Lily

Yeah I guess so... I don't know too many composers as well.. ^^

sure take your time. Hope you get well soon. "Gute Besserung"

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Eight

I would have to go with Tchaikovsky. There's just something about his ballet suites... Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty... Not to mention all the works he composed based on Shakespeare (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet anybody?) I'm kind of a sucker for Romantic era music anyway (Beethoven and Brahms come in close behind) so I guess it's a natural choice.

Carl Orff is pretty amazing but his music makes me tense (I have the same problem with Wagner) so I can't listen to much of it at a time.

Lord Grendel

Tchaikovsky is one of my favorites too,,,I am surprised about Carl Orff, I love Carmina Burnana, it's a fun piece, although the song "O Fortuna" is played way too much in commercials and movies nowadays, still I smile when I play that album. It is the only one of his compositions I own so I am not an Orff expert Eight.

cburgess54

Tchaikovsky has long been one of my very favorite composers, too. You could probably say he was my entry point for getting into classical music, at least by the time I went looking on my own, though I had been exposed to a lot of other classical music from other composers as a kid (from TV shows and commercials, to Warner Bros. cartoons, to youth concerts). In fact, the first two classical albums I ever bought were an Angel recording of the 1812 and an ancient Minnesota Orchestra LP of a suite from Swan Lake. I loved those albums.

Just a note to anyone else reading who might not be familiar with Tchaikovsky, or his Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, as famous as the love theme is, it shouldn't be confused with the well-known love theme from Franco Zeffirelli's landmark 1968 film version of R&J, which was composed by Nino Rota (sometimes incorrectly credited to Henri Mancini), and is better known under its pop title "A Time for Us."

Here's the Tchaikovsky - the love theme starts at about 7:50:


And here's the Rota:

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Craig in Indy

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Mrs Amys Music

Karl Jenkins and Alexia Vassiliou

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Lord Grendel

^^I am not sure who those two are MAM...

Some background information please.

cburgess54

There's a Karl Jenkins who was part of Soft Machine for a while, but that's obviously not classical, so maybe she means some other Karl Jenkins.

And doing a search of Alexia Vassiliou on AMG only brings up a pop musician, so I'm not sure about that one either...

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Craig in Indy

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Lord Grendel

Doesn't sound promising then, I wonder why MAM posted them in here in the first place, there is no way to mistake Tchaikovsky, Beethoven etc., for pop artists...

bassrocks

Mozart, Eric Whitarce, Beethoven

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Hyardacil

I just found out that I like Bartok.

A LOT!

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