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Switchblade:
Hands up anyone here who voluntarily listens to classical music on a regular basis. As in, from their CD player.

I do. In fact, probably more than half my listening, nowadas, is classical music. I'm a huge fan of contemporary composers such as Glass, Reich, Karl Jenkins, and Don Davis. I also love some of the older "hall of fame" types - I list Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as one of my all time favourite works, alongside Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man", the theme from "Schindler's list" and Mozart's Requiem.

The more technical and experimental a piece, the happier I am with it, really. I can't stand dances like waltzes, and I don't like it when composers stick too literally to the constraints of a work. I like the Bela Bartoks and Igor Stravinskys of the world.

what about you guys? do you listen to classical music at all? who do you like?

FruitKat:
I said this in the PIANOS ARE AWESOME topic... But I love to listen to Chopin... I got a 3 cd thing. Its AWESOME... I have other stuff I listen to aswell but thats the main one...
And I suppose I listen to classical music when I play it on the Pinano, So yeah, Classical music is the shit.... Or something.

KharBevNor:
I like a bit of classical now and then. Something grand and sweepy or dark and organy or folksy and dancy. Mussorgsky. Borodin. Orff. Bach. Wagner.

Switchblade:
Mussorgsky is the shit. Seriously, that guy personifies cool.

Inlander:
I hope this doesn't come across as a back-handed compliment, but . . . First thing Sunday morning, sun streaming in through the house, when I'm in the kitchen doing the washing up and general tidying - NOTHING suits the situation quite like a Beethove symphony, preferably the 6th or the 7th.

And there's something about a lazy weekend morning reading the newspapers, listening to a bit of opera or Bach's B-minor Mass or some such . . .

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