for me)

I've got radio 3 on. They're playing Bach - the G minor harsichord concerto that got used in that old 90s film Truly Madly Deeply. (If you know the film, it's not the cello music.)