Classical Music Poll

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What’s everyone’s favorite Classical music period and why? I like Baroque because of all the blending sounds of different instruments, I also like the harpsichord.
 
I really have no idea…maybe , as the song says, “The man ain’t got no culture.” but I just know that I will listen to a piece that I like the sound of and turn the rest off :o
 
OK Psalm 45:9! I was fast on top of this post! 😛

I too am a baroque fan. I love the spiritual high of a good Bach Mass. But I hesitate to call Baroque my favorite, because I love the classical era, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydyn. I like it - as one person described Mozart as “The laughter of God”. I love the emotion found in classical era music - joy, laughter (Mozart) anger, passion, angst (Beethoven). Classical era has got to be my favorite. 🙂

But I also love Shubert. (Romantic era - thanks for the tip psalm) - I love his Quartet No. 15 in D.
 
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I really have no idea…maybe , as the song says, “The man ain’t got no culture.” but I just know that I will listen to a piece that I like the sound of and turn the rest off :o
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LOL, good one Church Militant, here’s a link for you explaining the different periods, along with famous composers from each period: classical.net/music/rep/top.html
 
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I too am a baroque fan. I love the spiritual high of a good Bach Mass.
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I love Handel’s Sacred Oratorios, especially Israel in Egypt. I’m listening to Vivaldi right now and I’m drinking a beer, how weird is that? Mozart is also good, I like his Requiem Mass music. I find Mozart is good for relaxing, but Baroque, especially Bach is good for concentration.
 
Baroque is my favorite, especially Bach and Vivaldi. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and Air on G-string are outstanding. Late Renaisssance music, like Palestrina’s and Carlo Gesualdo’s come quite close.

Gerry 🙂
 
Oh, well, ok, I’ll answer here too, then…

Somewhere between classical and romantic. Something about the structure, development, richness of sound… it’s all there together.
 
Has anyone ever hear Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vespers for the BVM 1610”? It is an absolute joy. Monteverdi was a priest/composer/organist/choir director at the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice. This work is right on the cusp between Renaissance and Baroque music. I particularly recommend the Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir etc. version on DVD. If you have surround sound, this one’s for you.
 
I like Classical, Baroque and Romantic - Debussy is my cutoff point. Most of the time I don’t like modern classical music but since I play flute, I like some of the modern classical flute pieces. As someone who is exploring the Catholic faith I am disappointed to find out that most Catholic churches don’t use the sacred music that I grew to love in music history. I learned much about the music of the mass before I became interested in the mass as a service of worship. But surprisingly there is still much I need to learn. I don’t really know that much about chant and would welcome your suggestions about where to begin.
 
I can’t comment about most Catholic churches not using our sacred music because I sing in a cathedral choir where we sing everything from chant to medieval carols all the way up to John Rutter today. For chant, I would suggest any of the recordings by the Benedictine monks of Solemnse (don’t think I spelled that right) or the more recent album by the Spanish monks entitled “Chant”. For some very “odd” (not used in a pejorative sense) early medieval music, I would recommend David Munrow’s Early Music Consort of London’s album “Music of the Gothic Era”. There are scads and scads of great Renaissance albums of mass settings. I heartily recommend Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1610 as both an example of great choral and instrumental liturgical music. And don’t forget our Orthodox brethren with their chant as well.

Try to locate the nearest cathedral parish to you. I’ll bet their Midnight Mass on Christmas will be ear opening to you.

Hrolf
 
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