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What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?

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Posted on February 20, 2015 at 21:48:16
John C. - Aussie
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With me it is Baroque and Early - everything including operas, chorales, cantatas, concerti, symphonies, harpsichord, lute .... etc from Bach, Handel, Haydn, Scarlatti, .... and earlier. I find it entertaining and relaxing with the added bonus most of it, like my other favourite, chamber music, comes through more convincingly in the home and via headphones in particular.

Choosing this is simple on the server with all these recordings tagged appropriately.

That is not to say other genre are still not enjoyed although I am preferring operas via video rather than audio only.

And you?

What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our personal tastes and preferences.

 

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RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 20, 2015 at 22:43:58
jazz1
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 My tastes are similar to yours mostly Baroque, lots of Bach, Handel, Purcell etc, Harmonia Mundi being one of my fav label but also more modern chamber music, little big orchestral works which I can only take in small dose. I also like jazz especially female vocal.
In total I only have about 2500 titles to choose from and they are nearly all on my pc except 300 or so SACD's.
I do not play much music on my tv I rather just listen, which I do on average 3 hours a day. Yesterday I had a 6 hours session with friends
My speakers are the stunning Vivid Giya 2, played though Lindemann electronics and PS audio DAC and a Sony SACD player. Pure magic...

 

Nothing before Beethoven, posted on February 21, 2015 at 01:47:52
andy evans
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 Bits of Bach at times, but otherwise Beethoven onwards. No Mozart or Haydn. Just does nothing for me these days.

Otherwise a lot of Janacek, Scriabin, Bartok, Debussy, Ravel, de Falla, Wagner, Schubert. Plus all kinds of piano music. Some other vocal music - R.Strauss songs, Alban Berg…...

 

Vocal, Choral (incl. Requiems), and Chamber (esp. String Quartets), posted on February 21, 2015 at 04:19:07
John Marks
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 Listening to Morten Feldman's 1979 string quartet in a great new recording by the Flux Quartet on Mode records.

They are considerate enough to include an audio-only 24/48 DVD of the whole quartet so you can listen to it uninterrupted and not have to change CDs.

ATB,

John

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 06:53:10
Tom
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 The Frenchies...late 19th century through mid-20th.

The Russians...from The Five through Schnittke.

And Beethoven...just because.

 

Everything except Second Vienna School , posted on February 21, 2015 at 07:09:30
Jay Buridan
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 and serial.

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― W.C. Fields

 

Haydn to today, orchestra & chamber, no choral/opera/serial/atonal *, posted on February 21, 2015 at 07:21:33
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An excellent alternative to serial music --, posted on February 21, 2015 at 08:04:14
rbolaw
 cereal music (link below). It's magically delicious.

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 09:29:11
Mike K
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 Almost exclusively solo piano and solo guitar, although I do have some
recordings of small groups featuring trumpet that I really like. Don't
much care for string quartets, symphonic pieces, or opera.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 10:45:40
steve.ott@kctcs.edu
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 Easily 60% chamber, and of that 70% string quartet.



So I guess that puts me at 130% non-orchestral!

There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 12:54:40
Chuck Y
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 Music for the solo piano from Beethoven forward thru the neo-classical period. About 75% of my listening time is devoted to this. Age related? I think maybe so.

 

Almost any genre from the Golden Age. . . , posted on February 21, 2015 at 13:17:55
Chris from Lafayette
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 . . . the Golden Age being from about 1860 through about 1955, but not including the works of the Second Vienna School or their post-Webern successors (even though I have a number of recordings of this music - go figure!) I like the earlier stuff too (especially Bach), just not as much.

 

Everything but the early music and current hits..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 13:43:17
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 I might not be able to get to those before I kick a bucket but just too many good ones I missed in between that I still need to catch up.

 

Renaissance and later., posted on February 21, 2015 at 13:47:50
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 Not very much medieval, really, save for some chant.

Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, some modern, but yeah, not too much 12 tone stuff.

Symphonic and orchestral music, chamber music, solo voice, choral singing, keyboard, organ.
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No Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky. No piano or violin music. Nothing in G major. nt, posted on February 21, 2015 at 13:51:07
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I like how you think..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 15:03:42
Paul_A
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 ...but I have to disagree with you about G.

 

Hard to believe you are serious! (nt), posted on February 21, 2015 at 15:31:57
John C. - Aussie
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 >
What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our personal tastes and preferences.

 

More seriously: Almost any genre from the Golden Age ..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 16:09:26
rbolaw
 the Golden Age being from about 1955 to the present.

 

I listen to the TWO Golden Ages., posted on February 21, 2015 at 16:59:09
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 Renaissance thru Baroque, and then 1890 or so to the present!

Not to say I never listen to what came in between. But that stuff remains by and large less compelling than the rest to my ears.

dh

 

Yes......., posted on February 21, 2015 at 17:09:19
Todd Krieger
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 If I had to answer the question, it's probably "Romantic"..... But I try to listen to everything..... (I admit, "Gregorian Chant" is a hole in my collection. Don't have much pre-Bach either.)

