Top 300 Classical Pieces

[sinkov]

One woman replied, "Are you really canvassing for Labour or are you on an April Fool's Day wind up?"

Be honest BT, I'll bet you get asked that question a lot don't you ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I'm listening to the Prelude to Parsifal at the moment, while I dream up new ways to irritate lefties on here. When that finishes it'll be the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, I could listen to Richard Wagner all day, and night as well. One piece I do keep coming back to is The Great Gates of Kiev (although I'm not sure that's it's official title) from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Emerson, Lake and Palmer did a nifty version of it as well, if you're not into Symphony Orchestras.

I love all types of music, and especially rock music, but if I had the choice of listening to a rock band live or a symphony orchestra, the orchestra would win hands down, every time.

When you are struggling to feed the kids because your Universal Credits have been cancelled, listening to Symphony number 7 - Beethoven or the Piano Concerto number 5 - Beethoven followed by the Violin Concerto - Mendelssohn does not really soothe the Easter anguish. It would help if you hadn't had to pawn the stereo at Cash Cow to keep the family afloat until the Job Centre opens.

[oldcolner]

When you are struggling to feed the kids because your Universal Credits have been cancelled, listening to Symphony number 7 - Beethoven or the Piano Concerto number 5 - Beethoven followed by the Violin Concerto - Mendelssohn does not really soothe the Easter anguish. It would help if you hadn't had to pawn the stereo at Cash Cow to keep the family afloat until the Job Centre opens.

Do you have to bring any thread down to Labour politics? It’s getting very boring and frustrating.
Anyway thats just not true, music is universally available to rich and poor and the only barrier is people’s minds. Even Auschwitz had a welcoming orchestra. The Raploch in Stirling one of the roughest and poorest areas has its own orchestra. All that is needed is to open peoples minds to explore.their taste however many schools have dropped music from the curriculum in short sighted cost cutting exercises.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No real wonder is it OC when schools are having to fund their pupils basic necessities?

How is discussing real poverty millions of Britons are enduring, bringing any thread down to Labour politics?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartanntp

Never mind austerity and having trouble feeding the kids, just listen to "The Nutcracker Suite" and everything will work out just fine.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I promise not to disrupt this highbrow thread anymore with my very boring and frustrating posts.

[Supersub6]

It is strange that BT thinks that classical music is highbrow.
I started learning to play the piano when I was 6 years old, took up trombone in the Boys' Brigade Band and practiced like hell and eventually passed an audition to join the Royal Air Force as a musician in 1966, having also passed A level music at school.
I love all sorts of music and was very much an advocate of American pop in the early 60s as well as being a huge fan of Atlantic Soul and Tamla Motown. I changed instruments in 1967 and played tuba, double bass and bass guitar and used to play military music, big band music, rock music, jazz, small ensemble work and classical music and enjoyed them all.

The musicians I have met during the last 65 years have come from all walks of life and some of my friends in professional orchestras are from very working class backgrounds and could not be called highbrow at all, whilst there are others who definitely think that they are upper class because they are classical musicians ---such is life!

Music is there for everybody and is something to be enoyed, whatever you choose to listen to. There is no good music --just as there is no bad music --it is just music that doesn't meet your taste.

As a matter of interest I love listening to Brahms, Wagner, Elgar, Shostakovich, Tschaikowsky etc. but am equally at home listening to Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Earth, Wind and Fire, Billy Joel, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, James Taylor, Dave Brubeck and many others.

My advice, as a lad from Ossy, is to enjoy whatever you like but don't criticise others because their taste differs!

[Balanbam00]

In the 60's I worked in a TV repairs shop in Accy. (Relay Vision) Everyday on the BBC test card they played Mozart's, Eine kleine Nachtmusik . I bet if an orchestra was now in front of me I could be the Conductor ! I think they played Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi too.

B T : Don't worry about these guy'son here ,you got a BIG score this week, it does effect them you know ! :-)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

In the 60's I worked in a TV repairs shop in Accy. (Relay Vision) Everyday on the BBC test card they played Mozart's, Eine kleine Nachtmusik . I bet if an orchestra was now in front of me I could be the Conductor ! I think they played Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi too.

B T : Don't worry about these guy'son here ,you got a BIG score this week, it does effect them you know ! :-)

My hackles come up when I perceive people are being precious and pretentious. I have seen the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra on their home turf, but quite frankly my fight against social injustice currently precedes my love for the arts.

[Supersub6]

My hackles come up when I perceive people are being precious and pretentious. I have seen the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra on their home turf, but quite frankly my fight against social injustice currently precedes my love for the arts.

BT--you would be far better off just loving the arts because those that can do something about social injustice don't give a damn and they certainly won't lose any sleep over it.

[1959_60]

Even your mate Jezza finds time for music BT?

Do you think he should spend every waking hour agonizing about the worlds injustices?

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainm...ne-The-Beatles