Thanks LG , we are about the same age ....... I started off listening to Hendrix and today I had Beethoven on play !
My son plays classical piano and when he gets tired of practising Beethoven he plays Dream Theater , no Kidding ! I walked in the other day and he's playing stuff of A Dramatic Turn Of Events (straight after Pathetique )
Cyggy, I agree with LG, and I can see that, amongst other things, you are going to be a very valuable asset around here for the small minority of us classical music buffs on CRF - Your son sounds like a true musician, do you play an intrument yourself? Apart from singing in a couple of choirs, I have to confess I am more of a collector and a listener than a player, though my wife is a professional orchestral musician (violin) which is where I got my interest from, I honestly didn't know my Bach from my Buxtehude until I met her! Plus I see you have the GREAT Edward Elgar on your list, also probably one of my 2 or 3 favourite classical composers, along with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Franz Schubert, which immediately promotes you straight onto my Christmas card list!!...
Cyggy, I agree with LG, and I can see that, amongst other things, you are going to be a very valuable asset around here for the small minority of us classical music buffs on CRF - Your son sounds like a true musician, do you play an intrument yourself? Apart from singing in a couple of choirs, I have to confess I am more of a collector and a listener than a player, though my wife is a professional orchestral musician (violin) which is where I got my interest from, I honestly didn't know my Bach from my Buxtehude until I met her! Plus I see you have the GREAT Edward Elgar on your list, also probably one of my 2 or 3 favourite classical composers, along with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Franz Schubert, which immediately promotes you straight onto my Christmas card list!!...
Thanks friend , I do play around with guitar and bass , but really just a bedroom busker . I started off singing in a choir , got totally knocked out by two musical pieces I heard at that time that set my course ;
1. Hearing and singing the greatest melody I have ever heard ; Mozart , Ave Verum Corpus
Very interesting looking composer line up there StarThrower, I can see that you are partial to mainly 20th Century composers, and the '2nd Viennese School' etc, which is quite refreshing to see, though my own tastes are I'm afraid considerably safer and less demanding on the ear!....though I love Ravel, Debussy and Beethoven.
Ligeti I know composed some music which is actually more famous than most people perhaps realise...Kubrick was a big fan, and he used his music a few times in his movies, that astonishing multi-layered choral work that you hear on the soundtrack to Kubrick's '2001 A Space Odyssey' ...especially the scene where the infamous obelisk appears.... that's Ligeti's 'Lux Aeterna'. I think 'Lux Aeterna' is written in about 16 vocal solo parts, I once sang in a mixed choir when I lived in DC where we actually took it on, but it was just beyond most of us, especially the sopranos and altos, lots of very close and sustained harmonies and hardly anywhere to breathe, so the choir director conceded defeat after about 2 practices, here's why!...
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