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 17:53:10
banpuku
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 String quartets. Favorites are, I order of preference:

Bartok
Shostakovich
Beethoven
Dvorak
Schoenberg

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 17:54:28
fantja
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 Another vote for Baroque.

 

Listening to *most*, posted on February 21, 2015 at 17:54:35
Amphissa
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I listen mostly to music starting with Beethoven, although I do like selective works by Bach (including the works for solo cello and solo violin).

I really have tried with modern composers and I do like some of them, but I do not like excessive dissonance and most modernism leaves me cold.

I listen mostly to orchestral music, including concertos, but also enjoy chamber music, both solo instrument and small ensemble.

I do not *listen* to opera, but I like some opera works and love to see them live and watch on video.

That said, classical does not consume *all* of my listening time.


"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 17:55:43
fantja
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 Thanks! for sharing- John C.

 

A lot of what is recommended here..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 19:13:51
Ivan303
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 Get busy!

:-)




First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

 

I can listen to some Schoenberg..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 19:17:41
Ivan303
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 OK, emphasis on 'SOME', not all.

Can not get ANY of Webern no matter how hard I try.


First they came for the dumb-asses
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Because I was not a dumb-ass

 

JS Bach..., posted on February 21, 2015 at 20:32:28
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 And, yes, I consider him a genre.


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The "one wrong note" composers: Prokofiev, Shostakovich, etc. nt, posted on February 21, 2015 at 21:12:37
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Romantic period. (NT), posted on February 21, 2015 at 21:53:22
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(Tongue firmly in cheek) [nt], posted on February 21, 2015 at 22:01:24
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RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 21, 2015 at 22:01:55
learsfool
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 Much of my listening is determined by my work - however, if I am listening purely for pleasure, then I would have to say the Classical era, particularly Mozart.

 

Did you ever hear the story. . . , posted on February 21, 2015 at 22:06:48
Chris from Lafayette
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 . . . about the visitor who knocked at Prokofiev's door, and one of his kids opened it. "I need to talk to your father," said the visitor, "Is he here?" "Oh, yes!", the boy replied, "He's in the back, putting in the wrong notes."

 

Or D minor - the saddest of all keys?, posted on February 22, 2015 at 01:59:26
andy evans
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 Nigel Tufnel:"It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why…….."

 

The reason they weep..., posted on February 22, 2015 at 06:54:47
D Harvey
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 ...is cuz some assclown is playing "the white keys" again.

dh

 

not entirely ... , posted on February 22, 2015 at 07:49:32
rbolaw
 I actually got a chuckle out of your post, since these days most of my music listening centers around the periods pre-1860 and post- OK, can't say 1955 and toss out early Miles Davis and Messiaen, so post-1935. If there was a fallow period in Western music, I'd put it from the death of Schubert in 1828 to the emergence of Debussy and modernism around 1894.

Some great music in that period, though. A few years ago I spent a lot of time studying and listening to that music -- Alkan, Reinecke, and so forth, while reading Charles Rosen's superb (but dense) book, The Romantic Generation. But I would follow Mark Twain's example and call it not the Golden Age, but the Gilded Age. ;)

 

LMAO :), posted on February 22, 2015 at 10:17:34
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 :)

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― W.C. Fields

 

Sometimes I listen to Berg's violin concerto, posted on February 22, 2015 at 10:20:04
Jay Buridan
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 But can't stomach Webern.

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Schumann GT Schubert (IMHO), posted on February 22, 2015 at 15:47:15
Chris from Lafayette
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 I have no doubt that you'll eventually come around on Alkan too! ;-)

 

RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 24, 2015 at 09:52:06
6bq5
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 I also have a soft spot for the Baroque and earlier material-
Sacred and secular, choral and instrumental-
Locke, Purcell, Handel, Bach, Teleman, etc...

Having said that, My collection has a smattering of everything else up to the modern composers-

Happy listening
Happy Listening

 

Seconded, posted on February 25, 2015 at 09:06:12
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 nt

 

rbolaw , posted on February 25, 2015 at 09:39:49
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 I'm also a fan of Rosen's "Romantic Generation." It's one of the few books that have very actively affected the way I listen to Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz and others from that era.

 

when actively choosing? the same., posted on February 25, 2015 at 16:31:27
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 But we have ABC Classic FM on ALL the time. So we hear all sorts of stuff and turn it up when we LIKE it.

I prefer from Brahms, Schumann back into the medieval period.

I was introduced to performing baroque and renaissance music as a tween when I was an Anglican Cathedral choir boy. Early 1960s, just as the whole HIP thing took off.


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RE: What Classical Music Genre do you find yourself listening to most?, posted on February 28, 2015 at 18:47:20
risabet
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 Baroque and classical. I must say that I've lately begun listening to a lot of Americana. Ives, Copland, etc.


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