TY for your succinct reply, Tom.<br><br>Exactly what criteria must a composer meet to be classified as 'classical'? Deceased for over a hundred years (as in ...
A difficult question to answer,but I will give it a go.<br><br>-It must exist on paper,in other words,it's got to be music that is written down by it's ...
Has anyone listened to this one? Got to hear it performed 'live' on Wednesday evening by soloist Robert McCuffie and the Pacific Symphony under Carl St. Clair....
Woodwinds are at the top with high woodwinds to low woodwinds, then brass with trumpets to tubas, then if it is a concerto you will have the solo instrument...
I just want to say that id on't think there is any "greatest" composer. i believe the great composers are great for different things, so one cannot choose a...
yeah, i love the 20th century russians as well. forgot to list some of them :)<br><br>i'm a Mahlerite, though i don't really know much about Mahler. so far, ...
i love the Requiem too, my favorite movements being the Lacrimosa and the Confutatis. i havne't heard many recordings of the Lacrimosa that i like as much as i...
>>My vote goes to Wagner.<<<br><br>Wagner did many great things for opera (for example, he put the orchestra below the stage and turned the lights...
>>therefore opera is works.<<<br><br>in Latin, third declension. but the genre of "opera" is the staged, sung with costumes/set/orch.<br><br>anna...
I know I'm a bit late on replying, but thank you for the link! I found it very helpful and interesting. The reason I asked is because I live in Lodz, where...
I remember my old violin teacher once saying that if he was stuck on a deserted island, but he could have one recording of music with him (that he could play,...
stuck on a desert island with only one recording of music? wow. i don't think i could choose :) i'd probably end up choosing The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov)...
favorite performers:<br><br>alan vogel: style, phrazing, though his tone sometimes bugs me a bit, though usualyl i don't notice it much. ti's nothing wrong...
>> great oboe pieces<<<br><br>Britten's 6 metamorphoses, teh barber violin concerto has a GREAT oboe solo, "les tombeau de couperin" has a GREAT ...
BBCMusicMagazine.com (USA) is giving away five autographed copies of Yo-Yo Ma's latest album, "Classic Yo-Yo"<br><br>You can also listen to clips of every...
i attended his concert 3 days ago at the beijing music festival. peter played rachmaninov's piano concerto no.3 but i did not find him good at rach. he was not...
Hello,<br><br>I am interested in doind some wild over the top versions of some of the classics. Most of which are way past the 50 or 100 year copyright term. ...
Legalities involve the use of the music currently in print. If you write an orginal work based on another, I'm not sure what the grey areas are. Sometimes, all...
Does anyone know where I can find an even more basic repertoire list of classical music than the *HUNDREDS* of works listed on <a href=http://www.classical.net...
What type of rep are you looking for? Are you an instrumentalist? Singer? Conductor? Just looking for music to look at? If so what type of music (genre)...