Classical composers. Who for you are the best?

Bach first above all.
Chopin (my mother was an excellent pianist and I was brought up with etudes in the background)
Dvorak
Some Verdi
Scarlatti
Tchaikovsky

Memories - imagine learning the viola, as I did, with someone (mother) in the other room who had perfect pitch!

anyone interested in classical music there is an interesting site on the internet called " SINFINI cutting through the classics"lots to look at and listen to i thought it was great. Lillian

i asked recently if any of gransnet followers found the classical music used for tv commercials and documentries to be a bit of a torment as it can be so beautiful and so lovely and yet not know what the music is called,well i had some luck as i passed by ..hmv...i noticed how busy they were with people getting bargains as they were due to close down,i went in to look at the classical cd's and within minutes i found.... FM Classics..."classics used for commercials" such as Hovis, car commercials etc.....wonderful now i know what symphonies the music is taken from....Lillian

Years ago Nigel Kennedy played the Elgar concerto in Truro cathedral. The first note on the violin just sang across the cathedral and I can still remember how the hairs rose on the back of my neck! Magic!

Aah Yes Bruch!.I still have a tape of his violin concerto played by Nigel Kennedy recorded in 1987.Still heart rending.Must replace with a CD.
Mendelssohn violin concerto on Side Two.

I wish I had heard that gracesmum. Can you remember the programme's name? Might get it in i-player. Dvorak's cello concerto is possibly my favourite concerto of all.

I think the Bruch is out of this world. There was a radio programme a few weeks ago about why music affects us (well, most of us) the way it does. Is it the harmonies, the range of expression? I wish I could remember what conclusion they came to! (typical) Did anybody hear it? Who does it soothe the savage breast - or indeed inflame passions?

what exactly does it tell you when it speaks to you anno and have you gone to speak to a Doctor about this

Love his violin concerto, Goose - the violin speaks to me. Same goes for Mendelssohn's and Bruch's.

(ooops, sorry, got carried away there, I should have said 'his' :-(

Tchaikovsky - he's piano concerto's take me to another planet..

Checked it out on utube; beautiful. Also looked to see where they were performing..seem to travel all over the world [but not Derby ]. Going to look out for their Christmas music. Also must buy my Pilgrimage to Santiago by Phil Pickett..have it on tape but must get it on cd.

Allegri Miserere - Beautiful.

Last night's message has now re-appeared!!

isthis sorry I didn't get a programme -deliberately so that I could experience the pure sound.I believe their Christmas programme is on their website.jeni may have a programme.
The last encore was 'Es ist ein ros entsprungen'
(A Great and Mighty Wonder) is an English version I have sung.

The evening was magical.Thanks for youtube link -brings it all back.
I've ordered CD of their Christmas music from Gimmel.

The Allegri Miserere is truly beautiful starting at 32 mins in (on the Tallis Scholars concert two posts above!)

Time I was asleep!

Wow - look what I've found :

youtu.be/a6Iot26q11s

Eighty minutes of the Tallis Scholars in a gorgeous location! The sound is wonderful too, not like what's often on YouTube.

Starts with Palestrina, then Aavo Part.

The Palestrina alone would have thrilled me! I don't know Praetorius, will investigate .....

They also sang an encore which maniac knows!

Palestrina miss ave Maria

Tallis te drum 'for meanies'

Byrd Magnificat

Byrd lullaby

Hieronynymus Praetorius magnificat

I sent reply but it's disappeared.Off to bed .more tomorrow.

Can you remember what pieces the Tallis Scholars performed last night?

isthis sorry I didn't reply to you earlier.Yes I enjoyed the Andreas Scholl and lute CD very much.I shall play it often.Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
Last night I went to a concert by the Tallis Scholars in Bristol.
jeni and her friend were also there.It was absolutely wonderful-I can't find words but it was the highlight of this years music for me.

For me Beethoven and Ravel, Liszt all are great but I also likeTaverner

And Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty which I saw last week. Wish I had seen his Swan Lake. Nutcracker was very funny!

The costumes did look wonderful, they must have been an enormous shock to an audience used to tutus and men in tights. I really like Nijinsky's l'Apres Midi d'un Faun costume, again it must have been shocking at the time. A bit like Matthew Bourne's Swan lake. (I went to see it with my daughter and she said she would never go again because she couldn't imagine anyone doing anything better- don't think that will last.)